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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside the Campaign: Managing Elections in Canada	59
Two-party competition in the United States: Reversed growth trends	43
Erratum to “20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues”	25
Book review: Minority party misery: Political powerlessness and electoral disengagement	25
The populist spiral: How populist rhetoric spreads within party systems	24
Avoidance and engagement: Do societal problems fuel political parties’ issue attention?	23
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project	22
Book Review: How personalist parties destory democracy from within	20
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset	19
On time and meaningful partisanship: Stability, strength, and sway of attachment to new parties	19
Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties	19
Party ideologies and UN debates	18
Are candidates rational when it comes to negative campaigning? Empirical evidence from three German candidate surveys	18
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea	18
Unionist unity? Strategic voting at Scottish parliamentary elections	17
Book Review: Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform	16
Book Review: A History of the People’s Action Party 1985-2021	16
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties	15
Co-partisanship with mayors, institutional performance, and citizen trust in local governance institutions: Evidence from Tunisia	14
Book Review: The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics	14
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe	14
Book Review: Small power: How local parties shape elections	14
Lost but not blown away: How do losers of party leadership contests react?	13
Circumventing coalition oversight in multiparty governments: Bill referral to parliamentary committees in the Finnish Eduskunta	13
20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues	12

Book Review: The modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97	12
Why is progressive policy reform in Kosovo uncertain, despite the accelerated power shift to the left?	12
Book Review: How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American Politics	11
Mapping ethics self-regulation within political parties: Norms, oversight and enforcement	11
Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions	10
Different shades of leadership: A comparative assessment of leaders’ traits in explaining the vote for populist radical right parties	10
Who votes for virtue? Religion and party choice in Thailand’s 2019 election	10
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present	10
Book Review: Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change	10
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	10
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	10
True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party	10
Leaders or parties? Practices of candidate selection in Western Europe	10
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	9
Ambivalence across the globe: Investigating political ambivalence and its impact on vote switching in 52 multi-party systems	9
Book Review: The Danish Voter: Democratic Ideals and Challenges	9
Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination	9
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties: Longitudinal evidence from Norway	8
How green is my party? Programmatic stances towards environmental protection in Europe	8
It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium	8
Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	8
Moral justification for misinformation: Evidence from a survey experiment during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign	8
Book review: Power shifts: Congress and presidential representation	8
Ranking of candidates on slates: Evidence from 20,000 electoral slates	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
Party primaries and turnout: Meso-level explanations	8
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties	8
Book Review: Independents in Irish Party Democracy	8
Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism	8
Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs between Participation and Representation BolleyerNicole, Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs between Partici	7
Within-country determinants of political party structures: Similarity-based analysis of Polish party statutes	7
The Battle of Ideas in the Labour Party: From Attlee to Corbyn and Brexit	7
Delayed shock? How Brexit conditioned campaign effects in British general elections	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
The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography	7
Non-mainstream left parties, primaries, and women’s winning chances in leadership contests	7
Government partisans: A practical typology	7
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	7
Tales of the unexpected: Promissory representation in times of uncertainty and economic downturn	6
Consider your companions carefully: How voters perceive (coalition) governments’ poor valence images	6
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR	6
Populist radical-right junior coalition partners and liberal democracy in Europe	6
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	6
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right	6
Book Review: Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe KluverHeikeBackHannaKraussSvenja, Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance	6
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	5
Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	5
Why do voters vote for third parties in single member districts? A test of four strategic voting conditions	5
Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar’s National League for Democracy	5
Book Review: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand	5

Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies: Evidence from Latin America, 1993–2016	5
Book Review: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Views From the Capitals	5
Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies	5
How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos	5
Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia	5
Populists in power and conspiracy theories	5
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?	5
Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?	5
Intertwined fates? Members switching between niche and mainstream parties	5
The strategic ambiguity of the radical right: A study of the Danish People’s Party	4
Authoritarian strange bedfellows? European radical right parties’ positions on China: An analysis of roll-call votes in the european parliament	4
Do new participatory rights attract more party members? Evidence from Germany	4
Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19	4
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil	4
Book Review: Fragile but Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015	4
How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?	4
Local political party presence online	4
Negative sanctions don’t work (mostly): An analysis of gender quota sanctions in Africa	4
Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment	4
Perceptions of opinion poll credibility: The role of partisan bias	4
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule	4
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty	4
Understanding how bundles of party reforms are shaped: A snowballing sequence in the French-speaking Belgian liberal party (MR)	4
The relationship between local councillors’ representative style and their support for participatory democracy	4
‘Void’ democrats? The populist notion of ‘democracy’ in action	4
Book Review: Religious Voting in Western Democracies	4
Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States	4
Political Parties Abroad: A New Arena For Party Politics	4
Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters	4
The influence of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream party behaviour: Is oppositional behaviour contagious?	4
The party system effects of unstable electoral rules in Latin America	4
Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–2020	4
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	3
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	3
The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: How parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them	3
Book Review: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics	3
Generation-based position taking: Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO	3
Party organizational resources and election campaigns: Explaining party contacting	3
Book Review: Lost on Division: Party Unity in the Canadian Parliament, Toronto	3
Book Review: Brexit Britain: The consequences of the vote to leave the European Union	3
Do two-party systems hamper defection from undemocratic candidates?	3
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism	3
Messaging both sides: Party leadership support for conflicting positions in the US House	3
Beyond populism: The diversity of thin anti-establishment contestation in turbulent times	3
Book review: A review of democracy without parties in peru: the politics of uncertainty and decay	3
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right: “Reverse contamination” and the People’s Party’s environmentalism in Spain	3
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:	3
Attracting tomorrow’s leaders: Who joins political youth organisations for material reasons?	3
Party statutes and party institutionalization	3
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections	3
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	3
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway	3
Trading economic for security performance: Shifting voters’ agenda during 2023 Turkish elections	3
From party programmes to climate policy: A comparative analysis of fossil fuel subsidy reform in OECD countries	3
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany	3
Supply-side dynamics of parties’ group appeals: How dominance affects the choice between symbolic and policy-based appeals	3
Book Review: Dynamic partisanship: How and why voter loyalties change	3
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3