OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Political Science is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
More Turnover, Less Turnout? Domestic Migration and Political Participation Across Communities	174
International Border Restrictions During COVID-19 as Global Health Security Theatre	98
Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization	58
Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World	53
Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments	48
In the Shadows of Great Men: Retired Leaders and Informal Power Constraints in Autocracies	43
Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach	43
The Gendered Cost of Politics	35
Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy	35
JPS volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	31
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost?	30
Connections as Liabilities: The Cost of the Politics–Business Revolving Door in China	27
Shaping Electoral Outcomes: Intra- and Anti-systemic Violence in Indian Assembly Elections	26
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination	25
Public Demand for Extraterritorial Environmental and Social Public Goods Provision	25
Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict	24
The Politics of Intersecting Crises: The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Climate Policy Preferences	23
Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020)	23
Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Discussions - ERRATUM	22
The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies	21
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia	21
Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue	21
Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes	20
Voter Sexism and Electoral Penalties for Women Candidates: Evidence from Four Democracies	20
Party Origins, Party Infrastructural Strength, and Governance Outcomes	19

The First Wave of Globalization and Electoral Populism in the United States	19
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union	18
Capturing the Fourth Estate: Government Influence on US Newspaper Coverage of Foreign Leaders	18
The Causal Effect of Affluence on Voter Turnout: New Evidence from Lottery Winnings	18
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue	18
Measuring Descriptive Representation at Scale: Methods for Predicting the Race and Ethnicity of Public Officials	18
Descriptive or Partisan Representation? Examining Trade-Offs for Asian Americans	17
Do Voters Pay Attention to Transnational Politics? Party Positions, Transnational Families, and Voter Perceptions	16
Modern Family? The Gendered Effects of Marriage and Childbearing on Voter Turnout	16
Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly	16
The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization – ERRATUM	15
Defending the Status Quo or Seeking Change? Electoral Outcomes, Affective Polarization, and Support for Referendums	15
Stable Views in a Time of Tumult: Assessing Trends in US Public Opinion, 2007–20	15
Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict	14
Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success	14
Taxation and Social Intermediaries: Experimental Evidence from Lagos, Nigeria	14
How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?	14
Granting Immigrants the Right to Vote in National Elections: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data	13
Uncovering Mutual Understanding on Immigration with Open-Ended Survey Questions	13
The Islamist Advantage: The Religious Infrastructure of Electoral Victory	12
Strategies of a Rising Power: Chinese Economic Influence in Regional International Organizations	12
When Do Citizens Consider Political Parties Legitimate?	11
Intergenerational Social Mobility, Political Socialization and Support for the Left under Post-industrial Realignment	11
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia	11
Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination	11
Strategic Interdependence: Using Internet Outage Data to Study How Combatants Manage Collective Institutions During War	11
Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders	11
Revisiting the Link between Politicians’ Salaries and Corruption	11
Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy	10
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data	10
Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders	10
How Are Social Groups Linked to the Vote? Social Group Perceptions and Party Choice	10
The Friday Effect: How Communal Religious Practice Heightens Exclusionary Attitudes	10
Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment	10
How Local Context Affects Populist Radical Right Support: A Cross-National Investigation Into Mediated and Moderated Relationships	10
Anchoring Vignettes as a Diagnostic Tool for Cross-National (in)Comparability of Survey Measures: The Case of Voters’ Left-Right Self-Placement	10
Early Money and Strategic Candidate Exit	10
The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-Right Parties	9
Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals	9
Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections	9
Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy?	9
Not Getting the Message on Climate? Attention as a Key Barrier to Mass-Marketing Experimentally-Validated Messages	9
Harmful Side Effects: How Government Restrictions against Transnational Civil Society Affect Global Health	9
Identifying Patterns in the Structural Drivers of Intrastate Conflict	9
The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence	9
Austerity and Social Spending: Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Adjustment	9
Double-Edged Bullets: The Conditional Effect of Terrorism on Vote for the Incumbent	9
JPS volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
National Attachment, Past In-Group Perpetratorhood, and Out-Group Attitudes	8
Less Human Than Human: Threat, Language, and Relative Dehumanization	8

Compensation and Tax Fairness: Evidence From Four Countries	8
The Missing Link: Technological Change, Dual VET, and Social Policy Preferences	8
Estimating the Impact of Drone Strikes on Civilians Using Call Detail Records	8
JPS volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8
The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence	8
Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana	8
Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament	7
Digital Interdependence and Power Politics	7
The Populist Radical Right as Memory Entrepreneur? The Prominence, Sentiment, and Interpretations of History in the German Parliament	7
Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process	7
Three Is a Crowd: Information and Electoral Coordination in Argentina	7
Evidence Can Change Partisan Minds but Less So in Hostile Contexts	7
Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization?	7
What You See and What You Get: Direct and Indirect Political Dividends of Public Policies	7
Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition	7
Toeing the Party Line: The Asymmetric Influence of Feminism on Partisans' Participation	7
Young People Punish Undemocratic Behaviour Less Than Older People	7
House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents	7
Clicks and Stones: Women Politicians and Gendered Hostility Online	7
Parties’ Ideological Cores and Peripheries: Examining How Parties Balance Adaptation and Continuity in Their Manifestos	6
Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions	6
Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful?	6
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World	6
The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women	6
Believing What Politicians Communicate: Ideological Presentation of Self and Voters’ Perceptions of Politician Ideology	6
External Threats, Capacity, and Repression: How the Threat of War Affects Political Development and Physical Integrity Rights	6
Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems	6
Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia	6
Does Austerity Cause Polarization?	6
Trustworthy Media and Gender Gaps in Political Participation after Civil War: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia	6
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power	6