This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of
increasing electoral volatility in British elections, and the role of electoral shocks in the …

Studies show that globalisation creates political potentials that can transform electoral
competition in Western societies. The specific process of how these potentials become …

To paint a fuller picture of economic voters, we combine personal income records with a
representative election survey. We examine three central topics in the economic voting …

Introducing time series methods and their application in social science research, this
practical guide to time series models is the first in the field written for a non-econometrics …

Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself.
Yet, representative democracy still exists, and the empirical evidence for a secular decline of …

Research focusing on the relationship between the economy and satisfaction with
democracy often presents mixed results. This article argues that this uncertainty is mainly …

One of the canonical causal claims in political science links individuals' evaluations of the
national economy with their votes. Yet there are reasons to expect that these economic …

The link between individual perceptions of the economy and vote choice is fundamental to
electoral accountability. Yet, while it is well-established that economic perceptions are …

While a large literature recognizes that economic crises threaten the stability of electoral
autocracies, we know relatively little about how citizens form economic perceptions and how …

Considerable research shows the presence of an economic vote, with governments
rewarded or punished by voters, depending on the state of the economy. But how stable is …