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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	67
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	59
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	53
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	49
Forecasting elections with October surprises	40
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	40
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	37
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	34
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	30
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	29
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	26
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	26
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	25
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	25
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	24
Who punishes the government? Income-based disparities in economic voting	24
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	24
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	23
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	18
Editorial Board	17
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	17
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	16
Assessing the impact of internet voting on voter turnout in the 2024 Russian presidential elections	16
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15

The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	15
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	15
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	15
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	14
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	13
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	13
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	13
Editorial Board	12
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	12
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	12
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	12
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	12
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	11
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	11
Free public transit and voter turnout	11
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	11
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Ableist institutions and party selection processes: Exploring the political recruitment of disabled candidates	11
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	10
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	10
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	10
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	10
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	10
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	10
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	9
Corrigendum to ‘Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance’ [Elect. Stud. Volume 99, February 2026, 103037]	9
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	9
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	9
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	9
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	9
Editorial Board	9
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	9
Emphasizing or downplaying political ambitions: Exploring the role of candidate gender in shaping voter perceptions	9
Editorial Board	9
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	9
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	9
Fickle loyalties: Intragroup competition in open list elections	8
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	8

A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	8
Editorial Board	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
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	8
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	7
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	7
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	7
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	7
Party organizational strength and voter turnout in authoritarian regimes	7
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	7
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	7
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
Editorial Board	7
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	7
Childhood poverty and political participation: The role of family, gender and economic mobility	7
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	7
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	7
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	7
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	7
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	6
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	6
The rural-urban cleavage in US presidential elections: Stability and sudden change	6
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	6
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	6
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	6
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	6
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	6
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	6
Political violence and invalid voting: A case study	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	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
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	6
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	6
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	6
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	6
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	6
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	6
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	6
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	6
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	6