Description:
Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of
voting, the central act in the democratic process.
Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping,
interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences.
Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse
approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats,
and between election outcomes and politicians' reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational
choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses; the formal and behavioural properties of
electoral systems;
and work in game theory, political economy, or social choice relevant to elections. The recent emergence of new democracies in many parts
of the world provides a wealth of new information, and scope for testing hypotheses.
Electoral Studies also provides comprehensive
descriptive coverage of national
elections and
referendums in the democratic world in its 'Notes on Recent Elections' and
'National Elections: the cycle of elections' features.
Months of publication: March, June, September and December.
Index bound
in last issue of calendar year.
The editors of
Electoral Studies maintain a
home
page for the journal at the University of Texas at Dallas, with information about developments on the journal, details of
forthcoming articles and links to other key information resources for political scientists.
