Party Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Party Politics is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea37
Erratum to “20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues”33
Book Review: The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destory Democracy from Within FrantzEKendall-TaylorAWrightJ. The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destory De30
The populist spiral: How populist rhetoric spreads within party systems26
The effect of electoral performance on party renomination in national and independent local parties25
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset21
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project20
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe19
One foot in parliament, one on the streets: Studying the fluid relation between individual participation and party evaluations of protest19
Leaders or parties? Practices of candidate selection in Western Europe19
Book Review: Hate Speech and Political Violence: Far-Right Rhetoric from the Tea Party to the Insurrection NacosBrigitte L.Bloch-ElkonYaeliShapiroRobert Y.. Hate Speech and Political Violence: Far-Rig16
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present14
Book Review: Small power: How local parties shape elections14
Book Review: Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform14
Unionist unity? Strategic voting at Scottish parliamentary elections13
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties13
20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues12
Lost but not blown away: How do losers of party leadership contests react?12
Book Review: A History of the People’s Action Party 1985-202112
Book Review: Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections BoatrightRobert G, Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections. New York: Oxford Universi11
Different shades of leadership: A comparative assessment of leaders’ traits in explaining the vote for populist radical right parties11
Book Review: A history of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Parties TorranceDavid (2024) A History of The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Parties. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 290 pp11
Determinants of government duration: Correcting for hyper inflating measures11
Moral justification for misinformation: Evidence from a survey experiment during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign11
Ambivalence across the globe: Investigating political ambivalence and its impact on vote switching in 52 multi-party systems11
Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination10
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties10
Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions10
The story of Party Politics (so far)10
Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe: A comparative analysis of six countries9
How green is my party? Programmatic stances towards environmental protection in Europe9
Party primaries and turnout: Meso-level explanations9
Within-country determinants of political party structures: Similarity-based analysis of Polish party statutes8
Have populist right supporters’ views on refugee policy radicalized under the Ukrainian crisis? Evidence from a three-wave survey experiment8
Delayed shock? How Brexit conditioned campaign effects in British general elections8
It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium8
Tales of the unexpected: Promissory representation in times of uncertainty and economic downturn8
Ranking of candidates on slates: Evidence from 20,000 electoral slates8
Book Review: Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs between Participation and Representation BolleyerNicole, Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs be8
Non-mainstream left parties, primaries, and women’s winning chances in leadership contests8
The effect of ruling party change and party ideology on participatory budgeting stability: Survivors and victims of local elections8
Electoral mobilisation in turbulent times8
Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism8
Book Review: The 2021 German Federal Election CampbellRossDavidson-SchmichLouise K. (2023) The 2021 German Federal Election. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. £109.99 (hbk); £109.99 (pbk), XXIII + 444pp. ISBN8
The two faces of issue polarisation and their impact on party competition in Western Europe8
Polarising the Christian West: Us and them in far-right parties’ rhetoric8
Book Review: Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: Extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana SigmanRachel, Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting8
Government partisans: A practical typology8
Populist radical-right junior coalition partners and liberal democracy in Europe8
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?8
Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–20207
Book Review: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Views From the Capitals7
‘Void’ democrats? The populist notion of ‘democracy’ in action7
Book Review: The Art of the Impossible: How to Start a Political Party (and Why You Probably Shouldn’t). The Inside Story of The Brexit Party7
Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia7
Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar’s National League for Democracy7
Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?7
Affective polarization and the support for populist and technocratic governance7
Book Review: Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe KluverHeikeBackHannaKraussSvenja, Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance7
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR7
The strategic ambiguity of the radical right: A study of the Danish People’s Party7
Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government7
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania7
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right7
Book Review: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand6
The relationship between local councillors’ representative style and their support for participatory democracy6
How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?6
Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment6
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty6
Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies6
Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters6
Understanding how bundles of party reforms are shaped: A snowballing sequence in the French-speaking Belgian liberal party (MR)6
Divergence or nationalization? Voting across constituencies in four European countries6
Gender, perceptions of benefits and costs, and negative campaigning. Evidence from German candidate surveys6
The party system effects of unstable electoral rules in Latin America6
Populists in power: The limits of inclusion6
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil6
Negative sanctions don’t work (mostly): An analysis of gender quota sanctions in Africa6
Authoritarian strange bedfellows? European radical right parties’ positions on China: An analysis of roll-call votes in the european parliament5
Representational gaps and movement institutionalization: Contrasting experiences of German Greens and PEGIDA5
Trading economic for security performance: Shifting voters’ agenda during 2023 Turkish elections5
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule5
Book Review: Tunisia and Egypt after the Arab Spring: Party Politics in Transitions from Authoritarian Rule RestaValeria, Tunisia and Egypt after the Arab Spring: Party Politics in Transitions from Au5
Do two-party systems hamper defection from undemocratic candidates?5
Which democracy do political parties want? The role of party personalism5
Book Review: The roots of polarization: From the racial realignment to the culture wars O’BrianNeil A, The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars. Chicago: University o5
An election too far: Why do MPs leave politics before an election?4
Book Review: Brexit Britain: The consequences of the vote to leave the European Union4
The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: How parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them4
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism4
Book review: A review of democracy without parties in peru: the politics of uncertainty and decay Sanchez-SibonyOmar. Democracy Without Parties in Peru: The Politics of Uncertainty and Decay. London, 4
From party programmes to climate policy: A comparative analysis of fossil fuel subsidy reform in OECD countries4
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway4
Party organizational resources and election campaigns: Explaining party contacting4
Book Review: Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, Decline and Irrelevance since 1945 JefferyDavid. Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, Decline and Irrelevance since 1945. Liverpool:4
Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution4
Book Review: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics4
Determined by place or party? Issue salience in local election manifestos4
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections4
Messaging both sides: Party leadership support for conflicting positions in the US House of Representatives4
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation4
Partisanship, party systems, and understandings of democracy across Africa4
Book Review: Dynamic partisanship: How and why voter loyalties change4
Book review: The Power of the Powerless - How to Overcome a Crises and Defend Ourselves Against Fascism: Strategies Against Resignation and a Shift to the Right [Keine Macht der Ohnmacht: Wie wir Kris4
Generation-based position taking: Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO4
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right: “Reverse contamination” and the People’s Party’s environmentalism in Spain4
Do new participatory rights attract more party members? Evidence from Germany4
Book Review: Religious Voting in Western Democracies4
When the party is over: How parties respond to electoral decline4
The cost of compromise: How coalition participation shapes party membership4
Book Review: The political dynamics of partisan polarization SchmidtEric R.CarminesEdward G.SnidermanPaul M.. The Political Dynamics of Partisan Polarization, Cambridge, New York, etc.: Cambridge Univ3
Partisanship versus principles: A study of voter response to intra-party corruption allegations3
Youth representation in Latin American legislatures: Cross-national party-level evidence from the PELA project3
Parties’ group appeals across time, countries, and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset3
Issue ownership and government participation: Explaining parties’ issue attention at the subnational level3
Promoting gender equality or co-opting feminism? Comparing actors in the European Parliament3
Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle3
Gender affinity effects between female voters and women leaders in parliamentary elections: Cross-national evidence (1996-2016)3
Australia: No party convergence where we would most expect it3
Supply-side dynamics of parties’ group appeals: How dominance affects the choice between symbolic and policy-based appeals3
Donate to help us fight back: Political fundraising and toxic rhetoric online3
Preaching to the choirs. Political parties’ online targeting strategies in multi-party systems3
From movement to party: Analysis of the tensions between horizontality and oligarchy in Spanish municipalist platforms (2015–2023)3
Book Review: This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn ChessumMichael. This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity t3
Allocative claims and pork barrel politics3
Party responsiveness over time: From left-right to issue-specific dimensions3
‘When in Rome do as the Romans do’ or ‘Rome is for Romans only’? How the search for a classification of the Finns Party could clear a way through the taxonomical jungle of the European far-right3
Clear commitments and signals of support: The inclusion of Finnish parties’ electoral pledges in coalition agreements3
Women in leadership in the party: Women’s representation in intra-party leadership and party positions on gender equality in employment3
Consequences of membership growth – the case of the German Green Party3
Not everyone suffers equally: The effect of electoral overlap on mainstream party responses to radical right parties3
Book Review: Divergent democracy: How policy positions came to dominate party competition KrimmelKatherine, Divergent Democracy: How Policy Positions Came to Dominate Party Competition. Princeton: Pri3
The state of populism: Introducing the 2023 wave of the Populism and political parties expert survey3
Political violence and party system fragmentation in Mexico3
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists3
Putting their money where their mouth is: The gendered dynamics of central party financial transfers to local election candidates3
Why vote for an independent? The relevance of negative identity, independent identity, and dealignment in a pro-independent political environment3
Citizens’ awareness of electoral campaign pledges3
Party research and party support aid: Conflicting visions of how parties function?3
Book Review: Life in the Middle: Marginalized Moderate Senators in the Era of Polarization3
Identification with an anti-system party undermines diffuse political support: The case of Alternative for Germany and trust in the Federal Constitutional Court3
Managing the grumbles: The role of intra-party dissent and leader domination on salience strategies in Western Europe3
Prime ministers in waiting? Women leaders of the opposition in Westminster systems3
Book reviews: Diminished parties: Democratic representation in contemporary latin America3
Book Review: The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin2
Political communication on Facebook: Do populist parties send out more posts?2
In the gray zone: How representational deficit moderates the effect of openness on protest participation2
Book Review: Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy SmithJacob F. H., Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and 2
Book Review: Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-20192
A dynamic seat product model2
When do parties go digital? Examining the drivers of internal and external party digitalisation2
The emerging fault line of alternative news: Intra-party division in Republican representatives’ media engagement2
Book Review: The House that Fox News Built? Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News ArceneauxKevinDunawayJohannaJohnsonMartinVander WielenRyan J., The House that Fox Ne2
Leaking season: An analysis of the timing of media disclosures from party insiders in Sweden 2010-20242
‘Party position, electoral incentives, and attention to European Union issues in the 2019 European Parliament election’2
The experience premium and women’s nomination to local elections in South Africa’s African National Congress party2
Disaffected partisans who want a third party are just as polarized2
Electoral competitiveness and candidates’ preferences on tax increase: Evidence from Japan2
Book Review: Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation Matthias Dilling, Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation 2
Measuring intra-party democracy on a global scale2
Rationalities of conspiracy theories: A Weberian analysis of Turkish parliamentary debates2
Committee assignment patterns in fragmented multiparty settings: Party personnel practices and coalition management2
The worthy and the fallible: Framing the issue of state party funding2
Surrogate representation by parties: A cross-national perspective2
Democratic transition and party polarization: A fuzzy regression discontinuity design approach2
Book Review: Get In MaguirePatrickPogrundGabriel, Get In. London: Bodley Head, 2025, £25.00 (hbk), 480 pp.: ISBN: 97818479283752
Book Review: Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian nationalism and racism2
Ambiguity and vagueness in party competition2
The power of party to help voters overcome a participation obstacle in the United States2
Let the voters decide: Incumbents, opposition, and contested primaries in Argentina2
Right-wing populism and territorial party competition: The case of the Alternative for Germany2
Class differences in precarity and welfare priorities within Europe’s center-left coalitions2
Reduced incentives, reduced party unity: Evidence from parliamentary speeches2
Putin’s puppets in the West? The far right’s reaction to the 2022 Russian (re)invasion of Ukraine1
Book Review: Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions PallisterKevin, Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions 1
Identity, money, or governance? Explaining secessionist parties’ rhetorical strategies1
Radical or aligned? Assessing issue congruence between youth wing elites, parliamentary candidates and voters in Norway1
Majority ethnonationalist ethnic riot and protest in 18 European countries: Variable levels of vote salience1
Partisanship and science advice: Do the right prefer economists and the left social scientists?1
Legislative behavior in the French Senate: A new dataset from the Fifth Republic1
From strategic voters to strategic options: Recasting strategic voting for multiparty simple plurality elections1
Do experts and citizens perceive party competition similarly?1
From delegation to defiance: Voter support for party differentiation in coalition governments1
Who cooperates with whom? The role of day-to-day partisan cooperation in affective polarization1
Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey1
Digitalisation and political parties in Europe1
What does it mean to be pro-European? The case of the European centre-left and centre-right in Austria, Germany and the UK1
Anti-defection rules and party switching in the Italian Parliament1
State government control and partisan happiness1
Is there clarity in ambiguity? A literature review of party positional ambiguity1
Local political space: Localism, the left-right dimension and anti-elitism1
Party system nationalization, party centralization and legislative de/centralization in federal democracies1
Book Review: Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy1
Unpacking candidate selection in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Cameroon1
Book review: Review of party politics and the implementation of gender quotas: Resisting Institutions1
Party theory of parliamentary debate and the endogenous nature of parliamentary institutions: Theoretical implications from Japan’s diet1
The psychological partisan effect of electoral systems: How ideology correlates with strategic voting1
Book Review: Vigilante Islamists: Religious Parties and Anti-State Violence in Pakistan JoshuaT. White. Vigilante Islamists: Religious Parties and Anti-State Violence in Pakistan. Oxford University Pr1
PartySOME: A comprehensive dataset on political parties’ SOcial MEdia activity1
Opening the gates, keeping the guards: How intra-party democracy shapes Women’s access to party leadership1
How do new parties shape policymaking in coalition governments? Bill timing in the Czech Republic and Slovenia1
Book Review: Democratic Partisanship: Party Activism in an Age of Democratic Crises HermanLise Esther. Democratic Partisanship: Party Activism in an Age of Democratic Crises. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ1
What brings you to the party? Voter preferences on parties through policy and valence dynamics1
Sanitised or sterilised? A ban on donations to fully publicly funded political parties1
Converging to the mean? Moderating ideologies of far-right and far-left parties in government1
Corrigendum to “Common sense, populism, and reactionary politics on Twitter: An analysis of populist far-right common sense narratives between 2008 and 2022”1
This land is our land: Radical right parties and the environmental issue in Europe1
Book review: Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia: The Islamic revival party of Tajikistan1
A tale of conflicting principals: Candidate selection, party structure, and the politics of federal de/centralization1
Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies1
Environmental chauvinism? Explaining issue expansion among non-mainstream parties1
Book Review: Rationality of Irrationality: Political Determinants and Effects of Party Position Blurring1
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