All Outputs (22)

Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election (2023)
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The 2019 General Election brought about a significant change in the parliamentary balance of power. There has already been much attention devoted to how parties and their leaders campaigned in the run up to the polling day. Using original leaflet dat... Read More about Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election.

Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain (2023)
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Rising support for populist parties and candidates has become a key story of recent decades, making headlines in Western democracies and beyond. While a growing body of populism research focuses on how parties use populist messaging and which voters... Read More about Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain.

Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia (2022)
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The literature on post-communist democracies has traditionally suggested that expensive media-based campaigns are key to electoral success. Using data from the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Estonian Candidate Study, this article provides an up-to-date evaluat... Read More about Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia.

Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters? (2021)
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The 2016 European Union referendum revealed fundamental divisions in British politics and society more broadly. It also raised key questions around representation and the role of Members of Parliament. Should they follow their own judgement or their... Read More about Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters?.

A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world (2021)
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The internet has become a key battleground for political parties and candidates running for office. Using data from three consecutive parliamentary elections in Estonia, spanning across the last decade, we map the extent to which candidates make use... Read More about A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world.

'The personal touch': Campaign personalisation in Britain (2021)
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Parliamentary candidates face choices about the extent to which they personalise their election campaigns. They must strike a balance between promoting their party's message and their own personal appeal, and they must decide how much effort to inves... Read More about 'The personal touch': Campaign personalisation in Britain.

Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election (2021)
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While most voters in democratic countries still cast their ballot on election day, the proportion of the electorate which opts for postal voting has been steadily, and often dramatically, increasing. This transformation in electoral politics, however... Read More about Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election.

Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot (2021)
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Internet is playing an increasingly important role in shaping citizens’ political experience. We turn to it to consume political news and, in some countries, to even cast our ballots at parliamentary elections. Leading the way in embracing Internet v... Read More about Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot.

Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications (2020)
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Parties’ electoral communications play a central role in British campaigns. Yet, we know little about the nature of the material contained in these communications and how parties’ campaign messages differ across constituencies or elections. In this a... Read More about Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications.

The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs (2020)
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The outcome of the 2016 referendum on European Union membership took many by surprise and has continued to define the political discourse in Britain. Despite there being a growing body of research focused on explaining how voters cast their ballot, w... Read More about The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs.

Explaining support for Brexit among parliamentary candidates: the case of Wales (2020)
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The 2016 EU referendum was a key moment in the history of the United Kingdom. It has changed the course of the country and continues to shape political competition in the UK. Despite research on which voters cast their ballot for Leave having become... Read More about Explaining support for Brexit among parliamentary candidates: the case of Wales.

Parliamentary Representation: A Cross-national Study of Candidates’ Views (2019)
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This study explores political elites’ self-conceptualisation of parliamentary representation by using data on nearly 7,000 candidates encompassing eighteen elections in fifteen countries. We examine the relevance of institutional features, closeness... Read More about Parliamentary Representation: A Cross-national Study of Candidates’ Views.

The ‘new’ wave of populist right-wing parties in Central and Eastern Europe: explaining electoral support for the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (2018)
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Rising support for populist right-wing parties has become a key story of recent decades. It has mainly been making headlines in Western democracies but is also becoming increasingly prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe. Despite there being strong... Read More about The ‘new’ wave of populist right-wing parties in Central and Eastern Europe: explaining electoral support for the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia.

The best of both worlds? Evaluating the campaign behaviour of dual candidates (2018)
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The conventional wisdom of electoral politics suggests that parliamentary candidates who run for office under candidate-centred mechanisms tend to conduct more intense and personalised campaigns than those who run under party-centred ones. But what a... Read More about The best of both worlds? Evaluating the campaign behaviour of dual candidates.

Representation in Wales: an empirical analysis of the policy divisions between voters and candidates (2017)
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Politics in Wales is often portrayed as being relatively consensual when compared with the rest of the United Kingdom and enjoying healthy levels of trust between voters and elites. Recent events like the decision of Welsh voters to reject the Europe... Read More about Representation in Wales: an empirical analysis of the policy divisions between voters and candidates.

A comparative study of the effects of electoral institutions on campaigns (2017)
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© Cambridge University Press 2017. A long tradition of studies in political science has unveiled the effects of electoral institutions on party systems and parliamentary representation. Yet their effects on campaign activities remain overlooked. Rese... Read More about A comparative study of the effects of electoral institutions on campaigns.

Information effect on voter turnout: how campaign spending mobilises voters (2016)
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We explore the impact of campaign effort on constituency-level turnout variation in Britain, under the premise that higher levels of campaign visibility stimulate electoral participation. We focus on the relationship between the competitiveness of th... Read More about Information effect on voter turnout: how campaign spending mobilises voters.

What does it take to make it to the polling station? The effects of campaign activities on electoral participation (2016)
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This study explores the extent to which campaign visibility facilitates electoral participation, using data from first- and second-order elections in Britain. Our contribution to the existing literature is threefold. First, we assess whether the effe... Read More about What does it take to make it to the polling station? The effects of campaign activities on electoral participation.

What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia (2015)
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The literature on post-communist democracies has traditionally suggested that organisational strength is considerably less important for electoral success than extensive media-based campaigns. Recent studies on party-level electoral dynamics, however... Read More about What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia.

Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament (2015)
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Parliamentary representation is a fluid concept. Yet, while the behaviour of elected representatives during roll call votes has been widely analysed, we know little about how parliamentarians act when their individual voting choices are not made publ... Read More about Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament.