OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Electoral Studies is 5. 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
Affective polarization in multiparty systems	160
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	144
Fragmented foes: Affective polarization in the multiparty context of the Netherlands	50
Affective polarization and the salience of elections	48
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	38
When parties go abroad: Explaining patterns of extraterritorial voting	36
Support for radical parties in Western Europe: Structural conflicts and political dynamics	33
Do young voters vote for young leaders?	26
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	22
The death of conservative Ireland? The 2018 abortion referendum	20
The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change?	20
Does party rhetoric affect voter perceptions of party positions?	19
Dark necessities? Candidates’ aversive personality traits and negative campaigning in the 2018 American Midterms	19
Less is more: The paradox of choice in voting behavior	19
Increased economic salience or blurring of responsibility? Economic voting during the Great Recession	19
Modeling ideological polarization in democratic party systems	18
Does E-Voting matter for turnout, and to whom?	18
Partisan in-group bias before and after elections	18
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	18
After Citizens United: How outside spending shapes American democracy	17
Validating the feeling thermometer as a measure of partisan affect in multi-party systems	16
Policy congruence and its impact on satisfaction with democracy	16
Measuring youth and college student voter turnout	15
Negative personalization and voting behavior in 14 parliamentary democracies, 1961–2018	15
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	15

Social identity and coethnic voting in the Middle East: Experimental evidence from Qatar	14
‘You Can't Always Get What You Want’: The effects of winning and losing in a referendum on citizens' referendum support	14
Context matters: Economics, politics and satisfaction with democracy	13
Election turnout in authoritarian regimes	13
The downstream consequences of long waits: How lines at the precinct depress future turnout	13
Partisanship, media and the objective economy: Sources of individual-level economic assessments	13
What are we missing? Explaining immigrant-origin voter turnout with standard and immigrant-specific theories	13
From opinions to policies: Examining the links between citizens, representatives, and policy change	13
Winning cures everything? Beliefs about voter fraud, voter confidence, and the 2016 election	12
Is small beautiful? Transitional and structural effects of municipal amalgamation on voter turnout in local and national elections	12
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	12
Vote choices of left-authoritarians: Misperceived congruence and issue salience	12
So thin it’s almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil	11
Rainfall, population density and voter turnout	11
How do coalition signals shape voting behavior? Revealing the mediating role of coalition expectations	11
Is there cross-national evidence that voters prefer men as party leaders? No	10
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	10
Ideological mavericks or party herd? The effect of candidates’ ideological positions on intra-party success	10
Young trendsetters: How young voters fuel electoral volatility	10
The Europeanization of national elections. The role of country characteristics in shaping EU issue voting	10
What explains the dynamics of citizens’ satisfaction with democracy? An integrated framework for panel data	10
Partisanship & nationalization in American elections: Evidence from presidential, senatorial, & gubernatorial elections in the U.S. counties, 1872–2020	10
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	10
All-mail voting in Colorado increases turnout and reduces turnout inequality	9
The political budget cycle across varying degrees of democracy	9
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	9
The relationship between political attitudes and political participation: Evidence from monozygotic twins in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark	9
Sexism predicts favorability of women in the 2020 democratic primary… and men?	9
When long-distance relationships don't work out: Representational distance and satisfaction with democracy in Europe	9
Random votes under compulsory voting: Evidence from Brazil	9
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	9
Linking two levels of governance: Citizens’ trust in domestic and European institutions over time	8
Does party polarization mobilize or de-mobilize voters? The answer depends on where voters stand	8
The motivated electorate: Voter uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and ideological congruence to parties	8
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	8
Do female legislators benefit from incumbency advantage? Incumbent renomination in a flexible-list PR system	8
How do voters perceive ideological congruence? The effects of winning and losing under different electoral rules	8
Communicating safety precautions can help maintain in-person voter turnout during a pandemic	8
Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity	8
Is there such a thing as a Muslim vote?	7
Gender differences in the impact of electoral victory on satisfaction with democracy	7
Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice	7
The status stratification of radical right support: Reconsidering the occupational profile of UKIP’s electorate	7
What tips the scales? Disentangling the mechanisms underlying post-electoral gains and losses in democratic support	7
The electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	7
Was there a ‘Youthquake’ in the 2017 general election?	7
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	7
Don't call me a populist! The meaning of populism for western European parties and politicians	7
Tremors but no Youthquake: Measuring changes in the age and turnout gradients at the 2015 and 2017 British general elections	7
Treated politicians, treated voters: A natural experiment on political budget cycles	7

There's (rarely) a new sheriff in town: The incumbency advantage for local law enforcement	7
The Israel Polarization Panel Dataset, 2019–2021	7
An unjustified bad reputation? The Dark Triad and support for populism	7
Confidence in an election authority and satisfaction with democracy: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of a failed election in Sweden	7
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	7
Voter perceptions of parties’ left–right positions: The role of party strategies	6
The more the better? Cumulative issue ownership and intra-campaign party switching	6
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	6
Voter reaction to legislator dissent across political systems	6
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	6
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	6
Multiple meanings? The link between partisanship and definitions of voter fraud	6
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	6
Floating policy voters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election	6
Education and voter turnout revisited: Evidence from a Swedish twin sample with validated turnout data	6
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	6
Who has room for error? The effects of political scandal for minority candidates	6
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	6
Do referendum results change norm perceptions and personal opinions?	6
One for me and one for you? The spillover effect of heads of lists on the presence and success of candidates of immigrant origin	6
Broad-appeal agendas: Issue diversity and the centre-right's electoral success	6
On the measurement of social class and its role in shaping white vote choice in the 2016 U.S. presidential election	6
Norms and rage: Gender and social media in the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections	6
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	5
Rejecting representation? Party systems and popular support for referendums in Europe	5
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	5
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe	5
Creating critical citizens? Anti-austerity protests and public opinion	5
Do mayors matter? Reverse coattails on congressional elections in Brazil	5
Vote with your rabbi: The electoral effects of religious institutions in Israel	5
Gender quotas and placement mandates in open and closed lists: Similar effects, different mechanisms	5
Isolating the effect of compulsory voting laws on political sophistication: Leveraging intra-national variation in mandatory voting laws between the Austrian Provinces	5
Parties as pay-off seekers: Pre-electoral coalitions in a patronage democracy	5
Did you see it coming? Explaining the accuracy of voter expectations for district and (sub)national election outcomes in multi-party systems	5
What is the impact of bilingual communication to mobilize Latinos? Exploratory evidence from experiments in New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia	5
Domestic migrants' responsiveness to electoral mobilization under authoritarianism: Evidence from China's grassroots elections	5
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	5
Public campaign financing and the rise of radical-right parties	5
Nationally poor, locally rich: Income and local context in the 2016 presidential election	5
Echoes of a fading past: Authoritarian legacies and far-right voting	5
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	5
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5