OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Political Science Review is 10. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter	206
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests	149
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments	85
Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting	78
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	64
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India	62
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”	57
Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections	57
Gender, Candidate Emotional Expression, and Voter Reactions During Televised Debates	55
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences	51
Understanding and Reducing Biases in Elite Beliefs About the Electorate	48
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes	47
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits	47
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support	47
To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office	46
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change	45
Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments	42
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis	39
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy	38
Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies	37
Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories Can Promote Inclusion	35
The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps	35
Suppressing Black Votes: A Historical Case Study of Voting Restrictions in Louisiana	34
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding	34
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective	33

Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments	33
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	32
Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building	31
Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide	31
Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments	31
Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South	30
Public Perceptions of Women’s Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy	30
Democratic Subversion: Elite Cooptation and Opposition Fragmentation	29
Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance	29
The Elite–Citizen Gap in International Organization Legitimacy	29
The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return	29
Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries	28
Moderates	27
Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems	26
The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors	26
Learning to Dislike Your Opponents: Political Socialization in the Era of Polarization	26
Pride amid Prejudice: The Influence of LGBT+ Rights Activism in a Socially Conservative Society	26
When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation	24
Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England	23
The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections	23
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma	23
Four Costly Signaling Mechanisms	23
Campaign Finance Regulations and Public Policy	23
Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States	22
When Unfamiliarity Breeds Contempt: How Partisan Selective Exposure Sustains Oppositional Media Hostility	22
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?	22
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis	21
Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach	21
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	21
Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings	21
Does Political Oversight of the Bureaucracy Increase Accountability? Field Experimental Evidence from a Dominant Party Regime	20
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	20
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis	20
Intellectualism, Anti-Intellectualism, and Epistemic Hubris in Red and Blue America	19
A Dynamic Model of Speech for the Social Sciences	19
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns	19
Party over Pocketbook? How Party Cues Influence Opinion When Citizens Have a Stake in Policy	19
How Do Campaign Spending Limits Affect Elections? Evidence from the United Kingdom 1885–2019	19
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements	18
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti	18
Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States	18
Liberal Displacement Policies Attract Forced Migrants in the Global South	18
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	18
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea	18
Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime	18
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia	18
Blood is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China	18
Workplace Contact and Support for Anti-Immigration Parties	18
The Logic of Kidnapping in Civil War: Evidence from Colombia	17
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	17

Close to Home: Place-Based Mobilization in Racialized Contexts	17
Measuring Misperceptions?	17
Do Policy Makers Listen to Experts? Evidence from a National Survey of Local and State Policy Makers	17
Counter-Majoritarian Democracy: Persistent Minorities, Federalism, and the Power of Numbers	17
Why Parties Displace Their Voters: Gentrification, Coalitional Change, and the Demise of Public Housing	17
Weak, Despotic, or Inclusive? How State Type Emerges from State versus Civil Society Competition	16
Policing, Democratic Participation, and the Reproduction of Asymmetric Citizenship	16
The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform	16
Effectiveness of Incumbent’s Strategic Communication during Economic Crisis under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey	16
Unrepresentative Claims: Speaking for Oneself in a Social Movement	16
Flight to Safety: COVID-Induced Changes in the Intensity of Status Quo Preference and Voting Behavior	16
Rethinking Rape Culture: Revelations of Intersectional Analysis	16
Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics	16
A Plague on Politics? The COVID Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation	16
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland	16
Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference	15
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery	15
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development	15
From Thin to Thick Representation: How a Female President Shapes Female Parliamentary Behavior	15
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19	15
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland	15
The Paradox of Civilization: Preinstitutional Sources of Security and Prosperity	14
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes	14
Members of Parliament are Minimally Accountable for Their Issue Stances (and They Know It)	14
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan	14
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy	14
“It’s Like Shouting to a Brick Wall”: Normative Whiteness and Racism in the European Parliament	14
Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings	14
When Are Legislators Responsive to Ethnic Minorities? Testing the Role of Electoral Incentives and Candidate Selection for Mitigating Ethnocentric Responsiveness	14
Patterns of Affective Polarization toward Parties and Leaders across the Democratic World	14
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	14
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability	14
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”	13
Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the US Refugee Ban	13
Outsourcing Bureaucracy to Evade Accountability: How Public Servants Build Shadow State Capacity	13
Coalitional Lobbying and Intersectional Representation in American Rulemaking	13
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	13
Does Health Vulnerability Predict Voting for Right-Wing Populist Parties in Europe?	13
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	13
How Are Politicians Informed? Witnesses and Information Provision in Congress	12
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India	12
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich	12
Policing Insecurity	12
The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance	12
From Recognition to Integration: Indigenous Autonomy, State Authority, and National Identity in the Philippines	12
Do Violent Protests Affect Expressions of Party Identity? Evidence from the Capitol Insurrection	12
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies	12
The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources	12
“I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Constitutional Origins and Liberal Democracy: A Global Analysis, 1900–2015	11
Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework	11
How Deliberation Happens: Enabling Deliberative Reason	11
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies	11
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	11
Sustained Government Engagement Improves Subsequent Pandemic Risk Reporting In Conflict Zones	11
Acute Financial Hardship and Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence from the Sequence of Bank Working Days	11
“Clocks Must Always Be Turned Back”:Brown v. Board of Educationand the Racial Origins of Constitutional Originalism	11
Labor Migration and Climate Change Adaptation	11
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	11
Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe	11
How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a “Just Transition Agreement” on Spanish Election Results	11
Preventing Rebel Resurgence after Civil War: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia	10
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy	10
Survey Nonresponse and Mass Polarization: The Consequences of Declining Contact and Cooperation Rates	10
Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States	10
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators	10
Prejudiced When Climbing Up or When Falling Down? Why Some People of Color Express Anti-Black Racism	10
Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from Criminal Appeals in Kenya	10
The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served?	10
Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws	10