Andrei Zhirnov
Biographic Data
| ID | 377547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrei Zhirnov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrei |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhirnov |
| SIGNATURE | ZHIRNOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2978-8239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space
What makes populist parties successful? What is the contribution of populist ideas to their appeal? How do they affect a voter’s choice? In this article, we treat populist orientation as just another dimension of spatial competition alongside economic and cultural dimensions, and assess its influence on vote choice. Using survey data from nine countries, we place voters and parties along the populist, economic, and cultural dimensions and estimat…
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data
This article investigates the effectiveness of three different two-dimensional models in representing political competition using user data from the EU and I Voting Advice Application for the EU elections from 2009 to 2019. We test different ways of aggregating economic, cultural, and European integration issues to determine which configuration best captures voter preferences across all member states. Our findings show that combining economic and…
How congruent are populist parties with their constituencies? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament Elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden
Precarity and populism: Explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity
Precarity is often evoked in discussions about the rise of populism, but there is a dearth of systematic operationalization of the sociological concept of insecurity in populist research. This study fills this gap by theorizing about and empirically linking work-related and financial insecurity to populist outlook and voting in ten European countries. We propose a theoretical framework that links insecurity, respectively, to populist attitudes (s…
Taking Distributions Seriously: On the Interpretation of the Estimates of Interactive Nonlinear Models
In recent decades, political science literature has experienced significant growth in the popularity of nonlinear models with multiplicative interaction terms. When one or more constitutive variables are not binary, most studies report the marginal effect of the variable of interest at its sample mean while allowing the other constitutive variable/s to vary along its range and holding all other covariates constant at their means, modes, or median…
Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Pro…
Covid-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments
We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete information as well as by uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how n…
The Electoral Constraints on Inter-Party Mobility of Candidates: The Case of Pakistan
This article investigates the electoral constraints on the inter-party mobility of candidates. We argue that the prevalent mode of interactions among candidates, voters, and parties in local, district-level electoral markets shapes the strategic constraints faced by potential party switchers. We suggest that strong linkages between voters and political parties reduce the market value of the candidates outside of their political parties, thereby c…
Decision period and Duverger's psychological effect in FPTP elections: Evidence from India
Issue Voting as a Constrained Choice Problem
Prevalent models of issue voting view vote choice as a choice among party policies. Choice sets are implicitly assumed to be the same for all voters, and their composition is left to researchers' discretion. This article aims to relax such assumptions by presenting a model with a varying probability of inclusion in the choice set. We apply the “constrained choice conditional logistic regression” to survey data from the 1989 parliamentary election…
Electoral coordination in India: The role of costly campaign communication
This article views electoral campaigns as a means of communication in the process of electoral coordination. Well-manned and well-funded district campaigns facilitate voters’ learning about the policies of competing parties; if the funds and the activist support are supplied by local constituencies, campaigning also informs voters about the relative support of competing parties in the district. Using district-level data from the 2009 general elec…
Limited information and coordinated voting in multi-party elections under plurality rule: The role of campaigns
The perils and pitfalls of ignoring disproportionality's behavioral components
Covid-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments
We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete information as well as by uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how n…
The Electoral Constraints on Inter-Party Mobility of Candidates: The Case of Pakistan
This article investigates the electoral constraints on the inter-party mobility of candidates. We argue that the prevalent mode of interactions among candidates, voters, and parties in local, district-level electoral markets shapes the strategic constraints faced by potential party switchers. We suggest that strong linkages between voters and political parties reduce the market value of the candidates outside of their political parties, thereby c…
Issue Voting as a Constrained Choice Problem
Prevalent models of issue voting view vote choice as a choice among party policies. Choice sets are implicitly assumed to be the same for all voters, and their composition is left to researchers' discretion. This article aims to relax such assumptions by presenting a model with a varying probability of inclusion in the choice set. We apply the “constrained choice conditional logistic regression” to survey data from the 1989 parliamentary election…
The perils and pitfalls of ignoring disproportionality's behavioral components
How congruent are populist parties with their constituencies? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament Elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden
Precarity and populism: Explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity
Precarity is often evoked in discussions about the rise of populism, but there is a dearth of systematic operationalization of the sociological concept of insecurity in populist research. This study fills this gap by theorizing about and empirically linking work-related and financial insecurity to populist outlook and voting in ten European countries. We propose a theoretical framework that links insecurity, respectively, to populist attitudes (s…
Decision period and Duverger's psychological effect in FPTP elections: Evidence from India
Limited information and coordinated voting in multi-party elections under plurality rule: The role of campaigns
Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Pro…
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data
This article investigates the effectiveness of three different two-dimensional models in representing political competition using user data from the EU and I Voting Advice Application for the EU elections from 2009 to 2019. We test different ways of aggregating economic, cultural, and European integration issues to determine which configuration best captures voter preferences across all member states. Our findings show that combining economic and…
Taking Distributions Seriously: On the Interpretation of the Estimates of Interactive Nonlinear Models
In recent decades, political science literature has experienced significant growth in the popularity of nonlinear models with multiplicative interaction terms. When one or more constitutive variables are not binary, most studies report the marginal effect of the variable of interest at its sample mean while allowing the other constitutive variable/s to vary along its range and holding all other covariates constant at their means, modes, or median…
Electoral coordination in India: The role of costly campaign communication
This article views electoral campaigns as a means of communication in the process of electoral coordination. Well-manned and well-funded district campaigns facilitate voters’ learning about the policies of competing parties; if the funds and the activist support are supplied by local constituencies, campaigning also informs voters about the relative support of competing parties in the district. Using district-level data from the 2009 general elec…
The perils and pitfalls of ignoring disproportionality's behavioral components
Electoral coordination in India: The role of costly campaign communication
This article views electoral campaigns as a means of communication in the process of electoral coordination. Well-manned and well-funded district campaigns facilitate voters’ learning about the policies of competing parties; if the funds and the activist support are supplied by local constituencies, campaigning also informs voters about the relative support of competing parties in the district. Using district-level data from the 2009 general elec…
Limited information and coordinated voting in multi-party elections under plurality rule: The role of campaigns
Issue Voting as a Constrained Choice Problem
Prevalent models of issue voting view vote choice as a choice among party policies. Choice sets are implicitly assumed to be the same for all voters, and their composition is left to researchers' discretion. This article aims to relax such assumptions by presenting a model with a varying probability of inclusion in the choice set. We apply the “constrained choice conditional logistic regression” to survey data from the 1989 parliamentary election…
The Electoral Constraints on Inter-Party Mobility of Candidates: The Case of Pakistan
This article investigates the electoral constraints on the inter-party mobility of candidates. We argue that the prevalent mode of interactions among candidates, voters, and parties in local, district-level electoral markets shapes the strategic constraints faced by potential party switchers. We suggest that strong linkages between voters and political parties reduce the market value of the candidates outside of their political parties, thereby c…
Decision period and Duverger's psychological effect in FPTP elections: Evidence from India
Covid-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments
We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete information as well as by uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how n…
Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Pro…
Taking Distributions Seriously: On the Interpretation of the Estimates of Interactive Nonlinear Models
In recent decades, political science literature has experienced significant growth in the popularity of nonlinear models with multiplicative interaction terms. When one or more constitutive variables are not binary, most studies report the marginal effect of the variable of interest at its sample mean while allowing the other constitutive variable/s to vary along its range and holding all other covariates constant at their means, modes, or median…
Precarity and populism: Explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity
Precarity is often evoked in discussions about the rise of populism, but there is a dearth of systematic operationalization of the sociological concept of insecurity in populist research. This study fills this gap by theorizing about and empirically linking work-related and financial insecurity to populist outlook and voting in ten European countries. We propose a theoretical framework that links insecurity, respectively, to populist attitudes (s…
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data
This article investigates the effectiveness of three different two-dimensional models in representing political competition using user data from the EU and I Voting Advice Application for the EU elections from 2009 to 2019. We test different ways of aggregating economic, cultural, and European integration issues to determine which configuration best captures voter preferences across all member states. Our findings show that combining economic and…
How congruent are populist parties with their constituencies? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament Elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden
A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space
What makes populist parties successful? What is the contribution of populist ideas to their appeal? How do they affect a voter’s choice? In this article, we treat populist orientation as just another dimension of spatial competition alongside economic and cultural dimensions, and assess its influence on vote choice. Using survey data from nine countries, we place voters and parties along the populist, economic, and cultural dimensions and estimat…
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