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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From populism to the “plandemic”: why populists believe in COVID-19 conspiracies	128
When the rally-around-the-flag effect disappears, or: when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes “normalized”	63
Attitudinal polarization towards the redistributive role of the state in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis	30
Partisan endorsement experiments do not affect mass opinion on COVID-19	22
Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic	17
Down with Covid: patterns of electoral turnout in the 2020 French local elections	14
What determines political trust during the COVID-19 crisis? The role of sociotropic and egotropic crisis impact	12
Pandemic politics: COVID-19, health concerns, and vote choice in the 2020 General Election	11
Increasing the cost of female representation? The gendered effects of harassment, abuse and intimidation towards Parliamentary candidates in the UK	11
Information disclosure and political trust during the COVID-19 crisis: experimental evidence from Ireland	10
Electoral outcomes and support for Westminster democracy	10
Consensus secured? Elite and public attitudes to “lockdown” measures to combat Covid-19 in England	10
Basic human values & compliance with government-recommended prosocial health behavior	9
Finally rising with the tide? Gender and the vote in the 2019 British Elections	9
The path from distrusting Western actors to conspiracy beliefs and noncompliance with public health guidance during the COVID-19 crisis	9
Does partisanship promote anti-democratic impulses? Evidence from a survey experiment	8
Partisan cues and perceived risks: The effect of partisan social media frames during the COVID-19 crisis in Mexico	8
It’s NOT the economy when people are dying: accountability for household economic and health outcomes during the pandemic	8
Putting electoral competition where it belongs: comparing vote-based measures of electoral competition	8
Explaining the educational divide in electoral behaviour: testing direct and indirect effects from British elections and referendums 2016–2019	7
Elections in the time of covid-19: the triple crises around Malawi’s 2020 presidential elections	7
No effect of partisan framing on opinions about the COVID-19 pandemic	7
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
Attenuating the crisis: the relationship between media use, prosocial political participation, and holding misinformation beliefs during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Do disasters affect policy priorities? Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake	6

Partisanship and public opinion of COVID-19: does emphasizing Trump and his administration’s response to the pandemic affect public opinion about the coronavirus?	6
Pandemic primary: the interactive effects of COVID-19 prevalence and age on voter turnout	6
Bulldozing Brexit: the role of masculinity in UK party leaders’ campaign imagery in 2019 UK General Election	6
Threat perceptions, blame attribution, and political trust	5
What’s on offer: how do parties appeal to women voters in election manifestos?	5
Migrants’ intention to vote in two countries, one country, or neither	5
Emotions and domestic vote choice	5
Getting out the vote in different electoral contexts: the effect of impersonal voter mobilization techniques in middle and high salience Norwegian elections	4
Moonshots or a cautious take-off? How the Big Five leadership traits predict Covid-19 policy response	4
On pins and needles: anxiety, politics and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election	4
Are Americans polarized on issue dimensions?	4
Issue salience and party competition in Southern Europe before and after the Euro crisis: the primacy of the economy holding back cultural issues	4
Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico	4
Millstone or means to succeed: party-brand value, intra-party competition and personal vote-seeking	4
The welfare reality check: how policy-specific information influences public responsiveness	4
Shopping for a better deal? Party switching among grassroots members in Britain	3
Legalize cannabis? Effects of party cues on attitudes to a controversial policy proposal	3
United we stand, divided we fall? The effects of parties’ Brexit rhetoric on voters’ perceptions of party positions	3
Ideology trumps self-interest: continued support for a political leader despite disappointing tax returns	3
Social conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context	3
Comparing stereotypes across racial and partisan lines: a study in affective polarisation	3
Support for border security during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence on levels and predictors from eight Western democracies in 2020	3
Too incivil to polarize: the effects of exposure to mediatized interparty violence on affective polarization	3
Too much of a good thing? Longer ballots reduce voter participation	3
The impact of local protests on political elite communication: evidence from Fridays for Future in Germany	3
The cordon sanitaire: a social norm-based model	3
An every man, not for every woman: Nigel Farage and the radical right gender gap	3
Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: name-calling’s backfire effect on candidate evaluations	3
Jumping on the Bandwagon? Explaining fluctuations in party membership levels in Europe	3
Election-related internet-shutdowns in autocracies and hybrid regimes	2
The tangled web: is cyber participation still predictive of offline civic engagement?	2
Local politics as a context for polarizing cues	2
Distance, dissatisfaction or a Deficit in attention: why do citizens vote for new parties?	2
Depressive rumination and political engagement	2
The intersection of race and party: voter perceptions and candidate selection in U.S. Senate elections	2
How influential is ballot design in elections?	2
Conditional satisfaction: political support, congruence, and cabinet composition	2
COVID-19, economic anxiety, and support for international economic integration	2
Predictable crises shape public opinion: evidence from the COVID-19 natural experiment	2
Trust in political parties and ideological proximity voting in Europe: the role of trust in political parties as a heuristic mechanism	2
Did rural resentment of government employees elect Donald Trump?	2
Someone like you: false consensus in perceptions of Democrats and Republicans	2
Increasing turnout with a text message: evidence from a large campaign from the government	2
Public misperceptions of European integration in the UK	2
Elections with candidate filtering and two mechanisms of demobilization effect: the prologue to Hong Kong’s authoritarian turn	2
Polarization in a consensual multi-party democracy – attitudes toward immigration in Norway	2
Care to trust? Gender and trust in leaders during the Coronavirus pandemic	2
Political predispositions, not popularity: people’s propensity to interact with political content on Facebook	2
The end of the all-male party? Voter preferences for gender representation in political parties	2
Do moms demand action on guns? Parenthood and gun policy attitudes	2

Challenges in comparing cross-country responses in voting advice applications	2
A moving target? An analysis of the impact of electoral context on polling error variation in both British and international general elections	1
Federalism at a partisan’s convenience: public opinion on federal intervention in 2020 election policy	1
Turnout, government performance and localism in contemporary by-elections	1
Voter turnout and abstention pricing: quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of a marginal increase in the monetary enforcement of compulsory voting	1
Determinants of swing voting in Africa: evidence from Ghana's elections	1
Divided by the jab: affective polarisation based on COVID vaccination status	1
Gender and UK elections: the gendered dynamics of campaigns, leadership, voting behaviour and party platforms	1
Is there a populist personality? Populist attitudes, personality, and voter preference in Australian public opinion	1
Citizens’ duties across generations	1
Perceived party differences, election outcomes, and satisfaction with democracy	1
The personality is political (especially for populists)	1
Parenthood, employment, anxiety, gender, and race: drivers of non-compliance with lockdown measures	1
Productivity matters: legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability	1
Revisiting citizen preferences for who should govern and how. the case of cross-national surveys	1
A new form of anti-government resentment? Making sense of mass support for the Yellow-Vest Movement in France	1
Shaping support for public policies: legitimacy cues and question wording effects in the case of gender quotas	1
Risk perceptions, anxiety and the future of international trade: a cross-national study of public trade preferences in Asia under COVID-19	1
Voter mobilization efforts can depress turnout	1
Voting for a woman: ideology and gendered candidate choice in Finland	1
When the partisan becomes personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires, 1983–2019	1
Replicating the discovery, scrutiny, and decline model of media coverage in presidential primaries	1
The rally ‘round the flag effect in third parties: the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Born to run: where rebel parties participate in post-conflict local elections	1
Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach	1
An institutional safety net? How electoral institutions mediate the fortunes of parties under threat	1
Policy mood and thermostatic representation in developing democracies: taking the temperature in Uruguay	1
Ballots, bombs, and bullets: the effects of mass shootings and terrorist attacks on electoral behavior	1
District magnitude, electoral coordination, and legislative fragmentation	1
Communicating democratic subversions to citizens	1
Education and the geography of Brexit	1
A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world	1
Is cancer treatment immune from partisan conflict? How partisan communication motivates opposition to preventative cancer vaccination in the U.S.	1
Do incumbents gain from calling a snap election?	1
Are former rebel parties more likely to engage in electoral violence in Africa?	1