Hellwig, Timothy, Lawrence Ezrow, and Werner Krause. 2025. “Policy over Votes: Why Extreme Governments Respond to their Supporters.” Forthcoming in West European Politics.
Böhmelt, Tobias, and Lawrence Ezrow. 2024. “Policy Issue Salience and Legislative Output of Populist Governments: Evidence from Immigration Policies.” Journal of European Public Policy 31(11): 3651-3675. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, Michele Fenzl, and Timothy Hellwig. 2024. “Bicameralism and Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion.” American Journal of Political Science 68(3): 1089-1105. (PDF) (blog)
Adams, James, Luca Bernardi, Lawrence Ezrow, and Zeynep Somer-Topcu. 2024. “Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right.” Political Studies 72(3): 1202-1222. (PDF)
Böhmelt, Tobias, Lawrence Ezrow, and Roi Zur. 2024. “Anti-Immigration Party Success Abroad and Voter Polarization at Home.” Electoral Studies 88(102762): 1-11. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, and Werner Krause. 2023. “Voter Turnout Decline and Party Responsiveness.” British Journal of Political Science 53(1): 85-103. (PDF)
Böhmelt, Tobias, Lawrence Ezrow, and Roni Lehrer. 2022. “Populism and Intra-Party Democracy.” European Journal of Political Research 61(4): 1143-1154. (PDF)
Adams, James, Tobias Böhmelt, Lawrence Ezrow, and Petra Schleiter. 2022. “Backlash Policy Diffusion to Populists in Power.” PLoS ONE 17(9): e0273951. (PDF)
Senninger, Roman, Daniel Bischof, and Lawrence Ezrow. 2022. “How Transnational Party Alliances Influence National Parties’ Policies.” Political Science Research and Methods 10(3): 651-658. (PDF)
Böhmelt, Tobias, and Lawrence Ezrow. 2022. “How Party Platforms on Immigration Become Policy.” Journal of Public Policy 42(1): 1-19. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, Tobias Böhmelt, Roni Lehrer, and Hugh Ward. 2021. “Follow the Foreign Leader? Why Following Foreign Incumbents is an Effective Electoral Strategy.” Party Politics 27(4): 716-729. (PDF)
Schleiter, Petra, Tobias Böhmelt, Lawrence Ezrow, and Roni Lehrer. 2021. “Social Democratic Party Exceptionalism and Transnational Policy Linkages.” World Politics 73(3): 512-544. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, Timothy Hellwig, and Michele Fenzl. 2020. “Responsiveness, If You Can Afford It: Policy Responsiveness in Good and Bad Economic Times.” Journal of Politics 82(3): 1166-1170. (PDF)
Adams, James, Luca Bernardi, Lawrence Ezrow, Oakley Gordon, Tzu-Ping Liu, and Christy Phillips. 2019. “A Problem with Empirical Studies of Party Policy Shifts: Alternative Measures of Party Shifts are Uncorrelated.” European Journal of Political Research 58(4): 1234-1244. (PDF)
Böhmelt, Tobias, Lawrence Ezrow, Roni Lehrer, Petra Schleiter, and Hugh Ward. 2017. “Why Dominant Governing Parties Are Cross-Nationally Influential.” International Studies Quarterly 61(4): 749-759. (PDF)
Lehrer, Roni, Lawrence Ezrow, Tobias Böhmelt, and Hugh Ward. 2017. “Intra-Party Democracy and Responsiveness to Rival Parties’ Policies.” Social Science Quarterly 98(3): 1026-1044. (PDF)
Adams, James, Lawrence Ezrow, and Christopher Wlezien. 2016. “The Company You Keep: How Voters Infer Party Positions on European Integration from Governing Coalition Arrangements.” American Journal of Political Science 60(4): 811-823. (PDF)
· Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at the 2015 MPSA meetings.
Böhmelt, Tobias, Lawrence Ezrow, Roni Lehrer, and Hugh Ward. 2016. “Party Policy Diffusion.” American Political Science Review 110(2): 397-410. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, and Georgios Xezonakis. 2016. “Satisfaction with Democracy and Voter Turnout: A Temporal Perspective.” Party Politics 22(1): 3-14. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, and Timothy Hellwig. 2015. “The Hidden Cost of Consensus: How Coordinated Market Economies Insulate Politics.” Research and Politics 2(4): 1-7. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, and Timothy Hellwig. 2014. “Responding to Voters or Responding to Markets? Political Parties and Public Opinion in an Era of Globalization.” International Studies Quarterly 58(4): 816-827. (PDF)
· Washington Post Monkey Cage, July 21, 2014
Adams, James, Lawrence Ezrow, and Zeynep Somer-Topcu. 2014. “Do Voters Respond to Party Manifestos or to a Wider Information Environment? An Analysis of Mass-Elite Linkages on European Integration.” American Journal of Political Science 58(4): 967-978. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, Jonathan Homola, and Margit Tavits. 2014. “When Extremism Pays: Policy Positions, Voter Certainty, and Party Support in Postcommunist Europe.” Journal of Politics 76(2): 535-547. (PDF) (data and do-file)
Ezrow, Lawrence, Margit Tavits, and Jonathan Homola. 2014. “Voter Polarization, Strength of Partisanship, and Support for Extreme Parties.” Comparative Political Studies 47(11): 1558-1583. (PDF) (supplementary file)
· Washington Post Monkey Cage, August 15, 2014 (“When does polarization matter?)
Adams, James, Lawrence Ezrow, Samuel Merrill, III, and Zeynep Somer-Topcu. 2013. “Does Collective Responsibility for Performance Alter Party Strategies? Policy-Seeking Strategies in Proportional Systems.” British Journal of Political Science 43(1): 1-23. (PDF)
Abney, Ronni, James Adams, Michael Clark, Malcolm Easton, Lawrence Ezrow, Spyros Kosmidis, and Anja Neundorf. 2013. “When Does Valence Matter? Heightened Valence Effects for Governing Parties during Election Campaigns.” Party Politics 19(1): 61-82. (PDF)
Adams, James, Lawrence Ezrow, and Debra Leiter. 2012. “Partisan Sorting and Niche Parties in Europe.” West European Politics 35(6): 1272-1294. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, and Georgios Xezonakis. 2011. “Citizen Satisfaction with Democracy and Parties’ Policy Offerings.” Comparative Political Studies 44(9): 1152-1178. (PDF)
Adams, James, Lawrence Ezrow, and Zeynep Somer-Topcu. 2011. “Is Anybody Listening? Evidence That Voters Do Not Respond to European Parties’ Policy Statements During Elections.” American Journal of Political Science 55(2): 370-382. (PDF)
· 2011 Best Article Award in the American Journal of Political Science
Ward, Hugh, Lawrence Ezrow, and Han Dorussen. 2011. “Globalization, Party Positions, and the Median Voter.” World Politics 63(3): 509-547. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2011. “Electoral Systems and Party Responsiveness.” In: Schofield, Norman, and Gonzalo Caballero (eds.). Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 303-326. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence, Catherine E. De Vries, Marco Steenbergen, and Erica E. Edwards. 2011. “Mean Voter Representation and Partisan Constituency Representation: Do Parties Respond to the Mean Voter Position or to their Supporters?” Party Politics 17(3): 275-301. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2011. “Reply to Dow: Party Positions, Votes, and the Mediating Role of Electoral Systems?” British Journal of Political Science 41: 448-452.(PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2010. Linking Citizens and Parties: How Electoral Systems Matter for Political Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Publisher’s Link)/(Amazon) Introduction.
Budge, Ian, Lawrence Ezrow, and Michael McDonald. 2010. “Ideology, Party Factionalism and Policy Change: An Integrated Dynamic Theory.” British Journal of Political Science 40: 781-804. (PDF)
Adams, James, and Lawrence Ezrow. 2009. “Who do European Parties Represent? How Western European Parties Represent the Policy Preferences of Opinion Leaders.” Journal of Politics 71(1): 206-223. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2008. “Parties’ Policy Programmes and the Dog that Didn’t Bark: No Evidence that Proportional Systems Promote Extreme Party Positioning.” British Journal of Political Science 38(3): 479-497. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2008. “On the Inverse Relationship between Votes and Proximity for Niche Parties.” European Journal of Political Research 47(2): 206-220. (PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2007. “The Variance Matters: How Party Systems Represent the Preferences of Voters.” Journal of Politics 69(1): 182-192.(PDF)
Adams, James, Michael Clark, Lawrence Ezrow, and Garrett Glasgow. 2006. “Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties?: The Causes and Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties’ Policy Shifts, 1976-98.” American Journal of Political Science 50(3): 513-529.(PDF)
Ezrow, Lawrence. 2005. “Are Moderate Parties Rewarded in Multiparty Systems?: A Pooled Analysis of Western European Elections, 1984-98.” European Journal of Political Research 44(6): 881-898.(PDF)
Adams, James, Michael Clark, Lawrence Ezrow, and Garrett Glasgow. 2004. “Understanding Change and Stability in Party Ideologies: Do Parties Respond to Public Opinion or to Past Election Results?” British Journal of Political Science 34(4): 589-610.(PDF)