About this series:

The Cambridge Elements Series in Comparative Political Behaviour seeks original research that explores differences in mass political behaviour across contexts defined by nations, subnational regions, social groups, time-periods, or other political and social divisions.

We construe “mass political behaviour” quite broadly. It not only includes typical political behaviours like voting, protesting, and consuming political news, but also political attitudes and values, social identities, political interest and knowledge, modes of information processing, and much more.

While explanations for contextual differences in these kinds of mass political behaviours could invoke almost any mechanism, we are particularly interested in contextual explanations rooted in individual-level theories. That is, why do individuals do what they do (or think and feel as they do) and how does that behaviour (or the drivers of that behaviour) differ across different political, economic, social, and cultural contexts?

Empirically, we seek comparative empirical work that takes the challenges of cross contextual measurement and causal inference seriously. However, we believe these challenges can be met in many ways and so we welcome theoretically driven empirical work from various empirical traditions -- including large-n quantitative work, comparative experimental work, comparative case studies, and more.  

Areas of Interest

The unifying theme of this series is the comparative study of individual political behaviour – i.e., work that links differences in political, economic, and social institutions and norms to individual political attitudes, behaviours, and identities. Thus, we welcome work on a very broad set of topics, including (but are not limited to) the following: 

·         Electoral behaviour  

·         Political participation (including unconventional participation) 

·         Political interest and knowledge 

·         Political identity  

·         Political attitudes, beliefs, or perceptions 

·         Democratic accountability 

·         Comparative political economy 

Series Editors

Anja Neundorf is a Professor of Politics and Research Methods at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. Before joining Glasgow, she held positions at the University of Nottingham (2013-2019) and Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2010-2012). She received her PhD from the University of Essex.   

Raymond Duch is the co-founder and Director of the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) at Nuffield College University of Oxford. He established and directed similar CESS centers in Chile, China, and India. He is also co-Director of the Candour Project that assembles a global team of research scholars with expertise in behavioral economics and data analytics addressing challenging health policy issues.

Randolph Stevenson is the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs at Rice University in Houston, Texas.  Professor Stevenson works and teaches in the areas of survey design, applied statistical methods, comparative mass political behavior, comparative political psychology, and experimental design.   

Contact the editors:

randytstevenson@gmail.com
raymond.duch@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Anja.neundorf@glasgow.ac.uk