Electoral Studies

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys300
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship54
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?54
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy42
Editorial Board41
Forecasting elections with October surprises38
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment37
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India30
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context28
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election25
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race25
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections24
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election23
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter23
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success21
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth21
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru20
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs20
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?20
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world19
Editorial Board19
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya19
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives18
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach18
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments17
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons17
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union16
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria15
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile15
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe15
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures14
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics14
Editorial Board13
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum13
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption13
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters13
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–201513
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden12
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism12
Editorial Board12
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]12
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?10
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism10
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization9
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia9
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits9
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values9
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America9
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems9
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–20219
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support9
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe9
Free public transit and voter turnout9
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach9
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications8
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives8
Editorial Board8
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity7
Does disability affect support for political parties?7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment7
Editorial Board7
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign7
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct7
Editorial Board7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications7
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies7
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?7
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico7
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 20177
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size6
Editorial Board6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?6
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries6
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior6
Editorial Board6
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home6
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?6
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK6
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience6
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?5
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties5
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election5
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–20205
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters5
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties5
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth5
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals5
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems5
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies5
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