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5246
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849
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sarah Birch is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a specific concentration in political science and international relations. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, demography, and gender studies.

Their work explores various topics, including:

  • Electoral systems and political participation
  • Political conflict and governance
  • Populism and right-wing movements
  • Media influence and politics
  • Climate change communication and perception
  • Disaster management and resilience
  • Politics and society in Latin America

Sarah Birch has authored several research papers published across notable venues. Recent papers include:

  • Electoral violence: An introduction (2020), Journal of Peace Research
  • The effect of alternation in power on electoral intimidation in democratizing regimes (2020), Journal of Peace Research
  • We need to go deeper: measuring electoral violence using convolutional neural networks and social media (2020), Political Science Research and Methods
  • The electoral benefits of environmental position-taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010-2019 (2022), European Journal of Political Research
  • Natural disasters and the limits of electoral clientelism: Evidence from Honduras (2023), Electoral Studies

The frequent publication venues in which Sarah Birch has contributed include:

  • Journal of Peace Research
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Democratization
  • Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
  • Political Science Research and Methods

Collaborations feature several co-authors with multiple joint publications, such as Emre Toros, David Muchlinski, Xiao Yang, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis.

In addition to research articles, Sarah Birch has published books with Princeton University Press. Among these, the title Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political Order was released in 2020, cited multiple times in academic literature.

Recognitions include Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded in 2016 and Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Electoral Systems and Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe

    Sarah Birch

  • Electoral Malpractice

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  • Perceptions of Electoral Fairness and Voter Turnout

    Sarah Birch

  • Electoral institutions and popular confidence in electoral processes: A cross-national analysis

    Sarah Birch

  • Full Participation: A Comparative Study of Compulsory Voting

    Sarah Birch

  • Embodying Democracy : Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe

    Sarah Birch

  • Electoral Systems and Electoral Misconduct

    Sarah Birch

  • Elections and Democratization in Ukraine

    Sarah Birch

  • Interpreting the Regional Effect in Ukrainian Politics

    Sarah Birch

  • Electoral violence: An introduction

    Sarah Birch;Ursula E Daxecker;Kristine Höglund

  • The role of political trust in conditioning perceptions of corruption

    Andrew Wroe;Nicholas Allen;Sarah Birch

  • Full Participation

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  • Voting stability, political gridlock: Ukraine's 1998 parliamentary elections

    Andrew Wilson;Sarah Birch

  • The Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections of 1998

    Sarah Birch;Andrew Wilson

  • Electoral systems and party systems in Europe East and West

    Sarah Birch

  • Embodying Democracy

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  • Nomenklatura democratization: Electoral clientelism in post‐soviet Ukraine

    Sarah Birch

  • Single-member district electoral systems and democratic transition

    Sarah Birch

  • The 2000 elections in Yugoslavia: the ‘bulldozer revolution’

    Sarah Birch

  • Two-Round Electoral Systems and Democracy

    Sarah Birch

  • Christine Brooke-Rose and contemporary fiction

    Sarah Birch

  • The Ukrainian parliamentary and presidential elections of 1994

    Sarah Birch

  • Electoral behaviour in western Ukraine in national elections and referendums, 1989–91

    Sarah Birch

  • Political polarization and environmental attitudes: a cross-national analysis

    Sarah Birch

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Budge
Ian Budge University of Essex
Harold D. Clarke
Harold D. Clarke The University of Texas at Dallas
Iadh Ounis
Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow
Andrew Gordon Wilson
Andrew Gordon Wilson New York University
Craig Macdonald
Craig Macdonald University of Glasgow
Paul Whiteley
Paul Whiteley University of Essex

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