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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective polarization in multiparty systems	214
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	187
Fragmented foes: Affective polarization in the multiparty context of the Netherlands	71
Affective polarization and the salience of elections	61
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	40
Do young voters vote for young leaders?	35
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	33
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	31
The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change?	26
Less is more: The paradox of choice in voting behavior	26
Modeling ideological polarization in democratic party systems	23
Dark necessities? Candidates’ aversive personality traits and negative campaigning in the 2018 American Midterms	23
Winning cures everything? Beliefs about voter fraud, voter confidence, and the 2016 election	22
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	22
Validating the feeling thermometer as a measure of partisan affect in multi-party systems	21
Does E-Voting matter for turnout, and to whom?	21
Policy congruence and its impact on satisfaction with democracy	20
Context matters: Economics, politics and satisfaction with democracy	18
The downstream consequences of long waits: How lines at the precinct depress future turnout	17
Negative personalization and voting behavior in 14 parliamentary democracies, 1961–2018	17
From opinions to policies: Examining the links between citizens, representatives, and policy change	17
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	16
Is small beautiful? Transitional and structural effects of municipal amalgamation on voter turnout in local and national elections	15
Partisanship & nationalization in American elections: Evidence from presidential, senatorial, & gubernatorial elections in the U.S. counties, 1872–2020	15
Vote choices of left-authoritarians: Misperceived congruence and issue salience	15

Young trendsetters: How young voters fuel electoral volatility	15
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	14
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	14
So thin it’s almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil	13
What explains the dynamics of citizens’ satisfaction with democracy? An integrated framework for panel data	13
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	13
Election turnout in authoritarian regimes	13
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	12
All-mail voting in Colorado increases turnout and reduces turnout inequality	12
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	12
Multiple meanings? The link between partisanship and definitions of voter fraud	11
The Europeanization of national elections. The role of country characteristics in shaping EU issue voting	11
Does party polarization mobilize or de-mobilize voters? The answer depends on where voters stand	11
The relationship between political attitudes and political participation: Evidence from monozygotic twins in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark	11
Sexism predicts favorability of women in the 2020 democratic primary… and men?	11
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	10
The political budget cycle across varying degrees of democracy	10
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	10
The Israel Polarization Panel Dataset, 2019–2021	10
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	10
The motivated electorate: Voter uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and ideological congruence to parties	10
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	10
Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice	10
An unjustified bad reputation? The Dark Triad and support for populism	10
Linking two levels of governance: Citizens’ trust in domestic and European institutions over time	9
Norms and rage: Gender and social media in the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections	9
Don't call me a populist! The meaning of populism for western European parties and politicians	9
The electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	9
There's (rarely) a new sheriff in town: The incumbency advantage for local law enforcement	9
How do voters perceive ideological congruence? The effects of winning and losing under different electoral rules	9
Gender differences in the impact of electoral victory on satisfaction with democracy	9
Communicating safety precautions can help maintain in-person voter turnout during a pandemic	9
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe	8
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	8
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	8
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Camps, not just parties. The dynamic foundations of affective polarization in multi-party systems	8
Do referendum results change norm perceptions and personal opinions?	8
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	8
One for me and one for you? The spillover effect of heads of lists on the presence and success of candidates of immigrant origin	8
Who has room for error? The effects of political scandal for minority candidates	8
Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity	8
Did you see it coming? Explaining the accuracy of voter expectations for district and (sub)national election outcomes in multi-party systems	7
Vote with your rabbi: The electoral effects of religious institutions in Israel	7
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	7
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	7
Do mayors matter? Reverse coattails on congressional elections in Brazil	7
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	7
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	7
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	7

Technocratic attitudes and voting behaviour ten years after the Eurozone crisis: Evidence from the 2019 EP elections	7
When the election rains out and how bad weather excludes marginal voters from turning out	6
Creating critical citizens? Anti-austerity protests and public opinion	6
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a polarized political system: Lessons from the 2020 election	6
Candidate authenticity and the Iowa Caucus	6
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	6
Voter reaction to legislator dissent across political systems	6
Education and voter turnout revisited: Evidence from a Swedish twin sample with validated turnout data	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
Negative partisanship among Independents in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections	6
Broad-appeal agendas: Issue diversity and the centre-right's electoral success	6
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	6
Rejecting representation? Party systems and popular support for referendums in Europe	6
Social trust and affective polarization in Spain (2014–19)	6
Voter perceptions of parties’ left–right positions: The role of party strategies	6
Negative voting and party polarization: A classic tragedy	6
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	6
Fight not flight: The effects of explicit racism on minority political engagement	5
Mind the gap(s): Winning, losing, and perceptions of electoral integrity in mixed-member proportional systems	5
Dynamic party system fragmentation	5
Why do central states accept holding independence referendums? Analyzing the role of state peripheries	5
The incumbency advantage in second-order PR elections: Evidence from the Irish context, 1942–2019	5
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	5
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states	5
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	5
Election type and the logic of pre-election violence: Evidence from Zimbabwe	5
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
Isolating the effect of compulsory voting laws on political sophistication: Leveraging intra-national variation in mandatory voting laws between the Austrian Provinces	5
Attitudes toward competing voting-right requirements: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	5
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	5
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	5
Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!	5
The glitterati government? Amateur celebrity candidates in American elections, 1928–2018	5
Economic conditions and populist radical right voting: The role of issue salience	5
Parties as pay-off seekers: Pre-electoral coalitions in a patronage democracy	5
Stability and change in party preferences: Evidence from Latin America	5
How to estimate the policy preferences of party supporters: Disaggregating data from voting advice applications versus modeling survey responses	4
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	4
Retrospective pledge voting and mistrusting citizens: Evidence for the electoral punishment of pledge breakage from a survey experiment	4
When the US far-right sneezes, the European far-right catches a cold. Quasi-experimental evidence of electoral contagion from Spain	4
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	4
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	4
Candidate appearance in campaign advertisements	4
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	4
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	4
Parties’ voter targeting strategies: What can facebook ads tell us?	4
Elections, competition, and constituent evaluations of U.S. senators	4
Racial attitudes & political cross-pressures in nationalized elections: The case of the Republican coalition in the Trump era	4
When populists win: How right-wing populism affects democratic satisfaction in the U.K. and Germany	4
Socialised to think in terms of left and right? The acceptability of the left and the right among European voters	4
Overlapping polarization: On the contextual determinants of the interplay between ideological and affective polarization	4
Model based clustering of political finance regimes: Developing the regulation of political finance indicator	4
The political phenotype of the disgust sensitive: Correlates of a new abbreviated measure of disgust sensitivity	4
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	4
Electoral incentives and distributive politics in young democracies: Evidence from Chile	4
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	4
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	4
America's first voter identification laws: The effects of personal registration and declining political party competition on presidential election turnout, 1880–1916	4