Anna-Sophie Kurella
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna-Sophie Kurella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna-Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurella |
| SIGNATURE | KURELLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mannheim Centre for European Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3401-457X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How voters choose under the Borda rule: Evidence from a post-election survey experiment in Germany 2025
The Borda count offers a promising alternative to counteract the growing polarization of party systems by incentivizing moderate party strategies. However, empirical evidence on the Borda count is still lacking. This paper presents results from an online survey conducted in the aftermath of the 2025 German federal election, in which respondents were asked for their vote choice under a Borda count system. Participants were randomly assigned to one…
A formal model of party competition with salience
Recent empirical research points at the significance of issue salience for party competition and argues that small parties emphasize secondary issues. This article investigates parties’ salience strategies from a formal viewpoint. It presents a model of party competition that allows parties to compete with policy positions on a second dimension, and also to choose an optimal level of issue salience. Equilibrium results are computed based on artif…
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox
The Condorcet paradox has been a significant focus of investigation since Duncan Black and Kenneth Arrow rediscovered its importance for economic and political theory. Recent research on this phenomenon has oscillated between simulation studies, probability calculations based on hypothetical voter preferences, and empirical analyses of single election studies. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of 253 electoral polls conducted across …
Unfolding GAL-TAN: The multi-dimensional nature of public opinion in Western Europe
The Role of Issue Salience and Competitive Advantages in Spatial Models of Political Competition
The empirical evidence within the field of party competition suggests that the success of far-right parties is tightly connected to issue salience of immigration policies. However, it is still unclear how other factors of the pattern of competition shape that relation. We contribute to this literature by taking a spatial viewpoint and analyzing the moderating role of the party configuration in a two-dimensional space. We focus on various characte…
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation
The electoral roots of unequal representation. A spatial modelling approach to party systems and voting in Western Europe
For a number of Western democracies, it has been observed that the preferences of poor and rich citizens are unequally represented in political institutions and outcomes. Yet, the causes of this phenomenon are still under debate. We focus on the role of elections in this process, by disentangling biases towards different income groups that stem from the party system and from voters’ behaviour. Our aim is to uncover whether elections as selection …
Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems
How does competition for first (candidate) and second ballot (party-list) votes affect the strategic positioning of parties in mixed-member proportional systems? We study this question in a simulation study of multiparty competition in the two tiers. In the first step, we use data from elections for the German Bundestag to estimate individual vote function for each tier based on ideology, policy, and valence incentives. We then use these paramete…
The Rise of Cultural Issues as an Opportunity for the Right? Insights from the 2015 Swiss Election
This article presents an explanation for the success of the right in the 2015 Swiss parliamentary election based on the spatial model of voting. Since there is no party combining economically left with culturally authoritarian policy stances, voters with that preference combination face a difficult electoral choice. We show that they are more likely to abstain, and that those voters who turn out are more likely to cast votes for the right who rep…
Erststimmen generierende Merkmale der Direktkandidaten bei Bundestagswahlen
Blind spots in the party system: Spatial voting and issue salience if voters face scarce choices
Combining ideological and policy distances with valence for a model of party competition in Germany 2009
This paper addresses two problems: how can we identify a verisimilar policy space and how can we detect Nash equilibria in this space for parties’ policy positions? We argue that the ideological party positions that voters perceive are fixed during the time span of one electoral campaign and that they constrain the policies parties offer the electorate in search of optimal vote shares. We apply the valence model developed by Schofield to party co…
Blind spots in the party system: Spatial voting and issue salience if voters face scarce choices
The electoral roots of unequal representation. A spatial modelling approach to party systems and voting in Western Europe
For a number of Western democracies, it has been observed that the preferences of poor and rich citizens are unequally represented in political institutions and outcomes. Yet, the causes of this phenomenon are still under debate. We focus on the role of elections in this process, by disentangling biases towards different income groups that stem from the party system and from voters’ behaviour. Our aim is to uncover whether elections as selection …
Combining ideological and policy distances with valence for a model of party competition in Germany 2009
This paper addresses two problems: how can we identify a verisimilar policy space and how can we detect Nash equilibria in this space for parties’ policy positions? We argue that the ideological party positions that voters perceive are fixed during the time span of one electoral campaign and that they constrain the policies parties offer the electorate in search of optimal vote shares. We apply the valence model developed by Schofield to party co…
The Rise of Cultural Issues as an Opportunity for the Right? Insights from the 2015 Swiss Election
This article presents an explanation for the success of the right in the 2015 Swiss parliamentary election based on the spatial model of voting. Since there is no party combining economically left with culturally authoritarian policy stances, voters with that preference combination face a difficult electoral choice. We show that they are more likely to abstain, and that those voters who turn out are more likely to cast votes for the right who rep…
Unfolding GAL-TAN: The multi-dimensional nature of public opinion in Western Europe
The Role of Issue Salience and Competitive Advantages in Spatial Models of Political Competition
The empirical evidence within the field of party competition suggests that the success of far-right parties is tightly connected to issue salience of immigration policies. However, it is still unclear how other factors of the pattern of competition shape that relation. We contribute to this literature by taking a spatial viewpoint and analyzing the moderating role of the party configuration in a two-dimensional space. We focus on various characte…
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation
Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems
How does competition for first (candidate) and second ballot (party-list) votes affect the strategic positioning of parties in mixed-member proportional systems? We study this question in a simulation study of multiparty competition in the two tiers. In the first step, we use data from elections for the German Bundestag to estimate individual vote function for each tier based on ideology, policy, and valence incentives. We then use these paramete…
Combining ideological and policy distances with valence for a model of party competition in Germany 2009
This paper addresses two problems: how can we identify a verisimilar policy space and how can we detect Nash equilibria in this space for parties’ policy positions? We argue that the ideological party positions that voters perceive are fixed during the time span of one electoral campaign and that they constrain the policies parties offer the electorate in search of optimal vote shares. We apply the valence model developed by Schofield to party co…
Erststimmen generierende Merkmale der Direktkandidaten bei Bundestagswahlen
Blind spots in the party system: Spatial voting and issue salience if voters face scarce choices
Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems
How does competition for first (candidate) and second ballot (party-list) votes affect the strategic positioning of parties in mixed-member proportional systems? We study this question in a simulation study of multiparty competition in the two tiers. In the first step, we use data from elections for the German Bundestag to estimate individual vote function for each tier based on ideology, policy, and valence incentives. We then use these paramete…
The Rise of Cultural Issues as an Opportunity for the Right? Insights from the 2015 Swiss Election
This article presents an explanation for the success of the right in the 2015 Swiss parliamentary election based on the spatial model of voting. Since there is no party combining economically left with culturally authoritarian policy stances, voters with that preference combination face a difficult electoral choice. We show that they are more likely to abstain, and that those voters who turn out are more likely to cast votes for the right who rep…
The electoral roots of unequal representation. A spatial modelling approach to party systems and voting in Western Europe
For a number of Western democracies, it has been observed that the preferences of poor and rich citizens are unequally represented in political institutions and outcomes. Yet, the causes of this phenomenon are still under debate. We focus on the role of elections in this process, by disentangling biases towards different income groups that stem from the party system and from voters’ behaviour. Our aim is to uncover whether elections as selection …
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation
A formal model of party competition with salience
Recent empirical research points at the significance of issue salience for party competition and argues that small parties emphasize secondary issues. This article investigates parties’ salience strategies from a formal viewpoint. It presents a model of party competition that allows parties to compete with policy positions on a second dimension, and also to choose an optimal level of issue salience. Equilibrium results are computed based on artif…
On the prevalence of Condorcet’s paradox
The Condorcet paradox has been a significant focus of investigation since Duncan Black and Kenneth Arrow rediscovered its importance for economic and political theory. Recent research on this phenomenon has oscillated between simulation studies, probability calculations based on hypothetical voter preferences, and empirical analyses of single election studies. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of 253 electoral polls conducted across …
Unfolding GAL-TAN: The multi-dimensional nature of public opinion in Western Europe
The Role of Issue Salience and Competitive Advantages in Spatial Models of Political Competition
The empirical evidence within the field of party competition suggests that the success of far-right parties is tightly connected to issue salience of immigration policies. However, it is still unclear how other factors of the pattern of competition shape that relation. We contribute to this literature by taking a spatial viewpoint and analyzing the moderating role of the party configuration in a two-dimensional space. We focus on various characte…
How voters choose under the Borda rule: Evidence from a post-election survey experiment in Germany 2025
The Borda count offers a promising alternative to counteract the growing polarization of party systems by incentivizing moderate party strategies. However, empirical evidence on the Borda count is still lacking. This paper presents results from an online survey conducted in the aftermath of the 2025 German federal election, in which respondents were asked for their vote choice under a Borda count system. Participants were randomly assigned to one…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (6 works) · Voting (6 works)