OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties 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 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
Federalism at a partisan’s convenience: public opinion on federal intervention in 2020 election policy	22
Using survey experiments for construct validation: “strong leader” questions and support for authoritarian leadership	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
Issue salience and affective polarization	7
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
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
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
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
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
Pandemic politics: COVID-19, health concerns, and vote choice in the 2020 General Election	4
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
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