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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	375
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	59
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	53
Forecasting elections with October surprises	45
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	40
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	36
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	33
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	31
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	28
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	27
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	27
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	25
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	24
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	23
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	22
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	22
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	21
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	21
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	20
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	20
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	19
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	18
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	17
Editorial Board	16
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	16

Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	13
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	13
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	13
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	12
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	12
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	12
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	11
Editorial Board	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	11
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	11
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	10
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	10
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	9
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	9
Free public transit and voter turnout	9
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	9
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	9
Editorial Board	8
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
Emphasizing or downplaying political ambitions: Exploring the role of candidate gender in shaping voter perceptions	8
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	8
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	8
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	8
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	8
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	8
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	8
Editorial Board	7
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	7
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	7
Editorial Board	7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	7
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	7

Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	7
Editorial Board	7
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	6
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	6
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	6
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	6
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	6
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	6
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	6
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	6
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	6
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	6
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	6
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	6
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	6
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	6
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	6
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	6
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	6
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	6
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	6
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	5
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	5
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	5
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	5
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	5
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	5
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	5
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	5
Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization	5
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	5
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	5
Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns	5