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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	339
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	49
Editorial Board	47
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	38
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	33
Forecasting elections with October surprises	33
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	28
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	28
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	28
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	26
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	25
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	25
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	24
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	23
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	22
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	22
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	21
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	20
Editorial Board	19
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	18
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	18
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	18
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	18
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	17
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	17

Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	17
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	16
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	16
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	15
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	14
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Editorial Board	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	12
Editorial Board	12
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	10
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	10
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	9
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	9
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	9
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	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
Free public transit and voter turnout	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
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	7
Does disability affect support for political parties?	7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	7
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	7
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	7
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	7
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
Editorial Board	7
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	7
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	7
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	7

Editorial Board	7
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	6
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	6
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	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
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	6
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	6
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	6
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	5
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	5