OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Electoral Studies is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	262
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	84
Winning cures everything? Beliefs about voter fraud, voter confidence, and the 2016 election	50
Cultural sources of gender gaps: Confucian meritocracy reduces gender inequalities in political participation	48
The motivated electorate: Voter uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and ideological congruence to parties	39
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	36
Polarization congruence and satisfaction with democracy: A multinational investigation	31
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	29
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	28
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	28
Time will tear us apart: European electoral participation dynamics in longitudinal perspective	27
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	24
Does electoral behavior change after a protest cycle? Evidence from Chile and Bolivia	22
Mode of candidacy, electoral prospects, and the ideological deviation of candidacy-seeking politicians from their party leadership	22
Voting propensity and parental depression	21
Candidate appearance in campaign advertisements	20
Mind the gap(s): Winning, losing, and perceptions of electoral integrity in mixed-member proportional systems	19
Negative voting and party polarization: A classic tragedy	18
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	18
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	18
Do party leadership contests forecast British general elections?	17
Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!	16
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	16
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	15
Editorial Board	15

The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	15
A swing vote from the ethnic backstage: The role of German American isolationist tradition for Trump's 2016 victory	15
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	14
The republic at the centennial: A new dataset of the entire population of legislators and their parliamentary activities in Turkey	14
Editorial Board	14
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	14
Editorial Board	14
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	13
Editorial Board	13
Elite party disunity negatively predicts mass partisan-ideological sorting	12
Denigrating democracy: How electoral competition fuels xenophobia in Lebanon	12
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	12
Forecasting elections with October surprises	12
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	11
Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity	11
Issue substitution or volume expansion? How parties accommodate agenda change	11
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	11
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	11
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	11
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	10
Time to death explains the chronological decline of voter turnout among the older population	10
Candidate sex, partisanship and electoral context in Australia	10
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	10
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	10
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	9
Election type and the logic of pre-election violence: Evidence from Zimbabwe	9
Technocratic attitudes and voting behaviour ten years after the Eurozone crisis: Evidence from the 2019 EP elections	9
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	9
Promoting ethnic equality in campaign messages: Survey experimental evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	9
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	9
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	9
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	9
Visible home style	9
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	8
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
I want to believe: The relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and populist attitudes in Spain	8
Partisanship, attribution and approval in a public health shock	8
Selective abstention in simultaneous elections: Understanding the turnout gap	8
Multi-level muddling: Candidate strategies to “nationalize” local elections	8
“What have you done for me lately?” Re-thinking local representation	8
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
So thin it’s almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil	7
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	7
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	7
Dynamic party system fragmentation	7
Who are the non-separable voters?	7
Editorial Board	7

What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	7
Corrigendum for “Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors” [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]	7
Corrigendum to “Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche” [Elect. Stud. 90 (2024) 102818]	7
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	7
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	6
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	6
Socialised to think in terms of left and right? The acceptability of the left and the right among European voters	6
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	6
Generational change in party support in Germany: The decline of the Volksparteien, the rise of the Greens, and the transformation of the education divide	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	6
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	6
Political polarization, voting and democratic representativeness: Too much or too little?	6
Do green parties in government benefit from natural catastrophes? How wildfires are linked to voting	5
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	5
Sexism predicts favorability of women in the 2020 democratic primary… and men?	5
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	5
Do text messages increase voter registration? Evidence from RCTs with a local authority and an advocacy organisation in the UK	5
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	5
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	5
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	5
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	5
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	5
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	5
Won't You Be My Senator? Nuanced “Friends and Neighbors” Voting in U.S. Senate Elections, 1968–2018	5
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	5
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	5
When do elections help autocrats? The plight of Palestinians under SNTV in Jordan	5
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	5
Fight not flight: The effects of explicit racism on minority political engagement	5
Succession effects in presidential elections	5
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	5
Membership vote for party leadership changes: Electoral effects and the causal mechanisms behind	4
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	4
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	4
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	4
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	4
Editorial Board	4
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	4
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	4
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	4
When populists win: How right-wing populism affects democratic satisfaction in the U.K. and Germany	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Don't call me a populist! The meaning of populism for western European parties and politicians	4
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	4
Editorial Board	4
Psychological threat and turnout misreporting	4
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	4
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Do competitive districts get more political attention? Strategic use of geographic representation during campaign and non-campaign periods	4
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	4