Ann-Kristin Kölln

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2024 “The Study of Intraparty Frictions: Conceptual Reflections on Preference Heterogeneity, Disagreement, and Conflict”, Perspectives on Politics, online first. (with Nicole Bolleyer)

2024 “Virtuous party linkages: Developing a data-based analytical model to explain voters’ attitudes towards political parties”, European Journal of Political Research, online first. (with Helene Helboe Pedersen)

2024 “Measuring Public Preferences for Government Spending under Constraints: A Conjoint-Analytic Approach”, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 34(2), pp.375-386. (with Christopher Wlezien)

2024 “When Do Citizens Consider Political Parties Legitimate?”, British Journal of Political Science, 54(1), pp. 110-128.
-- replication material on Harvard's Dataverse.

2023 “Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties”, Comparative Political Studies, online first (with Jonathan Polk)
-- replication material on Harvard's Dataverse.

2022 “The Consequences of Repeatedly Losing on Legitimacy Beliefs”, European Journal of Political Research, 61(4), pp. 997-1018. (with Anna Kern)

2021 “What Explains the Dynamics of Citizens' Satisfaction with Democracy? An Integrated Framework for Panel Data”, Electoral Studies, 69. (with Kees Aarts)

2020 “Moderation and Competence: How a Party’s Ideological Position Shapes Its Valence Reputation”, American Journal of Political Science, 64(3), pp. 649-663. (with Rob Johns)
-- replication material on Harvard's Dataverse.
-- featured in The Monkey Cage, 13 January 2020.

2020 “Types of Party Affiliation and the Multi-Speed Party: What Kind of Party Support Is Functionally Equivalent to Party Membership?”, Party Politics, 26(4), pp. 355-365. (with Marc Hooghe)
-- Green Access Version.

2019 “The Effects of Sampling Frame Designs on Nonresponse and Coverage Error: Evidence from the Netherlands”, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 7(3), pp. 422-439. (with Yfke Ongena and Kees Aarts)

2019 “How Do Different Sources of Partisanship Influence Government Accountability in Europe?”, International Political Science Review, 40(4), pp. 502-517. (with Paul Whiteley)

2018 “Electoral Infidelity: Why Party Members Cast Defecting Votes”, European Journal of Political Research, 57(2), pp. 539-560. (with Jonathan Polk)
-- featured in The Monkey Cage, 12 October 2017.
-- Winner of the 2018 Jack Walker Award for the best article from the American Political Science Association's Section on Political Organizations and Parties.

2018 “Political Sophistication Affects How Citizens' Social Policy Preferences Respond to the Economy”, West European Politics, 41(1), pp. 196-217.
-- featured in European Social Survey France, 20 April 2018, and in Insights, 29 June 2018.

2017 “Emancipated Party Members: Examining Ideological Incongruence within Political Parties”, Party Politics, 23(1), pp. 18-29. (with Jonathan Polk)
-- featured in LSE EUROPP blog, 11 September 2016.

2016 “The Virtuous Circle of Representation”, Electoral Studies, 42, pp. 126-134.

2016 “Party Membership in Europe: Testing Party-Level Explanations of Decline”, Party Politics, 22(4), pp. 465-477.
-- featured in Democratic Audit UK (LSE), 27 July 2015.

2016 “Does Party Finance Regulation Create a Level Playing Field?”, Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 15(1), pp. 71-82.

2015 “The Effects of Membership Decline on Party Organisations in Europe”, European Journal of Political Research, 54(4), pp. 707-725.
-- featured in “Wie reagieren Parteien auf den Mitgliederschwund?“ Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung e.V., 2014/2015.

2015 “External Efficacy and Perceived Responsiveness – Similar but Distinct Concepts”, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 27(3), pp.423-455. (with Peter Esaiasson and Sedef Turper)

2015 “The Value of Political Parties to Representative Democracy”, European Political Science Review, 7(4), pp. 593-613.
-- featured in Democratic Audit UK (LSE), 6 January 2015.

Book

2014 Party decline and response. The effects of membership decline on party organisations in Western Europe, 1960-2010. Enschede: University of Twente.
-- Winner of the 2015 Jaarprijs Politicologie for the best Ph.D. dissertation, Dutch and Belgian Political Science Association.

Edited volumes

2019 “How Attractive Are Political Parties and Trade Unions to Young People? (II)”, Guest Editor for Intergenerational Justice Review, 5(1). (with Anthony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk and Markus Rutsche)

2018 “How Attractive Are Political Parties and Trade Unions to Young People? (I)”, Guest Editor for Intergenerational Justice Review, 4(2). (with Anthony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk and Markus Rutsche)

2017 “The Lives of the Party: Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Intraparty Politics in Europe”, Special Issue for Party Politics, 23(1). (with Jonathan Polk)

Contributions in edited volumes

2020 “The Red-Green Alliance – Is it Red or Green?”in The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics, Peter Munk-Christiansen, Jørgen Elklit and Peter Nedergaard, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Henrik Bech Seeberg)

2019 “A Break in the Representative Chain: Party Members’ Ideological Disagreement with Candidates and Demands for Intra-Party Democracy.” in Nordic Party Members: Linkages in Troubled Times, Marie Demker, Knut Heidar and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, eds., London: Rowman & Littlefield /ECPR Press. (with Jonathan Polk)
-- featured in The LSE EUROPP blog, 23 January 2020.

2019 “Parties’ Ideological Representation in the Nordic Countries: Comparing Party Voters, Members and Candidates.” in Nordic Party Members: Linkages in Troubled Times, Marie Demker, Knut Heidar and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, eds., London: Rowman & Littlefield /ECPR Press. (with Jonathan Polk)
-- featured in The LSE EUROPP blog, 23 January 2020.

2017 “Has Party Members' Representativeness Changed Over Time?” in Larmar och gör sig till. SOM-undersökningen 2016, SOM-rapport nr 70, Ulrika Andersson, Jonas Ohlsson, Henrik Oscarsson and Maria Oskarson, eds., Göteborg: SOM-institutet.

2015 “The Party Organizations.” in The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics, Jon Pierre, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Gissur Erlingsson and Patrik Öhberg)

2013 “Signalling Through Voting Intention Polls Between Elections.” in Between-Election Democracy: The Representative Relationship After Election Day, Peter Esaiasson and Hanne Marthe Narud, eds., Colchester: ECPR. (with Kees Aarts)

Governmental report

2015 “Det sjunkande antalet partimedlemskap och demokratin.” in Låt fler forma framtiden! Forskarantologi. Statens Offentliga Utredningar, ed., Stockholm: Wolters Kluwer Sverige. SOU: 2015:96

Book review

2016 “Beyond party members: Changing approaches to partisan mobilization” by Susan E. Scarrow (2015, Oxford University Press), Perspectives on Politics, 14(3), pp. 914-915.