Research
Peer Reviewed Publications
Emily Elia. 2025. “Can the Fairer Sex Save the Day? Voting for Women After Corruption Scandals.” Political Behavior 47: 97-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09943-9.
Emily Elia and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer. 2022. “Corruption perceptions, opposition parties, and reelecting incumbents in Latin America.” Electoral Studies 80: 102545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102545.
Book Chapters
Emily Elia. 2024. “Corruption, Gender, and Elections: The Presence of Female Candidates on Party Lists After Corruption Scandals in Chile and Uruguay.” In Handbook on Gender and Corruption, ed. Tiffany D. Barnes and Emily Beaulieu Bacchus. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Working Papers
Drafts available upon request.
Emily Elia, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, and Sofia B. Vera. “Corruption, Partisanship, and Voting: A Survey Experiment during the Brazilian Presidential Election.” Conditional Accept at Survey Research Methods
Emily Elia. “Corrupt but Competent: The Impact of Elite Performance on Corruption Voting in Argentina.” Revise & Resubmit
Emily Elia, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, and Sofia B. Vera. “Measuring Corruption Perceptions with Surveys: The Need for Better Instruments.” Under Review
Emily Elia, Aksel Sundström, and Stephen Dawson. “Environmental Disasters, Gender, and Incumbency Punishment.” Under Review
Emily Elia and Jana Schwenk. “Expecting the Worst: How Prior Beliefs Shape Electoral Accountability for Corruption.” Under Review
Emily Elia and Jana Schwenk. “Gender, Policy Domains, and Corruption: Testing Stereotype-Based Electoral Sanctions.” Under Review
Works in Progress
Emily Elia. “Are All Competencies Created Equal? Gender Differences in Performance Voting in Argentina and Chile.”
Emily Elia. “Who Fights Corruption? Anticorruption Bill Proposals in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.”
Stephen Dawson, Emily Elia, and Aksel Sundström. “Climate Crises and Women in Politics: Evidence from Brazil.”
Emily Elia and Gustavo Guajardo. “Draining the Swamp: Political Outsiders and the Credibility of Anticorruption Appeals.”