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.” Under Review.

Emily Elia. “Corrupt but Competent: The Impact of Elite Performance on Corruption Voting in Argentina.” Under Review.

Emily Elia, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, and Sofia B. Vera. “Measuring Corruption Perceptions with Surveys: The Need for Better Instruments.” Under Review.

Emily Elia and Aksel Sundström. “Environmental Disasters, Gender, and Incumbency Punishment.”

Emily Elia. “Who Fights Corruption? Anticorruption Bill Proposals in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.”

Emily Elia. “Are All Competencies Created Equal? Gender Differences in Performance Voting in Argentina and Chile.”

Works in Progress

Emily Elia and Jana Schwenk. “Voter Accountability in the Face of Corruption: Gendered Perceptions in Electoral Punishment.”

Emily Elia and Jana Schwenk. “The Role of Voters’ Prior Beliefs in Electoral Punishment for Corruption.”

Emily Elia and Gustavo Guajardo. “Draining the Swamp: Political Outsiders and the Credibility of Anticorruption Appeals.”