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Overview

Andrew Reynolds is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on political science and related interdisciplinary subfields.

Their recent publications highlight a range of topics including electoral systems, political participation, and the intersection of identity and politics. Some notable papers include:

  • Voter Preferences and the Political Underrepresentation of Minority Groups: Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Candidates in Advanced Democracies (2020), published in The Journal of Politics
  • The Persistence of Prejudice: Voters Strongly Penalize Candidates with HIV (2021), published in Political Behavior
  • Candidate Identity and Campaign Priming: Analyzing Voter Support for Pete Buttigieg's Presidential Run as an Openly Gay Man (2023), published in Political Research Quarterly
  • Voter attitudes and politicians with health conditions and disabilities (2024), published in Social Science Quarterly
  • UK-Conj-JOP.R (2020), published in Harvard Dataverse

These publications indicate a focus on topics such as LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, as well as gender politics and representation. Other topics covered in their work include income, poverty, inequality, disability rights, and inclusion in education and sport.

Andrew Reynolds frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Gabriele Magni
  • Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
  • H. Wayne Storey
  • Marta Werner
  • Daniel E. O'Sullivan

Their research has appeared in multiple venues, with repeated publications in Harvard Dataverse as well as journals such as The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, and Social Science Quarterly.

The subfields of social science addressed in Reynolds's work include political science and international relations, sociology and political science, social psychology, gender studies, and archeology. The main fields of study revolve around social sciences with a particular interest in electoral systems, political participation, and intersectional identity issues in politics.

Best Publications

  • Women in the Legislatures and Executives of the World: Knocking at the Highest Glass Ceiling

    Andrew Reynolds

  • Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook

    A. Reynolds;B. Reilly;A. Ellis

  • Electoral systems and conflict in divided societies

    B. Reilly;A. Reynolds

  • The architecture of democracy : constitutional design, conflict management, and democracy

    Andrew Stephen Reynolds

  • The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform

    Jason Brownlee;Tarek E. Masoud;Andrew Stephen Reynolds

  • The International Idea Handbook of Electoral System Design

    Andrew Stephen Reynolds;Benjamin Reilly

  • Electoral systems and democratization in Southern Africa

    Andrew Stephen Reynolds

  • A framework for the systematic study of election quality

    Jørgen Elklit;Andrew Reynolds

  • The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Comparative Politics Research Agenda

    Jorgen Elklit;Andrew Reynolds

  • Representation and Rights: The Impact of LGBT Legislators in Comparative Perspective

    Andrew Reynolds

  • The Architecture of Democracy

    Andrew Reynolds

  • Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World

    Andrew Stephen Reynolds

  • How the world votes: The political consequences of ballot design, innovation and manipulation

    Andrew Reynolds;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Reserved seats in national legislatures: A research note

    Andrew Reynolds

  • Constitutional Engineering in Southern Africa

    Andrew Reynolds

  • II. The Case for Proportionality

    Andrew Reynolds

  • Introduction: Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy

    Katharine Belmont;Scott Mainwaring;Andrew Reynolds

  • Voter Preferences and the Political Underrepresentation of Minority Groups: Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Candidates in Advanced Democracies

    Gabriele Magni;Gabriele Magni;Andrew Reynolds;Andrew Reynolds

  • Why the Modest Harvest

    Jason M Brownlee;Tarek Masoud;Andrew Reynolds

  • Election '94 South Africa : the campaigns, results and future prospects

    Andrew Reynolds

  • From Dynamic Events to Deep Causes: Outcomes and Explanations of the Arab Spring

    Andrew Reynolds;Jason M Brownlee;Tarek Masoud

  • The Case of Proportionality

    Andrew Reynolds

  • Tracking the "Arab Spring"

    Jason Brownlee;Tarek Masoud;Andrew Reynolds;Nathan Brown Mieczys

  • Defining and Measuring the Trajectory of Democratization

    Andrew Reynolds

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Carey
John M. Carey Dartmouth College
Benjamin Reilly
Benjamin Reilly University of Western Australia
Simon Hix
Simon Hix European University Institute
Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris Harvard University
Matthijs Bogaards
Matthijs Bogaards Central European University
Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg
Bernard Grofman
Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama Stanford University
Matthew Soberg Shugart
Matthew Soberg Shugart University of California, Davis
Mona Lena Krook
Mona Lena Krook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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