Electoral Role Models: Political Empowerment and Candidate Emergence

A Janusz, P Cunha Silva, A Junqueira - Political Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Does the election of politicians from historically underrepresented groups spur others to
enter politics? Some political scientists and policymakers posit that the election of women …

Choice Overload in Crowded Primary Elections

S Goidel, B Armstrong - American Politics Research, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of candidates running in US primary elections is increasing. Contested primary
elections force voters to decide between candidates that share party labels and are …

An Empirical Analysis of Invalid Voting in Municipal Elections

V Castro, R Martins, SN Sakurai - Kyklos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines blank and null voting in Brazilian mayoral elections using a large
dataset covering 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020. The study finds that more …

Computing Voting Rules with Elicited Incomplete Votes

D Halpern, S Hossain, J Tucker-Foltz - … of the 25th ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by the difficulty of specifying complete ordinal preferences over a large set of m
candidates, we study voting rules that are computable by querying voters about t< m …

When everyone is corrupt, no one is? Examining the effects of widespread corruption on electoral behavior

T Barbosa, M Turgeon - Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Corruption scandals can be costly for elected officials seeking re-election. But what happens
when the other candidate alternatives are also known to be corrupt? Do voters downplay the …