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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The big ideological geographic sort? The role of ideological discrimination, social capital and social whispers in deciding where to live	33
Predicting bloc support in Irish general elections 1951–2020: A political history model	21
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes: the case of Chile	19
Increasing turnout with a text message: evidence from a large campaign from the government	19
Mail ballot tracking and egotropic voter confidence	15
Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico	15
Revisiting citizen preferences for who should govern and how. the case of cross-national surveys	13
Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic	12
Is a snapshot enough? Repeated list experiments in autocratizing Hong Kong under the National Security Law	11
“Don’t worry, be happy (and the vote out the incumbent): economic anxiety and incumbent support”	9
The impact of party-voter congruence on affective polarization: evidence from Belgium	8
In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan's depopulating regions	8
Elite cues and electoral systems: the impact of political elites on voter attitudes towards ranked choice voting	8
Disinformation claims and public opinion: evidence from a survey experiment in Georgia	7
Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans	7
Social conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context	6
How the politics of culture and identity drive a gender gap among young voters: a study of UK voters in 2024	6
Communicating democratic subversions to citizens	6
COVID-19 and preferences for progressive taxation: evidence from a 2020 U.S. ballot proposal	6
Conspiracy mindset and anti-Americanism: the Turkish case	6
Affective polarization and strategic voting in Britain	6
Origins of societal anger: the interplay between perceived personal economic decline and anti-immigration attitudes	6
Support for the use of military force to prevent secession: the case of Scottish independence	6
Accidental knowledge: passive gains in political knowledge and electoral accountability	6
Voting across borders? The electoral consequences of individual transnationalism	6

Too much of a good thing? Longer ballots reduce voter participation	5
Populists without parties: are left-wing and right-wing populists in Quebec disengaged citizens?	5
Are protests contagious? The dynamics of temporal and spatial diffusion of political protests	5
Productivity matters: legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability	4
The cordon sanitaire: a social norm-based model	4
Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: name-calling’s backfire effect on candidate evaluations	4
Issue salience and affective polarization	4
The impacts of ideological polarization among political elites on citizens’ attitudes toward opposing-party supporters via an affective channel	3
Voting for incumbents in the Caribbean: a test of three hypotheses	3
When legitimacy drowned: waves of blame in the 2006 Swedish Parliamentary Election	3
Participating in a presidential nomination process during a pandemic	3
Perceived party differences, election outcomes, and satisfaction with democracy	3
All (electoral) politics is local? Candidate's regional roots and vote choice	3
Are some parties immune from scandal? Party family, scandal exposure, and party evaluation	3
Reverse influence: the social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election	3
Do all-women shortlists produce more active parliamentarians? A comparison of the parliamentary activity of quota and open-list Labour women MPs from 2005 to 2017	3
Demystifying the dynamics of China’s overseas image with a large-scale social media dataset	2
The last-minute voter: age and time of voting in Ontario, Canada	2
Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach	2
Shades of green? Examining environmental and energy attitudes among far-right party supporters in Europe	2
Turnout, government performance and localism in contemporary by-elections	2
Polarized trust and vaccine uptake	2
Are 16-year-olds mature enough to vote? Evidence from the Voto Joven in Latin America	2
Policy mood and thermostatic representation in developing democracies: taking the temperature in Uruguay	2
Migrants’ intention to vote in two countries, one country, or neither	2
The veteran advantage: the impact of previous military service on electoral performance in the United States	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
“Paradox of gender quotas”: an experiment	2
Extreme recall: which politicians come to mind?	2
Features of disinformation: an expert interview study on the perception of disinformation among political, governmental, media and business elites in Germany	2
The impact of early COVID-19 lockdowns on perceptions of American democracy	2
Being populist is bad for you: a six-wave longitudinal study on the relationships between populist orientation and perceived control	2
The worse, the better? The daily incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the rally effects it fostered	2
Mobilizing middlemen: the Conservative Political Action Conference and the creation of party activists	2
Mainstream convergence and challengers’ success: a comparative analysis of Southern and Northwestern Europe	2
Beyond engagement: demographic, temporal, and topic variation in misinformation exposure on Facebook across European media systemic regions	2
On the relationship between age and intentional invalid voting in compulsory elections	2
Economic forecasts and executive approval	2
The space between: how ideological similarity limits the effectiveness of ambiguity	2
Depressive rumination and political engagement	1
Don’t blame the messenger? An assessment of public regulations announcements and support for the governing party and the public policy	1
The distance between us: the role of ideological proximity in shaping perceptions of inter-partisan relationships	1
Affective polarization and anti-democratic attitudes: a complex relationship	1
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on support for the SNP and Scottish independence	1
Illusion of knowledge: is the Dunning-Kruger effect in political sophistication more widespread than before?	1
When the partisan becomes personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires, 1983–2019	1
Word embeddings on ideology and issues from Swedish parliamentarians’ motions: a comparative approach	1
Electoral closeness and voter turnout in presidential run-off elections	1
Motivations behind misinformation engagement: approving, disapproving, and ignoring. A study on individual characteristics in connection with supporting and renouncing online misinformation	1

The end of the all-male party? Voter preferences for gender representation in political parties	1
Polarization in a consensual multi-party democracy – attitudes toward immigration in Norway	1
The determinants of Trump's defeat in 2020: what if the COVID-19 pandemic did not matter?	1
Using survey experiments for construct validation: “strong leader” questions and support for authoritarian leadership	1
Do they know what they represent? Parliamentary candidates’ perceptions of their own party’s positions	1
Have heads cooled? Changes in radical partisanship from 2020–2022	1
Millstone or means to succeed: party-brand value, intra-party competition and personal vote-seeking	1
Until another party do us part? Party members’ electoral disloyalty in Portugal	1
No one wants to back a loser: the timing, rationales, and strategic considerations of endorsements	1
Representation or reprehension? Radical-right electoral competition, satisfaction with democracy, and voter turnout	1
Geographical representation and re-selection prospects in party-centred contexts	1
Same rules, different importance: the impact of concurrent elections and complexity on invalid voting	1
Concerns about misinformation on Instagram in five countries	1
Partisan bias in public perception of elections polls: experimental evidence from Mexico	1
Correction	1
The rally ‘round the flag effect in third parties: the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Exposure to one-sided messaging and belief in voter fraud: the curious case of the US 2020 presidential election	1
Much ado about nothing? Understanding Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) potential voters	1
Do people vote to avoid disapproval?	1
Polarized perceptions: how time and vaccination status modify Republican and Democratic COVID-19 risk perceptions	1
The effects of journalistic intervention and falsely balanced reporting on support for voter ID law	1
An institutional safety net? How electoral institutions mediate the fortunes of parties under threat	1
Electoral outcomes versus voters' preferences: on the different tales the data can tell	1