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Economic hardship and cultural anxiety, not immigrant numbers, drive far-right voting—but contact with diversity reduces support only in rural areas. 🏘️📊🇩🇪

The 2025 German federal election marked a historic low for centrist parties among voters under 25, a demographic shift that coincided with TikTok beco…

Younger Germans with stronger pro-climate views are less satisfied with their government, especially when climate issues feel personally important. 🌍👥📉

When political coalitions suddenly collapse, voters develop stronger dislike toward parties blamed for the breakdown rather than simply liking their own party more. 🏛️😠🇩🇪

Research has shown that affective polarization is higher around election time. However, important questions remain about whether this election boost e…

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Political parties in the UK and elsewhere have, to varying degrees, tried to diversify the pool of candidates from which they can select. Attempts to eradicate the range of institutional and cultural barriers experienced by candidates from under-represented groups, such as women and racially minoritized communities, are beginning to bear fruit. However, less attention has been paid to the specific processes and norms which might make it harder for disabled people to get selected as candidates for elected office.

This paper argues that the primary divide in values (Inglehart, 1977; 1990) between safety and self-expression lies in a different place for discrimin…

Socio-economic background profoundly shapes electoral participation, with early-life economic hardship significantly dampening political engagement. Y…

What do people value in redistricting? This paper presents three original survey experiments to examine public attitudes toward redistricting, includi…

In this study, we examine how one aspect of sibling relations—the sex of one’s sibling—affects voter participation. To credibly identify causal effect…

Due to the proliferation of dual citizenship and extraterritorial voting rights, a sizable and growing share of the world’s population can participate…

Are citizens hiding their true preferences? The entry of nativist and nationalist radical right parties can help normalise certain attitudes considere…

Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identifies a robust and persistent empirical regularity: women consistently express greater concern about climate and environmental issues than men.

The lack of candidate diversity and the descriptive under-representation of groups such as women and young people in parliaments is a recurring concer…