... Tiberiu Dragu tiberiu.dragu@nyu.edu 05 10 2025 15 02 2026 12 04 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Elections Polarization Salience Issue selection Campaigns Polarization has increasingly become...

... (2005; 2007) and the Aldrich-Rohde theory of conditional party government (1997; 2000; Aldrich, 2011 ; Rohde, 1991 ). We hope to demonstrate that, while these two theories might have developed independently, together they offer a unified account. Second, we develop a model of elections that includes...

...Sebastian Saiegh To the extent that asset prices are responsive to unexpected political events, hedging against election risk should be valuable to investors. This study uses option prices to investigate market expectations of electorally-induced financial risk in the United States between 1986...

...Joel Sievert I examine whether indirect and direct elections lead to the selection of different types of legislators. My research design, which compares senators to representatives who were elected from statewide districts, takes advantage of two unique features of the nineteenth century...

... levels in a country. Specifically, we focus on the role of executive elections as the primary mechanism. Presenting both a formal model and cross-national empirical analyses, we show that executive elections under presidential regimes are significantly more likely to affect political polarization among...

... as to argue that we should abandon democracy altogether. At the same time, studies on elections and policy outcomes tend to find that electoral selection and incentives work reasonably well. In this paper, we offer a reconciliation of these two literatures. Even if individual voters leave something...

.... Aided by federal grants for the purchase of new machines, states and localities engaged in a buying spree of new voting equipment that changed the landscape of how Americans vote. By now, all the nation’s punch card and mechanical lever systems have been retired in federal elections, in favor...

...Edward B. Foley; Charles Stewart III We conduct statistical analysis of the rise in the number of votes counted after Election Day (“overtime votes”) and the growing tendency of these votes to disproportionately favor Democrats in presidential elections (the “blue shift”). We provide a historical...

...Ryan D. Williamson; Kathleen Hale; Mitchell Brown Before discussing the state of cyber preparedness across the states, it is first worth outlining the overall environment within which elections take place in order to fully comprehend both the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the electoral...