OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Political Science is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Extraordinary Relationship between Peacekeeping and Peace	84
Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century	44
Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey	40
Cultural Backlash? How (Not) to Explain the Rise of Authoritarian Populism	38
The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged: Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths	36
Process vs. Outcome? How to Evaluate the Effects of Participatory Processes on Legitimacy Perceptions	35
Who Dislikes Whom? Affective Polarization between Pairs of Parties in Western Democracies	35
The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC)	34
Terrorism and Migration: An Overview	31
Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation – A Multi-Country Survey Experiment	30
Revealing Issue Salience via Costly Protest: How Legislative Behavior Following Protest Advantages Low-Resource Groups	28
When Does Accommodation Work? Electoral Effects of Mainstream Left Position Taking on Immigration	26
The Effect of Austerity Packages on Government Popularity During the Great Recession	25
The Role of Communities in the Transmission of Political Values: Evidence from Forced Population Transfers	24
Gender Stereotyping and the Electoral Success of Women Candidates: New Evidence from Local Elections in the United States	24
Democracy, Autocracy, and Everything in Between: How Domestic Institutions Affect Environmental Protection	24
More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public	24
Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility	22
Militarization and Perceptions of Law Enforcement in the Developing World: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Mexico	22
(Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy Making	21
No Longer Conforming to Stereotypes? Gender, Political Style and Parliamentary Debate in the UK	20
Value Shift: Immigration Attitudes and the Sociocultural Divide	20
Does Immigration Produce a Public Backlash or Public Acceptance? Time-Series, Cross-Sectional Evidence from Thirty European Democracies	19
The Comparative Legislators Database	19
Civic Education in High School and Voter Turnout in Adulthood	17

The Effects of China's Development Projects on Political Accountability	17
When Autocrats Threaten Citizens with Violence: Evidence from China	17
The Origins of Colonial Investments in Former British and French Africa	17
Who Gets What: The Economy, Relative Gains and Brexit	16
Against the Flow: Differentiating Between Public Opposition to the Immigration Stock and Flow	16
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums	16
How do Public Officials Learn About Policy? A Field Experiment on Policy Diffusion	16
Identifying Ideologues: A Global Dataset on Political Leaders, 1945–2020	16
Global Capital Cycles and Market Discipline: Perceptions of Developing-Country Borrowers	15
The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy	15
Do Disabled Candidates Represent Disabled Citizens?	15
Are Populists Sore Losers? Explaining Populist Citizens' Preferences for and Reactions to Referendums	14
Do Investor–State Disputes (Still) Harm FDI?	14
The Effects of Dehumanizing Attitudes about Black People on Whites’ Voting Decisions	14
Candidate Filtering: The Strategic Use of Electoral Manipulations in Russia	14
How Credit Markets Substitute for Welfare States and Influence Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from US States	13
Disaggregating Civility: Politeness, Public-Mindedness and Their Connection	13
The British Academy Brian Barry Prize EssayWhy Is There No Just Riot Theory?	12
Public Distrust in Disputed Elections: Evidence from Latin America	12
The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey	12
Political Knowledge and Misinformation in the Era of Social Media: Evidence From the 2015 UK Election	12
Constitutional Rigidity Matters: A Veto Players Approach	11
Do Stereotypes Explain Discrimination Against Minority Candidates or Discrimination in Favor of Majority Candidates?	11
Does Austerity Cause Polarization?	11
Can Elites Escape Blame by Explaining Themselves? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite Explanations	11
Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections	11
To Purge or Not to Purge? An Individual-Level Quantitative Analysis of Elite Purges in Dictatorships	11
When Does Income Inequality Cause Polarization?	10
Understanding Ambivalent Sexism and its Relationship with Electoral Choice in Britain	10
Democratizing the Party: The Effects of Primary Election Reforms in Ghana	10
An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity	9
The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence	9
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-national Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia	9
Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes	9
Partisan External Borrowing in Middle-Income Countries	9
Political Equality and Substantive Representation by Interest Groups	9
The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions	9
Rethinking Women's Interests: An Inductive and Intersectional Approach to Defining Women's Policy Priorities	8
Who Deserves European Solidarity? How Recipient Characteristics Shaped Public Support for International Medical and Financial Aid during COVID-19	8
Connections as Liabilities: The Cost of the Politics–Business Revolving Door in China	8
Partisan Misalignment and the Counter-Partisan Response: How National Politics Conditions Majority-Party Policy Making in the American States	8
The Interaction of Structural Factors and Diffusion in Social Unrest: Evidence from the Swing Riots	8
Protecting the Vote? Peacekeeping Presence and the Risk of Electoral Violence	8
Did Terrorism Affect Voting in the Brexit Referendum?	8
When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms	8
From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda	8
With Frenemies Like These: Rising Power Voting Behavior in the UN General Assembly	8
Informal Work, Risk, and Clientelism: Evidence from 223 Slums across India	7
Pronoun Usage as a Measure of Power Personalization: A General Theory with Evidence from the Chinese-Speaking World	7
Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion toward Egalitarian Gender Roles in the Public Sphere	7

The Long Shadow of Agrarian Conflict: Agrarian Inequality and Voting in Spain	7
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue	7
Sanctuary Cities in Europe? A Policy Survey of Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants	7
Where Is Presidential Power? Measuring Presidential Discretion Using Experts	7
Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Predict Divergent Responses to COVID-19	7
Why Don't Partisans Sanction Electoral Malpractice?	7