For more than 40 years, studies trying to explain macro-level electoral turnout have been
one of the pillars of political behavioural research. From January 2004 to December 2013 …

Elections are held in nearly all countries in the contemporary world. Yet despite their aim of
allowing for peaceful transfers of power, elections held outside of consolidated democracies …

Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents
the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what …

This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of
corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work …

Elections ought in theory to go a long way toward making democracy'work', but in many
contexts, they fail to embody democratic ideals because they are affected by electoral …

We develop a model explaining how criminal organizations strategically use pre-electoral
violence as a way of influencing electoral results and politicians' behaviour. We then …

When are governments most likely to use election violence, and what factors can mitigate
government incentives to resort to violence? How do the dynamics of election violence differ …

Political violence remains a pervasive feature of electoral dynamics in many countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa, even where multiparty elections have become the dominant mode of …

Elections are now common in low‐income societies. However, they are frequently flawed.
We investigate a Nigerian election marred by violence. We designed and conducted a …

Politicians distribute money to voters during campaigns in many low-income democracies.
Many observers call this practice'vote buying'. Money for Votes develops an alternative …