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A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate (2020)
Journal Article
Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2020). A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate. American Journal of Political Science, 64(3), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12470

Measuring how much citizens care about dierent policy issues is critical for political scientists, yet existing measurement approaches have signicant limitations. We provide a new surveyexperimental, choice-based approach for measuring the importance... Read More about A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate.

Who Votes More Strategically? (2020)
Journal Article
Eggers, A. C., & Vivyan, N. (2020). Who Votes More Strategically?. American Political Science Review, 114(2), 470-485. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055419000820

Strategic voting is an important explanation for aggregate political phenomena, but we know little about how strategic voting varies across types of voters. Are richer voters more strategic than poorer voters? Does strategic behavior vary with age, e... Read More about Who Votes More Strategically?.

Costly signals: Voter responses to parliamentary dissent in Austria, Britain and Germany (2020)
Journal Article
Glinitzer, K., Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2020). Costly signals: Voter responses to parliamentary dissent in Austria, Britain and Germany. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 45(4), 645-678. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12274

When Members of Parliament (MPs) disagree publicly with their party, this provides a signal to voters regarding both their political views and their character valence. We argue that the strength of this signal to voters depends on the personal career... Read More about Costly signals: Voter responses to parliamentary dissent in Austria, Britain and Germany.