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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Challenges in comparing cross-country responses in voting advice applications	150
Revisiting citizen preferences for who should govern and how. the case of cross-national surveys	71
Increasing turnout with a text message: evidence from a large campaign from the government	37
Using survey experiments for construct validation: “strong leader” questions and support for authoritarian leadership	22
Federalism at a partisan’s convenience: public opinion on federal intervention in 2020 election policy	22
Problem importance across time and space: updating the “Most Important Problem Dataset”	19
Last testament	17
Pandemic primary: the interactive effects of COVID-19 prevalence and age on voter turnout	14
Finally rising with the tide? Gender and the vote in the 2019 British Elections	12
Until another party do us part? Party members’ electoral disloyalty in Portugal	12
An institutional safety net? How electoral institutions mediate the fortunes of parties under threat	11
Productivity matters: legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability	11
Measuring the name recognition of politicians through Wikipedia	10
Predicting bloc support in Irish general elections 1951–2020: A political history model	10
A moving target? An analysis of the impact of electoral context on polling error variation in both British and international general elections	10
Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: name-calling’s backfire effect on candidate evaluations	9
Do disasters affect policy priorities? Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake	9
The personality is political (especially for populists)	9
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes: the case of Chile	9
Do incumbents gain from calling a snap election?	8
Mainstream convergence and challengers’ success: a comparative analysis of Southern and Northwestern Europe	8
Too incivil to polarize: the effects of exposure to mediatized interparty violence on affective polarization	8
Mobilizing middlemen: the Conservative Political Action Conference and the creation of party activists	8
The rally ‘round the flag effect in third parties: the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
Polarized perceptions: how time and vaccination status modify Republican and Democratic COVID-19 risk perceptions	7

Issue salience and affective polarization	7
Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain?	6
When does knowing better mean doing better? Trust in President Trump and in scientists moderates the relation between COVID-19 knowledge and social distancing	6
Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach	6
The neighbourhood effect in economic voting: the association between local unemployment figures and national economic perceptions and incumbent voting in Belgium, 2009–2019	6
Elections in the time of covid-19: the triple crises around Malawi’s 2020 presidential elections	6
Illusion of knowledge: is the Dunning-Kruger effect in political sophistication more widespread than before?	5
From populism to the “plandemic”: why populists believe in COVID-19 conspiracies	5
On pins and needles: anxiety, politics and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election	5
Coalition as a heuristic: voters’ perceptions of party positions in presidential multiparty democracies	5
Partisan endorsement experiments do not affect mass opinion on COVID-19	5
Have heads cooled? Changes in radical partisanship from 2020–2022	4
The end of the all-male party? Voter preferences for gender representation in political parties	4
Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico	4
Pandemic politics: COVID-19, health concerns, and vote choice in the 2020 General Election	4
Public health threats and political participation: evidence from Israel in the early stages of COVID-19	3
“Don’t worry, be happy (and the vote out the incumbent): economic anxiety and incumbent support”	3
A longitudinal study of online campaigning in the most digitally advanced society in the world	3
Voting in referendums increases internal political efficacy of men but not women: evidence from Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum	3
Ideological extremism, left-right orientations, and invalid voting in two-round presidential elections in Latin America	3
It’s NOT the economy when people are dying: accountability for household economic and health outcomes during the pandemic	3
Voting against parties: populist attitudes, party supply, and support for non-partisan actors	3
The intersection of race and party: voter perceptions and candidate selection in U.S. Senate elections	3
The determinants of Trump's defeat in 2020: what if the COVID-19 pandemic did not matter?	3
Attitudinal polarization towards the redistributive role of the state in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis	3
Is there a populist personality? Populist attitudes, personality, and voter preference in Australian public opinion	2
Citizens’ duties across generations	2
The cordon sanitaire: a social norm-based model	2
What determines political trust during the COVID-19 crisis? The role of sociotropic and egotropic crisis impact	2
Bulldozing Brexit: the role of masculinity in UK party leaders’ campaign imagery in 2019 UK General Election	2
Do people vote to avoid disapproval?	2
The impacts of ideological polarization among political elites on citizens’ attitudes toward opposing-party supporters via an affective channel	2
The effects of journalistic intervention and falsely balanced reporting on support for voter ID law	2
Moonshots or a cautious take-off? How the Big Five leadership traits predict Covid-19 policy response	2
When the rally-around-the-flag effect disappears, or: when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes “normalized”	2
Geographical representation and re-selection prospects in party-centred contexts	2
Depressive rumination and political engagement	2
The distance between us: the role of ideological proximity in shaping perceptions of inter-partisan relationships	2
Looking around the neighborhood: how subnational electoral politics affects voters’ perceptions of parties’ positions	2
The effect of signing ballot petitions on turnout	2
Issue salience and party competition in Southern Europe before and after the Euro crisis: the primacy of the economy holding back cultural issues	2
Parenthood, employment, anxiety, gender, and race: drivers of non-compliance with lockdown measures	2
An every man, not for every woman: Nigel Farage and the radical right gender gap	2
Someone like you: false consensus in perceptions of Democrats and Republicans	2
Support for border security during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence on levels and predictors from eight Western democracies in 2020	2
Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
When the partisan becomes personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires, 1983–2019	2
Is cancer treatment immune from partisan conflict? How partisan communication motivates opposition to preventative cancer vaccination in the U.S.	2
Increasing the cost of female representation? The gendered effects of harassment, abuse and intimidation towards Parliamentary candidates in the UK	1
Trust in political parties and ideological proximity voting in Europe: the role of trust in political parties as a heuristic mechanism	1

Voting for a woman: ideology and gendered candidate choice in Finland	1
Comparing stereotypes across racial and partisan lines: a study in affective polarisation	1
The impact of local protests on political elite communication: evidence from Fridays for Future in Germany	1
Shopping for a better deal? Party switching among grassroots members in Britain	1
Basic human values & compliance with government-recommended prosocial health behavior	1
Perceived party differences, election outcomes, and satisfaction with democracy	1
A cruise-and-crash model of the cost of ruling	1
Replicating the discovery, scrutiny, and decline model of media coverage in presidential primaries	1
High-traffic relational pledge collection: results from a pre-registered randomized controlled trial	1
Gender and UK elections: the gendered dynamics of campaigns, leadership, voting behaviour and party platforms	1
Political predispositions, not popularity: people’s propensity to interact with political content on Facebook	1
Economic forecasts and executive approval	1
Fit for parliament: a new index of electability, assessing the electoral success of group-based parties	1
Benchmarking the pandemic: how do citizens react to domestic COVID-19 conditions compared to other countries’?	1
Born to run: where rebel parties participate in post-conflict local elections	1
Millstone or means to succeed: party-brand value, intra-party competition and personal vote-seeking	1
What’s on offer: how do parties appeal to women voters in election manifestos?	1
Candidate shortages and the electoral consequences for radical right-wing parties: insights from Sweden	1
Inconsistency of Americans’ opinions on free speech: evidence from three survey experiments	1
The relationship between education and political knowledge: evidence from discordant Danish twins	1
Voting across borders? The electoral consequences of individual transnationalism	1
Accepting a party’s decision to (not) participate in a coalition government. Does the inclusiveness of the decision-makers make a difference?	1
Trust the process: citizen participation and procedural legitimacy in constitutional change	1
All (electoral) politics is local? Candidate's regional roots and vote choice	1
When everyone is corrupt, no one is? Examining the effects of widespread corruption on electoral behavior*	1
Are former rebel parties more likely to engage in electoral violence in Africa?	1
Public support for the judicial branches under the COVID-19 pandemic	1
When legitimacy drowned: waves of blame in the 2006 Swedish Parliamentary Election*	1
Clientelism and ideological competition: the impact on ideological overlapping	1
Are some parties immune from scandal? Party family, scandal exposure, and party evaluation	1