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Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould (2005)
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Morgan, K., Cohen, G., & Flinn, A. (2005). Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould. River Oram Press

The revolutionary appeal of Communism in 20th-century Britain is analyzed in this examination of why Communist Party members joined, how they participated in the party's activities, and why, in many cases, they left the party. Archival resources, hun... Read More about Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould.

The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II (2006)
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Cohen, G. (2006). The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II. I.B. Tauris

The Independent Labour Party began the 1930s as a significant force in dispute with the Labour Party proper. In 1932, as these conflicts led to a split, the party had more MPs in Scotland than the larger organisation and a membership five times that... Read More about The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II.

Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates (2022)
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Visalvanich, N., & Sriram, S. K. (2023). Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates. Political Research Quarterly, 76(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211069175

South Asians have seen an increase in representation at all levels of US government, from Congress to the Vice Presidency, yet a paucity of work has been done examining South Asian candidates in America. The distinct nature of South Asian candidacies... Read More about Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates.

Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy (2021)
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von Borzyskowski, I., Daxecker, U., & Kuhn, P. M. (2022). Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 39(5), 542-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/07388942211026319

Election violence is common in many developing countries and has potentially detrimental implications for democratic consolidation. Drawing on political psychology, we argue that citizens’ fear of campaign violence undermines support for democracy wh... Read More about Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy.

The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries (2021)
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Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2022). The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries. Political Analysis, 30(3), 381-402. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.10

To reduce strategic misreporting on sensitive topics, survey researchers increasingly use list experiments rather than direct questions. However, the complexity of list experiments may increase non-strategic misreporting. We provide the first empiric... Read More about The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries.

Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents (2021)
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Bischof, D., Cohen, G., Cohen, S., Foos, F., Kuhn, P. M., Nanou, K., …Vivyan, N. (2022). Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents. Political Studies Review, 20(2), 192-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211037865

Audit experiments examining the responsiveness of public officials have become an increasingly popular tool used by political scientists. While these studies have brought significant insight into how public officials respond to different types of con... Read More about Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents.

Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting (2021)
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Kuhn, P. M., Mellish, S., & Vivyan, N. (2021). Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting. Electoral Studies, 70, Article 102276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102276

Direct survey measures of turnout often suffer from misreporting, particularly among non-voters. We investigate whether turnout misreporting in online surveys can be reduced by two new turnout question designs aimed at strengthening or buffering resp... Read More about Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting.

Dangerously Informed: Voter Information and Pre-Electoral Violence in Africa (2020)
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Borzyskowski, I. V., & Kuhn, P. M. (2020). Dangerously Informed: Voter Information and Pre-Electoral Violence in Africa. Journal of Peace Research, 57(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343319885166

A considerable literature examines the effect of voter information on candidate strategies and voter-politician interactions in the developing world. The voter information literature argues that information can improve accountability because more inf... Read More about Dangerously Informed: Voter Information and Pre-Electoral Violence in Africa.

Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016 (2019)
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Cohen, G., & Cohen, S. (2021). Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016. British Journal of Political Science, 51(3), 1181-1202. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123419000486

In this article we examine party sorting, elite cue and ideological polarization ac- counts of polarization dynamics. We test their diering expectations about trends in redistributive ideological polarization and partisan polarization in the British... Read More about Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016.

A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate (2020)
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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.

The Party’s Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates (2019)
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Hassell, H. J., & Visalvanich, N. (2019). The Party’s Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates. American Journal of Political Science, 63(4), 905-919. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12461

Party support has a strong influence on candidate success in the primary. What remains unexplored is whether party actions during the primary are biased along racial and gender lines. Using candidate demographic data at the congressional level and me... Read More about The Party’s Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates.

Who Votes More Strategically? (2020)
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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)
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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.

Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations (2019)
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Vivyan, N., Wagner, M., Glinitzer, K., & Moritz-Eberl, J. (2020). Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations. Electoral Studies, 63, Article 102093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102093

Motivated partly by descriptive representation concerns, political scientists have become increasingly interested in voters’ preferences over the social class of their representatives. Whereas existing research focuses mainly on preferences concernin... Read More about Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations.

Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties and Terrorism (2019)
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Kavakli, K. C., & Kuhn, P. M. (2020). Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties and Terrorism. International Organization, 74(1), 145-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002081831900033x

How do international observers decide whether to criticize or condone electoral fraud in a country? We argue that this decision depends on the identity of the victims of electoral fraud. A monitoring organization is more likely to overlook fraud comm... Read More about Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties and Terrorism.

Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys (2018)
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Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2018). Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 82(2), 300-321. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfy017

Assessing individual-level theories of electoral participation requires survey-based measures of turnout. Yet, due to a combination of sampling problems and respondent misreporting, postelection surveys routinely overestimate turnout, often by large... Read More about Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys.