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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes	144
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	129
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	106
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	84
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	81
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	78
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	77
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	77
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	73
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	71
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	62
Contested Governance and Civilian Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in India	61
Replication of “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega 2024)	61
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	61
The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone	60
Elite Partisan Disagreement and Military Victory: Evidence from South Korean Battle Experiments	55
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	53
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	51
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	47
Structural Responsibility	45
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	44
Notes from the Editors: New Tracks at the APSR	42
PSR volume 119 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	41
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	40
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	38

Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	38
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	37
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	36
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	35
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	34
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	33
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	31
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	31
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	31
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	30
The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India	30
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance	30
Attitudes Toward Electoral System Reform and Party System Change in the U.S.	28
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020	28
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?	27
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd	27
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy	27
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity	27
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution	27
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	27
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations	27
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation	25
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings	25
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data	25
Curation Bubbles	25
Exiting Russia	24
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM	24
The Cornered Mouse: Sanctioned Elites and Authoritarian Realignment in the Japanese Legislature, 1936–1942	23
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans	23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”	23
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced	23
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution	23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe	23
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM	23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance	23
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM	22
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes	22
PSR volume 120 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	22
Mapping the Political Contours of the Regulatory State: Dynamic Estimates of Agency Ideal Points	21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy	21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared	21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South	21
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures	20
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology	20
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism	20
Legislative Effectiveness, Progressive Ambition, and Electoral Success	20
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup	20
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico	20
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing	19

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico	19
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War	19
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship	19
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices	19
PSR volume 120 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	19
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States	19
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests	18
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy	18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank	18
Partisan Leaning	18
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations	18
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques	18
Coethnics Covote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Covoting Regression Model	18
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM	18
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party	18
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism	18
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice	18
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries	18
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals	17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders	17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below	17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany	17
“Moderates”	16
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records	16
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle	16
The Expressive Duty to Vote	16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact	16
New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research	16
Claimability in International Relations: Oil Discoveries, Territorial Claims, and Interstate Conflicts	16
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM	15
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities	15
The Class Ceiling in Politics	15
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber	15
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion	15
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization	15
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation	15
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe	14
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians	14
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes	14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes	14
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022	13
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation	13
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category	13
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming	13
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism	13
Still Instrumentally Inclusive	13
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust	13
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems	12
PSR volume 119 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	12
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models	12
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level	12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM	12
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak	12
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data	12
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community	12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece	12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	12
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism	12
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire	12
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils	12