Cognitively demanding electoral systems increase the chance that voters make their choices
based on politically irrelevant cues. To illustrate this argument, I analyze the effect of …

Why study Japan? Research on contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy faces
headwinds from the relative geopolitical decline of Japan and scholars skeptical about …

Despite the intense debate over whether politically irrelevant events (eg, football games)
influence voter attitudes, the existing literature predominantly focuses on cases in the US …

In this study, we replicated and extended the work of Williams et al.(2020) by finding that
most individuals believe the Freudian perspective on dreams, regardless of whether or not …

This dissertation focuses on political careers in the Czech Republic. The in-troductory part of
the dissertation presents several approaches for describing and explaining the development …

Despite the intense debate over whether politically irrelevant events (eg, football games)
influence voter attitudes, existing literature predominantly focuses on the US and a few …

We show that, in contrast to classic models of voting and political advertising, mere exposure
to (and thus familiarity with) a candidate may lead to greater support. Using data on sub …

Elected politicians may engage in opportunistic behavior for private benefits, which is a
central problem in democratic societies. While re-election incentives can mitigate this …

In order to assess the electoral performance of candidates from political dynasties, I used
web scraping to collect information about American political families. Using this data, I find …

The thesis simultaneously builds on and challenges the conventional wisdom on causal
factors behind the rise of ethnic political parties in multiethnic democracies. The thesis …