Department of Comparative Politics
Recent Submissions
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The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Despite decades of research on women’s representation, we still know surprisingly little about the extent to which public policy responds unequally to the preferences of women and men. This article exploits two comparable ... -
Vaccination-Sensitive Healthcare Rationing: Overlooked Conditions, Translational Ethics, and Climate-Related Challenges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Park and Davies (Citation2024) have conducted impressive work on synthesizing the discussion of vaccination-sensitive rationing and relevant theoretical approaches. In this commentary, we build upon their work by addressing ... -
Endringer i Sametingets valgmanntall og den nye samepolitikkens grunnleggende karakter. Valgdemografiens betydning for utviklingen av samepolitikken som urfolkspolitikk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Veksten i Sametingets valgmanntall har på kort tid endret tyngdepunktet fra nord til sør og fra bygd til by. Dette bidrar til å åpne rommet for hva «samiskhet» innebærer, noe som forsterker både veksten og endringene av ... -
Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)During the past decade, analyses drawing on several democracy measures have shown a global trend of democratic retrenchment. While these democracy measures use radically different methodologies, most partially or fully ... -
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Despite numerous territorial reforms of municipalities and regions across Europe, the impact of jurisdictional mergers on voting, i.e., citizens’ party vote choice and parties’ vote shares, has received scant attention in ... -
When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences? Evidence from individual-level ballot data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Does candidate gender matter for vote choice? Whereas experimental research suggests an average preference for female candidates, observational studies tend to find null effects. In this note, we address the recent debate ... -
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In their 2021 article published in the British Journal of Political Science, Calla Hummel, John Gerring, and Thomas Burt (henceforth Hummel et al.) examine the relationship between political finance reforms and corruption, ... -
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)In this study we show that on different dimensions of social security (compensation level, maximum duration and eligibility criteria), respondents in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom prefer their governments to ... -
The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–2023
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Objective: The purpose of this article is to explain howPeronism, an allegedly personalist party, has managed to insti-tutionalize its internal power struggles and its successionprocedures since democratization in 1983.Methods: ... -
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Political Participation in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)This article investigates the relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and political participation in European democracies. Using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2018), we first show that a participation ... -
Mapping the policy space of public consultations: evidence from the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Public consultations strengthen the informational advantage and policy legitimacy of bureaucracies by allowing them to collect and aggregate information on stakeholder preferences. How well consultations perform this ... -
Generation Z: Pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Generation Z is the most educated and yet pessimistic about the future. At the same time, populist parties have much support among young voters. Do they find an answer to their discouraging socio-economic situation in ... -
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)The second-order election (SOE) model expects voters to punish parties innational government and reward opposition, small and new parties becausethere is ‘less at stake’ in an SOE. One key assumption that is rarely studied ... -
Culture and Public Support for Violence Against Children in Six Nations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study explores the link between culture and support for violence against children in six South Asian (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and European (Germany, Netherlands, and Sweden) countries. Utilizing data from the ... -
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Young people continue to be underrepresented in formal politics. Previous research indicates that being a nonmiddle-aged candidate negatively affects electoral success. What are the origins of this performance gap? This ... -
Performance and trust in child protection systems: A comparative analysis of England and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Research on the relationship between performance and trust is commonplace in social sciences, yet trust in child protection systems (CPS) remains an emerging area of study. This research delves into how three dimensions ... -
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Political scientists increasingly use crowdworkers to produce data, predominantly in the context of coding researcher-curated text or to retrieve simple data from the internet. In this article, we provide a theoretical and ... -
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)When individuals are confronted with information about why and where gender quotas should apply, does it affect their attitudes? A growing literature argues that information affects opinions on gender equality, but so far ... -
Data-Driven Campaigning in Data-Dense Small Multiparty Systems: A Party-Level Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study examines data-driven campaign (DDC) practices in Sweden. We explore the extent of data-driven practices adopted in Swedish political campaigns, and parties’ motivations to adopt them. Since this is a comparison ... -
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article compares the relationship between candidate age and political selection on the local and national level of politics. On which level are young candidates more likely to be selected by parties and elected by ...
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