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Electoral Systems and Political Participation

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in political science, including empirical analyses of voter behavior, party polarization, public opinion formation, economic policy, campaign effects, electoral systems, and policy formation in democracies. The papers delve into understanding the dynamics of political behavior and institutions through rigorous empirical methods.

111,888 works

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Most cited

  1. Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory

    John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald · 1977 · American Journal of Sociology · 7,322 citations

  2. Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses

    Thomas Brambor, William R. Clark, Matt Golder · 2005 · Political Analysis · 6,232 citations

  3. Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs

    Charles S. Taber, Milton Lodge · 2006 · American Journal of Political Science · 4,371 citations

  4. “Effective” Number of Parties

    Markku Laakso, Rein Taagepera · 1979 · Comparative Political Studies · 3,472 citations

  5. The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States

    Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthew Levendusky, Neil Malhotra · 2018 · Annual Review of Political Science · 3,274 citations

  6. Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics

    Giovanni Sartori · 1970 · American Political Science Review · 3,266 citations

Most recent

  1. Broken promises? Voters prefer intraparty democracy, not window dressing

    Jana Schwenk, Jacob R. Gunderson · 2026 · Figshare · 0 citations

  2. An overlooked revolution? Party system denationalisation in Western European multilevel election systems

    Arjan H. Schakel · 2026 · West European Politics · 0 citations

  3. Opening the Gates or Guarding the Guardrails? An Access-Integrity Continuum Predicts Voting Rules Preferences

    Soren Jordan, Ryan D. Williamson, Bridgett A. King, Spencer Goidel · 2026 · American Politics Research · 0 citations

  4. Broken promises? Voters prefer intraparty democracy, not window dressing

    Jana Schwenk, Jacob R. Gunderson · 2026 · Figshare · 0 citations

  5. Issue selection, inequality, and polarization of social ideologies

    Yohei Yamaguchi · 2026 · Journal of Theoretical Politics · 0 citations

  6. Are Voters Myopic or Looking for Improvement?

    Markus Prior, Talbot M. Andrews · 2026 · American Political Science Review · 0 citations

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