OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes: the case of Chile	24
Increasing turnout with a text message: evidence from a large campaign from the government	23
Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico	12
Revisiting citizen preferences for who should govern and how. the case of cross-national surveys	11
Challenges in comparing cross-country responses in voting advice applications	11
Predicting bloc support in Irish general elections 1951–2020: A political history model	10
Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
The intersection of race and party: voter perceptions and candidate selection in U.S. Senate elections	8
“Don’t worry, be happy (and the vote out the incumbent): economic anxiety and incumbent support”	8
Replicating the discovery, scrutiny, and decline model of media coverage in presidential primaries	8
A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world	8
Voting across borders? The electoral consequences of individual transnationalism	7
Conspiracy mindset and anti-Americanism: the Turkish case	6
Affective polarization and strategic voting in Britain	6
Communicating democratic subversions to citizens	6
Social conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context	5
Explaining the educational divide in electoral behaviour: testing direct and indirect effects from British elections and referendums 2016–2019	5
Populists without parties: are left-wing and right-wing populists in Quebec disengaged citizens?	5
Re-examining the EU Referendum vote: right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation as indirect trait-level motivation	5
Elections with candidate filtering and two mechanisms of demobilization effect: the prologue to Hong Kong’s authoritarian turn	5
Too much of a good thing? Longer ballots reduce voter participation	5
Productivity matters: legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability	4
Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: name-calling’s backfire effect on candidate evaluations	4
Issue salience and affective polarization	4
The cordon sanitaire: a social norm-based model	3

Are some parties immune from scandal? Party family, scandal exposure, and party evaluation	3
Economic forecasts and executive approval	3
“Paradox of gender quotas”: an experiment	3
Turnout, government performance and localism in contemporary by-elections	3
Citizens’ duties across generations	3
The impacts of ideological polarization among political elites on citizens’ attitudes toward opposing-party supporters via an affective channel	3
The space between: how ideological similarity limits the effectiveness of ambiguity	3
The veteran advantage: the impact of previous military service on electoral performance in the United States	3
Migrants’ intention to vote in two countries, one country, or neither	3
Perceived party differences, election outcomes, and satisfaction with democracy	3
All (electoral) politics is local? Candidate's regional roots and vote choice	3
When legitimacy drowned: waves of blame in the 2006 Swedish Parliamentary Election*	3
Extreme recall: which politicians come to mind?	3
The worse, the better? The daily incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the rally effects it fostered	3
Demystifying the dynamics of China’s overseas image with a large-scale social media dataset	2
Mobilizing middlemen: the Conservative Political Action Conference and the creation of party activists	2
Depressive rumination and political engagement	2
Do people vote to avoid disapproval?	2
When the partisan becomes personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires, 1983–2019	2
Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach	2
Policy mood and thermostatic representation in developing democracies: taking the temperature in Uruguay	2
Mainstream convergence and challengers’ success: a comparative analysis of Southern and Northwestern Europe	2
Bulldozing Brexit: the role of masculinity in UK party leaders’ campaign imagery in 2019 UK General Election	2
The effects of journalistic intervention and falsely balanced reporting on support for voter ID law	2
Geographical representation and re-selection prospects in party-centred contexts	2
Public misperceptions of European integration in the UK	2
Coalition as a heuristic: voters’ perceptions of party positions in presidential multiparty democracies	2
On pins and needles: anxiety, politics and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election	2
The end of the all-male party? Voter preferences for gender representation in political parties	2
Millstone or means to succeed: party-brand value, intra-party competition and personal vote-seeking	2
Measuring the name recognition of politicians through Wikipedia	1
The neighbourhood effect in economic voting: the association between local unemployment figures and national economic perceptions and incumbent voting in Belgium, 2009–2019	1
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on support for the SNP and Scottish independence	1
Representation or reprehension? Radical-right electoral competition, satisfaction with democracy, and voter turnout	1
The rally ‘round the flag effect in third parties: the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Have heads cooled? Changes in radical partisanship from 2020–2022	1
Last testament	1
Gender and UK elections: the gendered dynamics of campaigns, leadership, voting behaviour and party platforms	1
Is cancer treatment immune from partisan conflict? How partisan communication motivates opposition to preventative cancer vaccination in the U.S.	1
Perceived underrepresentation and populist voting	1
Using survey experiments for construct validation: “strong leader” questions and support for authoritarian leadership	1
An institutional safety net? How electoral institutions mediate the fortunes of parties under threat	1
Don’t blame the messenger? An assessment of public regulations announcements and support for the governing party and the public policy	1
Polarization in a consensual multi-party democracy – attitudes toward immigration in Norway	1
Getting out the vote in different electoral contexts: the effect of impersonal voter mobilization techniques in middle and high salience Norwegian elections	1
Illusion of knowledge: is the Dunning-Kruger effect in political sophistication more widespread than before?	1
The effect of campaign spending, district magnitude and incumbency when electoral rules create districts with old and new voters: the case of Chile in 2017	1
Social contextual effects, gender, and Brexit: how political discussion networks are gendered and the consequences for referendum vote choice	1
The distance between us: the role of ideological proximity in shaping perceptions of inter-partisan relationships	1
Public health threats and political participation: evidence from Israel in the early stages of COVID-19	1

A moving target? An analysis of the impact of electoral context on polling error variation in both British and international general elections	1
Polarized perceptions: how time and vaccination status modify Republican and Democratic COVID-19 risk perceptions	1
Word embeddings on ideology and issues from Swedish parliamentarians’ motions: a comparative approach	1
Partisan bias in public perception of elections polls: experimental evidence from Mexico	1
District magnitude, electoral coordination, and legislative fragmentation	1
Until another party do us part? Party members’ electoral disloyalty in Portugal	1
Do incumbents gain from calling a snap election?	1
Voter mobilization efforts can depress turnout	1
Jumping on the Bandwagon? Explaining fluctuations in party membership levels in Europe	1
The determinants of Trump's defeat in 2020: what if the COVID-19 pandemic did not matter?	1
Trust in political parties and ideological proximity voting in Europe: the role of trust in political parties as a heuristic mechanism	1