OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Political Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	56
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	56
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	50
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	43
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	42
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	41
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	40
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020	35
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	34
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	30
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	29
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	29
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	28
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	26
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	25
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	25
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	24
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	23
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	22
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	22
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	20
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	20
A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space	17
When Does Party Cooperation Inform Voters Judgments of Policy Proximity? A Cross-National Analysis of Heuristic Use in Multi-Party Democracies	17
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi -Experiment	16

The Reach of the State	16
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	15
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	15
Electoral Rules, Programmatic Competition, and Redistribution: Evidence From Interwar France	15
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	14
Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrant Outgroups: Evidence From Kenya	14
Hegemony, Heterogeneity, History: Varieties of Communism in Theory and Practice	14
Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-Run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa	14
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	14
The Legacy of Multi-Dimensional Conflict	14
Decision-Making in the Dark: The Asymmetric Spread of COVID-19 Policies	13
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	13
Collective Victimhood Beliefs and Conflict-Related Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis	13
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	13
Varieties of Communism	12
Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability	12
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	12
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	12
The Effects of Decentralization on Local Governance: Evidence From Ukraine	12
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	12
Politically Connected Owners	12
The Market in Smugglers: Survey Experimental Evidence on the Choice of Coyotes in Guatemala	12
Credit Claiming by Labeling	12
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	11
State-Building, Collective Efficacy, and the Co-Production of Public Goods in Rural Africa	11
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	11
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	11
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	11
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	11
Capitals Under Siege: Why Some Rebel Groups Achieve Victory While Others Fail	11
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	11
Firm-Based Origins of Anti-System Politics	11
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	10
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	10
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	10
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	10
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	10
Formal Institutions After Conflict: Rebel Ideology and Post-War Constitutional Design	10
Narratives of Backlash? Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses	10
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	9
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	9
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	9
The Local Costs of Moving: How Residential Moves Weaken Local Engagement	9
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	9
Charity Begins at Home: Domestic Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Aid	9
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	9
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	9
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	9

Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	8
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	8
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	8
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	8
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment	8
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	8
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
All Politics is Local? Evidence of Local Council Incumbency Advantage in National Elections	8
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	8
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	7
Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties	7
Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?	7
In Search of the Causes of the Globalization Backlash: Methodological Considerations on Post-treatment Bias	7
The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy	7
Communities Without Credit: The Political Implications of Deprivation in Access to Banking Services	7
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	7
Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence From Local Audits in Mexico	7
When Strength Becomes Weakness: Precolonial State Development, Monopoly on Violence, and Civil War	7
Bureaucratic Capacity and Political Favoritism in Public Procurement	7
A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis	7
Pro-Democratic, but Not Anti-Authoritarian? Understanding Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Regimes	7
Ideas or Strategy? The Impact of Populist Incumbents on Liberal Democracy	7
Only a Moment in Time? The Changing Effectiveness of Mass Mobilization on Transitions to Democracy	7
Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019)	7
Who Wants to be Legible? Digitalization and Intergroup Inequality in Kenya	7
Feelings of Trust, Distrust and Risky Decision-Making in Political Office. An Experimental Study With National Politicians in Three Democracies	7