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

Article	Citations
Two-party competition in the United States: Reversed growth trends	34
Book review: Minority party misery: Political powerlessness and electoral disengagement	29
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea	28
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project	27
Erratum to “20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues”	26
Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties	23
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset	22
The populist spiral: How populist rhetoric spreads within party systems	22
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	20
Unionist unity? Strategic voting at Scottish parliamentary elections	19
Book Review: A History of the People’s Action Party 1985-2021	19
Book Review: Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform	18
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties	16
Book Review: Small power: How local parties shape elections	16
Book Review: The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics	15
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe	14
Co-partisanship with mayors, institutional performance, and citizen trust in local governance institutions: Evidence from Tunisia	14
Lost but not blown away: How do losers of party leadership contests react?	13
20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues	13
Mapping ethics self-regulation within political parties: Norms, oversight and enforcement	13
Why is progressive policy reform in Kosovo uncertain, despite the accelerated power shift to the left?	13
Leaders or parties? Practices of candidate selection in Western Europe	12
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	12
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
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	11

True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party	11
One foot in parliament, one on the streets: Studying the fluid relation between individual participation and party evaluations of protest	11
How green is my party? Programmatic stances towards environmental protection in Europe	11
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present	11
Book Review: The Danish Voter: Democratic Ideals and Challenges	10
Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination	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	10
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties: Longitudinal evidence from Norway	10
Moral justification for misinformation: Evidence from a survey experiment during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign	10
Ambivalence across the globe: Investigating political ambivalence and its impact on vote switching in 52 multi-party systems	9
Different shades of leadership: A comparative assessment of leaders’ traits in explaining the vote for populist radical right parties	9
Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe: A comparative analysis of six countries	9
Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions	9
The story of Party Politics (so far)	9
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
It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium	8
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties	8
Book review: Power shifts: Congress and presidential representation	8
Determinants of government duration: Correcting for hyper inflating measures	8
Non-mainstream left parties, primaries, and women’s winning chances in leadership contests	7
Government partisans: A practical typology	7
The two faces of issue polarisation and their impact on party competition in Western Europe	7
Within-country determinants of political party structures: Similarity-based analysis of Polish party statutes	7
Polarising the Christian West: Us and them in far-right parties’ rhetoric	7
Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism	7
Delayed shock? How Brexit conditioned campaign effects in British general elections	7
Book Review: Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs between Participation and Representation BolleyerNicole, Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs be	7
Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	7
Ranking of candidates on slates: Evidence from 20,000 electoral slates	7
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	6
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	6
The effect of ruling party change and party ideology on participatory budgeting stability: Survivors and victims of local elections	6
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?	6
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR	6
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	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
Tales of the unexpected: Promissory representation in times of uncertainty and economic downturn	6
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies: Evidence from Latin America, 1993–2016	6
Populist radical-right junior coalition partners and liberal democracy in Europe	6
Book Review: Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe KluverHeikeBackHannaKraussSvenja, Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance	6
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right	6
Electoral mobilisation in turbulent times	6
Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	5
Book Review: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Views From the Capitals	5
Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar’s National League for Democracy	5
The relationship between local councillors’ representative style and their support for participatory democracy	5
How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos	5
Book Review: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand	5
The strategic ambiguity of the radical right: A study of the Danish People’s Party	5

Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies	5
Why do voters vote for third parties in single member districts? A test of four strategic voting conditions	5
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty	5
Intertwined fates? Members switching between niche and mainstream parties	5
Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia	5
Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?	5
Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–2020	5
The party system effects of unstable electoral rules in Latin America	5
‘Void’ democrats? The populist notion of ‘democracy’ in action	5
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule	4
Gender, perceptions of benefits and costs, and negative campaigning. Evidence from German candidate surveys	4
Understanding how bundles of party reforms are shaped: A snowballing sequence in the French-speaking Belgian liberal party (MR)	4
Authoritarian strange bedfellows? European radical right parties’ positions on China: An analysis of roll-call votes in the european parliament	4
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	4
Do two-party systems hamper defection from undemocratic candidates?	4
From party programmes to climate policy: A comparative analysis of fossil fuel subsidy reform in OECD countries	4
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism	4
Populists in power: The limits of inclusion	4
Negative sanctions don’t work (mostly): An analysis of gender quota sanctions in Africa	4
Book Review: Fragile but Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015	4
Perceptions of opinion poll credibility: The role of partisan bias	4
Book Review: Religious Voting in Western Democracies	4
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right: “Reverse contamination” and the People’s Party’s environmentalism in Spain	4
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	4
Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment	4
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil	4
How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?	4
Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters	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	4
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway	4
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	4
Determined by place or party? Issue salience in local election manifestos	4
Partisanship, party systems, and understandings of democracy across Africa	3
Party organizational resources and election campaigns: Explaining party contacting	3
Book Review: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics	3
Beyond populism: The diversity of thin anti-establishment contestation in turbulent times	3
The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: How parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them	3
Do new participatory rights attract more party members? Evidence from Germany	3
Supply-side dynamics of parties’ group appeals: How dominance affects the choice between symbolic and policy-based appeals	3
Book reviews: Maurizio Cotta and Frederico Russo, eds. Research Handbook on Political Representation	3
Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle	3
Book reviews: Diminished parties: Democratic representation in contemporary latin America	3
Consequences of membership growth – the case of the German Green Party	3
Managing the grumbles: The role of intra-party dissent and leader domination on salience strategies in Western Europe	3
Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution	3
Book Review: Brexit Britain: The consequences of the vote to leave the European Union	3
Trading economic for security performance: Shifting voters’ agenda during 2023 Turkish elections	3
Which democracy do political parties want? The role of party personalism	3
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,	3
The cost of compromise: How coalition participation shapes party membership	3
Generation-based position taking: Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO	3
Identification with an anti-system party undermines diffuse political support: The case of Alternative for Germany and trust in the Federal Constitutional Court	3
Women in leadership in the party: Women’s representation in intra-party leadership and party positions on gender equality in employment	3
Not everyone suffers equally: The effect of electoral overlap on mainstream party responses to radical right parties	3
Australia: No party convergence where we would most expect it	3
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections	3
Book Review: Dynamic partisanship: How and why voter loyalties change	3
Messaging both sides: Party leadership support for conflicting positions in the US House of Representatives	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3
An election too far: Why do MPs leave politics before an election?	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
Book Review: Life in the Middle: Marginalized Moderate Senators in the Era of Polarization	3
Gender affinity effects between female voters and women leaders in parliamentary elections: Cross-national evidence (1996-2016)	3
Party responsiveness over time: From left-right to issue-specific dimensions	3
Prime ministers in waiting? Women leaders of the opposition in Westminster systems	3