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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
More Turnover, Less Turnout? Domestic Migration and Political Participation Across Communities	166
International Border Restrictions During COVID-19 as Global Health Security Theatre	94
Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization	53
Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World	51
In the Shadows of Great Men: Retired Leaders and Informal Power Constraints in Autocracies	44
Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments	42
Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach	41
Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy	41
JPS volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	34
The Gendered Cost of Politics	34
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost?	30
Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict	28
Public Demand for Extraterritorial Environmental and Social Public Goods Provision	25
Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020)	25
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination	25
Connections as Liabilities: The Cost of the Politics–Business Revolving Door in China	24
Shaping Electoral Outcomes: Intra- and Anti-systemic Violence in Indian Assembly Elections	23
The Politics of Intersecting Crises: The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Climate Policy Preferences	21
Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Discussions - ERRATUM	21
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia	20
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue	20
The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies	20
Voter Sexism and Electoral Penalties for Women Candidates: Evidence from Four Democracies	19
Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue	19
Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes	19

Capturing the Fourth Estate: Government Influence on US Newspaper Coverage of Foreign Leaders	18
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union	18
Party Origins, Party Infrastructural Strength, and Governance Outcomes	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
The Causal Effect of Affluence on Voter Turnout: New Evidence from Lottery Winnings	17
Modern Family? The Gendered Effects of Marriage and Childbearing on Voter Turnout	16
Do Voters Pay Attention to Transnational Politics? Party Positions, Transnational Families, and Voter Perceptions	16
Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly	16
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
How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?	15
The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization – ERRATUM	15
Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success	15
Strategies of a Rising Power: Chinese Economic Influence in Regional International Organizations	14
Taxation and Social Intermediaries: Experimental Evidence from Lagos, Nigeria	14
Anchoring Vignettes as a Diagnostic Tool for Cross-National (in)Comparability of Survey Measures: The Case of Voters’ Left-Right Self-Placement	13
Granting Immigrants the Right to Vote in National Elections: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data	13
How Are Social Groups Linked to the Vote? Social Group Perceptions and Party Choice	13
Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict	13
The Islamist Advantage: The Religious Infrastructure of Electoral Victory	13
Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders	12
Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination	12
Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy	11
Revisiting the Link between Politicians’ Salaries and Corruption	11
Strategic Interdependence: Using Internet Outage Data to Study How Combatants Manage Collective Institutions During War	11
Intergenerational Social Mobility, Political Socialization and Support for the Left under Post-industrial Realignment	11
The Friday Effect: How Communal Religious Practice Heightens Exclusionary Attitudes	10
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data	10
How Local Context Affects Populist Radical Right Support: A Cross-National Investigation Into Mediated and Moderated Relationships	10
When Do Citizens Consider Political Parties Legitimate?	10
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia	10
Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders	10
Early Money and Strategic Candidate Exit	9
The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence	9
Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy?	9
Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections	9
Austerity and Social Spending: Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Adjustment	9
Harmful Side Effects: How Government Restrictions against Transnational Civil Society Affect Global Health	9
The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-Right Parties	9
Identifying Patterns in the Structural Drivers of Intrastate Conflict	9
Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment	9
Not Getting the Message on Climate? Attention as a Key Barrier to Mass-Marketing Experimentally-Validated Messages	9
Double-Edged Bullets: The Conditional Effect of Terrorism on Vote for the Incumbent	9
Estimating the Impact of Drone Strikes on Civilians Using Call Detail Records	9
Digital Interdependence and Power Politics	8
Less Human Than Human: Threat, Language, and Relative Dehumanization	8
The Missing Link: Technological Change, Dual VET, and Social Policy Preferences	8
The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence	8
Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament	8

Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana	8
JPS volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process	8
Young People Punish Undemocratic Behaviour Less Than Older People	8
Compensation and Tax Fairness: Evidence From Four Countries	8
JPS volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8
Evidence Can Change Partisan Minds but Less So in Hostile Contexts	8
Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization?	7
Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems	7
Three Is a Crowd: Information and Electoral Coordination in Argentina	7
Toeing the Party Line: The Asymmetric Influence of Feminism on Partisans' Participation	7
Clicks and Stones: Women Politicians and Gendered Hostility Online	7
Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition	7
House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents	7
Trustworthy Media and Gender Gaps in Political Participation after Civil War: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia	7
Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful?	7
The Populist Radical Right as Memory Entrepreneur? The Prominence, Sentiment, and Interpretations of History in the German Parliament	7
Parties’ Ideological Cores and Peripheries: Examining How Parties Balance Adaptation and Continuity in Their Manifestos	6
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power	6
What You See and What You Get: Direct and Indirect Political Dividends of Public Policies	6
The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women	6
Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia	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
Working Mothers and Political Daughters: Intergenerational Dynamics of Women's Political Officeholding	6
Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions	6
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World	6
Does Austerity Cause Polarization?	6
A Rainbow Ceiling? Sexual Orientation and Party Leader Evaluations	6