OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties is 1. 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
Challenges in comparing cross-country responses in voting advice applications	128
Revisiting citizen preferences for who should govern and how. the case of cross-national surveys	63
Increasing turnout with a text message: evidence from a large campaign from the government	30
Federalism at a partisan’s convenience: public opinion on federal intervention in 2020 election policy	22
Using survey experiments for construct validation: “strong leader” questions and support for authoritarian leadership	17
Problem importance across time and space: updating the “Most Important Problem Dataset”	14
Last testament	12
Until another party do us part? Party members’ electoral disloyalty in Portugal	11
Pandemic primary: the interactive effects of COVID-19 prevalence and age on voter turnout	11
The neighbourhood effect in economic voting: the association between local unemployment figures and national economic perceptions and incumbent voting in Belgium, 2009–2019	10
Have heads cooled? Changes in radical partisanship from 2020–2022	10
An institutional safety net? How electoral institutions mediate the fortunes of parties under threat	10
A moving target? An analysis of the impact of electoral context on polling error variation in both British and international general elections	9
Pandemic politics: COVID-19, health concerns, and vote choice in the 2020 General Election	9
Productivity matters: legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability	9
Measuring the name recognition of politicians through Wikipedia	8
Predicting bloc support in Irish general elections 1951–2020: A political history model	8
When does knowing better mean doing better? Trust in President Trump and in scientists moderates the relation between COVID-19 knowledge and social distancing	7
Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico	7
Do disasters affect policy priorities? Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake	7
Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach	7
The personality is political (especially for populists)	6
Partisan endorsement experiments do not affect mass opinion on COVID-19	6
Mobilizing middlemen: the Conservative Political Action Conference and the creation of party activists	6
Mainstream convergence and challengers’ success: a comparative analysis of Southern and Northwestern Europe	6

Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: name-calling’s backfire effect on candidate evaluations	6
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes: the case of Chile	5
Too incivil to polarize: the effects of exposure to mediatized interparty violence on affective polarization	5
Elections in the time of covid-19: the triple crises around Malawi’s 2020 presidential elections	5
Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain?	4
Polarized perceptions: how time and vaccination status modify Republican and Democratic COVID-19 risk perceptions	4
Do incumbents gain from calling a snap election?	4
Illusion of knowledge: is the Dunning-Kruger effect in political sophistication more widespread than before?	4
Finally rising with the tide? Gender and the vote in the 2019 British Elections	4
Issue salience and affective polarization	4
On pins and needles: anxiety, politics and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election	4
The determinants of Trump's defeat in 2020: what if the COVID-19 pandemic did not matter?	3
The intersection of race and party: voter perceptions and candidate selection in U.S. Senate elections	3
It’s NOT the economy when people are dying: accountability for household economic and health outcomes during the pandemic	3
Voting in referendums increases internal political efficacy of men but not women: evidence from Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum	3
An every man, not for every woman: Nigel Farage and the radical right gender gap	3
Citizens’ duties across generations	3
Someone like you: false consensus in perceptions of Democrats and Republicans	3
Support for border security during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence on levels and predictors from eight Western democracies in 2020	3
Public health threats and political participation: evidence from Israel in the early stages of COVID-19	3
From populism to the “plandemic”: why populists believe in COVID-19 conspiracies	3
The rally ‘round the flag effect in third parties: the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The end of the all-male party? Voter preferences for gender representation in political parties	3
“Don’t worry, be happy (and the vote out the incumbent): economic anxiety and incumbent support”	3
Attitudinal polarization towards the redistributive role of the state in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis	2
Ideological extremism, left-right orientations, and invalid voting in two-round presidential elections in Latin America	2
Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
The distance between us: the role of ideological proximity in shaping perceptions of inter-partisan relationships	2
When the partisan becomes personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires, 1983–2019	2
What determines political trust during the COVID-19 crisis? The role of sociotropic and egotropic crisis impact	2
Bulldozing Brexit: the role of masculinity in UK party leaders’ campaign imagery in 2019 UK General Election	2
Voting against parties: populist attitudes, party supply, and support for non-partisan actors	2
High-traffic relational pledge collection: results from a pre-registered randomized controlled trial	2
Comparing stereotypes across racial and partisan lines: a study in affective polarisation	2
The effect of signing ballot petitions on turnout	2
A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world	2
Legalize cannabis? Effects of party cues on attitudes to a controversial policy proposal	2
Depressive rumination and political engagement	2
The cordon sanitaire: a social norm-based model	2
Accepting a party’s decision to (not) participate in a coalition government. Does the inclusiveness of the decision-makers make a difference?	2
When the rally-around-the-flag effect disappears, or: when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes “normalized”	2
The relationship between education and political knowledge: evidence from discordant Danish twins	1
The impacts of ideological polarization among political elites on citizens’ attitudes toward opposing-party supporters via an affective channel	1
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on support for the SNP and Scottish independence	1
A cruise-and-crash model of the cost of ruling	1
Gender and UK elections: the gendered dynamics of campaigns, leadership, voting behaviour and party platforms	1
When legitimacy drowned: waves of blame in the 2006 Swedish Parliamentary Election*	1
Replicating the discovery, scrutiny, and decline model of media coverage in presidential primaries	1
Is there a populist personality? Populist attitudes, personality, and voter preference in Australian public opinion	1
All (electoral) politics is local? Candidate's regional roots and vote choice	1

Shopping for a better deal? Party switching among grassroots members in Britain	1
Trust in political parties and ideological proximity voting in Europe: the role of trust in political parties as a heuristic mechanism	1
Perceived party differences, election outcomes, and satisfaction with democracy	1
Benchmarking the pandemic: how do citizens react to domestic COVID-19 conditions compared to other countries’?	1
Political predispositions, not popularity: people’s propensity to interact with political content on Facebook	1
District magnitude, electoral coordination, and legislative fragmentation	1
Issue salience and party competition in Southern Europe before and after the Euro crisis: the primacy of the economy holding back cultural issues	1
Millstone or means to succeed: party-brand value, intra-party competition and personal vote-seeking	1
Inconsistency of Americans’ opinions on free speech: evidence from three survey experiments	1
Are former rebel parties more likely to engage in electoral violence in Africa?	1
Born to run: where rebel parties participate in post-conflict local elections	1
The effects of journalistic intervention and falsely balanced reporting on support for voter ID law	1
Communicating democratic subversions to citizens	1
Do people vote to avoid disapproval?	1
The impact of local protests on political elite communication: evidence from Fridays for Future in Germany	1
Parenthood, employment, anxiety, gender, and race: drivers of non-compliance with lockdown measures	1
Candidate shortages and the electoral consequences for radical right-wing parties: insights from Sweden	1
Moonshots or a cautious take-off? How the Big Five leadership traits predict Covid-19 policy response	1
Looking around the neighborhood: how subnational electoral politics affects voters’ perceptions of parties’ positions	1
Fit for parliament: a new index of electability, assessing the electoral success of group-based parties	1
Is cancer treatment immune from partisan conflict? How partisan communication motivates opposition to preventative cancer vaccination in the U.S.	1
Clientelism and ideological competition: the impact on ideological overlapping	1
What’s on offer: how do parties appeal to women voters in election manifestos?	1