Not Feeling Politically Represented: A Typology and Comparison

Scholarship considers that political representation fails when the identities and interests of minorities are invisible in legislative bodies. But what does ‘not feeling politically represented’ me...

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Partisan Bias of Non-Voters in Canada and the Consequences for Representative Democracy

Low turnout incurs greater turnout inequality and can induce partisan bias. Canada suffers from low turnout and large disparities in turnout. The close margins of recent federal elections raise que...

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Asymmetric Accountability: A Causal Test of Multidimensional Legislative Responsiveness in Five European Democracies

This study examines how citizens in five European democracies (France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, and Poland) evaluate multidimensional legislative responsiveness. Utilising a conjoint experiment wit...

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Authoritarian Legacies and the Kuomintang's Electoral Performance in the 2024 Election

Following the Kuomintang's defeats in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the party's decline was attributed to the rise of a stronger Taiwanese identity and its pro-China image. However, the...

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Speaking for Votes: The Electoral Returns of Region-Focused Rhetoric in Korean Legislative Committee

This study examines how substantive geographic representation – measured by the frequency and concentration of regional references in committee speeches – affects both party nomination and electora...

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Why Populism Wins? Collective Political Agency and he Limits of Deliberative Mini-Publics

Deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) are widely promoted as institutional solutions to the crisis of representation. Yet, despite their proliferation across local, national, and supranational arenas, t...

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Enjoying ‘Expertise’: A Critical Fantasy Study of Pro-‘Expert’ Anti-populism in UK and US Political Commentary

Anti-populist discourse often presents ‘populism’ as a threat to ‘expertise’, taking the side of ‘experts’ against their ‘populist’ opponents. However, the role of enjoyment in inciting identificat...

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Performance Voting in a Multiparty Contest: A Case Study of the 2024 Taiwan's Presidential Election

This study examines the influence of performance assessments on voting behavior in Taiwan's 2024 presidential election. Drawing on cross-sectional and panel survey data, we find evidence of perform...

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The Expectation Gap: Citizens’ Expectations for and Evaluations of Democratic Representation

Concerns about a potential erosion of political support in established democracies have motivated scholars to study the failure of democratic institutions in realising democratic representation. Ye...

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Emotional Responsiveness in an Age of Insecurity A Conceptual Proposal and a Research Agenda

Policy responsiveness to the preferences of the citizen’s has been a major topos of academic discussions in political science in recent years. Much ink has been spilled on questions like whether re...

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Stronger Veto, Less Fragmented Party Systems: Influence of Bicameralism on Party System Concentration

While several studies have explored the impact of bicameralism on cabinet and legislative majority formation, its impact on political parties and party systems has been inexplicably overlooked. To ...

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How Conceptualisation Matters for Representation: The Case of Migrantised Groups

There is wide agreement in the literature that migrantised groups are underrepresented in political institutions. Who belongs to a migrantised group and the extent to which (under)representation is...

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Representing Preferences through Multi-Option Referendums: The Impact of Ballot Question Design on Voting Behaviour and Outcomes

Referendums can democratically empower citizens, but the dominant binary design is criticised for inadequately representing voters’ genuine preferences. Multi-option referendums offer an alternativ...

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Tweeting the Mandate? Local Newspaper Sharing and the Mandate Divide in MPs’ Social Media Use

This study examines how different types of electoral mandates in the German MMP system affect the way MPs engage in geographic representation on Twitter (X). Building on research on the mandate div...

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Is Representation Influence? Electoral Systems and the Radical Right

Does proportional representation (PR) increase the influence of radical right politics? Most of the current literature exploring the relationship between electoral systems and the radical right arg...

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Varieties of Citizen Engagement? The Institutional Design of Deliberative Innovations in Europe in Comparative Perspective

This study examines the institutional characteristics of deliberative mini-publics across various European democracies, utilising Lijphart’s, A. (2012. Patterns of democracy: Government forms and p...

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Political Representation: A Typology and Synthesis

There is a vast array of different terms applied to diverse aspects of political representation. We provide a review of 51 different terms which we discuss under three broad types: fundamental (or ...

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Ballot Box Battles: Sex, Ethnicity and the Electoral Performance of UK Candidates

The UK Parliament has become increasingly diverse in recent years. Yet it remains far from being descriptively representative of the population. This study investigates how women and ethnic minorit...

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Exploring Electoral Discrimination Through an Ethics of Office Accountability

Electoral discrimination (ED) in democratic settings occurs when majority voters, influenced by their personal, cultural, or religious biases, favour majority candidates, consequently diminishing s...

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How to Make Small Beautiful: The Promise of Democratic Innovations

Small states are on average more likely to be democracies and it is often assumed that democracy functions better in small polities. ‘Small is beautiful’, proponents say. Yet, empirical scholarship...

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Technocrats Instead of Political Parties? Synthetic Control Approach to the Effect of Technocratic Government on the Government Trust

When facing a dilemma between the responsibility to formulate reasonable policies and responsiveness to the public will, political parties frequently delegate policy decisions to technocrats. Since...

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Reexamining the Supply and Demand Framework for Explaining Women's Descriptive Representation*

What explains cross-national variation in the level of women's descriptive representation? Theoretically, scholars have long recognised that women's descriptive representation is determined by both...

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Campaign Personalisation at the 2023 Estonian Parliamentary Election

Parliamentary candidates face choices about the nature of their electoral campaign. Among else, they must strike a balance between promoting their party’s image and their own personal appeal, and h...

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Does it Matter if You’re Left or Right? Studying Left- and Right-Wing Populist Citizens’ Support for Deliberative Mini-Publics

Populist citizens have a remarkable democratic profile: they are democratic idealists that are dissatisfied with how democracy works in practice. It stands to reason that they would be supportive o...

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Mapping Spanish Political Landscape on Migration: A Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Manifestos Ahead of the 2024 EU Election

This study examines the electoral programmes of Spain’s four main national parties (PSOE, PP, VOX, and SUMAR) and Von der Leyen’s discourse after being re-elected as President of the European Commi...

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