OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Party Politics is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Populist attitudes and conspiratorial thinking	32
Radical right parties and anti-feminist speech on Instagram: Vox and the 2019 Spanish general election	31
Finding the bird’s wings: Dimensions of factional conflict on Twitter	29
First avoidance, then engagement: Political parties’ issue competition in the electoral cycle	26
Electoral participation, political disaffection, and the rise of the populist radical right	22
Do religious voters support populist radical right parties? Opposite effects in Western and East-Central Europe	21
Populists in power and conspiracy theories	20
Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook	19
Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption: Evidence from six advanced democracies	18
Who do the people want to govern?	18
Why democrats abandon democracy: Evidence from four survey experiments	18
Languages, secessionism and party competition in Catalonia: A case of de-ethnicising outbidding?	17
Fellow travelers or Trojan horses? Similarities across pro-Russian parties’ electorates in Europe	17
The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany	15
Leader or party? Quantifying and exploring behavioral personalization 1996–2019	15
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany	13
Just like the others: Party differences, perception, and satisfaction with democracy	13
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies	12
Whose bread I don’t eat, his song I don’t sing? MPs’ outside earnings and dissenting voting behaviour	12
The importance of attachment to an ideological group in multi-party systems: Evidence from Israel	12
Euroscepticism as a radical left party strategy for success	12
Do interest groups bias MPs’ perception of party voters’ preferences?	12
Populist positions in party competition: Do parties strategically vary their degree of populism in reaction to vote and office loss?	12
Party membership, pre-parliamentary socialization and party cohesion	12
How challenger parties can win big with frozen cleavages: Explaining the landslide victory of the Servant of the People party in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections	11

Divide to conquer? Strategic parliamentary opposition and coalition government	11
Support for insider parties: The role of political trust in a longitudinal-comparative perspective	11
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties	10
Lone organizers: Opposition party-building in hostile places in Tanzania	10
Holding on to voters in volatile times: Bonding voters through party links with civil society	10
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	10
How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’ and the ‘European integration’ dimensions	9
Party footprints in Africa: Measuring local party presence across the continent	9
Who do Europeans want to govern? Exploring the multiple dimensions of citizens’ preferences for political actors in nine European countries	9
The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography	9
Cordons sanitaires or tainted coalitions? The electoral consequences of populist participation in government	9
What are we voting for? Opposition alliance joint campaigns in electoral autocracies	8
Blurred positions: The ideological ambiguity of valence populist parties	8
Political parties and campaign resource allocation: Gender gaps in Brazilian elections	8
Professional activists? Party activism among political staffers in parliamentary democracies	8
When do political parties listen to interest groups?	8
Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19	8
Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets	7
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies: Evidence from Latin America, 1993–2016	7
Do party primaries punish women? Revisiting the trade-off between the inclusion of party members and the selection of women as party leaders	7
Is populism popular abroad? Evidence from diasporas around the globe	7
The emerging fault line of alternative news: Intra-party division in Republican representatives’ media engagement	7
Elite clientelism in Nigeria: The role of parties in weakening legislator-voter ties	7
Populist radical parties, pariahs, and coalition bargaining delays	7
Inequality, policy polarization and the income gap in turnout	7
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	7
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism: Pro-dictator bias in ideology	7
The rise of the post-religious right: Christianism and secularism in the French Rassemblement National	6
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties	6
Servants of two (or more) masters: Accounting for the complexity of intraparty candidate selection methods	6
On the relationship between party polarization and citizen polarization	6
Populism without host ideologies: A new home for voters with exclusionary attitudes in Italy’s Five Star Movement?	6
Putin’s puppets in the West? The far right’s reaction to the 2022 Russian (re)invasion of Ukraine	6
The winner-loser satisfaction gap in the absence of a clear outcome	6
Party ideologies and UN debates	6
Why the left has more to lose from ideological convergence than the right	6
Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content	6
The colors of ideology: Chromatic isomorphism and political party logos	6
Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered	6
Are candidates rational when it comes to negative campaigning? Empirical evidence from three German candidate surveys	6
Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference	6
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform	5
Partisan bias in politicians’ perception of scandals	5
Does party ambivalence decrease voter turnout? A global analysis	5
‘Sacrifical lambs’ or candidate mimicking? Gender-based nomination strategies in elections	5
Protest at the ballot box: From blank vote to populism	5
Multi-level political change: Assessing electoral volatility in 58 European regions (1993-2022)	5
May’s law may prevail: Evidence from Sweden	5
Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda	5
High rejection, low selection: How ‘punitive parties’ shape ethnic minority representation	5

Parties’ group appeals across time, countries, and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset	5
The janus-faced nature of radical voting: Subjective social decline at the roots of radical right and radical left support	5
Autocratic ruling parties during regime transitions: Investigating the democratizing effect of strong ruling parties	5
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	5
Ballot spoilage as a response to limitations on choice and influence	5
Right-wing populism and territorial party competition: The case of the Alternative for Germany	4
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	4
The primary threat: How the surge of ideological challengers is exacerbating partisan polarization	4
Contesting war memories: Parties and voters in contemporary Southeast Europe	4
Local political party presence online	4
Identity, money, or governance? Explaining secessionist parties’ rhetorical strategies	4
The influence of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream party behaviour: Is oppositional behaviour contagious?	4
Parity or patriarchy? The nomination of female candidates in British politics	4
Candidate selection and ethnic minority aspirants: Exploring the effect of party selectors’ biases in a PR system	4
Attracting tomorrow’s leaders: Who joins political youth organisations for material reasons?	4
Avoidance and engagement: Do societal problems fuel political parties’ issue attention?	4
Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics	3
Sibling rivalry: Voters for radical left parties and their competitors in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands	3
Party structures and organization building in Africa	3
Partisanship and science advice: Do the right prefer economists and the left social scientists?	3
Democracy within parties: Electoral consequences of candidate selection methods in Tanzania	3
Electoral competition and the party politics of public investments	3
Is there clarity in ambiguity? A literature review of party positional ambiguity	3
Non-linear agenda-building: The impacts of media storms during the 2015 Canadian election	3
Nomination trade-offs: How context affects political parties’ strategies to nominate immigrant-origin candidates	3
Membership and participation in independent local parties: Patterns and explanations	3
Do party system parameters explain differences in legislative organization? Fragmentation, polarization, and the density of regulation in European parliaments, 1945–2009	3
Determinants of a political party’s social media strategy: A comparative analysis of Tanzania’s opposition political parties’ Twitter practices	3
Partisan schism in America’s newest swing state	3
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?	3
Riot in the party? Voter registrations in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 capitol insurrection	3
The road to European parliament mandate for populist radical-right parties: Selecting the ‘perfect’ AfD candidate	3
Gender bias in candidate turnover: A longitudinal analysis of legislative elections in Flanders/Belgium (1987–2019)	3
Perpetual scrutiny? Mutual control among coalition political parties in the executive and parliamentary phases of law-making	3
Discrimination by politicians against religious minorities: Experimental evidence from the UK	3
On time and meaningful partisanship: Stability, strength, and sway of attachment to new parties	3
Are they different? A comparative study of European populist party members	3
Let the voters decide: Incumbents, opposition, and contested primaries in Argentina	3
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right	3
Common sense justice? Comparing populist and mainstream right positions on law and order in 24 countries	3
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties: Longitudinal evidence from Norway	3
Class voting for radical-left parties in Western Europe: The libertarian versus authoritarian class trade-off	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3