Zum Jahreswechsel 2020/21 war die Corona-Pandemie in einer Phase, in der das bis dahin so relativ erfolgreiche und international gelobte Pandemiemanagement der Bundes- und Landesregierungen erste größere Risse in der Bevölkerung bekam. Der sogenannte "Lockdown-Light" brachte nicht die...

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...

Power law distributions have been found in many contexts, both natural and social, and include the distribution of votes in multi-party/multi-candidate elections. This study finds a moderate inverse correlation between the strength of the power law distribution of votes and a nation’s...

Existing research on American climate opinion demonstrates that a wide variety of variables impact whether voters support a given policy. However, little research has empirically tested which variables matter the most in creating durable majority support for climate policies, and how varying...

We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The Know-Nothing Party gained control of a number of state governments in the 1854-1856 elections running on a staunchly anti-Catholic and anti-Irish platform. Our...

We measure the overall influence of contextual versus individual factors (e.g., voting rules and media as opposed to race and education) on voter behavior, and explore underlying mechanisms. Using a U.S.-wide voter-level panel, 2008–18, we examine voters who relocate across state and county...