We document the surge of economic nationalist and radical-right parties in western Europe
between the early 1990s and 2016. We discuss how economic shocks contribute to …

Elections are held in nearly all countries in the contemporary world. Yet despite their aim of
allowing for peaceful transfers of power, elections held outside of consolidated democracies …

Here, we present Party Facts (www. partyfacts. org), a modern online database of political
parties worldwide. With this project, we provide a comprehensive database of political …

Recent elections in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, and
Pakistan have displayed substantial contestation and violence. A growing literature explores …

Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-
post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than …

This article introduces the Deadly Electoral Conflict dataset (DECO): a global,
georeferenced event dataset on electoral violence with lethal outcomes from 1989 to 2017 …

An electorate can effectively coordinate on the viable parties in its district, or a relatively
large proportion of its voters may “waste” their votes on parties that fail to obtain office …

Although electoral malapportionment is a recurrent theme in monitoring reports on African
elections, few researchers have tackled this issue. Here we theorize the meaning and …

The African party literature, especially research prescribing to the long-dominant ethnic
voting thesis, has asserted that African party systems exhibit low levels of party …

Electoral forensics involves examining election results for anomalies to efficiently identify
patterns indicative of electoral irregularities. However, there is disagreement about which, if …