OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Party Politics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea	37
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 De	30
The populist spiral: How populist rhetoric spreads within party systems	26
The effect of electoral performance on party renomination in national and independent local parties	25
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset	21
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project	20
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe	19
One foot in parliament, one on the streets: Studying the fluid relation between individual participation and party evaluations of protest	19
Leaders or parties? Practices of candidate selection in Western Europe	19
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-Rig	16
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present	14
Book Review: Small power: How local parties shape elections	14
Book Review: Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform	14
Unionist unity? Strategic voting at Scottish parliamentary elections	13
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties	13
20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues	12
Lost but not blown away: How do losers of party leadership contests react?	12
Book Review: A History of the People’s Action Party 1985-2021	12
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 pp	11
Determinants of government duration: Correcting for hyper inflating measures	11
Moral justification for misinformation: Evidence from a survey experiment during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign	11
Ambivalence across the globe: Investigating political ambivalence and its impact on vote switching in 52 multi-party systems	11
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 Universi	11
Different shades of leadership: A comparative assessment of leaders’ traits in explaining the vote for populist radical right parties	11

Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination	10
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties	10
Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions	10
The story of Party Politics (so far)	10
Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe: A comparative analysis of six countries	9
How green is my party? Programmatic stances towards environmental protection in Europe	9
Party primaries and turnout: Meso-level explanations	9
Within-country determinants of political party structures: Similarity-based analysis of Polish party statutes	8
Have populist right supporters’ views on refugee policy radicalized under the Ukrainian crisis? Evidence from a three-wave survey experiment	8
Delayed shock? How Brexit conditioned campaign effects in British general elections	8
It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium	8
Tales of the unexpected: Promissory representation in times of uncertainty and economic downturn	8
Ranking of candidates on slates: Evidence from 20,000 electoral slates	8
Book Review: Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs between Participation and Representation BolleyerNicole, Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs be	8
Non-mainstream left parties, primaries, and women’s winning chances in leadership contests	8
The effect of ruling party change and party ideology on participatory budgeting stability: Survivors and victims of local elections	8
Electoral mobilisation in turbulent times	8
Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism	8
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. ISBN	8
The two faces of issue polarisation and their impact on party competition in Western Europe	8
Polarising the Christian West: Us and them in far-right parties’ rhetoric	8
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: Extracting	8
Government partisans: A practical typology	8
Populist radical-right junior coalition partners and liberal democracy in Europe	8
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?	8
‘Void’ democrats? The populist notion of ‘democracy’ in action	7
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 Party	7
Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia	7
Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar’s National League for Democracy	7
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 governance	7
Book Review: Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe KluverHeikeBackHannaKraussSvenja, Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance	7
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR	7
The strategic ambiguity of the radical right: A study of the Danish People’s Party	7
Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	7
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	7
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right	7
Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–2020	7
Book Review: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Views From the Capitals	7
Book Review: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand	6
The relationship between local councillors’ representative style and their support for participatory democracy	6
How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?	6
Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment	6
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty	6
Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies	6
Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters	6
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 countries	6
Gender, perceptions of benefits and costs, and negative campaigning. Evidence from German candidate surveys	6
The party system effects of unstable electoral rules in Latin America	6

Populists in power: The limits of inclusion	6
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil	6
Negative sanctions don’t work (mostly): An analysis of gender quota sanctions in Africa	6
Representational gaps and movement institutionalization: Contrasting experiences of German Greens and PEGIDA	5
Trading economic for security performance: Shifting voters’ agenda during 2023 Turkish elections	5
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule	5
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 Au	5
Do two-party systems hamper defection from undemocratic candidates?	5
Which democracy do political parties want? The role of party personalism	5
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 o	5
Authoritarian strange bedfellows? European radical right parties’ positions on China: An analysis of roll-call votes in the european parliament	5
Partisanship, party systems, and understandings of democracy across Africa	4
Book Review: Dynamic partisanship: How and why voter loyalties change	4
Generation-based position taking: Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO	4
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right: “Reverse contamination” and the People’s Party’s environmentalism in Spain	4
Do new participatory rights attract more party members? Evidence from Germany	4
Book Review: Religious Voting in Western Democracies	4
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
When the party is over: How parties respond to electoral decline	4
The cost of compromise: How coalition participation shapes party membership	4
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 Union	4
The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: How parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them	4
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism	4
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 countries	4
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 Kris	4
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway	4
Party organizational resources and election campaigns: Explaining party contacting	4
Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution	4
Book Review: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics	4
Determined by place or party? Issue salience in local election manifestos	4
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections	4
Messaging both sides: Party leadership support for conflicting positions in the US House of Representatives	4
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	4