OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Party Politics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring populism worldwide	78
Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism	42
Bringing agency back into the study of partisan politics: A note on recent developments in the literature on party politics	37
Protesting Parties in Europe: A comparative analysis	26
Populist attitudes and conspiratorial thinking	25
Radical right parties and anti-feminist speech on Instagram: Vox and the 2019 Spanish general election	24
Many losers – One winner? An examination of vote switching to the AfD in the 2017 German federal election using VAA data	20
First avoidance, then engagement: Political parties’ issue competition in the electoral cycle	19
Electoral participation, political disaffection, and the rise of the populist radical right	19
Finding the bird’s wings: Dimensions of factional conflict on Twitter	18
Social policy outcomes of government participation by radical right parties	18
Strengthening ties: The influence of microtargeting on partisan attitudes and the vote	18
Do religious voters support populist radical right parties? Opposite effects in Western and East-Central Europe	17
Religion on the rise again? A longitudinal analysis of religious dimensions in election manifestos of Western European parties	17
Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy	16
Why democrats abandon democracy: Evidence from four survey experiments	14
Responsive versus responsible? Party democracy in times of crisis	14
Languages, secessionism and party competition in Catalonia: A case of de-ethnicising outbidding?	14
Populists in power and conspiracy theories	13
Do interest groups bias MPs’ perception of party voters’ preferences?	12
Depression and political predispositions: Almost blue?	12
Fellow travelers or Trojan horses? Similarities across pro-Russian parties’ electorates in Europe	12
The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany	12
Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships	12
Right populist parties and support for strong leaders	12

Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook	12
Whose bread I don’t eat, his song I don’t sing? MPs’ outside earnings and dissenting voting behaviour	11
Party (de)institutionalization in times of political uncertainty: The case of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey	11
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany	11
Who do the people want to govern?	11
Support for insider parties: The role of political trust in a longitudinal-comparative perspective	10
Leader or party? Quantifying and exploring behavioral personalization 1996–2019	10
Party membership, pre-parliamentary socialization and party cohesion	10
Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption: Evidence from six advanced democracies	10
Divide to conquer? Strategic parliamentary opposition and coalition government	10
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies	9
How challenger parties can win big with frozen cleavages: Explaining the landslide victory of the Servant of the People party in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections	9
Holding on to voters in volatile times: Bonding voters through party links with civil society	9
How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’ and the ‘European integration’ dimensions	9
Economic performance and electoral volatility: Testing the economic voting hypothesis on Indian states, 1957–2013	9
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties	9
Euroscepticism as a radical left party strategy for success	9
Just like the others: Party differences, perception, and satisfaction with democracy	9
Political parties and social groups: New perspectives and data on group and policy appeals	8
Lone organizers: Opposition party-building in hostile places in Tanzania	8
The importance of attachment to an ideological group in multi-party systems: Evidence from Israel	8
Cordons sanitaires or tainted coalitions? The electoral consequences of populist participation in government	8
Do party primaries punish women? Revisiting the trade-off between the inclusion of party members and the selection of women as party leaders	7
Political parties and campaign resource allocation: Gender gaps in Brazilian elections	7
Professional activists? Party activism among political staffers in parliamentary democracies	7
Populist positions in party competition: Do parties strategically vary their degree of populism in reaction to vote and office loss?	7
Women running the party and women running for Congress: An examination of state party diversity and candidate emergence in the 2018 midterm elections	6
Party footprints in Africa: Measuring local party presence across the continent	6
When do political parties listen to interest groups?	6
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	6
Inequality, policy polarization and the income gap in turnout	6
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism: Pro-dictator bias in ideology	6
Why the left has more to lose from ideological convergence than the right	5
The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography	5
Partisan bias in politicians’ perception of scandals	5
Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered	5
Is populism popular abroad? Evidence from diasporas around the globe	5
Partisanship and perceived threats about immigration	5
May’s law may prevail: Evidence from Sweden	5
The rise of the post-religious right: Christianism and secularism in the French Rassemblement National	5
Electoral incentives to coalition formation in multiparty presidential systems	5
Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19	5
The emerging fault line of alternative news: Intra-party division in Republican representatives’ media engagement	5
Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content	5
More free-floating, less outward-looking: How more inclusive candidate selection procedures (could) matter	5
‘Leaving the red Tories’: Ideology, leaders, and why party members quit	5
‘Sacrifical lambs’ or candidate mimicking? Gender-based nomination strategies in elections	5
Are candidates rational when it comes to negative campaigning? Empirical evidence from three German candidate surveys	5
The winner-loser satisfaction gap in the absence of a clear outcome	4
Candidate selection and ethnic minority aspirants: Exploring the effect of party selectors’ biases in a PR system	4

Party ideologies and UN debates	4
Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets	4
The influence of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream party behaviour: Is oppositional behaviour contagious?	4
Right-wing populism and territorial party competition: The case of the Alternative for Germany	4
What are we voting for? Opposition alliance joint campaigns in electoral autocracies	4
Elite clientelism in Nigeria: The role of parties in weakening legislator-voter ties	4
Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda	4
Blurred positions: The ideological ambiguity of valence populist parties	4
Protest at the ballot box: From blank vote to populism	4
High rejection, low selection: How ‘punitive parties’ shape ethnic minority representation	4
A nonpartisan legislative chamber: The influence of the Canadian Senate	4
Populist radical parties, pariahs, and coalition bargaining delays	4
Capitalized rallies: Why campaigns costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	4
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	4
The colors of ideology: Chromatic isomorphism and political party logos	4
Autocratic ruling parties during regime transitions: Investigating the democratizing effect of strong ruling parties	4
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	4
Servants of two (or more) masters: Accounting for the complexity of intraparty candidate selection methods	4
On the relationship between party polarization and citizen polarization	4
Contesting war memories: Parties and voters in contemporary Southeast Europe	4
Local political party presence online	4
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges	4
Policy preferences and party switching: Evidence from the 2012 Japanese election	4
Political parties and citizens’ well-being among non-democratic developing countries	4
Where do hawks and doves fly when shots are fired?	3
Determinants of a political party’s social media strategy: A comparative analysis of Tanzania’s opposition political parties’ Twitter practices	3
The janus-faced nature of radical voting: Subjective social decline at the roots of radical right and radical left support	3
Populism without host ideologies: A new home for voters with exclusionary attitudes in Italy’s Five Star Movement?	3
Is there clarity in ambiguity? A literature review of party positional ambiguity	3
Nomination trade-offs: How context affects political parties’ strategies to nominate immigrant-origin candidates	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3
Membership and participation in independent local parties: Patterns and explanations	3
Politically motivated interpersonal biases: Polarizing effects of partisanship and immigration attitudes	3
Parity or patriarchy? The nomination of female candidates in British politics	3
Affirmative gender equality policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Moving beyond the EU requirements	3
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform	3
Democracy within parties: Electoral consequences of candidate selection methods in Tanzania	3
Attracting tomorrow’s leaders: Who joins political youth organisations for material reasons?	3
Two faces of party system stability: Programmatic change and party replacement	3
Does party ambivalence decrease voter turnout? A global analysis	3
Populist party’s challenge to democracy: Institutional capture, performance and religion	3
Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics	3
Inferring party positions across issue dimensions	3
Partisan schism in America’s newest swing state	3
Transformational party events and legislative turnover in West European democracies, 1945–2015	3
Parties’ group appeals across time, countries, and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset	3
The road to European parliament mandate for populist radical-right parties: Selecting the ‘perfect’ AfD candidate	3
Gender bias in candidate turnover: A longitudinal analysis of legislative elections in Flanders/Belgium (1987–2019)	3
Who do Europeans want to govern? Exploring the multiple dimensions of citizens’ preferences for political actors in nine European countries	3
Perpetual scrutiny? Mutual control among coalition political parties in the executive and parliamentary phases of law-making	3
Sibling rivalry: Voters for radical left parties and their competitors in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands	3