OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Electoral Studies is 33. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013–2017	119
Incumbency as a source of spillover effects in mixed electoral systems: Evidence from a regression-discontinuity design	111
Endogenous economic voting: evidence from the 1997 British election	105
Terror and elections: Lessons from Spain	96
The economy, corruption, and the vote: Evidence from experiments in Sweden and Moldova	82
Measuring party positions and issue salience from media coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators	81
Poverty and vote buying: Survey-based evidence from Africa	70
Strategic coalition voting: Evidence from Austria	70
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	67
Proportional representation and attitudes about politics: results from New Zealand	65
Do voters turn out more under proportional than majoritarian systems? The evidence from Swiss communal elections	60
Split-voting in the Federal Republic of Germany: An analysis of the federal elections from 1953 to 1987	59
Partisan mail and voter turnout: results from randomized field experiments	59
Internet voting and turnout: Evidence from Switzerland	56
Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal	53
From the Luxembourg compromise to codecision: Decision making in the European Union	53
From voter ID to party ID: How political parties affect perceptions of election fraud in the U.S.	50
Does the economy really matter for satisfaction with democracy? Longitudinal and cross-country evidence from the European Union	50
From Argentina to Zambia: a world-wide test of economic voting	45
Partisanship and confidence in the vote count: Evidence from U.S. national elections since 2000	44
Does voting rights affect the political maturity of 16- and 17-year-olds? Findings from the 2011 Norwegian voting-age trial	43
How partisan affect shapes citizens' perception of the political world	43
From ballots to bullets: an empirical assessment of how national elections influence state uses of political repression	41
Campaign spending effects in U.S. Senate elections: Evidence from the National Annenberg Election Survey	40
Ballot position and election results: Evidence from a natural experiment	38

Strategic coalition voting: Evidence from New Zealand	38
How do citizens attribute responsibility in multilevel states? Learning, biases and asymmetric federalism. Evidence from Spain	36
Turnout in Germany in the course of time: Life cycle and cohort effects on electoral turnout from 1953 to 2049	36
Trust in elections and the institutional design of electoral authorities: Evidence from Latin America	36
Evaluating partisan gains from Congressional gerrymandering: Using computer simulations to estimate the effect of gerrymandering in the U.S. House	36
Do conditional cash transfer programs shift votes? Evidence from the Honduran PRAF	36
Valence beyond consensus: Party competence and policy dispersion from a comparative perspective	35
Does Election Day weather affect voter turnout? Evidence from Swedish elections	33
Voting for women in nonpartisan and partisan elections	33