OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Political Science Review is 12. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes	91
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	85
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	84
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	84
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	71
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	68
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	55
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	53
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	53
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	49
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	46
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	46
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	45
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	44
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	43
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	43
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	42
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	42
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	40
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	40
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	39
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance	38
Structural Responsibility	38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	37
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020	37

Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	36
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	35
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	34
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	34
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	33
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	33
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	32
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	31
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	31
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations	31
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd	31
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity	30
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy	30
Curation Bubbles	27
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans	27
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data	27
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation	27
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution	26
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	26
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?	26
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age	25
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings	25
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution	24
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced	24
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes	24
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM	24
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction	24
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe	24
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”	23
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies	23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance	23
PSR volume 116 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	23
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act	23
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures	22
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico	22
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes	22
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty	22
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM	22
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism	21
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology	21
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War	21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy	21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South	21
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy	21
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries	20
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico	20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States	20
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice	20
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing	20

Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared	20
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank	20
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices	20
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup	20
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship	19
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques	19
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?	19
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM	19
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform	19
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism	18
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests	18
Partisan Leaning	18
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations	17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders	17
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party	17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany	17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy	17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	17
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records	16
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact	16
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals	16
“Moderates”	16
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below	16
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization	16
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis	16
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes	16
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle	16
The Class Ceiling in Politics	16
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities	15
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022	15
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM	15
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia	15
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians	15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria	15
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe	15
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	15
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber	14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation	14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes	14
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category	14
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion	14
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation	13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds	13
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems	13
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	13
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM	12
PSR volume 119 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	12
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models	12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule	12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism	12
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators	12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	12
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak	12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM	12
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust	12
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma	12
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies	12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism	12
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism	12
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?	12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming	12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece	12