OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Political Science is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum	173
The Extraordinary Relationship between Peacekeeping and Peace	80
Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters: Improving Likelihood-Based Methods to Provide Unbiased Estimates and Accurate Inference	68
Party Cues in the News: Democratic Elites, Republican Backlash, and the Dynamics of Climate Skepticism	45
Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence from Eighteen Consolidated Democracies, 1981–2018	41
Voter Responses to Fiscal Austerity	40
Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century	38
Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey	37
Real, but Limited: A Meta-Analytic Assessment of Framing Effects in the Political Domain	36
The Heightened Importance of Racism and Sexism in the 2018 US Midterm Elections	32
Many Ways to be Right: Cross-Pressured Voters in Western Europe	32
Dimensions of Elite Partisan Polarization: Disentangling the Effects of Incivility and Issue Polarization	31
Economic Inequality, Immigrants and Selective Solidarity: From Perceived Lack of Opportunity to In-group Favoritism	29
The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged: Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths	29
Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation – A Multi-Country Survey Experiment	28
Cultural Backlash? How (Not) to Explain the Rise of Authoritarian Populism	27
Terrorism and Migration: An Overview	26
A Populist Paradox? How Brexit Softened Anti-Immigrant Attitudes	26
Process vs. Outcome? How to Evaluate the Effects of Participatory Processes on Legitimacy Perceptions	24
Revealing Issue Salience via Costly Protest: How Legislative Behavior Following Protest Advantages Low-Resource Groups	23
The Effect of Austerity Packages on Government Popularity During the Great Recession	22
Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies	21
More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public	21
Repression and Dissent in Contemporary Catalonia	20
Militarization and Perceptions of Law Enforcement in the Developing World: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Mexico	19

When Does Accommodation Work? Electoral Effects of Mainstream Left Position Taking on Immigration	19
Democracy, Autocracy, and Everything in Between: How Domestic Institutions Affect Environmental Protection	18
Gender Stereotyping and the Electoral Success of Women Candidates: New Evidence from Local Elections in the United States	18
The Role of Communities in the Transmission of Political Values: Evidence from Forced Population Transfers	18
Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility	17
Does Immigration Produce a Public Backlash or Public Acceptance? Time-Series, Cross-Sectional Evidence from Thirty European Democracies	16
The Comparative Legislators Database	16
No Longer Conforming to Stereotypes? Gender, Political Style and Parliamentary Debate in the UK	16
Civic Education in High School and Voter Turnout in Adulthood	16
Value Shift: Immigration Attitudes and the Sociocultural Divide	16
When Autocrats Threaten Citizens with Violence: Evidence from China	15
(Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy Making	15
Identifying Ideologues: A Global Dataset on Political Leaders, 1945–2020	15
The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC)	14
Who Gets What: The Economy, Relative Gains and Brexit	14
Do Investor–State Disputes (Still) Harm FDI?	13
Are Populists Sore Losers? Explaining Populist Citizens' Preferences for and Reactions to Referendums	13
The Effects of China's Development Projects on Political Accountability	13
The Origins of Colonial Investments in Former British and French Africa	13
How do Public Officials Learn About Policy? A Field Experiment on Policy Diffusion	12
The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy	12
Candidate Filtering: The Strategic Use of Electoral Manipulations in Russia	12
The Effects of Dehumanizing Attitudes about Black People on Whites’ Voting Decisions	12
The British Academy Brian Barry Prize EssayWhy Is There No Just Riot Theory?	11
Disaggregating Civility: Politeness, Public-Mindedness and Their Connection	11
Against the Flow: Differentiating Between Public Opposition to the Immigration Stock and Flow	11
Global Capital Cycles and Market Discipline: Perceptions of Developing-Country Borrowers	11
Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections	11
Do Disabled Candidates Represent Disabled Citizens?	11
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums	10
Political Knowledge and Misinformation in the Era of Social Media: Evidence From the 2015 UK Election	10
Who Interacts with Whom? Drivers of Networked Welfare Governance in Europe	10
Understanding Ambivalent Sexism and its Relationship with Electoral Choice in Britain	10
To Purge or Not to Purge? An Individual-Level Quantitative Analysis of Elite Purges in Dictatorships	9
The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey	9
How Credit Markets Substitute for Welfare States and Influence Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from US States	9
Democratizing the Party: The Effects of Primary Election Reforms in Ghana	9
An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity	9
Reducing Risk as well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State's Insurance Effects	9
Measuring Media Freedom: An Item Response Theory Analysis of Existing Indicators	9
Crime Victimization Increases Turnout: Evidence from Individual-Level Administrative Panel Data	9
Did Terrorism Affect Voting in the Brexit Referendum?	8
Do Stereotypes Explain Discrimination Against Minority Candidates or Discrimination in Favor of Majority Candidates?	8
Can Elites Escape Blame by Explaining Themselves? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite Explanations	8
Partisan Misalignment and the Counter-Partisan Response: How National Politics Conditions Majority-Party Policy Making in the American States	8
Constitutional Rigidity Matters: A Veto Players Approach	8
Do as I Say or Do as I Do? How Social Relationships Shape the Impact of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms of Voting	8
State First? A Disaggregation and Empirical Interrogation	8
‘They Take Our Houses’: Benefit Competition and the Erosion of Support for Immigrants' Social Rights	8
Protecting the Vote? Peacekeeping Presence and the Risk of Electoral Violence	8

Political Equality and Substantive Representation by Interest Groups	7
From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda	7
Who Benefits? How Local Ethnic Demography Shapes Political Favoritism in Africa	7
When Does Income Inequality Cause Polarization?	7
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia	7
Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes	7
Rethinking Women's Interests: An Inductive and Intersectional Approach to Defining Women's Policy Priorities	6
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China	6
Mitigating Servility: Policies of Egalitarian Self-Relations	6
The Ties That Bind: Text Similarities and Conditional Diffusion among Parties	6
The Interaction of Structural Factors and Diffusion in Social Unrest: Evidence from the Swing Riots	6
Deprivation in the Midst of Plenty: Citizen Polarization and Political Protest	6
When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms	6
Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion toward Egalitarian Gender Roles in the Public Sphere	6
With Frenemies Like These: Rising Power Voting Behavior in the UN General Assembly	6
Are Policy Analogies Persuasive? The Household Budget Analogy and Public Support for Austerity	6
It's All About Solidarity Stupid! How Solidarity Frames Structure the Party Political Sphere	6
Does Austerity Cause Polarization?	6
Who Deserves European Solidarity? How Recipient Characteristics Shaped Public Support for International Medical and Financial Aid during COVID-19	6
Partisan External Borrowing in Middle-Income Countries	6