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

Article	Citations
More Turnover, Less Turnout? Domestic Migration and Political Participation Across Communities	195
International Border Restrictions During COVID-19 as Global Health Security Theatre	114
Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization	75
Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World	55
In the Shadows of Great Men: Retired Leaders and Informal Power Constraints in Autocracies	49
The Gendered Cost of Politics	41
Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy	36
Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments	34
Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach	33
JPS volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	31
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost?	30
Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict	29
Shaping Electoral Outcomes: Intra- and Anti-systemic Violence in Indian Assembly Elections	29
Connections as Liabilities: The Cost of the Politics–Business Revolving Door in China	28
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination	26
Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020)	26
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue	25
Party Origins, Party Infrastructural Strength, and Governance Outcomes	24
The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies	24
Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Discussions - ERRATUM	23
Voter Sexism and Electoral Penalties for Women Candidates: Evidence from Four Democracies	23
Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes	22
Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue	22
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia	22
The First Wave of Globalization and Electoral Populism in the United States	21

Capturing the Fourth Estate: Government Influence on US Newspaper Coverage of Foreign Leaders	20
Measuring Descriptive Representation at Scale: Methods for Predicting the Race and Ethnicity of Public Officials	20
Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly	18
The Causal Effect of Affluence on Voter Turnout: New Evidence from Lottery Winnings	18
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union	17
Do Voters Pay Attention to Transnational Politics? Party Positions, Transnational Families, and Voter Perceptions	17
Democratic Satisfaction and the Public Sphere	16
Descriptive or Partisan Representation? Examining Trade-Offs for Asian Americans	16
Modern Family? The Gendered Effects of Marriage and Childbearing on Voter Turnout	16
Granting Immigrants the Right to Vote in National Elections: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data	15
How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?	14
Stable Views in a Time of Tumult: Assessing Trends in US Public Opinion, 2007–20	14
Strategies of a Rising Power: Chinese Economic Influence in Regional International Organizations	14
Taxation and Social Intermediaries: Experimental Evidence from Lagos, Nigeria	13
The Islamist Advantage: The Religious Infrastructure of Electoral Victory	12
Uncovering Mutual Understanding on Immigration with Open-Ended Survey Questions	12
Defending the Status Quo or Seeking Change? Electoral Outcomes, Affective Polarization, and Support for Referendums	12
Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders	12
Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success	12
Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination	12
Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict	12
Anchoring Vignettes as a Diagnostic Tool for Cross-National (in)Comparability of Survey Measures: The Case of Voters’ Left-Right Self-Placement	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
When Do Citizens Consider Political Parties Legitimate?	11
How Are Social Groups Linked to the Vote? Social Group Perceptions and Party Choice	11
Intergenerational Social Mobility, Political Socialization and Support for the Left under Post-industrial Realignment	11
Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy	11
Revisiting the Link between Politicians’ Salaries and Corruption	11
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data	10
Not Getting the Message on Climate? Attention as a Key Barrier to Mass-Marketing Experimentally-Validated Messages	10
Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections	10
Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders	10
Harmful Side Effects: How Government Restrictions against Transnational Civil Society Affect Global Health	10
The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence	10
Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment	10
Strategic Interdependence: Using Internet Outage Data to Study How Combatants Manage Collective Institutions During War	10
Early Money and Strategic Candidate Exit	10
Austerity and Social Spending: Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Adjustment	10
Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals	10
How Local Context Affects Populist Radical Right Support: A Cross-National Investigation Into Mediated and Moderated Relationships	10
Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy?	9
The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-Right Parties	9
Compensation and Tax Fairness: Evidence From Four Countries	9
The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence	9
Less Human Than Human: Threat, Language, and Relative Dehumanization	9
The Missing Link: Technological Change, Dual VET, and Social Policy Preferences	8
When Legislators Do Not Differentiate: A Field Experiment on British MPs’ Responses to Constituent Policy Queries	8
House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents	8
Estimating the Impact of Drone Strikes on Civilians Using Call Detail Records	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
National Attachment, Past In-Group Perpetratorhood, and Out-Group Attitudes	8
Evidence Can Change Partisan Minds but Less So in Hostile Contexts	8
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
Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful?	7
Young People Punish Undemocratic Behaviour Less Than Older People	7
Toeing the Party Line: The Asymmetric Influence of Feminism on Partisans' Participation	7
Clicks and Stones: Women Politicians and Gendered Hostility Online	7
What You See and What You Get: Direct and Indirect Political Dividends of Public Policies	7
Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems	7
Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization?	7
Digital Interdependence and Power Politics	7
Three Is a Crowd: Information and Electoral Coordination in Argentina	7
Trustworthy Media and Gender Gaps in Political Participation after Civil War: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia	7
Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power	7
Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition	7
Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament	7
Does Austerity Cause Polarization?	6
Believing What Politicians Communicate: Ideological Presentation of Self and Voters’ Perceptions of Politician Ideology	6
Parties’ Ideological Cores and Peripheries: Examining How Parties Balance Adaptation and Continuity in Their Manifestos	6
Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval	6
Legislator Dissent Does Not Affect Electoral Outcomes	6
The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women	6
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World	6
Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia	6
Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy	6
Conflict Abroad and Political Trust at Home: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	6
External Threats, Capacity, and Repression: How the Threat of War Affects Political Development and Physical Integrity Rights	6
Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions	6
Why Politicians Won't Apologize: Communication Effects in the Aftermath of Sex Scandals	6
Working Mothers and Political Daughters: Intergenerational Dynamics of Women's Political Officeholding	6