Media outlets have reported that women leaders around the globe are managing the COVID-
19 crisis better than their male counterparts, responding faster and communicating better …

Regional and national identities are significant determinants of people's support for
secession. Most previous works, however, have implicitly assumed that national identity has …

Anticipated trade, insurance, and fiscal shocks from independence structure preferences for
secession independently from nonmaterial considerations. To test this claim, we draw from …

This study delves into the criteria under which referendums can legitimise political choices. It
employs survey experiments regarding EU membership across seven European nations …

In most referendum campaigns, voters face a choice between an uncertain “Yes” for a
change and a safer “No” for maintaining the status quo. Given this asymmetrical structure in …

Debates on nation, self-determination, and nationalism tend to ignore the gender dimension,
women's experiences, and feminist proposals on such issues. In turn, feminist discussions …

Depression is the most common mental illness and its profound impact on cognition and
decision‐making has implications for political judgement. However, those implications are …

Concepts such as risk aversion and anxiety have received renewed attention in various
strands of gender and politics research. Most contemporary scholars suggest that gender …

Objective The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) crisis has led to shutdowns of
the cultural, associational, and economic life in many parts of the world and had a severe …

Increasing the share of women in politics is often promoted as a means to reduce corruption.
Recent studies indicate the importance of considering the gender gap in corruption as a …