The determinants of voter turnout in local elections are examined using global cross-
national time-series comparative evidence from 97 countries. Despite the vast research …

The main goal of this article is to analyze spatial disparities in local electoral participation in
Slovakia between 1994 and 2018 on a very detailed spatial structure of all (almost 3000) …

How does district magnitude affect electoral outcomes? This article addresses this question
by exploiting a combination of two natural experiments in Argentina between 1985 and …

Intro This article examines whether descriptive norms affect voters' intention to vote in
national elections in Japan and whether the impact of descriptive norms is moderated by the …

Municipal mergers have a significant influence on political outcomes. In this study, we
present empirical evidence on how city-county consolidation amid the fully fledged …

In this study, I present evidence that ballot order can provide a misleading cue to voters. In
South Korea, nonpartisan municipal legislative elections were held concurrently with other …

Does party organization shape candidates' electoral mobilization efforts? I develop a novel
theoretical account linking candidate selection rules to electoral mobilization. Nomination …

Concurrent elections are widely used to increase turnout. We theorize and show empirically
how concurrency affects electoral outcomes. First, concurrency increases turnout and …

Staggered difference-in-differences designs are pervasive in policy evaluations but little is
known about the mechanisms of policy diffusion: How and why do such policies spread …

Although pre-electoral political manipulation of the budget—the political budget cycle (PBC)—
has been long investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly …