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Corruption, accountability, and gender: Do female politicians face higher standards in public life? (2017)
Journal Article
Eggers, A. C., Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2018). Corruption, accountability, and gender: Do female politicians face higher standards in public life?. Journal of Politics, 80(1), 321-326. https://doi.org/10.1086/694649

Previous research suggests that female politicians face higher standards in public life, perhaps in part because female voters expect more from female politicians than from male politicians. Most of this research is based on observational evidence. W... Read More about Corruption, accountability, and gender: Do female politicians face higher standards in public life?.

Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods (2017)
Journal Article
Fair, C. C., Kuhn, P. M., Malhotra, N., & Shapiro, J. N. (2017). Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 12(1), 99-141. https://doi.org/10.1561/100.00015075

How natural disasters affect politics in developing countries is an important question, given the fragility of fledgling democratic institutions in some of these countries as well as likely increased exposure to natural disasters over time due to cli... Read More about Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods.

Natural Disasters and Political Participation: Evidence from the 2002 and 2013 Floods in Germany (2017)
Journal Article
Rudolph, L., & Kuhn, P. M. (2018). Natural Disasters and Political Participation: Evidence from the 2002 and 2013 Floods in Germany. German Politics, 27(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2017.1287900

How do natural disasters affect electoral participation? The existing social science literature offers contradictory predictions. A considerable body of research in sociology and psychology suggests that traumatic events can inspire pro-social behavi... Read More about Natural Disasters and Political Participation: Evidence from the 2002 and 2013 Floods in Germany.

Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping (2016)
Journal Article
Visalvanich, N. (2016). Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping. Political Research Quarterly, 70(1), 68-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912916674273

Racial stereotyping has been found to handicap African American and Latino candidates in negative ways. It is less clear how racial stereotypes may change the fortunes of Asian candidates. This paper explores the candidacies of Asian Americans with a... Read More about Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping.

Dyadic representation in a Westminster system (2016)
Journal Article
Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2017). Dyadic representation in a Westminster system. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 42(2), 235-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12148

Is policy representation in contemporary Westminster systems solely a function of programmatic national parties, or does the election of legislators via single-member districts result in MPs whose policy positions are individually responsive to publi... Read More about Dyadic representation in a Westminster system.

Legislator dissent as a valence signal (2016)
Journal Article
Campbell, R., Cowley, P., Vivyan, N., & Markus, W. (2019). Legislator dissent as a valence signal. British Journal of Political Science, 49(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123416000223

Existing research suggests that voters tend to respond positively to legislator independence due to two types of mechanism. First, dissent has an indirect effect, increasing a legislator’s media coverage and personal recognition among constituents (p... Read More about Legislator dissent as a valence signal.

When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates (2016)
Journal Article
Visalvanich, N. (2016). When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates. Politics, Groups and Identities, 5(4), 618-641. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2016.1146152

How significant of a factor is race in minority candidate evaluation? I present theory of race and minority candidate evaluation which argues that candidate race acts as an informational heuristic that affects perceptions of a candidate's ideological... Read More about When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates.

Comparing Strategies for Estimating Constituency Opinion from National Survey Samples (2016)
Journal Article
Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2018). Comparing Strategies for Estimating Constituency Opinion from National Survey Samples. Political Science Research and Methods, 6(3), 571-591. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.79

Political scientists interested in estimating how public opinion varies by constituency have developed several strategies for supplementing limited constituency survey data with additional sources of information. We present two evaluation studies in... Read More about Comparing Strategies for Estimating Constituency Opinion from National Survey Samples.

An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland (2015)
Report
Bakonyi, J., Cohen, G., & Bedard, P. (2015). An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland. [No known commissioning body]

The report presents the results of an evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad, a Community Driven Reconstruction (CDR) programme in Somaliland and Somalia.The programme was funded by DFID and implemented by CARE, DRC and IRC, and aimed at strengthening local... Read More about An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland.

Primaries and Candidates: Examining the Influence of Primary Electorates on Candidate Ideology (2015)
Journal Article
Nielson, L., & Visalvanich, N. (2017). Primaries and Candidates: Examining the Influence of Primary Electorates on Candidate Ideology. Political Science Research and Methods, 5(2), 397-408. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.60

Primary elections in the United States have been under-studied in the political science literature. Using new data to estimate the ideal points of primary election candidates and constituents, we examine the link between the ideological leanings of p... Read More about Primaries and Candidates: Examining the Influence of Primary Electorates on Candidate Ideology.

House or Home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation (2015)
Journal Article
Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2016). House or Home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation. European Journal of Political Research, 55(1), 81-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12119

In many political systems legislators face a fundamental trade-off between allocating effort to constituency service and to national policy-making activities, respectively. How do voters want their elected representatives to solve this trade-off? Thi... Read More about House or Home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation.

Unequal We Fight: Between- and Within-Group Inequality and Ethnic Civil War (2015)
Journal Article
Kuhn, P. M., & Weidmann, N. B. (2015). Unequal We Fight: Between- and Within-Group Inequality and Ethnic Civil War. Political Science Research and Methods, 3(03), 543-568. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.7

When and why ethnic groups rebel remains a central puzzle in the civil war literature. In this paper, we examine how different types of inequalities affect both an ethnic group’s willingness and opportunity to fight. We argue that political and econo... Read More about Unequal We Fight: Between- and Within-Group Inequality and Ethnic Civil War.

Do Contentious Elections Trigger Violence? (2015)
Book Chapter
Kuhn, P. M. (2015). Do Contentious Elections Trigger Violence?. In P. Norris, R. W. Frank, & F. Martínez i Coma (Eds.), Contentious elections : from ballots to barricades (89-110). Routledge

What do voters want from their local MP? (2015)
Journal Article
Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2015). What do voters want from their local MP?. The Political Quarterly, 86(1), 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.12128

This article summarises the findings from a study of what constituents want from their local Member of Parliament.1 We make use of a survey technique known as conjoint analysis, wherein we present a national sample of British voters with profiles of... Read More about What do voters want from their local MP?.

Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization (2015)
Journal Article
Hassell, H. J., & Visalvanich, N. (2015). Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization. Political Behavior, 39(4), 911-932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-014-9297-x

Previous work on the effects of race on the political behaviors of white Americans is beset with two problems. First, much of the work on the effect of race has looked primarily at attitudes as opposed to political action around a policy. Second, stu... Read More about Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization.

Partisan bias in opinion formation on episodes of political controversy: evidence from Great Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Wagner, M., Tarlov, J., & Vivyan, N. (2014). Partisan bias in opinion formation on episodes of political controversy: evidence from Great Britain. Political Studies, 62(1), 136-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.01002.x

Voters form judgements about political controversies through a process of motivated reasoning driven by two goals: the desire to reach an objectively accurate conclusion (accuracy) and the desire to reach a conclusion congruent with pre-existing view... Read More about Partisan bias in opinion formation on episodes of political controversy: evidence from Great Britain.

For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond) (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Morgan, K. (2015). For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond). Political Studies Review, 13(4), 506-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12033

R.A.W. Rhodes is to be applauded for restating the case for life history methods within the field of political studies, and many of his arguments will be found unexceptionable by those actively working with such methods. Ironically, in his recent con... Read More about For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond).