Conventional wisdom suggests that parties in candidate-centered electoral systems should
be associated with less cohesive policy preferences among legislators. We model the …

Are candidates from underrepresented demographics in politics held to a higher standard in
candidate selection processes? We explore whether women, youths, and immigrants are …

By utilizing unique data capturing candidates' ideological positions in Finnish municipal
elections and leveraging exogenous changes in council size at different population …

Can transitional justice enhance democratic representation in countries recovering from
authoritarian rule? The authors argue that lustration, a policy that reveals secret …

Building on past research, this paper develops a game theoretic model to study the
provision of local public goods under closed-and open-list proportional representation …

Increasingly, scholars of legislative politics propose comparative analyses of parliamentary
voting behaviour across different countries and parliaments. Yet parliamentary voting …

Can a lack of transitional justice contribute to democratic backsliding? This paper uses the
case of Poland to argue that selective enforcement of transitional justice can be linked to …

One of the most important distinctions within electoral systems is that between majoritarian
and proportional principles. These principles embody two different conceptions of elections …

Preference voting threatens the power of party leaders in PR contexts to enforce party unity
and pursue policy by encouraging candidates to groom personal reputations. This study …

In many political jurisdictions, electoral districts are served by multiple representatives. In
these multi-member district (MMD) contexts, elections pit incumbent legislators not only …