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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	307
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	60
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	54
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	45
Editorial Board	43
Forecasting elections with October surprises	40
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	38
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	32
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	30
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	28
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
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	24
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	24
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	21
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	20
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	20
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	20
Editorial Board	20
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	20
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	19
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	19
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	18
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	18

Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	17
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	17
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	15
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	15
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	13
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	13
Editorial Board	13
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	13
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	12
Editorial Board	12
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	12
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	11
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	10
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	10
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	9
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	9
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	9
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	9
Free public transit and voter turnout	9
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
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	9
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	8
Editorial Board	8
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	8
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	7
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	7
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	7
Editorial Board	7
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	7
Editorial Board	7
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	7

The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	7
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
Does disability affect support for political parties?	7
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	6
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	6
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	6
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	6
Editorial Board	6
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	6
Editorial Board	6
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	6
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	6
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	6
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	5
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	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
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	5
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	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 electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	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