OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Political Science Review is 11. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States	258
Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter	160
Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting	149
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests	119
Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing	116
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments	94
Who Governs? A New Global Dataset on Members of Cabinets	69
The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918–2017	68
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments	67
Political Advertising Online and Offline	62
Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability	59
Wildfire Exposure Increases Pro-Environment Voting within Democratic but Not Republican Areas	55
Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting	54
Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers	50
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India	49
Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test	47
The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years	45
Corruption Information and Vote Share: A Meta-Analysis and Lessons for Experimental Design	45
Understanding and Reducing Biases in Elite Beliefs About the Electorate	44
The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India	44
Gender, Candidate Emotional Expression, and Voter Reactions During Televised Debates	44
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences	44
#No2Sectarianism: Experimental Approaches to Reducing Sectarian Hate Speech Online	43
Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	43
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”	42

Democracy by Mistake: How the Errors of Autocrats Trigger Transitions to Freer Government	42
Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban	42
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	41
Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal”	39
Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections	38
Women’s Representation and the Gendered Pipeline to Power	37
To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office	37
Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments	36
Institutionalized Police Brutality: Torture, the Militarization of Security, and the Reform of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice in Mexico	36
Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention	36
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes	35
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy	35
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support	35
Hot Politics? Affective Responses to Political Rhetoric	32
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits	32
Does Property Ownership Lead to Participation in Local Politics? Evidence from Property Records and Meeting Minutes	30
Negativity Biases and Political Ideology: A Comparative Test across 17 Countries	30
Gender, Law Enforcement, and Access to Justice: Evidence from All-Women Police Stations in India	30
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change	29
Democracy and Depression: A Cross-National Study of Depressive Symptoms and Nonparticipation	28
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis	28
Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories Can Promote Inclusion	27
Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments	27
Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments	27
Does Aid Reduce Anti-refugee Violence? Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon	27
Suppressing Black Votes: A Historical Case Study of Voting Restrictions in Louisiana	26
The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps	25
Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South	25
Polarized Pluralism: Organizational Preferences and Biases in the American Pressure System	24
Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance	24
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective	24
News and Geolocated Social Media Accurately Measure Protest Size Variation	23
Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries	22
Public Perceptions of Women’s Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy	22
Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies	21
Censorship as Reward: Evidence from Pop Culture Censorship in Chile	21
Attributing Policy Influence under Coalition Governance	21
Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems	21
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding	21
Pride amid Prejudice: The Influence of LGBT+ Rights Activism in a Socially Conservative Society	20
Democratic Subversion: Elite Cooptation and Opposition Fragmentation	20
The Elite–Citizen Gap in International Organization Legitimacy	19
Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building	19
Deterrence with Imperfect Attribution	19
Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide	19
The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return	19
The Logic of Violence in Drug War	19
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma	18
When Unfamiliarity Breeds Contempt: How Partisan Selective Exposure Sustains Oppositional Media Hostility	18
Campaign Finance Regulations and Public Policy	18

Does Political Oversight of the Bureaucracy Increase Accountability? Field Experimental Evidence from a Dominant Party Regime	18
Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England	18
Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas	18
When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation	17
What You See Is Not Always What You Get: Bargaining before an Audience under Multiparty Government	17
How Parties React to Voter Transitions	17
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements	16
Party over Pocketbook? How Party Cues Influence Opinion When Citizens Have a Stake in Policy	16
Blood is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China	16
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis	16
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	16
UN Peacekeeping and the Rule of Law	16
Workplace Contact and Support for Anti-Immigration Parties	16
Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings	16
Moderates	16
Four Costly Signaling Mechanisms	16
Close to Home: Place-Based Mobilization in Racialized Contexts	16
Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States	15
Why Parties Displace Their Voters: Gentrification, Coalitional Change, and the Demise of Public Housing	15
A Framework for Measuring Leaders’ Willingness to Use Force	15
Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach	15
Citizens as Complicits: Distrust in Politicians and Biased Social Dissemination of Political Information	15
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti	15
Intellectualism, Anti-Intellectualism, and Epistemic Hubris in Red and Blue America	15
A Dynamic Model of Speech for the Social Sciences	15
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	15
Do Policy Makers Listen to Experts? Evidence from a National Survey of Local and State Policy Makers	14
Measuring Misperceptions?	14
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea	14
Human Rights are (Increasingly) Plural: Learning the Changing Taxonomy of Human Rights from Large-scale Text Reveals Information Effects	14
Representing Silence in Politics	14
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development	13
Unrepresentative Claims: Speaking for Oneself in a Social Movement	13
Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime	13
Counter-Majoritarian Democracy: Persistent Minorities, Federalism, and the Power of Numbers	13
The Electoral System, the Party System and Accountability in Parliamentary Government	13
Does Health Vulnerability Predict Voting for Right-Wing Populist Parties in Europe?	13
Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States	13
Impassioned Democracy: The Roles of Emotion in Deliberative Theory	13
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns	13
A Plague on Politics? The COVID Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation	13
Liberal Displacement Policies Attract Forced Migrants in the Global South	13
Learning to Dislike Your Opponents: Political Socialization in the Era of Polarization	12
The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections	12
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland	12
How Do Campaign Spending Limits Affect Elections? Evidence from the United Kingdom 1885–2019	12
Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics	12
From Thin to Thick Representation: How a Female President Shapes Female Parliamentary Behavior	12
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia	12
The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors	12
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	12
The Partisan Logic of City Mobilization: Evidence from State Lobbying Disclosures	12
“It’s Like Shouting to a Brick Wall”: Normative Whiteness and Racism in the European Parliament	12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots	12
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	12
Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections	12
“Clocks Must Always Be Turned Back”:Brown v. Board of Educationand the Racial Origins of Constitutional Originalism	11
Coalitional Lobbying and Intersectional Representation in American Rulemaking	11
Constitutional Origins and Liberal Democracy: A Global Analysis, 1900–2015	11
When Are Legislators Responsive to Ethnic Minorities? Testing the Role of Electoral Incentives and Candidate Selection for Mitigating Ethnocentric Responsiveness	11
Flight to Safety: COVID-Induced Changes in the Intensity of Status Quo Preference and Voting Behavior	11
Women’s Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination	11
The Logic of Kidnapping in Civil War: Evidence from Colombia	11
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability	11
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	11
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan	11
Weak, Despotic, or Inclusive? How State Type Emerges from State versus Civil Society Competition	11
Electoral Accountability and Particularistic Legislation: Evidence from an Electoral Reform in Mexico	11
Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the US Refugee Ban	11
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	11
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis	11
The Wane of Command: Evidence on Drone Strikes and Control within Terrorist Organizations	11