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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Book review: Cartelisation, Convergence or Increasing Similarities? Lessons from Parties in Parliament; Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties	37
Assessing electoral coordination: A quasi-experimental design of changes in district magnitude over time	35
Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19	25
Populist radical parties, pariahs, and coalition bargaining delays	22
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea	20
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project	20
Book review: Minority party misery: Political powerlessness and electoral disengagement	19
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty	17
Politically motivated interpersonal biases: Polarizing effects of partisanship and immigration attitudes	17
Are candidates rational when it comes to negative campaigning? Empirical evidence from three German candidate surveys	16
Contesting war memories: Parties and voters in contemporary Southeast Europe	15
Do parties still shape policies in times of crisis? The impact of financial constraints on partisan policymaking in Italy (1996–2018)	15
Socialism across the Iron Curtain. Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945	15
On time and meaningful partisanship: Stability, strength, and sway of attachment to new parties	14
Book Review: Ideology and organization in Indian politics: Polarization and the growing crisis of the Congress party (2009–2019)	14
Book Review: The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin	14
Book review: The Party Politics of Decentralization. The Territorial Dimension of Italian Party Agendas	13
The New Party Challenge	13
Ballot spoilage as a response to limitations on choice and influence	12
The influence of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream party behaviour: Is oppositional behaviour contagious?	12
Book Review: Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan	11
Understanding how bundles of party reforms are shaped: A snowballing sequence in the French-speaking Belgian liberal party (MR)	11
Surrogate representation by parties: A cross-national perspective	11
Do party system parameters explain differences in legislative organization? Fragmentation, polarization, and the density of regulation in European parliaments, 1945–2009	11
Party system institutionalization, partisan affect, and satisfaction with democracy	11

Partisan distribution of ministerial portfolios in Asian-Pacific democracies	10
The digital transformation of party membership. How party members perceive online participation and adapt to it under pandemic circumstances	10
Book Review: The 1922 Committee: Power Behind the Scenes	10
How not to conduct a regression discontinuity design using a continuous measure of democracy	10
Cordons sanitaires or tainted coalitions? The electoral consequences of populist participation in government	10
The radical left and its political communication. An examination of the campaign activities of radical left candidates in sixteen Europe countries	10
Ambiguity and vagueness in party competition	10
Book Review: Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia	9
Book Review: Inequality After the Transition: Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Policy in Southern and Postcommunist Europe	9
Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties	9
Book Review: Keeping the red flag flying: The labour party in opposition since 1922	9
Book Review: Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960	9
Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics	9
Democratizing candidate selection: Controlled turnover in Botswana’s Bulela Ditswe primaries	9
Book review: Parties, Governments and Elites. The Comparative Study of Democracy	8
Institutionalisation of Political Parties: Comparative Cases	8
Servants of two (or more) masters: Accounting for the complexity of intraparty candidate selection methods	8
Who rules the deliberative party? Examining the Agora case in Belgium	8
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil	8
Does the party in power affect FDI? First causal evidence from narrow margin US state elections	8
Book review: Ideas of power: The politics of American party ideology development	7
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism: Pro-dictator bias in ideology	7
Sycophants in 280 characters: Using Twitter to measure the authoritarian sentiment of presidential advisors in Turkey	7
What explains party unity? A test of competing theories	7
Sibling rivalry: Voters for radical left parties and their competitors in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands	7
Book Review: The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers, and the Implosion of the Tories	7
PaReSoGo: Dataset on party representation of social groups for 25 countries, 2002–2016	7
Is populism popular abroad? Evidence from diasporas around the globe	7
Two-party competition in the United States: Reversed growth trends	6
Politicians are better at estimating public opinion when they think it is more salient	6
Avoidance and engagement: Do societal problems fuel political parties’ issue attention?	6
Party organisation and the party-delegate style of representation	6
Erratum to “20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues”	6
The Clientelisitic Turn in Welfare State Policy-Making: Party Politics in Times of Austerity	6
Party ideologies and UN debates	6
Social democratic party positions on the EU: The case of Brexit	6
The influence of COVID-19 on Mexico’s local party system	5
‘Sacrifical lambs’ or candidate mimicking? Gender-based nomination strategies in elections	5
From handshakes to texts: Voter contact in the 2020 and 2022 elections	5
The changing South in presidential elections	5
Party determinants of FDI: Evidence from governing party fractionalization in government	5
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties	5
Inside the Campaign: Managing Elections in Canada	5
Same but different? Explaining issue agendas of right-wing parties’ Facebook campaigns in the 2019 EP election	5
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule	5
Green electoral performance and national climate change commitment: The conditional effect of EU membership	4
Book review: Lawrence R. Jacobs, Democracy under fire: donald trump and the breaking of American history	4
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset	4
Book review: Centre-Left Parties and the European Union: Power, Accountability, and Democracy	4
Within-party mobility and economic performance in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from China	4

Competition, scandal, or ideology? A congruence analysis of Australian political finance reforms (1980–2020)	4
The power of party to help voters overcome a participation obstacle in the United States	4
To what extent do political parties utilize similar frames?	4
Blurred positions: The ideological ambiguity of valence populist parties	4
Corrigendum to Party membership and social movement activism: A macro–micro analysis	4
Populism and democratic attitudes: Comparing populist and non-populist candidates’ views on democracy and its alternatives	4
Book Review: Fragile but Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015	4
Parties, preferences and influence in legislative decision-making	4
Book Review: Envisioning America and the American self: Republican and democratic platforms	4
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present	3
A multi-stage and multi-actor perspective on intra-party competition: Introduction to the symposium	3
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism	3
Length of candidate lists and political careers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil	3
Book review: Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide	3
The why of candidate selection: How party selectors handle trade-offs between party goals	3
Book Review: The modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97	3
Do electoral candidates reflect or select campaign issues? The influence of electoral manifestos on online communication	3
Perpetual scrutiny? Mutual control among coalition political parties in the executive and parliamentary phases of law-making	3
Does party ambivalence decrease voter turnout? A global analysis	3
Book reviews: Data-driven campaigning and political parties: Five advanced democracies compared	3
Party statutes and party institutionalization	3
Book Review: Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian nationalism and racism	3
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties	3
From torches to trees: Political party logo changes and voter perception	3
Book Review: The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3
Partisans use emotions as social pressure: Feeling anger and gratitude at exiters and recruits in political groups	3
The winner-loser satisfaction gap in the absence of a clear outcome	3
Trajectories of the personal vote under open-list proportional representation: Evidence from Finland, 1999–2019	3
Book Review: Responsible Parties – Saving Democracy from Itself	3
The primary threat: How the surge of ideological challengers is exacerbating partisan polarization	3
The experience premium and women’s nomination to local elections in South Africa’s African National Congress party	3
Book review: Radical Left Voters in Western Europe	3
From “permanent opposition” to “power”: Anti-systemic parties in Turkey	3
Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States	3
Why do voters support niche parties?	3
The European Left and the Financial Crisis	3
Harmony and dissonance: Unveiling issue linkages between voters and parties across EU democracies	3
Personalization at different levels: Intra-party competition and preference voting in local elections	3
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe	3
Book Review: Financing the 2020 Election	3
Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook	3
Book Review: Hate speech and political violence: Far-right rhetoric from the tea party to the insurrection	3
Building democracy after war? Post-rebel electoral parties and the construction of stable party systems	3
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	3