OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Party Politics is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring populism worldwide	75
Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP’s authoritarianism	42
Bringing agency back into the study of partisan politics: A note on recent developments in the literature on party politics	37
Protesting Parties in Europe: A comparative analysis	26
Radical right parties and anti-feminist speech on Instagram: Vox and the 2019 Spanish general election	23
Populist attitudes and conspiratorial thinking	22
Many losers – One winner? An examination of vote switching to the AfD in the 2017 German federal election using VAA data	20
First avoidance, then engagement: Political parties’ issue competition in the electoral cycle	19
Electoral participation, political disaffection, and the rise of the populist radical right	19
Social policy outcomes of government participation by radical right parties	18
Religion on the rise again? A longitudinal analysis of religious dimensions in election manifestos of Western European parties	17
Do religious voters support populist radical right parties? Opposite effects in Western and East-Central Europe	17
Finding the bird’s wings: Dimensions of factional conflict on Twitter	17
Strengthening ties: The influence of microtargeting on partisan attitudes and the vote	17
Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy	16
Responsive versus responsible? Party democracy in times of crisis	14
Languages, secessionism and party competition in Catalonia: A case of de-ethnicising outbidding?	14
Right populist parties and support for strong leaders	12
The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany	12
Do interest groups bias MPs’ perception of party voters’ preferences?	12
Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook	12
Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships	12
Fellow travelers or Trojan horses? Similarities across pro-Russian parties’ electorates in Europe	12
Party (de)institutionalization in times of political uncertainty: The case of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey	11
Why democrats abandon democracy: Evidence from four survey experiments	11

As time goes by, the same sentiments apply? Stability of voter satisfaction with democracy during the electoral cycle in 31 countries	11
Whose bread I don’t eat, his song I don’t sing? MPs’ outside earnings and dissenting voting behaviour	11
Populists in power and conspiracy theories	11
Who do the people want to govern?	10
Depression and political predispositions: Almost blue?	10
Support for insider parties: The role of political trust in a longitudinal-comparative perspective	10
Leader or party? Quantifying and exploring behavioral personalization 1996–2019	10
Party membership, pre-parliamentary socialization and party cohesion	10
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany	10
Euroscepticism as a radical left party strategy for success	9
Divide to conquer? Strategic parliamentary opposition and coalition government	9
How challenger parties can win big with frozen cleavages: Explaining the landslide victory of the Servant of the People party in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections	9
Just like the others: Party differences, perception, and satisfaction with democracy	9
How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’ and the ‘European integration’ dimensions	9
Economic performance and electoral volatility: Testing the economic voting hypothesis on Indian states, 1957–2013	9
Holding on to voters in volatile times: Bonding voters through party links with civil society	9
Cordons sanitaires or tainted coalitions? The electoral consequences of populist participation in government	8
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies	8
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties	8
Lone organizers: Opposition party-building in hostile places in Tanzania	8
Data-driven campaigning and democratic disruption: Evidence from six advanced democracies	7
Political parties and social groups: New perspectives and data on group and policy appeals	7
The importance of attachment to an ideological group in multi-party systems: Evidence from Israel	7
Professional activists? Party activism among political staffers in parliamentary democracies	7
Populist positions in party competition: Do parties strategically vary their degree of populism in reaction to vote and office loss?	7
Party crashers? Modeling genuinely new party development paths in Western Europe	7
Women running the party and women running for Congress: An examination of state party diversity and candidate emergence in the 2018 midterm elections	6
Party footprints in Africa: Measuring local party presence across the continent	6
Political parties and campaign resource allocation: Gender gaps in Brazilian elections	6
‘The enemy within’: Campaign attention and motivated reasoning in voter perceptions of intra-party conflict	6
Inequality, policy polarization and the income gap in turnout	6
Do party primaries punish women? Revisiting the trade-off between the inclusion of party members and the selection of women as party leaders	6
When do political parties listen to interest groups?	5
More free-floating, less outward-looking: How more inclusive candidate selection procedures (could) matter	5
‘Leaving the red Tories’: Ideology, leaders, and why party members quit	5
Electoral incentives to coalition formation in multiparty presidential systems	5
Is populism popular abroad? Evidence from diasporas around the globe	5
Partisanship and perceived threats about immigration	5
Scaling hand-coded political texts to learn more about left-right policy content	5
May’s law may prevail: Evidence from Sweden	5
Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered	5
Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19	5
‘Sacrifical lambs’ or candidate mimicking? Gender-based nomination strategies in elections	5
Why the left has more to lose from ideological convergence than the right	5
The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography	5
The rise of the post-religious right: Christianism and secularism in the French Rassemblement National	5
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	5
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism: Pro-dictator bias in ideology	5
Are candidates rational when it comes to negative campaigning? Empirical evidence from three German candidate surveys	5
Servants of two (or more) masters: Accounting for the complexity of intraparty candidate selection methods	4

Local political party presence online	4
Parties, movements and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Explaining the post-referendum party membership surges	4
The colors of ideology: Chromatic isomorphism and political party logos	4
Autocratic ruling parties during regime transitions: Investigating the democratizing effect of strong ruling parties	4
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	4
High rejection, low selection: How ‘punitive parties’ shape ethnic minority representation	4
Right-wing populism and territorial party competition: The case of the Alternative for Germany	4
A nonpartisan legislative chamber: The influence of the Canadian Senate	4
What are we voting for? Opposition alliance joint campaigns in electoral autocracies	4
Partisan bias in politicians’ perception of scandals	4
Policy preferences and party switching: Evidence from the 2012 Japanese election	4
Political parties and citizens’ well-being among non-democratic developing countries	4
The winner-loser satisfaction gap in the absence of a clear outcome	4
The emerging fault line of alternative news: Intra-party division in Republican representatives’ media engagement	4
Party ideologies and UN debates	4
On the relationship between party polarization and citizen polarization	4
Capitalized rallies: Why campaigns costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	4
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	4
Elite clientelism in Nigeria: The role of parties in weakening legislator-voter ties	4
Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda	4
Populist radical parties, pariahs, and coalition bargaining delays	4
Protest at the ballot box: From blank vote to populism	4
Parity or patriarchy? The nomination of female candidates in British politics	3
Transformational party events and legislative turnover in West European democracies, 1945–2015	3
Partisan schism in America’s newest swing state	3
Parties’ group appeals across time, countries, and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset	3
The road to European parliament mandate for populist radical-right parties: Selecting the ‘perfect’ AfD candidate	3
Gender bias in candidate turnover: A longitudinal analysis of legislative elections in Flanders/Belgium (1987–2019)	3
Perpetual scrutiny? Mutual control among coalition political parties in the executive and parliamentary phases of law-making	3
Populist party’s challenge to democracy: Institutional capture, performance and religion	3
Politically motivated interpersonal biases: Polarizing effects of partisanship and immigration attitudes	3
Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics	3
Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets	3
Candidate selection and ethnic minority aspirants: Exploring the effect of party selectors’ biases in a PR system	3
The janus-faced nature of radical voting: Subjective social decline at the roots of radical right and radical left support	3
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform	3
Is there clarity in ambiguity? A literature review of party positional ambiguity	3
Nomination trade-offs: How context affects political parties’ strategies to nominate immigrant-origin candidates	3
Membership and participation in independent local parties: Patterns and explanations	3
Sibling rivalry: Voters for radical left parties and their competitors in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands	3
Does policy motivation drive party activism? A study of party activists in three Asian democracies	3
Affirmative gender equality policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Moving beyond the EU requirements	3
Determinants of a political party’s social media strategy: A comparative analysis of Tanzania’s opposition political parties’ Twitter practices	3
Democracy within parties: Electoral consequences of candidate selection methods in Tanzania	3
Populism without host ideologies: A new home for voters with exclusionary attitudes in Italy’s Five Star Movement?	3
Attracting tomorrow’s leaders: Who joins political youth organisations for material reasons?	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3
Does party ambivalence decrease voter turnout? A global analysis	3
The influence of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream party behaviour: Is oppositional behaviour contagious?	3
Contesting war memories: Parties and voters in contemporary Southeast Europe	3