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 …

Partisans often perceive real world conditions in a manner that credits their own party. Yet
recent findings suggest that partisans are capable of setting their loyalties aside when …

Scholars often evaluate citizens' democratic competence by focusing on their ability to get
relevant facts right. In this article, I show why this approach can yield misleading conclusions …

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

What explains variation in individual attitudes toward government deficits? Although
macroeconomic stance is of paramount importance for contemporary governments, our …

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 …

This study examines the impact of anger about the economic crisis on electoral participation
and voting behavior. Previous work on emotions has consistently underlined the …

Motivated reasoning is a pervasive force in politics. The concept of motivated reasoning was
developed and elaborated in both psychology and economics as a way of understanding …

This article links the consequences of the Great Recession on protest and electoral politics.
It innovates by combining the literature on economic voting with social movement research …

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 …