Nick Clark

Research

My research centers on European Union politics, nationalism, political knowledge, and electoral behavior, with additional work on U.S. elections, voting behavior, and civic education through political science simulations.

Journal Articles

  • 2026 Roth, Laurence and Nicholas Clark. “Israel/Palestine and Campus-Wide Teaching-Learning Events: The Challenges of Affect, The Role of Intellectual Empathy.” Journal of Interreligious Studies. Issue 49: 125–139. PDF
  • 2025 Clark, Nicholas and Todd Makse. “Social Context and Local Political Knowledge.” Urban Affairs Review. Forthcoming. DOI · PDF
  • 2024 Clark, Nicholas and John A. Scherpereel. “Do Political Science Simulations Promote Knowledge, Engagement, Skills, and Empathy?” Journal of Political Science Education. 20(1): 133–152. PDF
  • 2021 Clark, Nicholas and Robert Rohrschneider. “Tracing the Development of Nationalist Attitudes in the EU.” European Union Politics. 22(2): 384–405. PDF
  • 2021 Clark, Nick, Jay R. Corrigan, and Matthew C. Rousu. “Herd Immunity at What Price? Using Auctions to Estimate What University Students Must Be Paid to Get the Flu Vaccine.” Preventive Medicine Reports. 23. PDF
  • 2020 Clark, Nicholas and Rolfe Peterson. “Exploring Nonvoting and Electoral Integrity in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 30(4): 401–421. PDF
  • 2020 Clark, Nicholas. “The Functionalist Paradigm and EU Support.” Acta Politica. 55(3): 388–407. PDF
  • 2019 Clark, Nicholas and Robert Rohrschneider. “The Relationship between National Identity and European Union Evaluations, 1993–2017.” European Union Politics. 20(3): 384–405. PDF
  • 2019 Curtis, K. Amber and Nicholas Clark. “Elucidating EU Engagement: Rethinking Dimensions of Supranational Participation.” Journal of European Integration. 41(1): 65–86. PDF
  • 2019 Clark, Nicholas and Todd Makse. “Local Media Tone, Economic Conditions, and the Evaluation of US Governors.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 29(1): 82–101. PDF
  • 2017 Clark, Nicholas. “Explaining Political Knowledge: The Role of Procedural Quality in an Informed Citizenry.” Political Studies. 65(1): 61–80. PDF
  • 2017 Clark, Nicholas, Gretchen Van Dyke, Peter Loedel, John Scherpereel, and Andreas Sobisch. “EU Simulations and Engagement: Motivating Greater Interest in European Union Politics.” Journal of Political Science Education. 13(2): 152–170. PDF
  • 2015 Clark, Nicholas. “The Federalist Perspective in Elections to the European Parliament.” Journal of Common Market Studies. 53(3): 524–541. PDF
  • 2014 Clark, Nicholas. “The EU’s Information Deficit? Comparing Political Knowledge across Levels of Governance.” Perspectives on European Politics and Society. 15(4): 445–463. PDF
  • 2014 Clark, Nicholas. “Explaining Low Turnout in European Elections: The Role of Issue Salience and Institutional Perceptions in Elections to the European Parliament.” Journal of European Integration. 36(4): 339–356. PDF
  • 2012 Clark, Nicholas and Tim Hellwig. “Information Effects and Mass Support for EU Policy Control.” European Union Politics. 13(4): 535–557. PDF
  • 2009 Clark, Nick and Robert Rohrschneider. “Second-Order Elections versus First-Order Thinking: How Voters Perceive the Representation Process in a Multi-Layered System of Governance.” Journal of European Integration. 31(5): 613–632. PDF

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • 2024 Clark, Nicholas and Tim Hellwig. “Cultural Outsiders, the Media and Views of Migrants in Europe” in Matthew Zagor and Kasia Williams, eds., From Borders to Pathways: Innovations and Regressions in the Movement of People from Europe. Australian National University Press.
  • 2021 Clark, Nicholas and John A. Scherpereel. “Turnover, Turnout, and Input Legitimacy in the EU” in John A. Scherpereel, ed., Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 2018 Sobisch, Andreas, John Scherpereel, Peter Loedel, Gretchen Van Dyke, and Nicholas Clark. “EU Simulations and Engagement: Motivating Greater Interest in European Union Politics” in Peter Bursens, et al., eds., Simulations of Decision-Making as Active Learning Tools. Springer.
  • 2012 Clark, Nicholas. “Explaining the Second Order Effect: The Role of Issues and Institutions in Elections to the European Parliament” in Susan Banducci, et al., eds., An Audit of Democracy in the European Union. European University Institute.
  • 2010 Clark, Nick and Robert Rohrschneider. “Second-Order Elections versus First-Order Thinking: How Voters Perceive the Representation Process in a Multi-Layered System of Governance” in Hermann Schmitt, ed., European Parliament Elections after Eastern Enlargement. Routledge. (Reprint of earlier publication.)
  • 2008 Hershey, Marjorie Randon and Nicholas J. Clark. “The 2006 Indiana 9th Congressional District Race” in David B. Magleby and Kelly D. Patterson, eds., The Battle for Congress: Iraq, Scandal and Campaign Finance in the 2006 Elections. Paradigm Publishers.

For datasets related to my research, see the Data page.