OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Electoral Studies is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	350
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	52
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	47
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	40
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	36
Forecasting elections with October surprises	34
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	30
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	29
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	27
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	27
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	26
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	26
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	23
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	23
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	22
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	20
Editorial Board	19
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	19
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	19
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	19
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	18
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	18
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	18

Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	18
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	17
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	16
Editorial Board	16
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	13
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	13
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	9
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	9
Editorial Board	9
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	9
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	8
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	8
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	8
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	8
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	8
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	8
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	8
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Free public transit and voter turnout	8
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	7
Does disability affect support for political parties?	7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	7
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	7
Editorial Board	7
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	7
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	7
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	6
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	6
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	6
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	6
Editorial Board	6

A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	6
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	6
Editorial Board	6
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	6
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	5
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	5
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	5
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	5
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	5
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	5
Editorial Board	5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5