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Dyadic Representation in a Westminster System by HANRETTY, CHRIS, LAUDERDALE, BENJAMIN E., VIVYAN, NICK

“…Is policy representation in contemporary Westminster systems solely a function of programmatic national parties, or does the election of legislators via…”
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House or home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation by VIVYAN, NICK, WAGNER, MARKUS

“…In many political systems legislators face a fundamental trade‐off between allocating effort to constituency service and to national policy‐making activities,…”
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Corruption, Accountability, and Gender: Do Female Politicians Face Higher Standards in Public Life? by Eggers, Andrew C., Vivyan, Nick, Wagner, Markus

“…Previous research suggests that female politicians face higher standards in public life, perhaps in part because female voters expect more from female…”
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Long-run trends in partisan polarization of climate policy-relevant attitudes across countries by Caldwell, David, Cohen, Gidon, Vivyan, Nick

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Do voters reward rebellion? The electoral accountability of MPs in Britain by VIVYAN, NICK, WAGNER, MARKUS

“…To hold their Members of Parliament individually accountable for their legislative behaviour, British voters would need to base their decision to vote for an…”
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A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate by Hanretty, Chris, Lauderdale, Benjamin E., Vivyan, Nick

“…Measuring how much citizens care about different policy issues is critical for political scientists, yet existing measurement approaches have significant…”
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Costly Signals: Voter Responses to Parliamentary Dissent in Austria, Britain, and Germany by Wagner, Markus, Vivyan, Nick, Glinitzer, Konstantin

“…When Members of Parliament (MPs) disagree publicly with their party, this provides a signal to voters regarding both their political views and their character…”
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What Do Voters Want From Their Local MP? by Vivyan, Nick, Wagner, Markus

“…This article summarises the findings from a study of what constituents want from their local Member of Parliament. We make use of a survey technique known as…”
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Decomposing Public Opinion Variation into Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability by Lauderdale, Benjamin E., Hanretty, Chris, Vivyan, Nick

“…We propose a method for decomposing variation in the issue preferences that US citizens express on surveys into three sources of variability that correspond to…”
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Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys by Kuhn, Patrick M, Vivyan, Nick

“…Abstract Assessing individual-level theories of electoral participation requires survey-based measures of turnout. Yet, due to a combination of sampling…”
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Partisan Bias in Opinion Formation on Episodes of Political Controversy: Evidence from Great Britain by Wagner, Markus, Tarlov, Jessica, Vivyan, Nick

“…Voters form judgements about political controversies through a process of motivated reasoning driven by two goals: the desire to reach an objectively accurate…”
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Combining national and constituency polling for forecasting by Hanretty, Chris, Lauderdale, Ben, Vivyan, Nick

“…We describe a method for forecasting British general elections by combining national and constituency polling. We reconcile national and constituency estimates…”
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Psychological threat and turnout misreporting by Kuhn, Patrick M., Mellish, Samuel, Vivyan, Nick

“…Direct survey measures of turnout often suffer from misreporting, particularly among non-voters. We investigate whether turnout misreporting in online surveys…”
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Do humble beginnings help? How politician class roots shape voter evaluations by Vivyan, Nick, Wagner, Markus, Glinitzer, Konstantin, Eberl, Jakob-Moritz

“…Motivated partly by descriptive representation concerns, political scientists have become increasingly interested in voters' preferences over the social class…”
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Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914 by Blaxill, Luke, Cohen, Gidon, Hutchison, Gary, Kuhn, Patrick M, Vivyan, Nick

“…This article analyses over 19,000 articles from newspapers and parliamentary commission reports to reveal endemic electoral violence in England and Wales…”
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Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents by Bischof, Daniel, Cohen, Gidon, Cohen, Sarah, Foos, Florian, Kuhn, Patrick Michael, Nanou, Kyriaki, Visalvanich, Neil, Vivyan, Nick

“…Audit experiments examining the responsiveness of public officials have become an increasingly popular tool used by political scientists. While these studies…”
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Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal by Vivyan, Nick, Wagner, Markus, Tarlov, Jessica

“…This paper examines electoral accountability after the 2009–10 UK expenses scandal. Existing research shows that Members of Parliament (MPs) implicated in the…”
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From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England by HIX, SIMON, HØYLAND, BJØRN, VIVYAN, NICK

“…This article examines the making of monetary policy in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2008 by analysing voting behaviour in the Bank of England's Monetary…”
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