Electoral Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Electoral Studies is 19. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board350
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship52
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?47
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter40
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections36
Forecasting elections with October surprises34
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election30
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment29
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election27
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context27
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world26
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy26
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives23
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach23
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth22
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?20
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs19
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru19
Editorial Board19
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons19
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