OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes: the case of Chile	26
Increasing turnout with a text message: evidence from a large campaign from the government	13
Challenges in comparing cross-country responses in voting advice applications	12
Revisiting citizen preferences for who should govern and how. the case of cross-national surveys	12
Predicting bloc support in Irish general elections 1951–2020: A political history model	11
“Don’t worry, be happy (and the vote out the incumbent): economic anxiety and incumbent support”	10
Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico	10
Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic	10
A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world	8
Disinformation claims and public opinion: evidence from a survey experiment in Georgia	7
In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan's depopulating regions	7
Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans	6
Accidental knowledge: passive gains in political knowledge and electoral accountability	6
Voting across borders? The electoral consequences of individual transnationalism	6
Affective polarization and strategic voting in Britain	6
Communicating democratic subversions to citizens	6
Conspiracy mindset and anti-Americanism: the Turkish case	5
Social conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context	5
Are protests contagious? The dynamics of temporal and spatial diffusion of political protests	5
Explaining the educational divide in electoral behaviour: testing direct and indirect effects from British elections and referendums 2016–2019	5
Populists without parties: are left-wing and right-wing populists in Quebec disengaged citizens?	4
Re-examining the EU Referendum vote: right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation as indirect trait-level motivation	4
Too much of a good thing? Longer ballots reduce voter participation	4
Support for the use of military force to prevent secession: the case of Scottish independence	4
Elections with candidate filtering and two mechanisms of demobilization effect: the prologue to Hong Kong’s authoritarian turn	4

Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: name-calling’s backfire effect on candidate evaluations	3
Are some parties immune from scandal? Party family, scandal exposure, and party evaluation	3
Issue salience and affective polarization	3
The cordon sanitaire: a social norm-based model	3
All (electoral) politics is local? Candidate's regional roots and vote choice	3
Productivity matters: legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability	3
Reverse influence: the social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election	3
The impacts of ideological polarization among political elites on citizens’ attitudes toward opposing-party supporters via an affective channel	2
Economic forecasts and executive approval	2
Turnout, government performance and localism in contemporary by-elections	2
Policy mood and thermostatic representation in developing democracies: taking the temperature in Uruguay	2
“Paradox of gender quotas”: an experiment	2
Beyond engagement: demographic, temporal, and topic variation in misinformation exposure on Facebook across European media systemic regions	2
When legitimacy drowned: waves of blame in the 2006 Swedish Parliamentary Election*	2
Features of disinformation: an expert interview study on the perception of disinformation among political, governmental, media and business elites in Germany	2
The veteran advantage: the impact of previous military service on electoral performance in the United States	2
The space between: how ideological similarity limits the effectiveness of ambiguity	2
Do all-women shortlists produce more active parliamentarians? A comparison of the parliamentary activity of quota and open-list Labour women MPs from 2005 to 2017	2
Perceived party differences, election outcomes, and satisfaction with democracy	2
Extreme recall: which politicians come to mind?	2
Demystifying the dynamics of China’s overseas image with a large-scale social media dataset	2
The worse, the better? The daily incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the rally effects it fostered	2
Concerns about misinformation on Instagram in five countries	1
Don’t blame the messenger? An assessment of public regulations announcements and support for the governing party and the public policy	1
Depressive rumination and political engagement	1
On pins and needles: anxiety, politics and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election	1
Mainstream convergence and challengers’ success: a comparative analysis of Southern and Northwestern Europe	1
The effects of journalistic intervention and falsely balanced reporting on support for voter ID law	1
Motivations behind misinformation engagement: approving, disapproving, and ignoring. A study on individual characteristics in connection with supporting and renouncing online misinformation	1
Illusion of knowledge: is the Dunning-Kruger effect in political sophistication more widespread than before?	1
Getting out the vote in different electoral contexts: the effect of impersonal voter mobilization techniques in middle and high salience Norwegian elections	1
Partisan bias in public perception of elections polls: experimental evidence from Mexico	1
Representation or reprehension? Radical-right electoral competition, satisfaction with democracy, and voter turnout	1
Do people vote to avoid disapproval?	1
The end of the all-male party? Voter preferences for gender representation in political parties	1
Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach	1
Electoral closeness and voter turnout in presidential run-off elections	1
Coalition as a heuristic: voters’ perceptions of party positions in presidential multiparty democracies	1
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on support for the SNP and Scottish independence	1
Measuring the name recognition of politicians through Wikipedia	1
Word embeddings on ideology and issues from Swedish parliamentarians’ motions: a comparative approach	1
Polarization in a consensual multi-party democracy – attitudes toward immigration in Norway	1
Exposure to one-sided messaging and belief in voter fraud: the curious case of the US 2020 presidential election	1
Same rules, different importance: the impact of concurrent elections and complexity on invalid voting	1
Geographical representation and re-selection prospects in party-centred contexts	1
Mobilizing middlemen: the Conservative Political Action Conference and the creation of party activists	1
Migrants’ intention to vote in two countries, one country, or neither	1
Millstone or means to succeed: party-brand value, intra-party competition and personal vote-seeking	1
When the partisan becomes personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires, 1983–2019	1
Polarized perceptions: how time and vaccination status modify Republican and Democratic COVID-19 risk perceptions	1

Using survey experiments for construct validation: “strong leader” questions and support for authoritarian leadership	1
Voting for a woman: ideology and gendered candidate choice in Finland	0
Framing refugees: experimental evidence from the United States, Canada, and Australia	0
Ideology trumps self-interest: continued support for a political leader despite disappointing tax returns	0
Inconsistency of Americans’ opinions on free speech: evidence from three survey experiments	0
Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections	0
When voting is not enough: the relationship between ideological incongruence, party attachment, and protest behavior	0
Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain?	0
Wasting public money to buy turnout: quasi-experimental evidence from the Polish battle for fire trucks	0
National parties in local elections: how the barometric punishment is outweighed by the mayoral party bonus	0
Election-related internet-shutdowns in autocracies and hybrid regimes	0
An institutional safety net? How electoral institutions mediate the fortunes of parties under threat	0
Bandwagon or backlash? Examining the impact of Trump’s 2016 election on support for the West European far right	0
Much ado about nothing? Understanding Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) potential voters	0
Personal issue importance effects on voters’ perceptual accuracy of party issue positions	0
The distance between us: the role of ideological proximity in shaping perceptions of inter-partisan relationships	0
The past, Brexit, and the future in Northern Ireland: a quasi-experiment	0
A new form of anti-government resentment? Making sense of mass support for the Yellow-Vest Movement in France	0
Social contextual effects, gender, and Brexit: how political discussion networks are gendered and the consequences for referendum vote choice	0
Candidate shortages and the electoral consequences for radical right-wing parties: insights from Sweden	0
The effect of campaign spending, district magnitude and incumbency when electoral rules create districts with old and new voters: the case of Chile in 2017	0
A cruise-and-crash model of the cost of ruling	0
Is climate change a valid reason for migration? Evidence from a conjoint experiment	0
What’s on offer: how do parties appeal to women voters in election manifestos?	0
Benchmarking the pandemic: how do citizens react to domestic COVID-19 conditions compared to other countries’?	0
A generational shift: how partisan alignment and the rise of social issues have produced a generation of Democrats	0
Looking around the neighborhood: how subnational electoral politics affects voters’ perceptions of parties’ positions	0
Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?	0
Voter turnout and abstention pricing: quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of a marginal increase in the monetary enforcement of compulsory voting	0
Trust the process: citizen participation and procedural legitimacy in constitutional change	0
Close actions speak louder than distant words? The effect of local parties on voter turnout in Swedish local elections 1994–2018	0
Problem importance across time and space: updating the “Most Important Problem Dataset”	0
The impact of local protests on political elite communication: evidence from Fridays for Future in Germany	0
Mobilizing the countryside: rurality, turnout and postal voting	0
Does democratic backsliding depend on the policy issue? Evidence from a conjoint experiment	0
Until another party do us part? Party members’ electoral disloyalty in Portugal	0
Conditional satisfaction: political support, congruence, and cabinet composition	0
Threat perceptions, blame attribution, and political trust	0
Public health threats and political participation: evidence from Israel in the early stages of COVID-19	0
Strategic choices and electoral gains: unpacking constituency campaign effectiveness in Germany's mixed-member electoral system	0
Correction	0
Clientelism and ideological competition: the impact on ideological overlapping	0
Is cancer treatment immune from partisan conflict? How partisan communication motivates opposition to preventative cancer vaccination in the U.S.	0
Sensitivity bias in the attitudes towards lowering the voting age	0
Gender and UK elections: the gendered dynamics of campaigns, leadership, voting behaviour and party platforms	0
High-traffic relational pledge collection: results from a pre-registered randomized controlled trial	0
Last testament	0
Is there a populist personality? Populist attitudes, personality, and voter preference in Australian public opinion	0
The rally ‘round the flag effect in third parties: the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	0
Accepting a party’s decision to (not) participate in a coalition government. Does the inclusiveness of the decision-makers make a difference?	0
Divided by the jab: affective polarisation based on COVID vaccination status	0
Parties influence public opinion far beyond their partisans: evidence from two quasi-experiments	0
When everyone is corrupt, no one is? Examining the effects of widespread corruption on electoral behavior*	0
Determinants of swing voting in Africa: evidence from Ghana's elections	0
When the players make you hate the game: affective polarization and electoral confidence	0
Ethnic cabinet diversity, co-ethnic representation, and attitudes toward government	0
Spreading the blame: personal experience and attribution for health care expenses	0
The personality is political (especially for populists)	0
Ideological extremism, left-right orientations, and invalid voting in two-round presidential elections in Latin America	0
Effects of threat sensitivity and issue concern on candidate preference	0
Fit for parliament: a new index of electability, assessing the electoral success of group-based parties	0
Have heads cooled? Changes in radical partisanship from 2020–2022	0
Unravelling misinformation in politics: introduction to the special issue	0
The quality of government conditions political disagreement over redistributive policies	0
Perceived underrepresentation and populist voting	0
Executive approval and accountability: the impact of global shocks in less developed democracies	0
Do incumbents gain from calling a snap election?	0
Shaping support for public policies: legitimacy cues and question wording effects in the case of gender quotas	0
Trust in political parties and ideological proximity voting in Europe: the role of trust in political parties as a heuristic mechanism	0
Has positional economic voting taken root in Eastern Europe?	0
Jumping on the Bandwagon? Explaining fluctuations in party membership levels in Europe	0
The effect of signing ballot petitions on turnout	0
The determinants of Trump's defeat in 2020: what if the COVID-19 pandemic did not matter?	0
Voting against parties: populist attitudes, party supply, and support for non-partisan actors	0
Exploring the origins of confidence-in-knowledge using the Big Five Framework	0
Are former rebel parties more likely to engage in electoral violence in Africa?	0
Who believes Trump conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election? Evidence from a survey experiment	0
Only losers use excuses? Exploring the association between the winner-loser gap and referendum attitudes following a local referendum	0