OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Electoral Studies is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	68
Forecasting elections with October surprises	62
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	60
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	46
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	45
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	44
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	43
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	37
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	34
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	33
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	31
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	30
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	29
Who punishes the government? Income-based disparities in economic voting	28
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	28
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	27
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	27
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	25
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	23
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	22
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	19
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	19
Editorial Board	18
Assessing the impact of internet voting on voter turnout in the 2024 Russian presidential elections	18
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	17

The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	17
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	17
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15
Theories and measurement of political values and under-represented groups: the case of women in the UK	15
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	15
Threat of taxation and turnout of the rich: Evidence from danish upper house elections	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	15
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	15
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	14
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	14
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	13
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	13
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	13
Editorial Board	13
Ableist institutions and party selection processes: Exploring the political recruitment of disabled candidates	13
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	13
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	12
Winning incumbent mayors: Causal effects on local public spending, service delivery, and governance-related conflict in Indonesia	12
Free public transit and voter turnout	11
Do strategic voters have a strategic personality? Examining the role of machiavellianism in strategic voting	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	11
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	11
Greater intra-party democracy in candidate selection has different effects on gender, ethnicity and class	11
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	11
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	10
Does the measure of party system size matter with incomplete election returns? The case of Ireland	10
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	10
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	10
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	10
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	10
Corrigendum to ‘Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance’ [Elect. Stud. Volume 99, February 2026, 103037]	10
Emphasizing or downplaying political ambitions: Exploring the role of candidate gender in shaping voter perceptions	9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	9
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	9
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	9
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	9
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	9
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	9
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	9
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	8

Editorial Board	8
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	8
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	8
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	8
Editorial Board	8
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	8
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	8
The impact of youth pro-climate policy preferences on political support: evidence from salience shifts in Germany	8
Editorial Board	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
Fickle loyalties: Intragroup competition in open list elections	8
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	8
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	7
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	7
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	7
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	7
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	7
Childhood poverty and political participation: The role of family, gender and economic mobility	7
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	7
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	7
District protectionism: Public opinion on race, partisanship, and redistricting change	7
Protest and opposition parties’ election strategies	7
Editorial Board	7
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	7
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	7
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	7
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	7
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	7
Party organizational strength and voter turnout in authoritarian regimes	7
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	6
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	6
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	6
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	6
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	6
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	6
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	6
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	6
The rural-urban cleavage in US presidential elections: Stability and sudden change	6
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	6
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	6
Political violence and invalid voting: A case study	6
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	6
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	6
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	6
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	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