OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Electoral Studies is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	277
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	87
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	51
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	51
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	40
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	38
Editorial Board	34
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	33
Forecasting elections with October surprises	30
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	29
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	28
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	25
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	24
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	23
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	23
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	22
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	22
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	21
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	20
Editorial Board	19
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	18
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	18
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	18
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	16

Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	16
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	16
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	16
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	16
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	15
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	15
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	15
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	15
Editorial Board	15
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	14
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	13
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	13
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	13
Editorial Board	12
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	12
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	12
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	11
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	11
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	10
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	10
Free public transit and voter turnout	10
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	9
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	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 university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	8
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	8
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
Editorial Board	8
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	8
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	8
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	8
Does disability affect support for political parties?	8
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	8
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	8
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	7
Editorial Board	7
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	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
Editorial Board	7
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	7
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	7
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	7
Editorial Board	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	7
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	6
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	6
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	6
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	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
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	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 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 inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	4
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	4
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	4
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	4
Isolating the effect of compulsory voting laws on political sophistication: Leveraging intra-national variation in mandatory voting laws between the Austrian Provinces	4
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	4
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	4
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	4
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	4
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	4
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	4
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	4
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Transaction costs in electoral coordination: How turnout shapes changes in the number of parties*	4
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	4
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	4
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	4
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	4
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	4
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	4
The electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	4
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	4
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	4
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	4