Eric Andre

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Research Summary

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The researcher’s work synthesizes a comprehensive exploration of electoral systems, fiscal policy dynamics, social behavior, and political engagement across multiple disciplines. Their research focuses on examining how electoral systems influence voter turnout, the relationship between fiscal policies and democratic progress, and the role of social and intergroup psychology in shaping individual voting decisions. The study also investigates the impact of media influence on civic behavior and explores gender politics, economic theory, and judicial systems to understand the broader mechanisms that shape political participation and public engagement. Experimental behavioral economics is used as a laboratory for testing normative assumptions about voter behavior, while the legal system plays a critical role in determining electoral outcomes through electoral laws and procedures.

Research Themes

All (100 Papers)

Social Sciences (100 Papers)

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WHAT AFFECTS VOTER TURNOUT?(2005)

Losers' Consent(2005)

The effect of COVID‐19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?(2020)

Turnout in Electoral Democracies(1998)

Where does turnout decline come from?(2004)

Does proportional representation foster voter turnout?(1990)

Do Parties Make a Difference? Parties and the Size of Government in Liberal Democracies(1993)

Mixed electoral systems: a conceptual and empirical survey(1999)

Winning, Losing and Satisfaction with Democracy(2007)

Does Proportional Representation Foster Closer Congruence Between Citizens and Policy Makers?(2006)

Accepting the Election Outcome: The Effect of Participation on Losers' Consent(1993)

Differentiating winners: How elections affect satisfaction with democracy(2011)

Who selects the party leader?(2011)

The Source of Turnout Decline(2012)

Measuring strategic voting in multiparty plurality elections(2001)

The Political Resocialization of Immigrants(2008)

Measuring strategic voting: A two-step procedure(1996)

When Citizens Decide(2011)

Why do people vote? An experiment in rationality(1999)

Comparing Strategic Voting Under FPTP and PR(2009)

Civic Duty and Voter Turnout(2018)

Issue Importance and Performance Voting(2003)

Electoral Systems and Turnout(2006)

Making Sense of Regional Voting in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election: Liberal and Reform Support Outside Quebec(1999)

A general measure of district competitiveness(2008)

Election outcomes, legislative representation, and satisfaction with democracy(2015)

Accounting for the Age Gap in Turnout(2004)

Election Campaigns as Information Campaigns: Who Learns What and Does it Matter?(2008)

The Generational and Institutional Sources of the Global Decline in Voter Turnout(2021)

The Correlates and Consequences of Anti-Partyism in the 1997 Canadian Election(2001)

The formation of party preferences: Testing the proximity and directional models(2001)

Assessing the Impact of Televised Debates: The Case of the 1988 Canadian Election(1996)

The impact of motivational and contextual factors on turnout in first- and second-order elections(2011)

Does low turnout matter? Evidence from the 2000 Canadian federal election(2006)

Staying With the Party, Switching or Exiting? A Comparative Analysis of Determinants of Party Switching and Abstaining(2015)

Intention to vote, reported vote and validated vote 1(2015)

Strategic Vote Choice in One-round and Two-round Elections(2010)

How Citizens Want Their Legislator to Vote(2020)

The Source of Turnout Decline New Values or New Contexts(2013)

Do people want a ‘fairer’ electoral system? An experimental study in four countries(2019)

Voting and satisfaction with democracy in flexible-list PR(2018)

An election too far: Why do MPs leave politics before an election?(2023)

Do (many) voters like ranking?(2020)

Electoral formulas: A macroscopic perspective(1997)

Deciding who has the right to vote: a comparative analysis of election laws(2001)

Do Voters Vote For Government Coalitions?(2006)

Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States(2001)

The calculus of voting: An empirical test(2000)

Does the Local Candidate Matter? Candidate Effects in the Canadian Election of 2000(2003)

Why is there so Little Strategic Voting in Canadian Plurality Rule Elections?(2002)

The classification of electoral systems(1988)

Turnout in Elections(2009)

Accounting for the Electoral Success of the Liberal Party in Canada Presidential address to the Canadian Political Science Association London, Ontario June 3, 2005(2005)

Making Candidates Count: The Logic of Electoral Alliances in Two-Round Legislative Elections(2007)

How Do Voters Form Expectations about the Parties' Chances of Winning the Election?<sup>*</sup>(2006)

Winning and Competitiveness as Determinants of Political Support<sup>*</sup>(2011)

Direct or indirect? Assessing two approaches to the measurement of strategic voting(2005)

Measuring the civic duty to vote: A proposal(2015)

Back to the Future? Making Sense of the 2004 Canadian Election outside Quebec(2006)

What makes people believe that their party won the election?(2018)

Duverger's law of plurality voting : the logic of party competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States(2009)

Engaging Immigrants? Examining the Correlates of Electoral Participation among Voters with Migration Backgrounds(2015)

Why is Turnout So Low in Switzerland? Comparing the Attitudes of Swiss and German Citizens Towards Electoral Democracy(2014)

The Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Systems(2011)

Partisanship, Information, and Perceptions of Government Corruption(2015)

Beyond rationalization: Voting out of duty or expressing duty after voting?(2014)

The Chicken and Egg Question: Satisfaction with Democracy and Voter Turnout(2018)

What is the cost of voting?(2019)

Logarithmic versus Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens’ Support for Confinement(2020)

The effect of social pressure from family and friends on turnout(2018)

The electoral budget cycle(1992)

Do Parties Make a Difference? A Reappraisal(1996)

Personality traits, political attitudes and the propensity to vote(2010)

Personality Traits, Political Attitudes and the Propensity to Vote(2011)

Political judgments, perceptions of facts, and partisan effects(2009)

Time-of-voting decision and susceptibility to campaign effects(2003)

To Adopt or Not to Adopt Proportional Representation: The Politics of Institutional Choice(2004)

When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform(2011)

To Be or Not to Be Sovereignist: Quebeckers' Perennial Dilemma(1992)

Politics at the Centre(2012)

To Keep or To Change First Past The Post?(2008)

Political Institutions, Perceptions of Representation, and the Turnout Decision(2014)

Politics at the Centre: The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies(2012)

Deliberation, information, and trust: the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly as agenda setter(2008)

Political Leaders and Democratic Elections(2013)

Explaining The Gender Gap in Support for the New Right(2005)

Multi-Level Electoral Politics(2017)

Multi-Level Electoral Politics: Beyond the Second-Order Election Model(2017)

Votes for Women: Electoral Systems and Support for Female Candidates(2017)

Has the gender gap in voter turnout really disappeared?(2018)

Do Women Get Fewer Votes? No.(2018)

Establishing the Rules of the Game(2004)

The Budget-maximizing bureaucrat : appraisals and evidence(1991)

Direct presidential elections: a world summary(1997)

To Vote or Not to Vote(2000)

Attitude Towards Risk-Taking and Individual Choice in the Quebec Referendum on Sovereignty(1999)

Strategic, sincere, and heuristic voting under four election rules: an experimental study(2010)

Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies(2003)

Do citizens' assemblies make reasoned choices?(2008)

Political Participation(2010)

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