The Comparative National Elections Project data have been used in many authored and edited books as well as in hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, and working papers. Many of these are listed below.

Edited Volumes

  • Sergio C. Wals, Alajandro Moreno and Alexandra Uribe Coughlan (eds.) (2019).  El viraje electoral:  Opinión pública y voto en las elecciones de 2018 en México.  Mexico D.F.:  Camera de Diputados.
  • Richard Gunther, Paul A. Beck, Pedro C. Magalhães and Alejandro Moreno (eds.) (2016).  Voting in Old and New Democracies.  New York: Routledge.
  • Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.) (2014).  Voters on the Move or on the Run?  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and R. Southall (eds.) (2014).  Election 2014 South Africa: The campaigns, results and future prospects.  Johannesburg: Jacana Media.
  • Gustavo Meixueiro and Alejandro Moreno (eds.) (2014). El comportamiento electoral mexicano en las elecciones de 2102 (pdf). Centro de Estudios Sociales y de Opinion Publica.​​​​
  • Rüdiger Schmitt Beck (ed.) (2012).  Wählen in Deutschland. PVS Sonderheft 45.  Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag.
  • David Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.) (2008). Non-Party Actors in Electoral Politics. The Role of Interest Groups and Independent Citizens in Contemporary Election Campaigns.  Baden-Baden:  Nomos.
  • Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and José Ramón Montero (eds.) (2007).  Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • David M. Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.) (2002).  Do Political Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums.  London/New York: Routledge

Authored Books

  • Mariano Torcal (2023). De votantes a hooligans. La polarización política en España. Madrid. Catarata.
  • Andy Baker, Barry Ames, and Lúcio Rennó, Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America (2020).  Princeton NJ:  Princeton University Press.
  • Saiful Mujani, R. Willliam Liddle and Kuskridho Ambardi, Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization:  Critical Democrats (2018).  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
  • R.William Liddle (with Thomas Pepinsky and Saiful Mujani), Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Islam and Political Behavior (2017). Oxford:  Oxford University Press.
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf et al. (2014).  Zwischen Fragmentierung und Konzentration: Die Bundestagswahl 2013.  Baden-Baden:  Nomos.
  • Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels et al. (2011). Zwischen Langeweile und Extremen: Die Bundestagswahl 2009.  Baden-Baden:  Nomos.
  • Schulz-Herzenberg, C. (2009). Towards a silent revolution? South African voters during the first years of democracy, 1994–2006 (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cape Town.
  • Diana Carole Mutz (2006).  Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy.  New York: Cambridge University Press
  • Richard Gunther, José Ramon Montero and Joan Botella (2004). Democracy in Modern Spain.  New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Stephan Ganter (2003).  Soziale Netzwerke und interethnische Distanz:Theoretische und empirische Analysen zum Verhältnis von Deutschen und Ausländern.  Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2000).  Politishe Kommunikation und Wählerverhalten. Ein internationaler Vergleich.  Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
  • Paul A. Beck (2002).  “Encouraging Political Defection:  The Role of Personal Discussion Networks in Partisan Desertions to the Opposition Party and Perot Votes in 1992.”  Political Behavior, 24 (4), 309-337
  • Paul A. Beck, Russell J. Dalton, Steven Greene and Robert Huckfeldt (2002).  “The Social Calculus of Voting: Interpersonal, Media, and Organizational Influences on Presidential Choices.”  American Political Science Review, 96 (1), 57-73.
  • Paul A. Beck, Richard Gunther, and Erik Nisbet (2018). “The Ground Game from the Voters’ Perspective.” Vox: The Mischiefs of Faction, January 22, 2018.
  • Russell Dalton, Paul Beck, and Robert Huckfeldt (1998).  “Partisan Cues and the Media: Information Flows in the 1992 Presidential Election.”  American Political Science Review, 92, 111-26
  • Russell Dalton et al. (1998).  “A Test of Media-Centered Agenda Setting: Newspaper Content and Public Interests in a Presidential Election.”  Political Communication, 15, 463-81
  • William P. Eveland, Osei Appiah, & Paul A. Beck, (2018).  “Americans are more exposed to difference than we think: Capturing hidden exposure to political and racial difference. Social Networks, 52, 192-200.
  • William P. Eveland, H. Song, and Paul A. Beck (2015).  “Cultural Variations in the Relationships Among Network Political Agreement, Political Discussion Frequency, and Voting Turnout.”  International Journal of Public Opinion Research, edv007.
  • Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Shen, F. (2021). “Cross-national variation in political discussion network size, distribution, and prediction.  Social Networks, 66, 100-113.
  • Andre Freire and Kats Kivistik (2013).  “Western and Non-Western Meaning of the Left-Right Divide Across Four Continents.”  Journal of Political Ideologies, 18 (2), 171-199.
  • Andre Freire and Kats Kivistik (2013). “Mapping and Explaining the Use of the Left-Right Divide.”  Brazilian Political Science Review 7 (3);  http://www.bpsr.org.br/index.php/bp
  • Seth K. Goldman and Diana C. Mutz, “The Friendly Media Phenomenon: A Cross-National Analysis of Cross-Cutting Exposure,” Political Communication 28 (2011)L: 42-66.
  • Ricardo Gonzalez, Esteban Munoz and Adolfo Fuentes (2024).  “Non-response in Name Generators Across Countries and Survey Modes,” Social Networks 79 (2024), 93-103.
  • Ricardo Gonzalez, Bernardo Mackenna,  Andres Schermann, and  Alfredo Joignant (2024). “Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and fairness beyond the ballot across 18 countries.  Electoral Studies,  January 2024  DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102740.
  • Richard Gunther, Paul A. Beck, and Erik C. Nisbet, (2018).  Fake News Piece for The Conversation with methodological appendix-11d0ni9, The Conversation, Feb. 15, 2018.
  • Richard Gunther, Paul A. Beck, and Erik C. Nisbet, (2019).  “‘Fake News’ and the Defection of 2012 Obama Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election.”  Electoral Studies
  • Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero (2003).  “Legitimidade política em novas democracias.”  Opinião Pública [São Paolo], 9, #1, abril.
  • Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero (2001).  “The Media and Democratization in Spain,”  European Political Science, 1 (1), 13-16.
  • A. Habib and Collette Schulz-Herzenberg (2011).  “Democratization And Parliamentary Opposition in Contemporary South Africa: The 2009 National and Provincial Elections in Perspective.”  Politikon, 38 (2).
  • Robert Huckfeldt, et al. (1998).  “Ambiguity, Distorted Messages, and Nested Environmental Effects on Political Communication.”  Journal of Politics, 60, 996-1031
  • Robert Huckfeldt, et al. (1995).  “Political Environments, Cohesive Social Groups, and the Communication of Public Opinion.”  American Journal of Political Science, 39, 1025-54
  • Mona Krewel, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Ansgar Wolsing (2011). “The Campaign and its Dynamics at the 2009 German General Election.” German Politics, 20 (1), 28-50.
  • Matthias Krönke, Sarah J. Lockwood and Robert Mattes (2022).  “Party Footprints in Africa: Measuring Local Party Presence Across the Continent.”  Party Politics, 28 (2), 208-222.
  • James H. Liu, Ken’ichi Ikeda and Marc Stewart Wilson (1998).  “Interpersonal Environment Effects on Political Preferences: The ‘Middle Path’ for Conceptualizing Social Structure in New Zealand and Japan.”  Political Behavior, 20 (3), 183-212
  • Sarah Lockwood, Matthias Krönke, and Robert Mattes. “Party Footprints in Africa: Measuring Local Party Presence Across the Continent.” Party Politics (2022) 28/2: 208-222. ISSN: 1354-0688 /DOI: 10.1177/13540688211008352.
  • Robert Mattes, Matthias Krönke and Sarah Lockwood, “Political Parties and Democracy in South Africa,” In Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy: Organization, Resilience and Reform, pp. 490-511. Edited by Thomas Poguntke and Wilhelm Hofmeister. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9780198888734 / DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198888734.003.0023.
  • José Ramón Montero (with Andres Santana, Jose Rama and Rodrigo Arellano).  2018.  “Elecciones parlamentarias en Chile 2017: los perfiles de los votantes.  ” Análisis, 29, 2018.  Centro de Políticas Públicas, Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile); (http://gobierno.udd.cl/cpp/files/2018/09/Análisis-nº29.pdf).  
  • Jose Ramon Montero (with Andres Santana and Jose Rama).  2019.  “Las elecciones parlamentarias chilenas de 2017: características de los votantes y factores de voto”, en América Latina Hoy, 81, (https://doi.org/10.14201/alh201981).
  • Jose Ramon Montero (with Andres Santana and Jose Rama).  2020.  “Reassessing Downs: Testing the Influence of Voters’ Characteristics in a Chilean Presidential Election. ” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 12(1), 2020, pp. 77-103; DOI, 10.1177/1866802X20913886; en https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1866802X20913886.
  • José Ramón Montero, Richard Gunther, and Mariano Torcal (1998). “Actitudes hacia la democracia en España: Legitimidad, descontento y desafección.”  Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas,” 83, julio-septiembre, 9-40.
  • Also published as “Legitimidad, descontento y desafección: El  2018caso español.” Estudios Públicos (Santiago, Chile), 74, otoño 1999, pp.107-149.
  • José Ramón Montero, Richard Gunther, and Mariano Torcal (1997).  “Democracy in Spain: Legitimacy, Discontent and Disaffection.”  Studies in Comparative International Development, 32, 3, 124-160.
  • José Ramón Montero, Mariano Torcal and Richard Gunther (2004).  “Les sentiments antipartis en Europe du Sud.”  Pôle Sud: Revue de Science Politique de L’Europe Méridionale, 20, 167-190.
  • Diana C. Mutz (2002).  “The Consequences of Cross-Cutting Networks for Political Participation.”  American Journal of Political Science, 46 (4), 838-855
  • Diana C. Mutz and Paul S. Martin (2001).  “Facilitating Communication across Lines of Political Difference: The Role of Mass Media.”  American Political Science Review, 95 (1), 97-114
  • Robert Nyenhuis and Collette Schulz-Herzenberg. “Failure to Launch? The Lack of Populist Attitudinal Activation in the 2019 South African Elections.” The Journal of Modern African Studies 61, no. 2 (2023): 257–79. doi:10.1017/S0022278X23000046.
  • Julia Partheymüller and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2012). “A ‘Social Logic’ of Demobilization: The Influence of Political Discussants on Electoral Participation at the 2009 German Federal Election.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 22 (4), 457-478.
  • Robert Rohrschneider, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Franziska Jung (2012). “Short-Term Factors Versus Long-Term Values: Explaining the 2009 Election Results.” Electoral Studies, 31 (1), 20–34.
  • Anne Schäfer (2015). “Differential Learning in Communication Networks: Interpersonal Communication Moderating Influences of News Media Usage on Political Knowledge.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research (online: doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edv019).
  • Andrés Scherman, Nicolle Etchegaray, Magdalena Brown, Diego Mazorra and Hernando Rojas (2022).  “WhatsApp, Polarization, and Non‐Conventional Political Participation: Chile and Colombia Before the Social Outbursts of 2019.”  Media and Communication, 10 (4) 77-94.
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Julia Partheymüller (2014). “A Two-Stage Theory of Discussant Influence on Vote Choice in Multiparty Systems.” British Journal of Political Science (online first). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123414000301]
  • Rüdiger Schmitt Beck (2014). “Euro-Kritik, Wirtschaftspessimismus und Einwanderungsskepsis: Hintergründe des Beinah-Wahlerfolges der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) bei der Bundestagswahl 2013.” Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen , 45 (1), 94-112.
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Oana Lup (2013). “Seeking the Soul of Democracy: A Review of Recent Research into Citizens’ Political Talk Culture.” Swiss Political Science Review, 19 (4), 513–538.
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Julia Partheymüller (2012). “Why Voters Decide Late: A Simultaneous Test of Old and New Hypotheses at the 2005 and 2009 German Federal Elections.” German Politics, 21 (3), 299-316.
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck & Ansgar Wolsing (2010).  “European TV Environments and Citizens’ Social Trust: Evidence from Multilevel Analyses.”  Communications, (35), 461-483
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2003).  “Mass Communication, Personal Communication and Vote Choice: The Filter Hypothesis of Media Influence in Comparative Perspective.”  British Journal of Political Science, 33 (2), 233-259
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2003).  “Mass Communication, Personal Communication and Vote Choice: The Filter Hypothesis of Media Influence in Comparative Perspective.”  British Journal of Political Science, 33, 233-259
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (1998).  “Mediennutzung und Wahlentscheidungen: Fünf westliche Demokratien im Vergleich.”  Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 29 (), 676-705
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (1994).  “Intermediation Environments of West German and East German Voters: Interpersonal Communication and Mass Communication during the First All-German Election Campaign.”  European Journal of Communication, 9, 381-41
  • Collette Schulz-Herzenberg. (2014).  “The Influence of the Social Context on South African Voters.”  Journal of Southern African Studies, 40: 4, 839-859.
  • Collette Schulz-Herzenberg. (2019).  “To Vote or Not? Testing Micro-Level Theories of Voter Turnout in South Africa’s 2014 General Elections.”  Politikon, Vol. 46 (2).  https://doi.org/10.1080 /02589346.2019.1595879
  • Collette Schulz-Herzenberg. (2019).  “The New Electoral Power Brokers: Macro and Micro Level Effects of ‘Born-Free’ South Africans on Voter Turnout.”  Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. DOI: 10.1080/14662043.2019.1621537
  • Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Robert Britt Mattes (2023).  “It takes two to toyi-toyi:1 one party dominance and opposition party failure in South Africa’s 2019 national election.”  Democratization (2023), 1-22.
  • Amy Erica Smith (2015).  “The Diverse Impacts of Politically Diverse Networks: Party Systems, Political Disagreement, and the Timing of Vote Decisions.”  International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
  • Paul W. Thurner and Angelika Eymann (2000).  “Policy-Specific Alienation and Indifference in the Calculus of Voting: A Simultaneous Model of Party Choice and Abstention.”  Public Choice, 102 (1-2), 49-75.
  • Mariano Torcal and Josep M. Comellas. (2022). Affective polarisation in times of political instability and conflict. Spain from a comparative perspective. South European Society and Politics, 27(1), 1-26.
  • Mariano Torcal and Pedro C. Magalhães (2022).  “Ideological Extremism. Perceived Party System Extremism and Support for Democracy.”  European Political Science Review (2022), 1-18.
  • Mariano Torcal and Gerardo Maldonado (2014).  “Revisiting the Dark Side of Political Deliberation: The Effects of Media and Political Discussion on Political Interest.”  Public Opinion Quarterly, 2014, pp. 1-28,
  • Mariano Torcal, José Ramón Montero and Richard Gunther (2003).  “Ciudadanos y partidos en el sur de Europa: los sentimientos antipartidistas.”  Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 101, enero-marzo 2003, 9-48.
  • Katrin Voltmer & Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2001).  “Bad News–Cynical Citizens? Political Information and the Emergence of Civic Culture”, European Political Science, 1, 20-22
  • Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero (forthcoming).  “Generational Patterns of Democratic Support and Political Engagement in Southern Europe.”  In David Denemark, Richard Niemi and Robert Mattes (eds.), Generational Change in Attitudes Toward Democracy.
  • Richard Gunther (forthcoming).  “Political Intermediation in Spain,” in José Ramón Montero, Ignacio Sánchez- Cuenca, Richard Gunther, et al., Elecciones y votantes en España, forthcoming.
  • Paul A. Beck (2023). “Party Contacts in Comparative Perspective,” In Faas, Huber, Krewel, and Rotfeutscher (eds.), Information Flows, Elections and Democracy: Festschrift for Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck.”  Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft), pp. 293-322.
  • Paul A.Beck (2022). “The Ground Game in 2020: Party Contacts as Reported by Voters.” In John Green (ed.). State of the Parties 2022. Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Shen, F. (2021). “Cross-national variation in political discussion network size, distribution, and prediction.”  Social Networks, 66, 100-113.
  • Eveland, W. P., Jr., Appiah, O., & Beck, P. A. (2018).  “Americans are more exposed to difference than we think:  Capturing hidden exposure to political and racial difference.”  Social Networks, 52, 192-200.
  • Paul A. Beck, Richard Gunther, and Erik Nisbet (2018).  “What Happened to the Ground Game in 2016?” In John C. Green, Daniel J. Coffey, and David B. Cohen (eds.), The State of the Parties 2018.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Richard Gunther (2014).  “Prefacio.”  In Alejandro Moreno and Gustavo Meixueiro, eds., El comportamiento electoral mexicano en las elecciones de 2012.  Mexico DF: Congreso de la Unión.
  • Richard Johnston, Julia Partheymüller and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2014). “Activation of Fundamentals in German Campaigns.” In Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.) , Voters on the Move or on the Run? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Patrick Kraft and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2013). “Helfen politische Gespräche, ‚korrekt‘ zu wählen? Eine Analyse zur Bundestagswahl 2009.” In Silke I. Keil and S. Isabell Thaidigsmann (eds.), Zivile Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie. Aktuelle Ergebnisse der empirischen Politikforschung. Festschrift für Oscar W. Gabriel zum 65. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Ian Glenn and Robert Mattes (2012).  “Political Communications in Post-Apartheid South Africa.”  In Holli Semetko and Margaret Scammell (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Political Communication.  London: Sage,
  • Thorsten Faas & Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2010).  “Voters’ political conversations during the 2005 German parliamentary election campaign.” In Michael R. Wolf, Laura Morales & Ken’ichi Ikeda, Political Discussions in Modern Democracies: A Comparative Perspective. London/New York: Routledge.
  • André Freire (2009).  “Valores, Temas e Voto em Portugal, 2005 e 2006: Analisando Velhas Questões com Nova Evidência.”  In André Freire, Marina Costa Lobo and Pedro Magalhães (eds.), As Eleições Legislativas e Presidenciais, 2005-2006 – Campanhas e Escolhas Eleitorais num Regime Semipresidencial.  Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais,
  • Richard Gunther (2009).  “The Long- and Short-Term Determinants of Partisan Polarization.”  In Guido Legnante, Renato Mannheimer and Paolo Segatti, eds., Il cittadino/elettore tra Europa e America.  Bologna: Il Mulino.
  • Paolo Bellucci, Marco Maraffi, and Paolo Segatti (2007).  “Intermediation Through Secondary Associations: The Organizational Context of Electoral Behavior.”  In  Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and José Ramón Montero (eds.), Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Richard Gunther and Kuan Hsin-chi (2007).  “Value Cleavages and Partisan Conflict.”   In Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero and Hans-Jürgen Puhle (eds.), Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents.  Oxford: Oxford University Press,
  • Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero and Hans-Jürgen Puhle (2007).  “Introduction.”  In Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero and Hans-Jürgen Puhle  (eds.), Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and Mariano Torcal (2007).  “Democracy and Intermediation: Some Attitudinal and Behavioral Dimensions.”  In Gunther, Montero and Puhle, eds., Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting.
  • Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and José Ramón Montero (2007).  “Introduction: Intermediation, Information, and Electoral Politics.” In Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and José Ramón Montero (eds.) , Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero (2006).  “The Multidimensionality of Political Support for New Democracies: Conceptual Redefinition and Empirical Refinement.”  In Mariano Torcal and José Ramón Montero (eds), Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies: Social Capital, Institutions and Politics.  London: Routledge.
  • Georgi Karasimeonov (2004).  “Bulgaria.”  In Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman and Frank H. Aarebrot (eds.), The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe.  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Felipe Agüero (2003).  “Chile: Unfinished Transition and Increased Political Competition.”  In Jorge I. Dominguez and Michael Shifter (eds.), Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • ​​​​​​​Richard Gunther and José Ramón Montero (2001).  “Die Multidimensionalität der Einstellungen zur Demokratie: Das Beispiel Spanien.”  In Marcus Gräser, Christian Lammert and Söhnke Schreyer (eds.), Staat, Nation, Demokratie: Traditionen und Perspektiven moderner Gesellschaften.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.​​​​​
  • Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero and José Ignacio Wert (2000).  “The Media and Politics in Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy.”  In Gunther and Mughan, Democracy and the Media.
  • Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan (2000).  “The Political Impact of the Media: A Reassessment.”  In Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan (eds.), Democracy and the Media:  A Comparative Perspective.  Cambridge and New York:  Cambridge University Press.
  • ​​​​​​​Pedro C. Magalhães (2007).  “Voting and Intermediation: Informational Biases and Electoral Choices in Comparative Perspective.”  In Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and José Ramón Montero (eds.), Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Robert Mattes (2011).  “Elections: 1994 to 2009.”  In Sean Jacobs and Krista Johnson (eds.), Encyclopaedia of South Africa.  Boulder, Co: Lynne Reinner Publishers.
  • Robert Mattes (2014).  “The 2014 Election and South African Democracy.”  In  Roger Southall and Collette Shulz-Herzenberg (eds.), Election 2014 South Africa: The Campaigns, Results and Future Prospects.  Johannesburg: Jacana Press.
  • Robert Mattes (2012).  “Opinion Polls and the Media In South Africa.”  In Christina Holtz-Bacha and Jesper Strömbäck (eds.), Opinion Polls and the Media: Reflecting and Shaping Public Opinion.  New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Robert Mattes, Matthias Krönke and Sarah Lockwood. “South African Parties and the Development of Democracy,” In Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy. Edited by Thomas Poguntke and Wilhelm Hofmeister. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2024).
  • Robert Mattes and Ian Glenn. “The Rise of Political Advertising in A Traditional Campaign Environment: The Case of South Africa.” In Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising, pp. 389-402. Edited by Marion Just and Christina Holtz-Bacha. New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-138-90830-7.
  • Robert Mattes and Ian Glenn. “Political Communications in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” In The Sage Handbook of Political Communication, pp. 494-508.  Edited by Holli Semetko and Margaret Scammell. London: Sage Publications, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-84787-439-9.
  • Robert Mattes. “Voter Information, Government Evaluations and Party Images, 1994-2004.” In Electoral Politics in South Africa: Assessing the First Democratic Decade, pp. 40-63. Edited by Jessica Piombo & Lia Nijzink. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. ISBN: 1-4039-7123-4.
  • José Ramón Montero, “Elecciones parlamentarias en Chile 2017: los perfiles de los votantes”.  In Análisis, 29, 2018.  Centro de Politicas Publicas, Facultad de  Gobierno, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile).
  • José Ramón Montero, Mariano Torcal, and Richard Gunther (2005).  “Los sentimientos antipartidistas en el Sur de Europa.”  In Juan Montabes, Julio Iglesias, Mario Caciagli and Miguel Beltrán (eds.), Instituciones y procesos políticos: Homenaje a José Cazorla.  Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas,
  • Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther (2000).  “The Media in Democratic and Non-Democratic Regimes: A Multilevel Perspective.”  In Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan (eds.), Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Julia Partheymüller and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2013). “Eine ‚soziale Logik’ der Demobilisierung: Einflüsse politischer Gesprächspartner auf Wahlbeteiligung und -enthaltung bei der Bundestagswahl 2009.″ In Bernhard Weßels, Harald Schoen and Oscar W. Gabriel (eds.), Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2009. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Robert Rohrschneider, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Franziska Jung (2013). “Vereint, doch immer noch verschieden: Ost- und westdeutsche Wähler bei der Bundestagswahl 2009 im Vergleich.“ In Bernhard Weßels, Harald Schoen and Oscar W. Gabriel (eds.), Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2009. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Hans-Jürgen Puhle, Richard Gunther, and José Ramón Montero (2007).  “Conclusion.”  In Gunther, Montero and Puhle (eds.), Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting.
  • Bradley Richardson and Paul Allen Beck (2007).  “The Flow of Political Information: Personal Discussants, the Media, and Partisanship.”  In Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and José Ramón Montero (eds.) , Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents.  Oxford: Oxford University Press,
  • Marilyn S. Roberts (1995).  “Political Advertising: Strategies for Influence.”  In Kathleen E. Kendall (ed.), Presidential Campaign Discourse: Strategic Communication Problems.  Albany: State University of New York.
  • Robert Rohrschneider and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2003).  “Institutions in Germany, Theory and Evidence Ten Years After Unification.”  In Winand Gellner and John D. Robertson (eds.), The Berlin Republic: German Unification and a Decade of Change.  London: Frank Cass.
  • Alberto Sanz and Ana Sánchez-Sierra (2006).  “Le elezioni spagnole del 14 marzo 2004: politica estera, stile de governo e partecipazione al voto.”  In Anna Bosco (ed.), Partiti ed elettori nel Sud Europa.  Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino.
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2015). “Data Bases and Statistical Systems: Political Behavior and Elections.” In James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Vol. 5. Oxford: Elsevier.
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  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Jens Tenscher (2008).  “Divided We March, Divided We Fight: Trade Unions, Social Democrats, and Voters at the 2005 German General Election.”  In David M. Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.), Non-Party Actors in Electoral Politics: The Role of Interest Groups and Independent Citizens in Contemporary Election Campaigns.  Baden-Baden: Nomos.
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  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2000).  “Kulturelle Aspekte demokratischer Konsolidierung in Osteuropa: Bulgarien und Ungarn in vergleichender Perspektive.”  In Oskar Niedermayer and Bettina Westle (eds.), Demokratie und Partizipation. Festschrift für Max Kaase.  Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
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  • Wadim Schreiner and Robert Mattes. “The Possibilities of Election Campaigns as Sites of Political Advocacy: South Africa in Comparative Perspective.” In Public Opinion and Interest Group Politics: South Africa’s Missing Links? pp. 154-172. Edited by Heather Thuynsma. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-7983-0292-0.
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  • Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2014). “The Changing Context and Outlook of Voting.” In Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds.), Voters on the Move or on the Run? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  • Paul Beck, Thorsten Faas, Richard Gunther, Anthony Mughan, Erik Nisbet, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, and Paolo Segati (2021).  Populism, Nativism and Vote Choices in Five Western Democracies. Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) Working Paper 177.
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