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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	289
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	90
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	54
Editorial Board	53
Forecasting elections with October surprises	42
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	40
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	36
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	36
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	32
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	30
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	29
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	27
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	25
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	24
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	24
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	23
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	23
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	22
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	21
Editorial Board	20
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	20
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	20
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	20
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	20

Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	19
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	19
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	18
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	17
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	17
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	17
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	16
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	16
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	15
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	14
Editorial Board	14
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	13
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	13
Editorial Board	13
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	12
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	12
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	12
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	12
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	12
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	12
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	11
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	11
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	11
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	11
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	11
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	10
Free public transit and voter turnout	10
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	10
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	9
Editorial Board	9
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	9
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	9
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	8
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	8
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	8
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	8

The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	8
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	8
Editorial Board	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
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	7
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	7
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	7
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	7
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	7
Editorial Board	7
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
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	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
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	6
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	6
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	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	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	5
Isolating the effect of compulsory voting laws on political sophistication: Leveraging intra-national variation in mandatory voting laws between the Austrian Provinces	5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5