Publications

This page contains details on my published books and articles. For more details and electronic copies of my published articles visit my Research Gate profile.

Books and Special Issues

Cramme, Olaf and Sara B Hobolt (eds) (2014) Democratic Politics in a European Union Under Stress, Oxford University Press.

Hobolt, Sara B. and James Tilley (2014) Blaming Europe? Responsibility without Accountability in the European Union, Oxford University Press

Hobolt, Sara B. and Mark Franklin (2011) Electoral Democracy in the European Union,Electoral Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 1.

Karp, Jeffrey and Sara B. Hobolt (2010) Voters and Coalition Governments. Electoral Studies Vol. 29, Issue 3.

Hobolt, Sara B. (2009) Europe in Question: Referendums on European Integration, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

***Awarded the prize for the Best Book published in 2009 or 2010 by the European Union Studies Association (EUSA)***






















Selected Journal Articles


2017

Tilley, James and Neundorf, Anja and Hobolt, Sara (2017) When the pound in people's pocket matters: how changes to personal financial circumstances affect party choice The Journal of Politics. (In Press)

Høyland, Bjørn and Hobolt, Sara and Hix, Simon (2017) Career ambitions and legislative participation: The moderating effect of electoral institutions British Journal of Political Science. (In Press)


2016

Hobolt, Sara (2016) The Brexit vote: a divided nation, a divided continent Journal of European Public Policy, 23 (9). 1259-1277.

Hobolt, Sara B. and de Vries, Catherine E. (2016) Turning against the union? The impact of the crisis on the Eurosceptic vote in the 2014 European Parliament elections Electoral Studies, 44. 504-514.

Hobolt, Sara B. and de Vries, Catherine E. (2016) Public Support for European Integration Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 19

Hagemann, Sara and Hobolt, Sara B. and Wratil, Christopher (2016) Government responsiveness in the European Union: evidence from council voting Comparative Political Studies , 50 (6). 850-876.

Hobolt, Sara and Tilley, James (2016) Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the Euro crisis West European Politics, 39 (5). 971-991


2015

Wilson, Traci and Hobolt, Sara B. (2015) Allocating Responsibility in Multilevel Government Systems: Voter and Expert Attributions in the European Union The Journal of Politics, 77 (1). 102-113.

Pickup, Mark and Hobolt, Sara B. (2015) The conditionality of the trade-off between government responsiveness and effectiveness: the impact of minority status and polls in the Canadian House of Commons Electoral Studies. Electoral Studies. DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2015.07.003

Hobolt, Sara and de Vries, Catherine E. (2015) Issue entrepreneurship and multiparty competition Comparative Political Studies, 48 (9). 1159-1185.

Hobolt, Sara (2015) The 2014 European Parliament elections: divided in unity? JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 53 (S1). 6-21.

Schmitt, Hermann; Hobolt, Sara B.; Popa, Sebastian A. (2015) Does Personalization Increase Turnout? Spitzenkandidaten in the 2014 European Parliament Elections. European Union Politics, 16 (3) 347-368.

Hobolt, Sara B. and Wratil, Christopher (2015) Public opinion and the crisis: the dynamics of support for the euro. Journal of European Public Policy, 22 (2). 238-256.

Hjorth, Frederik and Klemmensen, Robert and Hobolt, Sara et al. (2015) Computers, coders, and voters: comparing automated methods for estimating party positions Research & Politics, DOI: 10.1177/2053168015580476


2014

van de Wardt, Marc, De Vries, Catherine and Hobolt, Sara B. (2014),Exploiting the Cracks: Wedge Issues in Multiparty Competition The Journal of Politics, 76 (4). 986-999

Hobolt, Sara B. (2014), A vote for the President? The role of Spitzenkandidaten in the 2014 European Parliament elections Journal of European Public Policy,21 (10): 1528-1540.

Hobolt, Sara B, Tilley, James (2014), Who's in Charge? Voter Attribution of Responsibility in the European Union Comparative Political Studies, 47 (6). 795-819.

Hobolt, Sara (2014) Ever closer or ever wider? Public attitudes towards further enlargement and integration in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 21 (5). 664-680.

Spoon, Jae-Jae, Hobolt, Sara B. and de Vries, Catherine E. (2014) Going green: explaining issue competition on the environment, European Journal of Political Research, 53 (2). 363-380.


2013

Hobolt, Sara B, Tilley, James , Banducci, Susan A (2013) Clarity of responsibility: How government cohesion conditions performance voting, European Journal of Political Research, 52 (2): 164–187.

Hobolt, Sara and Tilley, James and Wittrock, Jill (2013) Listening to the government: how information shapes responsibility attributions. Political Behavior, 35: 153–174.


2012

Hobolt, Sara and Spoon, Jae-Jae (2012) Motivating the European voter: parties, issues and campaigns in European Parliament elections. European Journal of Political Research, 51 (6) 701-727

De Vries, Catherine and Sara B. Hobolt (2012) When Dimensions Collide: The Electoral Success of Issue Entrepreneurs, European Union Politics, 13 (2) 246-268 .

Hobolt, Sara B. (2012) Citizens satisfaction with democracy in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies , 50 (1): 88-105.


2011

Hobolt, Sara B., Wouter Van der Brug, Claes H. de Vreese, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, and Malte C. Hinrichsen (2011) 'Religious intolerance and Euroscepticism', European Union Politics, 12 (3) 359-379

Hobolt, Sara B. and Bjorn Hoyland (2011) 'Selection and Sanctioning in European Parliamentary Elections' . British Journal of Political Science, 41 (3): 477 - 498

Tilley, James and Sara B. Hobolt (2011) 'Is the government to blame? An experimental test of how partisanship shapes perceptions of performance and responsibility'. The Journal of Politics, 73(2). Replication data can be downloaded here: Data

Hobolt, Sara B. and Mark Franklin (2011) Electoral Democracy in the European Union, Electoral Studies, 30 (1), 1-3.

Hobolt, Sara B. and Jill Wittrock (2011) 'The second-order election model revisited: An experimental test of vote choices in European Parliament elections', Electoral Studies, 30 (1), 29-40.

Franklin, Mark and Sara B. Hobolt (2011) 'The legacy of lethargy: How elections to the European Parliament depress turnout', Electoral Studies, 30 (1, 67-76.


2010

Hobolt, Sara B. and Jeffrey Karp (2010) 'Voters and Coalition Governments'. Electoral Studies 29(3): 299-307.

Fisher, Stephen and Sara B. Hobolt (2010) 'Coalition Governments and Electoral Accountability', Electoral Studies 29(3): 358-369.

Hobolt, Sara B. and Sylvain Brouard (2010) 'Contesting the European Union? Why the Dutch and the French Rejected the European Constitution', Political Research Quarterly.


2009

van der Brug, Wouter, Sara B. Hobolt and Claes de Vreese (2009) 'Religion and Party Choice in Europe', West European Politics, 32(6): 1266-1283.

Hobolt, Sara B. and Patrick Leblond (2009) 'Is My Crown Better than Your Euro? Exchange Rates and Public Opinion on the European Single Currency', European Union Politics, 10(2): 209-232.

Hobolt, Sara B., Jae-Jae Spoon and James Tilley (2009) 'A vote against Europe? Explaining defection at the 1999 and 2004 European Parliament elections', British Journal of Political Science, 39(1): 93-115.


2008

Green, Jane and Sara B. Hobolt (2008) 'Owning the Issue Agenda: Party Strategies and Vote Choices in British Elections', Electoral Studies, 27: 460-476.

Fisher, Stephen, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Sara B. Hobolt and John Curtice (2008) 'Disengaging Voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting?' Electoral Studies, 27:89-104 2008.

Hobolt, Sara B. and Robert Klemmensen (2008) 'Government Responsiveness and Political Competition in Comparative Perspective'. Comparative Political Studies, 41: 309-337


2007

Klemmensen, Robert, Sara B. Hobolt and Martin Ejnar Hansen (2007) ''Estimating policy positions using political texts: An evaluation of the Wordscores approach', Electoral Studies, 26:746-755.

Hobolt, Sara B. (2007) 'Taking Cues on Europe? Voter Competence and Party Endorsements in Referendums on European Integration'. European Journal of Political Research, 46(2): 151-182.


2003-2006

Hobolt, Sara B. (2006) 'How Parties Affect Vote Choice in European Integration Referendums'. Party Politics, 12(5): 623-47.

Hobolt, Sara B. (2006) ‘Direct Democracy and European Integration’, Journal of European Public Policy 13(1): 153-166.

Hobolt, Sara B. and Robert Klemmensen (2005) ‘Responsive Government? Public Opinion and Policy Preferences in Britain and Denmark’, Political Studies 53: 379-402.

Hobolt, Sara B. (2005) ‘When Europe Matters: The Impact of Political Information on Voting Behavior in EU Referendums’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 15(1):85-110.