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  1. Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias

    Article • Political Science Research and Methods, September 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  2. Out‐party, out of luck: Partisan biases in public support for due process in corruption investigations

    Article • Political Psychology, July 2025, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  3. The correlates of European citizens’ views of democracy

    Article • February 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  4. Political neglect and support for the radical right: The case of rural Portugal

    Article • Political Geography, January 2025, Elsevier

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  5. Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, July 2024, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  6. Women Running for Office Are Less Risk Averse than Men: Evidence from Portugal

    Article • The Journal of Politics, July 2024, University of Chicago Press

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  7. Political Neglect and Support for the Radical Right: The Case of Rural Portugal

    Article • January 2024, Center for Open Science

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  8. Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, September 2023, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  9. Politicians Support (and Voters Reward) Intra-Party Reforms to Promote Transparency

    Article • Party Politics, September 2023, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  10. Public Support for Democracy in the United States Has Declined Generationally

    Article • Public Opinion Quarterly, September 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  11. Populist governments, judicial independence, and public trust in the courts

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  12. Economic forecasts and executive approval

    Article • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  13. Beyond the Myth of Legality? Framing Effects and Public Reactions to High Court Decisions in Europe

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  14. When corruption investigations come to nothing: A natural experiment on trust in courts

    Article • Governance, December 2022, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  15. A Scoping Review on Perception-Based Definitions and Measurements of Corruption

    Article • Public Integrity, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  16. Rules or legacies? Industry and political revolving doors in regulators' careers in Portugal

    Article • Governance, April 2022, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  17. Ideological extremism, perceived party system polarization, and support for democracy

    Article • European Political Science Review, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  18. Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  19. 10. Constitutions and Courts

    Article • November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  20. Judicial Performance and Trust in Legal Systems: Findings from a Decade of Surveys in over 20 European Countries

    Article • Social Science Quarterly, August 2020, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  21. Public Opinion and Executive Approval

    Article • July 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  22. Does Economic and Political Integration Undermine Representative Democracy?

    Article • July 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  23. Judicial Politics

    Article • February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  24. Public trust in the European legal systems: independence, accountability and awareness

    Article • West European Politics, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  25. The 2019 Portuguese general elections

    Article • West European Politics, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  26. What are the best quorum rules? A laboratory investigation

    Article • Public Choice, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  27. Transparency, Policy Outcomes, and Incumbent Support

    Article • Kyklos, March 2019, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  28. Do the Rich and the Poor Have Different Conceptions of Democracy? Socioeconomic Status, Inequality, and the Political Status Quo

    Article • Comparative Politics, January 2019, Comparative Politics

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  29. Portugal’s Leftist Government: From Sick Man to Poster Boy?

    Article • South European Society & Politics, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  30. Procedural Fairness, the Economy, and Support for Political Authorities

    Article • Political Psychology, October 2018, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes, Luis F Aguiar-Conraria

  31. New forms of mobilization, new people mobilized? Evidence from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

    Article • Party Politics, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  32. Favourable outcomes, procedural fairness, and political support: results from a survey experiment

    Article • September 2018, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais

    Pedro C Magalhaes, Tiago Abril

  33. Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics

    Article • October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  34. Regime support

    Article • September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  35. Judicial Behavior under Austerity: An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Changes in the Portuguese Constitutional Court, 2002–2016

    Article • Journal of Law and Courts, September 2017, University of Chicago Press

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  36. Economic Outcomes, Quality of Governance, and Satisfaction with Democracy

    Article • August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  37. This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  38. Bailout Countries and Others in 2014: Austerity and Government Defection

    Article • December 2016, Nature

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  39. Economic Evaluations, Procedural Fairness, and Satisfaction with Democracy

    Article • Political Research Quarterly, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  40. From ideology to performance: Austerity and government defection in the 2014 European Parliament elections

    Article • Electoral Studies, April 2016, Elsevier

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  41. Portuguese Democratisation 40 Years on: Its Meaning and Enduring Legacies

    Article • South European Society & Politics, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  42. How People Understand Democracy

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  43. Experimental evidence that quorum rules discourage turnout and promote election boycotts

    Article • Experimental Economics, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  44. Government survival in semi-presidential regimes

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, October 2015, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  45. Voting in Old and New Democracies

    Article • August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  46. Mobilization, Informal Networks and the Social Contexts of Turnout

    Article • August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  47. Application of Wavelets to the Study of Political History

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  48. Political Institutions and the Social Anchoring of the Vote

    Article • July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  49. Sovereign Debt and Governance Failures

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  50. Introduction – Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics

    Article • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  51. The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal: Performance Voting under a Blurred Responsibility for the Economy

    Article • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  52. Government effectiveness and support for democracy

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, May 2013, Wiley

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  53. The nationalization of electoral cycles in the United States: a wavelet analysis

    Article • Public Choice, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  54. Implementing the World Mental Health Survey Initiative in Portugal – rationale, design and fieldwork procedures

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Systems, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pedro C Magalhaes, Dr Helena Baptista

  55. Forecasting Spanish elections

    Article • International Journal of Forecasting, October 2012, Elsevier

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  56. Citizens and the European Polity

    Article • July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  57. Summary and Conclusions: Europe in Equilibrium—Unresponsive Inertia or Vibrant Resilience?

    Article • July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  58. Introduction: Citizens and the European Polity

    Article • July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  59. Europe à la Carte? Public Support for Policy Integration in an Enlarged European Union

    Article • July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  60. After the Bailout: Responsibility, Policy, and Valence in the Portuguese Legislative Election of June 2011

    Article • South European Society & Politics, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  61. The Scope of Government of the European Union: Explaining Citizens’ Support for a More Powerful EU

    Article • April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  62. Cycles in Politics: Wavelet Analysis of Political Time Series

    Article • American Journal of Political Science, January 2012, Wiley

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  63. Foreign Direct Investment and Home-Country Political Risk: The Case of Brazil

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2012, Project Muse

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  64. Is the Good Polity Attainable? – Measuring the Quality of Democracy

    Article • European Political Science, December 2011, Nature

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  65. Room for Manoeuvre: Euroscepticism in the Portuguese Parties and Electorate 1976–2005

    Article • South European Society & Politics, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  66. How quorum rules distort referendum outcomes: Evidence from a pivotal voter model

    Article • European Journal of Political Economy, December 2010, Elsevier

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  67. Referendum design, quorum rules and turnout

    Article • Public Choice, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  68. The Clarity of Policy Alternatives, Left–Right and the European Parliament Vote in 2004

    Article • Journal of European Integration, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  69. Growth, centrism and semi-presidentialism: Forecasting the Portuguese general elections

    Article • Electoral Studies, June 2009, Elsevier

    Luis F Aguiar-Conraria, Pedro C Magalhaes

  70. What Are (Semi)Presidential Elections About? A Case Study of the Portuguese 2006 Elections

    Article • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, October 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  71. Voting and Intermediation: Informational Biases and Electoral Choices in Comparative Perspective

    Article • February 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  72. Democratic Consolidation, Judicial Reform, and the Judicialization of Politics in Southern Europe

    Article • November 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  73. Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies

    Article • March 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  74. Disaffected democrats: Political attitudes and political action in Portugal

    Article • West European Politics, November 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  75. Pre-Election Polls in Portugal: Accuracy, Bias, and Sources of Error, 1991-2004

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, February 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  76. Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe

    Article • November 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  77. SOUTH EUROPEAN ELECTION WATCH - The Return of the Portuguese Right: The 2001 Local Government Elections and the 2002 Legislative Elections

    Article • South European Society & Politics, June 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  78. From 'Third Wave' to 'Third Way': Europe and the Portuguese Socialists (1975–1999)

    Article • Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, May 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  79. The Politics of Judicial Reform in Eastern Europe

    Article • Comparative Politics, October 1999, JSTOR

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  80. Explaining the Constitutionalisation of Social Rights: Portuguese Hypotheses and a Crossnational Test

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  81. Explaining the Constitutionalization of Social Rights

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  82. Economy, Ideology, and the Elephant in the Room: A Research Note on the Elections of the Great Recession in Europe

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Pedro C Magalhaes

  83. Introduction

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Pedro C Magalhaes