What preferences do people have for cross‐country cooperation on irregular migration and refugee protection? Existing research improves our understanding of how voters react to large‐scale inflows of asylum seekers, like those experienced by European countries in 2015–2016, and the type of...

When popular referendums fail to ratify new international agreements or succeed in reversing existing ones, it not only affects domestic voters, but also creates negative spillovers for the other parties to such agreements. This paper explores how voters respond to this strategic environment. We...

We examine how analogous thinking about family history affects outgroup bias. We provide evidence from Greece, a country that serves as an entry port to Europe for a large number of refugees and whose native population partly consists of descendants of ethnic Greeks who were forcibly relocated...

Why does support for mainstream parties decline? A growing literature points to economic loss as a source of political resentment. We bring this explanation one step further providing a novel mechanism linking economic decline to anti-mainstream vote. We posit that the local economy qualifies...

Anti-Semitism represents one of the most penetrating forms of prejudice, yet social research has failed to address the causal underpinnings of the phenomenon. To this end, we put forward a new theory of anti-Semitism that builds on the legacy of the Holocaust. Standing as the benchmark for...

A large body of research has shown that first-time voting experiences can have important effects on subsequent turnout, with salient elections boosting turnout later in life and non-salient ones suppressing it. We challenge this view. Following research on the context-dependent nature of habit...

Although the transmission of partisan attitudes through the family is a well-established empirical finding across various contexts, the durability of this link over the child’s lifecourse remains poorly investigated. Political issues interact with family influences to condition early adult...

According to scholarly wisdom, party competition at the subnational level plays a negligible role in national elections. We provide theory and evidence that qualifies this view. Subnational elections determine entrance into subnational assemblies, which is accompanied by organizational...