Publications

2026 Compensation, beliefs in state intervention, and support for the energy transition Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 9 2026 Conditional Humanitarianism: Citizen Preferences for Economic Sanctions in Democratic Sender States Isabela Mares · Government and Opposition · Scholar only — 2026 Defending parliament responses of mainstream parties to parliamentary erosion Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 2 2026 Electoral Rules, Programmatic Competition, and Redistribution: Evidence From Interwar France Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only — 2023 Electoral Malfeasance in Historical Political Economy Isabela Mares · The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy · Scholar only — 2023 Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism Isabela Mares · Political Science Research and Methods · Scholar only 5 2022 Protecting the ballot: How first-wave democracies ended electoral corruption Isabela Mares · Princeton University Press · Scholar only 16 2021 Macroeconomic outcomes Isabela Mares · Scholar only 26 2021 Pre-Analysis-Plan; Energy Policy Preferences and Compensation Policies in Germany Isabela Mares · Scholar only — 2020 Distributional Confl icts in Mature Welfare States Isabela Mares · Divide and Deal · Scholar only 1 2020 Fiscal innovation in nondemocratic regimes: Elites and the adoption of the Prussian income taxes of the 1890s Isabela Mares · Explorations in Economic History · Scholar only 74 2020 Voting for the lesser evil: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Romania Isabela Mares · Political Science Research and Methods · Scholar only 64 2019 Clientelism and voter mobilization: The impact of positive and negative inducements Isabela Mares · Scholar only 4 2019 Conditionality & coercion: Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe Isabela Mares · Oxford University Press · Scholar only 162 2019 Varieties of clientelism in Hungarian elections Isabela Mares · Comparative Politics · Scholar only 60 2018 Economic intimidation in contemporary elections: Evidence from Romania and Bulgaria Isabela Mares · Government and Opposition · Scholar only 59 2018 Menus of Electoral Irregularities: Imperial German National Elections in a Comparative Perspective Isabela Mares · Geschichte und Gesellschaft · Scholar only 4 2018 The core voter’s curse: Clientelistic threats and promises in Hungarian elections Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 120 2017 A Discussion of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels' Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government Isabela Mares · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 2 2017 Elections and Responsive Government: A Discussion of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels'" Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government" Isabela Mares · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2017 Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. By Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 254p. 29.99 paper. Isabela Mares · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2017 Pressure, favours, and vote-buying: Experimental evidence from Romania and Bulgaria Isabela Mares · Europe-Asia Studies · Scholar only 24 2017 Response to David J. Samuels and Ben W. Ansell’s review of From Open Secrets to Secret Voting: Democratic Electoral Reforms and Voter Autonomy Isabela Mares · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2017 Unfinished business: The democratization of electoral practices in Britain and Germany Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 17 2016 Buying, expropriating, and stealing votes Isabela Mares · Annual Review of Political Science · Scholar only 348 2016 Income tax was not the result of democratisation, and governments should take note Isabela Mares · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · Scholar only — 2015 Explaining the “return of the state” in middle-income countries: employment vulnerability, income, and preferences for social protection in Latin America Isabela Mares · Politics & Society · Scholar only 95 2015 From Open Secrets to Secret Ballots: The Adoption of Political Reforms Protecting Electoral Autonomy Isabela Mares · Öffentlicher Vortrag am MPIfG · Scholar only — 2015 From open secrets to secret voting: democratic autonomy and electoral reform Isabela Mares · New York: Cambridge University Press · Scholar only 184 2015 The Non-Democratic Origins of Income Taxation Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 203 2015 The production of electoral intimidation: Economic and political incentives Isabela Mares · Comparative Politics · Scholar only 50 2014 Labor shortages, rural inequality, and democratization Isabela Mares · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 47 2014 The adoption of proportional representation Isabela Mares · The Journal of Politics · Scholar only 103 2013 Coalitional Realignment and the Adoption of Non-Contributory Social Insurance Programs in Latin America Isabela Mares · Socio-Economic Review · Scholar only 118 2013 Measuring the individual-level determinants of social insurance preferences: survey evidence from the 2008 Argentine pension nationalization Isabela Mares · Latin American Research Review · Scholar only 33 2013 Online Appendix for The Adoption of Proportional Representation–One Phenomenon and a Plethora of Explanations Isabela Mares · Scholar only — 2011 Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes1 Isabela Mares · Scholar only — 2010 Macroeconomic Outcomes,[w:] FG Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger, Ch. Pierson Isabela Mares · The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State · Scholar only 1 2009 Social policy in developing countries Isabela Mares · Annual review of political science · Scholar only 484 2009 The comparative political economy of the welfare state Isabela Mares · Comparative politics: rationality, culture, and structure · Scholar only 15 2009 The welfare state in global perspective Isabela Mares · Scholar only 71 2007 The economic consequences of the welfare state Isabela Mares · International Social Security Review · Scholar only 63 2007 The great divergence in social protection Isabela Mares · Comp. Polit. Sem., Princeton Univ · Scholar only 6 2006 Taxation, wage bargaining, and unemployment Isabela Mares · Cambridge University Press · Scholar only 192 2005 Social protection around the world: External insecurity, state capacity, and domestic political cleavages Isabela Mares · Comparative political studies · Scholar only 177 2004 Economic insecurity and social policy expansion: Evidence from interwar Europe Isabela Mares · International Organization · Scholar only 66 2004 Strategic bargaining and social policy development: unemployment insurance in: Unemployment insurance in France and Germany Isabela Mares · Comparing Welfare Capitalism · Scholar only 28 2004 Wage bargaining in the presence of social services and transfers Isabela Mares · World Politics · Scholar only 35 2004 Warum die Wirtschaft den Sozialstaat braucht: ein historischer Ländervergleich Isabela Mares · Scholar only 13 2003 Politics of Social Risk Isabela Mares · Cambridge University Press · Scholar only 958