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The abiding voter : the lengthy horizon of retrospective evaluations
(Wiley, 2019-11-29)Although the theory of retrospective voting receives wide support in the literature on voting behavior, less agreement exists on voters’ time horizon when assessing the government’s performance – i.e., whether voters are myopic. Previous studies on ... -
Age, Period and Cohort effects in the Decline of Party Identification in Germany
An Analysis of a Two Decade Panel Study in Germany (1992-2009)
(2012-04-27)Party identification traditionally is seen as an important linkage mechanism, connecting voters to the party system. Previous analyses have suggested that the level of party identity is in decline in Germany, and in this article, we first expand previous ... -
Are the supporters of populist parties loyal voters? Dissatisfaction and stable voting for populist parties
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-09-17)Scholars of electoral behaviour regularly link political dissatisfaction to two types of behaviour: voting for populist parties and unstable voting behaviour. It is therefore not surprising that the electorates of populist parties are generally assumed ... -
A Comparative Investigation into The Effects of Party-System Variables on Party Switching using Individual-Level Data
(2015-03-23)Previous comparative electoral studies using aggregate data indicate the importance of party-system variables, such as polarization and the number of parties, with regard to the level of volatility between two elections. Research using individual level ... -
Compulsory voting, inequality, and quality of the vote : the impact of compulsory voting on accountability and proximity voting
The impact of compulsory voting on inequality and the quality of the vote
(Routledge, 2017-01-18)Democratic elections imply that the electorate holds incumbents accountable for past performance, and that voters select the party that is closest to their own political preferences. Previous research shows that both elements require political sop ... -
Do women vote less correctly? The effect of gender on ideological proximity voting and correct voting
(University of Chicago Press, 2020-05-11)Studies on political knowledge routinely find that women have lower levels of political knowledge than men. This gender gap in political knowledge is usually interpreted as troublesome for democracy, because a lack of political knowledge could imply ... -
Economic Policy Voting and Incumbency: Unemployment in Western Europe
(2013-06)The economic voting literature has been dominated by the incumbency-oriented hypothesis, where voters reward or punish government at the ballot box according to economic performance. The alternative, policy-oriented hypothesis, where voters favor parties ... -
The economic voter and economic crisis
(2014-10)Theories of economic voting have a long tradition in political science and continue to inspire a large group of scholars. Classical economic voting theory assumes a reward-and-punishment mechanism (Key, 1966). This mechanism implies that incumbents are ... -
The Effects of Civic Education on Political Knowledge
A Two Year Panel Survey among Belgian Adolescents
(2011-09)Traditionally political knowledge was regarded as an important potential outcome for civic education efforts. Most of the currently available research, however, tends to focus on non-cognitive goals, despite the fact that studies repeatedly have shown ... -
Election Forecasting under Opaque Conditions
A Model for Francophone Belgium, 1981-2010
(2012)Election forecasting models assume retrospective economic voting and clear mechanisms of accountability. Previous research indeed indicates that incumbent political parties are being held accountable for the state of the economy. In this article we ... -
Electoral Volatility, Political Sophistication, Trust and Efficacy
A Study on Changes in Voter Preferences during the Belgian Regional Elections of 2009
(Springer, 2012-01)In this article we investigate voter volatility and analyze the causes and motives of switching vote intentions. We test two main sets of variables linked to volatility in literature; political sophistication and ‘political (dis)satisfaction’. Results ... -
Explaining the Trump vote : the effect of racist resentment and anti-immigrant sentiments
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-04-12)The campaign leading to the 2016 US presidential election included a number of unconventional forms of campaign rhetoric. In earlier analyses, it was claimed that the Trump victory could be seen as a form of protest voting. This article analyzes the ... -
Macroeconomics, economic crisis and electoral outcomes: A national European pool
(2014-10)An abundance of comparative survey research argues the presence of economic voting as an individual force in European elections, thereby refuting a possible ecological fallacy. But the hypothesis of economic voting at the aggregate level, with ... -
More ‘Europe’, less Democracy? : European integration does not erode satisfaction with democracy
(Elsevier, 2021-01-31)The process of European integration, through institutions such as the European Union, the Eurozone, or Schengen, implies a shift in political decision-making away from the national governments and towards international institutions. This gradual shift ... -
Partisan Dealignment in Germany: A rejoinder to Russell Dalton
(2014)The work of Russell Dalton has undoubtedly played a seminal role in the study of the relation between political sophistication and partisan dealignment. We furthermore acknowledge the presence of a consensus on the occurrence of lower levels of ... -
Party Members as an Electoral Linking Mechanism
An Election Forecasting Model for Political Parties in Belgium, 1981-2010
(2014)While party membership figures are clearly in decline in several Western countries, different interpretations have been offered on the likely consequences of this trend. Some authors stress that members have lost most of their importance for political ... -
Political Sophistication and Vote Intention Switching
The Timing of Electoral Volatility in the 2009 German Election Campaign
(2014-09-01)This article investigates the link between political sophistication and electoral volatility. Showing that there is disagreement in the literature on whether switching party preferences is related to low or high levels of political sophistication, it ... -
Punishing Local Incumbents for the Local Economy
Economic Voting in the 2012 Belgian Municipal Elections
(2016-03)After decennia of research on economic voting, it is now established that the state of the economy affects voting behaviour. Nevertheless, this conclusion is the result of a focus on predominantly national-level economies and national-level elections. ... -
The Relation Between Civic Education and Political Attitudes and Behavior
A Two-Year Panel Study Among Belgian Late Adolescents
(2012)It is generally assumed that civic education efforts will have a positive effect on the political attitudes and behaviors of adolescents and young adults. There is less agreement, however, on the most effective forms of civic education. In the present ... -
Transfert de voix, flux électoraux et électeurs mobiles
(2014)Ruth Dassonneville et Pierre Baudewyns révèlent que, derrière les pourcentages des résultats électoraux, se cachent bien des mouvements et transferts d’électeurs. Ils se penchent sur la « volatilité nette », c’est-à-dire sur la somme des avancées et ...
