Publications

Carella, L. and Ford, R. (2020) ‘The Status Stratification of Radical Right Support: Reconsidering the Occupational Profile of UKIP’s Electorate’, Electoral Studies, vol 67. [peer-reviewed article]
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]
Carella, L. (2022) ‘The British Elections of 2019: Not quite what you read in the press’, The Political Quarterly. [book review]
Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation: Measuring and Explaining Spatial Inequalities in the Descriptive Representation of Places in Parliaments. [with Andrew Eggers], Conditionally Accepted at the British Journal of Political Science. November 2022 version.

Work in Progress

Who Runs for Higher Office? Electoral Institutions and Level-Hopping Attempts in Germany’s State Legislatures. Revise & Resubmit at Legislative Studies Quarterly. November 2022 version.
Predicting Candidate Preference Shares in Preferential-List PR Systems: A Logical Model of Intra-Party Competition
The Effects of Higher Education Expansion on Political Cleavages: A Cohort-Level Analysis.

Institutional Sources of Democratic Backsliding in Parliamentary Systems: The Role of Electoral Systems
The Status of Status : A Review of Contributions to the Literature on Social Status in Political Science.

Essays on Electoral Institutions, DPhil thesis, Michaelmas Term 2022.
Do Campaign Rallies Matter? Evidence from the Five Star Movement’s ‘Tsunami Tour’ in the 2013 Italian Parliamentary Election. MPhil thesis, Trinity Term 2019.
Who are the ‘Left Behind’? The Status Stratification of UKIP Support. Undergraduate Dissertation, April 2017.