Summary Media often portrays European Union (EU) decision-making as a battleground for
national governments that defend the interests of their member states. Yet even the most …

Individual legislators can be important agents of political representation. However, this is
contingent upon their responsiveness to constituency requests. To study this topic, an …

Consociational interpretations of the European Union (EU) are well established and help to
explain the political stability of the 27-member state system. In contrast, the increasingly …

Survey experiments that investigate how voting procedures affect voting behavior and
election outcomes use hypothetical questions and non-representative samples. We present …

Previous literature has studied voter behavior in European Parliament elections. However, it
remains unclear how candidate characteristics affect favorability of EP candidates since it …

This paper examines whether and how electoral rules moderate the effect of voter bias on
candidate choice. Voter bias against female candidates follows a pattern known as aversive …

The party system of the European Parliament (EP) has been dominated by the two main
European party families: centre-right conservatives and Christian democrats, on the one …

Brexitin kannattajat Isossa-Britanniassa väittivät” Brysselin” olevan kasvottomien
teknokraattien koneisto, joka on vieraantunut tavallisesta kansasta. Euroopan unionin (EU) …

Electoral systems in which voters can cast preference votes for individual candidates within
a party list are increasingly popular. To the best of our knowledge, there is no research on …