Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics,
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Publications
Carella, L. and Eggers, A. C. (forthcoming) ‘Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation’, British Journal of Political Science. May 2023 proof. Replication Files.
Carella, L. (2022) ‘The British Elections of 2019: Not quite what you read in the press’, Political Quarterly. [book review]
Carella, L. and Ford, R. (2020) ‘The Status Stratification of Radical Right Support: Reconsidering the Occupational Profile of UKIP’s Electorate’, Electoral Studies.
Raikes, L., Cox, E. and Carella, L. (2016) ‘State of the North 2016 : Building Northern Resilience in an Era of Global Uncertainty’, IPPR North. [policy report]
Working Papers
Who Runs for Higher Office? Electoral Institutions and Level-Hopping Attempts in Germany’s State Legislatures. Revise & Resubmit at Legislative Studies Quarterly. May 2023 version.
Predicting Candidate Preference Shares in Preferential-List PR Systems: A Logical Model of Intra-Party Competition. March 2023 version.
The Effects of Higher Education Expansion on Political Cleavages: A Cohort-Level Analysis.
Work in Progress
Intra-Party Sources of Electoral Reform in the ‘PR wave’ (with Klaudia Wegschaider).
Institutional Sources of Democratic Backsliding in Parliamentary System: Disproportionality, Fragmentation and ‘The Worst of Both Worlds’ of Electoral Systems
Context, Cohorts and Congruence: Immigration Salience and Voter Socialisation (with Francesco Raffaelli).
The Status of Status: A Review of the Literature on Social Status in Political Science.
Theses
Essays on Electoral Institutions DPhil thesis, Mansfield College (Oxford), Michaelmas Term 2022.
Do Campaign Rallies Matter? MPhil thesis, St. Antony's College (Oxford), Trinity Term 2019.
Who are the ‘Left Behind’? Undergraduate Thesis, University of Manchester, April 2017.
