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Internet voting increases expatriate voter turnout
Micha Germann
Apr 30, 2021
Cross-border migration has increased rapidly in recent decades. In response, most democracies have extended voting rights to their citizens abroad. Nevertheless, expatriate voter turnout tends to be low. This article...
Internet Voting and Turnout
Internet voting (i-voting) is often discussed as a potential remedy against declining turnout rates. This paper presents new evidence on the causal effect of i-voting on turnout, drawing on trials conducted in two Swiss cantons...
Making Votes Count with Internet Voting
Micha Germann
Oct 24, 2021
This paper reassesses the claim that electronic voting systems help voters to avoid common mistakes that lead to their votes remaining uncounted. While prior studies have come to mixed conclusions, I provide new, more robust...
Do Candidates' Policy Positions Matter in Regional Elections?
An oft-cited benefit of candidate-based elections is that voters can hold individual candidates accountable for their issue stances. However, voters may not always be aware of candidates’ policy positions, a concern which...
Contested Sovereignty
The recent proliferation of referendums on sovereignty matters has fuelled growing scholarly interest. However, comparative research is hindered by the weaknesses of current compilations, which tend to suffer from conceptual...
Internet Voting and Turnout
Internet voting (i-voting) is often discussed as a potential remedy against declining turnout rates. This paper presents new evidence on the causal effect of i-voting on turnout, drawing on trials conducted in two Swiss cantons...
Pax populi?
Micha Germann
Aug 16, 2022
The international community increasingly promotes referendums as it intervenes in self-determination conflicts around the world. However, the ability of self-determination referendums to bring about peace remains uncertain. This...
Getting Out the Vote With Voting Advice Applications
This article investigates the mobilization potential of online voter information tools known as “Voting Advice Applications” (VAAs). We argue that an observational approach utilizing survey data constitutes the best available...
Political Exclusion, Lost Autonomy, and Escalating Conflict over Self-Determination
Most civil wars are preceded by nonviolent forms of conflict. While it is often
assumed that violent and nonviolent conflicts are qualitatively different and have
different causes, that assumption is rarely tested...
assumed that violent and nonviolent conflicts are qualitatively different and have
different causes, that assumption is rarely tested...
Getting Out the Vote With Voting Advice Applications
This article investigates the mobilization potential of online voter information tools known as “Voting Advice Applications” (VAAs). We argue that an observational approach utilizing survey data constitutes the best available...
Pax populi?
Micha Germann
Aug 16, 2022
The international community increasingly promotes referendums as it intervenes in self-determination conflicts around the world. However, the ability of self-determination referendums to bring about peace remains uncertain. This...
Internet voting increases expatriate voter turnout
Micha Germann
Apr 30, 2021
Cross-border migration has increased rapidly in recent decades. In response, most democracies have extended voting rights to their citizens abroad. Nevertheless, expatriate voter turnout tends to be low. This article...
Making Votes Count with Internet Voting
Micha Germann
Oct 24, 2021
This paper reassesses the claim that electronic voting systems help voters to avoid common mistakes that lead to their votes remaining uncounted. While prior studies have come to mixed conclusions, I provide new, more robust...
Do Candidates' Policy Positions Matter in Regional Elections?
An oft-cited benefit of candidate-based elections is that voters can hold individual candidates accountable for their issue stances. However, voters may not always be aware of candidates’ policy positions, a concern which...
SDM
This article presents a new data set on self-determination movements (SDMs) with universal coverage for the period from 1945 to 2012. The data set corrects the selection bias that characterizes previous efforts to code SDMs and...
SDM
This article presents a new data set on self-determination movements (SDMs) with universal coverage for the period from 1945 to 2012. The data set corrects the selection bias that characterizes previous efforts to code SDMs and...
Political Exclusion, Lost Autonomy, and Escalating Conflict over Self-Determination
Most civil wars are preceded by nonviolent forms of conflict. While it is often
assumed that violent and nonviolent conflicts are qualitatively different and have
different causes, that assumption is rarely tested...
assumed that violent and nonviolent conflicts are qualitatively different and have
different causes, that assumption is rarely tested...
Contested Sovereignty
The recent proliferation of referendums on sovereignty matters has fuelled growing scholarly interest. However, comparative research is hindered by the weaknesses of current compilations, which tend to suffer from conceptual...
Scaling Up? Unpacking the Effect of Deliberative Mini-Publics on Legitimacy Perceptions
Deliberative mini-publics are increasingly used to try to tackle public discontent with the functioning of democracy. However, the ability of mini-publics to increase perceptions of legitimate decision-making among citizens at...
Scaling Up? Unpacking the Effect of Deliberative Mini-Publics on Legitimacy Perceptions
Deliberative mini-publics are increasingly used to try to tackle public discontent with the functioning of democracy. However, the ability of mini-publics to increase perceptions of legitimate decision-making among citizens at...
The Dramatic Prologues of Alexander Nowell
Micha Lazarus
Jun 28, 2017
Alexander Nowell, headmaster of Westminster, left a rough manuscript notebook that contains Latin prose prologues to three classical plays performed by his pupils at Westminster in the 1540s: Terence’s $\textit{Adelphoe}$ and...
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