Publications

Special journal issues (edited)

• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M., & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2017, eds.). The Effect of Electoral Rules on Electoral Behaviour: A Comparative Approach. West European Politics, accepted.
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2014, ed.). The Economic Voter and Economic Crisis. Acta Politica 49(4). HTML

Peer reviewed articles

• Dassonneville, R., Blais, A., Sevi, S., & Daoust, J. F. (2021). How citizens want their legislator to vote. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 46(2), 297-321. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2021). Change and continuity in the ideological gender gap a longitudinal analysis of left‐right self‐placement in OECD countries. European Journal of Political Research, 60(1), 225-238. PDFHTML
• Nadeau, R., Dassonneville, R., Lewis-Beck, M. S. & Mongrain, P. (forthcoming). Are Election Results More Unpredictable? A Forecasting Test. Political Science Research and Methods, in press.
• Dassonneville, R. & McAllister, I. (forthcoming). The Party Choice Set and Satisfaction with Democracy. West European Politics, in press.
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M. S. (forthcoming). Inequality and Party Support: Positional Economic Voting or a New Dimension of Valence? Regional Studies, in press.  
• Ferland, B. & Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Shifting Parties, Rational Switchers – Are Voters Responding to Ideological Shifts by Political Parties. Party Politics, in press. HTML
• Hooghe, M., Dassonneville, R. & Oser, J. (forthcoming). Public Opinion, Turnout and Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Congruence in European Liberal Democracies. Political Studies, forthcoming. DOI 10.1177/0032321718819077PDF
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M. S. (2019). A Changing Economic Vote in Western Europe? Long-Term vs. Short-Term Forces. European Political Science Review, 11(1): 91-108. HTML
• Stiers, D. & Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Do Volatile Voters Vote Less Correctly? An Analysis of Correct Voting among Vote (Intention) Switchers in U.S. Presidential Election Campaigns. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, in press.   HTML
• Dassonneville, R., Blais, A., Hooghe, M. & Deschouwer, K. (forthcoming). The Effects of Survey Mode and Sampling in Belgian Election Studies. A Comparison of a National Probability Face-to-Face Survey and a Non-Probability Internet Survey. Acta Politica, in press. PDFHTML
• Voogd, R. & Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Are the Supporters of Populist Parties Loyal Voters? Dissatisfaction and Stable Voting for Populist Parties. Government & Opposition, in press. HTML
• Dassonneville, R., Feitosa, F. Hooghe, M., Lau, R. & Stiers, D. (2019). Compulsory Voting Rules, Reluctant Voters and Ideological Proximity Voting. Political Behavior, 41(1): 209-230.  HTML
• Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2018). Explaining the Trump Vote: The Effect of Racist Resentment and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments. PS: Political Science & Politics, 51(3): 528–534. HTML
• Arel-Bundock, V., Blais, A. & Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Do Voters Benchmark Economic Performance? British Journal of Political Science, accepted.
• Daoust, J.-F. & Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Beyond Nationalism and Regionalism: The Stability of Economic Voting in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science, in press. HTML
• Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Electoral Volatility and Parties' Ideological Responsiveness. European Journal of Political Research, in press. HTML
• Dassonneville, R. & McAllister, I. (2018). Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term Socialization. American Journal of Political Science, 62(2): 249–265. HTML
• Vallée-Dubois, F., Dassonneville, R. & Godbout, J.-F. (forthcoming). About Time: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Support for Quebec Sovereignty. Nations and Nationalism, in press. HTML
• Stiers, D. & Dassonneville, R. (forthcoming). Affect versus Cognition: Wishful Thinking in an Exit Poll. International Journal of Forecasting, 34(2): 199-215. HTML
• Dassonneville, R., Lewis-Beck, M.S. & Mongrain, P. (2017). Forecasting Dutch Elections. An Initial Model from the March 2017 Legislative Contests. Research & Politics, 4(3). arXiv:https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6CMCBRPDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Grieb, A. (forthcoming). Partisanship and Political Sophistication During and Outside of Election Times: A Longitudinal Analysis Using the German SOEP Survey 1984-2012. German Politics, 27(1): 44-65. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Stiers, D. (forthcoming). Electoral Volatility in Belgium (2009-2014). Is there a Difference between Stable and Volatile Voters? Acta Politica, 53(1): 68-97.
• Meeusen, C., Boonen, J. & Dassonneville, R. (2017). The Structure of Prejudice and its Relation to Party Preferences in Belgium: Flanders and Wallonia Compared. Psychologica Belgica, 57(3): 52-74. DOI doi.org/10.5334/pb.335HTML
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2017). Do Electoral Rules have an Effect on Electoral Behaviour? An Impact Assessment. West European Politics, 40(3): 503-515.  
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Miller, P. (2017). Compulsory Voting, Inequality, and Quality of the Vote: The Impact of Compulsory Voting on Accountability and Proximity Voting. West European Politics, 40(3): 621-644.
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2017). Voter Turnout Decline and Stratification. Quasi-Experimental and Comparative Evidence of a Growing Educational Gap. Politics, 37(2): 184-200. DOI 10.1177/0263395716674370PDF
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2017). Rules, Institutions and the Economic Vote: Clarifying Clarity of Responsibility. West European Politics, 40(3): 621-644. PDF
• Miller, P. & Dassonneville, R. (2016). High Turnout in the Low Countries: Partisan Effects of the Abolition of Compulsory Voting. Electoral Studies, 44: 132-143. DOI 10.1016/j.electstud.2016.07.009HTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (forthcoming). Indifference and Alienation. Diverging Dimensions of Electoral Dealignment in Europe. Acta Politica, 53(1): 1-23. PDFHTML
• Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2018). A Spiral of Distrust. A Panel Study on the Relation between Political Distrust and Protest Voting in Belgium. Government & Opposition, 53(1): 104-130. DOI 10.1017/gov.2016.18PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2017). The Noise of the Vote Recall Question. The Validity of the Vote Recall Question in Panel Studies in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 29(2): 316-338. DOI 10.1093/ijpor/edv051HTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2017). Economic Indicators and Electoral Volatility: The Effect of the State of the Economy on Electoral Volatility, 1950-2013. Comparative European Politics, 15(6): 919-943. DOI 10.1057/cep.2015.3PDFHTML
• Dejaeghere, Y. & Dassonneville, R. (2017). A Comparative Investigation into the Effects of Party-System Variables on Party Switching using Individual-Level Data. Party Politics, 23(2): 110-123. DOI 10.1177/1354068815576294HTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2016). Volatile Voters, Short-Term Choices? An Analysis of the Vote Choice Determinants of Stable and Volatile Voters in Great Britain. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion &Parties, 26(3): 273-292. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R., Claes, E. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2016). Punishing Local Incumbents for the Local Economy. Economic Voting in the 2012 Belgian Municipal Elections. Italian Political Science Review, 46(1): 3-22. PDFHTML
• Marien, S., Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2015). How Second Order are Local Elections? Voting Motives and Party Preferences in Belgian Municipal Elections. Local Government Studies, 41(6): 898-916. HTML
• Lewis-Beck, M.S. & Dassonneville, R. (2015). Comparative Election Forecasting: Further Insightsfrom Synthetic Models. Electoral Studies, 39(3): 275-283. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R., Blais, A. & Dejaeghere, Y. (2015). Staying with the Party, Switching or Exiting? A Comparative Analysis of Determinants of Party Switching and Abstaining. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 25(3), 387-405. PDFHTML
• Hooghe, M., Dassonneville, R. & Marien, S. (2015). The Impact of Education on the Development of Political Trust. Results from a Five Year Panel Study among Late Adolescents and Young Adults in Belgium. Political Studies, 63(1), 123-141. PDFHTML
• Lewis-Beck, M.S. & Dassonneville, R. (2015). Forecasting Elections in Europe: Synthetic Models. Research and Politics, Jan 2015, 2(1). PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2014). Political Sophistication and Vote Intention Switching. The Timing of Electoral Volatility in the 2009 German Election Campaign. German Politics, 23(3), 174-195. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2014). The Economic Voter and Economic Crisis. Acta Politica, 49(4), 369-371. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2014). Macroeconomics, Economic Crisis and Electoral Outcomes: A National European Pool. Acta Politica, 49(4), 372-394. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Dejaeghere, Y. (2014). Bridging the Ideological Space. A Cross-National Analysis of the Distance of Party Switching. European Journal of Political Research, 53(3), 580-599. HTML
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Vanhoutte, B. (2014). Partisan Dealignment in Germany: A Rejoinder to Russell Dalton. German Politics, 23(1/2), 145-155. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Dejaeghere, Y. (2014). Onderzoek uitgelicht: De ideologische afstand tussen partijen. Een vergelijkende studie naar de overbrugde afstand bij partijwissels. Res Publica: Tijdschrift voor Politicologie, 56(3), 408-411.
• Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2014). Party Members as an Electoral Linking Mechanism. AnElection Forecasting Model for Political Parties in Belgium, 1981-2010. Party Politics, 20(3), 368-380. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (2013). Economic Policy Voting and Incumbency: Unemployment in Western Europe. Political Science Research and Methods, 1(1), 53-66. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2013). Questioning Generational Replacement. An Age, Period and Cohort Analysis of Electoral Volatility in the Netherlands, 1971-2010. Electoral Studies, 32(1), 37-47. PDFHTML
• Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2013). Voters and Candidates of the Future. The Intention for Electoral Participation among Adolescents in 22 European Countries. Young: the Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 21(1), 1-28. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2012). Electoral Volatility, Political Sophistication, Trust and Efficacy: A Study on Changes in Voter Preferences during the Belgian Regional Elections of 2009. Acta Politica, 47(1), 18-41. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R., Quintelier, E., Hooghe, M. & Claes, E. (2012). The Relation between Civic Education and Political Attitudes and Behavior: A Two-Year Panel Study among Belgian Late Adolescents. Applied Developmental Science, 16(3), 140-150. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2012). Ontzuiling van kiesgedrag. Een proces van generationele vervanging gedreven door cognitieve mobilisatie? Een age-period-cohort analyse van stemmen voor CDA en PvdA in Nederland, 1971-2010. Res Publica: Tijdschrift voor Politicologie, 54(3), 333-360.
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Vanhoutte, B. (2012). Age, Period and Cohort Effects in the Decline of Party Identification in Germany. An Analysis of a Two Decade Panel Study in Germany (1992-2009). German Politics, 21(2), 209-227. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2012). Election Forecasting under Opaque Conditions. A Model for Francophone Belgium, 1981-2010. International Journal of Forecasting, 28(4), 777-788. PDFHTML
• Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2011). The Effects of Civic Education on Political Knowledge. A Two Year Panel Survey among Belgian Adolescents. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 23(4), 321-339. PDFHTML
• Dassonneville, R. (2010). Negatieve verkiezingscampagnes en de gevolgen op kiesintenties. De Vlaamse regionale verkiezingen van juni 2009. Res Publica: Tijdschrift voor Politicologie, 52(3), 353-372.

Other articles

• Deschouwer, K., Baudewyns, P., Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M., Pilet, J.-B., Rihoux, B. & Walgrave, S. (2015). Gegoochel met ‘dode zielen’? Samenleving en Politiek, 22(2), 76-80.
• Dassonneville, R. & Baudewyns, P. (2014). Transferts de voix, flux électoraux et électeurs mobiles. Courrier hebdomadaire du CRISP, nr. 2225, 9-19.
• Dassonneville, R. & Baudewyns, P. (2014). Volatiliteit: veel beweging, geen aardverschuiving. Samenleving en Politiek, 21(9), 5-16.
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2013). Waar komen de lokale N-VA kiezers vandaan? Samenleving en Politiek, 20(1), 65-75.
• Quintelier, E., Verhelst, J. & Dassonneville, R. (2011). Hoe ’traditioneel’ zijn socialistische kiezers? Samenleving en Politiek, 18(8), 32-39.

Books

• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M., Marien, S. & Pilet, J.-B. (Eds.) (2013). De lokale kiezer: Het kiesgedrag bij de Belgische gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van oktober 2012. Brussel: ASP.
• Pilet, J.-B., Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Marien, S. (Eds.) (2014). L’électeur local. Le comportement électoral au scrutin communal de 2012. Bruxelles: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles.

Book chapters

• Dassonneville, R. (2018). La montée du populisme est-elle réelle? In: La politique en questions. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Debus, M. (2017). ‘Economic voting in a federal country: Overcomingthe limited clarity of responsibility.’ In: K. Deschouwer (ed.) Mind the Gap: Political Participation andRepresentation in Belgium. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
• Dassonneville, R., Baudewyns, P., Debus, M. & Schmitt-Beck, R. (2017). ‘The time of the vote choice in Belgium. Causes and consequences of late deciding.’ In: K. Deschouwer (ed.) Mind the Gap: Political Participation and Representation in Belgium. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
• Dassonneville, R. (2017). Economics and Political Behavior. In: F. Moghaddam (Ed.). SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483391144.n102
• Quintelier, E., Verhelst, J. & Dassonneville, R. (2011). How Traditional is the Flemish and Walloon Socialist Electorate? In: Vermeersch, W. (Ed.), Belgian Society and Politics 2011 - The Leftamidst a Nationalist Surge (pp. 102-110). Gent: Stichting Gerrit Kreveld.
• Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2012). De invloed van lessen over politiek op politieke kennis bij jongeren. In: Hooghe, M. (Ed.), Jongeren, politiek en burgerschap. Politieke socialisatie bij Belgische jongeren, Chapt 6 (pp. 95-109). Leuven: Acco.
• Quintelier, E., Dassonneville, R. & Claes, E. (2012). De invloed van burgerschapsopvoeding op school op politieke houdingen. In: Hooghe, M. (Ed.), Jongeren, politiek en burgerschap. Politiekesocialisatie bij Belgische jongeren, Chapt 1 (pp. 21-33). Leuven: Acco.
• Dassonneville, R. & Hooghe, M. (2013). Determinants of Electoral Volatility. Where did the N-VA find its Local Support? In: Vermeersch, W. (Ed.), As Ever, In Between Elections (pp. 19-26). Gent: Stichting Gerrit Kreveld.
• Marien, S., Hooghe, M. & Dassonneville, R. (2013). Het belang van lokale argumenten en loyaliteiten: Het verschil tussen federale en lokale stemvoorkeuren. In: Dassonneville R. et. al. (Eds.), De lokale kiezer: Het kiesgedrag bij de Belgische gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2012, Chapt 3 (pp.67-91). Brussel: ASP.
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M. & Marien, S. (2013). Partijtrouw en volatiliteit in lokale verkiezingen. In: Dassonneville R. et. al. (Eds.), De lokale kiezer: Het kiesgedrag bij de Belgische gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2012, Chapt 2 (pp. 35-66). Brussel: ASP.
• Dassonneville, R., Hooghe, M., Marien, S. & Pilet, J. (2013). De gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 14 oktober 2012. Algemene tendensen. In: Dassonneville R. et. al. (Eds.), De lokale kiezer:Het kiesgedrag bij de Belgische gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2012, Chapt 1 (pp. 9-33). Brussel: ASP.
• Dassonneville, R. & Baudewyns, P. (2014). Volatility: Much Movement but no Earthquake. In: Vermeersch, W. (Ed.), Behind the Landslide Elections of May 2014 (pp. 5-15). Ghent: StichtingGerrit Kreveld.
• Dassonneville, R., Baudewyns, P. & Willocq, S. (2015). Personalisering en electorale volatiliteit. In: Deschouwer, K. et al. (Eds.), De kiezer ontcijferd. Lannoo Campus: Tielt (pp. 41-56).
• Dassonneville, R., Baudewyns, P. & Willocq, S. (2015). La volatilité électorale. In: Deschouwer, K. et al. (Eds.), Décrypter l’électeur. Le comportement électoral et les motivations du vote. Lannoo Campus: Tielt (pp. 42-57).
• Dassonneville, R. (2017). Age and Voting. In: Arzheimer, K., Evans, J. & Lewis-Beck, M.S. (Eds.), The Handbook of Electoral Behavior. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Theses

• Dassonneville (2015). Stability and Change in Voting Behaviour. Macro and Micro Determinants of Electoral Volatility. Leuven: University of Leuven. PDF