OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Political Science Review is 9. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy	227
State Terror and Long-Run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge	161
Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact	89
Rebel Motivations and Repression	85
Notes from the Editors	70
Rethinking Rape Culture: Revelations of Intersectional Analysis	64
List of Reviewers	57
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice	55
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests	52
PSR volume 117 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	49
PSR volume 115 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	48
Notes from the Editors: Increasing Qualitative Submissions	47
PSR volume 116 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	47
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations	45
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout	43
Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge	42
Locking Down Violence: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Non-State Actor Violence	40
Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration	39
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders	38
Collaboration and Its Political Functions	36
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	36
Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali	35
A Singular Enlightenment: C. L. R. James, Anti-Colonialism, and Transatlantic Political Thought	33
Representation from Below: How Women’s Grassroots Party Activism Promotes Equal Political Participation	33
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience	32

Participation, Development, and Accountability: A Survey Experiment on Democratic Decision-Making in Kenya	31
Hobbes and Hats	31
The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform	31
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	31
Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives: The Case of the Sugar Industry	30
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	30
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques	29
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland – CORRIGENDUM	29
State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre	29
Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic	28
India’s Farmers’ Protest: An Inclusive Vision of Indian Democracy	27
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey	26
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization	26
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery	25
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections	25
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	24
Nonunitary Parties, Government Formation, and Gamson’s Law	23
Measuring Misperceptions?	23
A Dynamic Model of Speech for the Social Sciences	23
Han Feizi on Reputation-Driven Disobedience: A Comparative Study	22
Electoral Responsiveness in Closed Autocracies: Evidence from Petitions in the former German Democratic Republic	22
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	22
Why Parties Displace Their Voters: Gentrification, Coalitional Change, and the Demise of Public Housing	21
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance	21
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	21
A Group-Based Approach to Measuring Polarization	20
Going Local: Public Attitudes toward Municipal Offices of Immigration Affairs	20
Unreported Realities: The Political Economy of Media-Sourced Data	20
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany	20
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	20
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam	20
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities	20
How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging	19
The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps – CORRIGENDUM	19
Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest	19
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods	19
My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead	19
Re-Evaluating Machine Learning for MRP Given the Comparable Performance of (Deep) Hierarchical Models	18
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding	18
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	18
Colonial Genealogies of Pluralism: Consociation as Disavowal in Contemporary Democratic Theory	18
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	18
Outsourcing Bureaucracy to Evade Accountability: How Public Servants Build Shadow State Capacity	18
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	17
Trauma and Turnout: The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events	17
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers	17
“I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	16
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party	16
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	16

Social Groups as the Source of Political Belief Systems: Fresh Evidence on an Old Theory	16
Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting	16
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	16
PSR volume 116 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	16
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments	16
Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion	16
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism	15
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	15
Partisanship and Political Socialization in Electoral Autocracies	15
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM	15
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid	15
A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights Abuses	15
Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive	14
Notes from the Editors: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for Ethical Reviews and Suspicions about Plagiarism	14
Ambiguous Platforms and Correlated Preferences: Experimental Evidence	14
The Class Ceiling in Politics	14
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	14
Turnout and Amendment Four: Mobilizing Eligible Voters Close to Formerly Incarcerated Floridians	14
Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis	14
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	14
Structural Responsibility	14
Selecting Out of “Politics”: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation	14
The Paradox of Civilization: Preinstitutional Sources of Security and Prosperity	14
How to Read James Fitzjames Stephen: Technocracy and Pluralism in a Misunderstood Victorian	14
Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings – Corrigendum	14
Notes from the Editors	14
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	13
Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework	13
Can Courts in Nondemocracies Deter Election Fraud? De Jure Judicial Independence, Political Competition, and Election Integrity	13
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	13
Bureaucratic Quality and the Gap between Implementation Burden and Administrative Capacities	13
Notes from the Editors	13
From Victims to Dissidents: Legacies of Violence and Popular Mobilization in Iraq (2003–2018)	13
When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands	13
Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building	13
Richard Rorty and the Demands of Liberalism	13
When Are Legislators Responsive to Ethnic Minorities? Testing the Role of Electoral Incentives and Candidate Selection for Mitigating Ethnocentric Responsiveness	12
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis	12
The Case for Permanent Residency for Frontline Workers	12
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	12
A Note on Posttreatment Selection in Studying Racial Discrimination in Policing	12
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	12
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	12
Local News and the Electoral Incentive to Invest in Infrastructure	12
When Are Legislators Responsive to Ethnic Minorities? Testing the Role of Electoral Incentives and Candidate Selection for Mitigating Ethnocentric Responsiveness – ERRATUM	12
Minority Party Capacity in Congress	12
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	11
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment	11
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability	11
Can Deliberation Have Lasting Effects?	11
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness	11
The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors	11
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals	11
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	11
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	10
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	10
Failing the Test: The Countervailing Attitudinal Effects of Civil Service Examinations	10
Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition	10
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan	10
“Moderates”	10
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	10
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	10
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization	10
The Composition of Descriptive Representation	10
Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes	10
Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments	9
Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws	9
PSR volume 118 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	9
Consolidating Progress: The Selection of Female Ministers in Autocracies and Democracies	9
Introducing HiSCoD: A New Gateway for the Study of Historical Social Conflict	9
Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression – CORRIGENDUM	9
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland	9
Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings	9
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media	9
Testing the Robustness of the ANES Feeling Thermometer Indicators of Affective Polarization	9