Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics,
University of Oxford

Publications
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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]
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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]
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Carella, L. (2022) ‘The British Elections of 2019: Not quite what you read in the press’, The Political Quarterly. [book review]
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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
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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.
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Predicting Candidate Preference Shares in Preferential-List PR Systems: A Logical Model of Intra-Party Competition
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The Effects of Higher Education Expansion on Political Cleavages: A Cohort-Level Analysis.
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Institutional Sources of Democratic Backsliding in Parliamentary Systems: The Role of Electoral Systems
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The Status of Status : A Review of Contributions to the Literature on Social Status in Political Science.

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


