OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Electoral Studies is 17. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013–2017	119
Incumbency as a source of spillover effects in mixed electoral systems: Evidence from a regression-discontinuity design	111
Endogenous economic voting: evidence from the 1997 British election	105
Terror and elections: Lessons from Spain	96
The economy, corruption, and the vote: Evidence from experiments in Sweden and Moldova	82
Measuring party positions and issue salience from media coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators	81
Strategic coalition voting: Evidence from Austria	70
Poverty and vote buying: Survey-based evidence from Africa	70
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	67
Proportional representation and attitudes about politics: results from New Zealand	65
Do voters turn out more under proportional than majoritarian systems? The evidence from Swiss communal elections	60
Split-voting in the Federal Republic of Germany: An analysis of the federal elections from 1953 to 1987	59
Partisan mail and voter turnout: results from randomized field experiments	59
Internet voting and turnout: Evidence from Switzerland	56
Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal	53
From the Luxembourg compromise to codecision: Decision making in the European Union	53
Does the economy really matter for satisfaction with democracy? Longitudinal and cross-country evidence from the European Union	50
From voter ID to party ID: How political parties affect perceptions of election fraud in the U.S.	50
From Argentina to Zambia: a world-wide test of economic voting	45
Partisanship and confidence in the vote count: Evidence from U.S. national elections since 2000	44
How partisan affect shapes citizens' perception of the political world	43
Does voting rights affect the political maturity of 16- and 17-year-olds? Findings from the 2011 Norwegian voting-age trial	43
From ballots to bullets: an empirical assessment of how national elections influence state uses of political repression	41
Campaign spending effects in U.S. Senate elections: Evidence from the National Annenberg Election Survey	40
Ballot position and election results: Evidence from a natural experiment	38

Strategic coalition voting: Evidence from New Zealand	38
Evaluating partisan gains from Congressional gerrymandering: Using computer simulations to estimate the effect of gerrymandering in the U.S. House	36
Do conditional cash transfer programs shift votes? Evidence from the Honduran PRAF	36
How do citizens attribute responsibility in multilevel states? Learning, biases and asymmetric federalism. Evidence from Spain	36
Turnout in Germany in the course of time: Life cycle and cohort effects on electoral turnout from 1953 to 2049	36
Trust in elections and the institutional design of electoral authorities: Evidence from Latin America	36
Valence beyond consensus: Party competence and policy dispersion from a comparative perspective	35
Voting for women in nonpartisan and partisan elections	33
Does Election Day weather affect voter turnout? Evidence from Swedish elections	33
Does low turnout matter? Evidence from the 2000 Canadian federal election	32
Economic voting under the economic crisis: Evidence from Greece	31
Do impersonal mobilisation methods work? Evidence from a nationwide Get-Out-the-Vote experiment in England	31
The dynamics of aggregate political popularity: evidence from eight countries	31
The political participation of disabled people in Europe: Rights, accessibility and activism	30
Seven imperatives for improving the measurement of party nationalization with Evidence from Chile	30
Does globalization affect public perceptions of ‘Who in power can make a difference’? Evidence from 40 countries, 1996–2006	29
Popular evaluations of election quality in Africa: Evidence from Nigeria	29
From polls to votes to seats: Forecasting the 2010 British general election	28
Partisanship in non-partisan electoral agencies and democratic compliance: Evidence from Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute	28
The alternative vote and ethnic accommodation: New evidence from Papua New Guinea	27
Turkey's bid for EU membership, contrasting views of public opinion, and vote choice. Evidence from the 2005 German federal election	27
Ballot design and invalid votes: Evidence from Colombia	26
From political conflict to partisan evaluations: How citizens assess party ideology and competence in polarized elections	26
Democracy and the personal vote: A cautionary tale from Japan	26
Only conservatives are voting in the rain: Evidence from German local and state elections	26
Candidate effects and spill-over in mixed systems: Evidence from New Zealand	25
When do voters actually think “It’s the Economy”? Evidence from the 2008 presidential campaign	25
Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation?	24
Personality traits, political attitudes and vote choice: Evidence from the United States	23
‘Left behind’ people, or places? The role of local economies in perceived community representation	23
Incumbency advantage and candidate characteristics in open-list proportional representation systems: Evidence from Indonesia	23
Who you know: Local party presidents and minority candidate emergence	23
Resource disparity and multi-level elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Regression discontinuity evidence from Hong Kong	22
The effects of lawn signs on vote outcomes: Results from four randomized field experiments	22
Racial heterogeneity and the effective number of candidates in majority runoff elections: Evidence from Louisiana	22
Local candidates and voter mobilization: Evidence from historical two-round elections in Norway	22
The path from trade to right-wing populism in Europe	21
Campaign trial heats as electoral information: Evidence from the 2004 and 2006 Canadian federal elections	21
Where is vote buying effective? Evidence from a list experiment in Kenya	19
“Fake news” and the defection of 2012 Obama voters in the 2016 presidential election	19
Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994	19
Do voters affect or elect policies? A new perspective, with evidence from the U.S. Senate	19
Consideration set models of electoral choice: Theory, method, and application	19
Disengaging voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting?	19
Is referendum voting distinctive? Evidence from three UK cases	19
Who gains from apparentments under D’Hondt?	18
The effects of campaign finance spending bans on electoral outcomes: Evidence from the states about the potential impact of Citizens United v. FEC	18
Consociationalism and its critics: Evidence from the historic Northern Ireland Assembly election 2007	18
Responsibility attribution in coalition governments: Evidence from Germany	17
Presidential coattails and electoral coordination in multilevel elections: Comparative lessons from Brazil	17