OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Political Studies is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Declining Middle: Occupational Change, Social Status, and the Populist Right	114
Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach	95
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice	58
Attitudes Toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence From the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan	56
Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right	55
Countering Violence Against Women by Encouraging Disclosure: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda	48
The Politics of Vigilantism	47
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	45
Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany’s Eastern Regions	43
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	40
Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Degradation and Radical Right Support—The Case of British Pub Closures	37
Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support	34
Dictators and Their Subjects: Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies	34
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	33
Legislatures and Legislative Politics Without Democracy	33
Partisanship and Autocratization: Polarization, Power Asymmetry, and Partisan Social Identities in Turkey	33
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	29
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	29
Bureaucracy and Growth	28
Brexit Domino? The Political Contagion Effects of Voter-endorsed Withdrawals from International Institutions	28
When “Fake News” Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country	26
Will Women Executives Reduce Corruption? Marginalization and Network Inclusion	25
Economic Distress and Support for Radical Right Parties—Evidence From Sweden	24
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	24
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	24

The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	23
Contextual Effects of Immigrant Presence on Populist Radical Right Support: Testing the “Halo Effect” on Front National Voting in France	22
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	21
Competing for Loyalists? How Party Positioning Affects Populist Radical Right Voting	21
Chaos on Campus: Universities and Mass Political Protest	21
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	20
What Drives Unequal Policy Responsiveness? Assessing the Role of Informational Asymmetries in Economic Policy-Making	20
Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism	18
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	18
Policy-Making in Multi-Level Systems: Ideology, Authority, and Education	17
Gender and Dynastic Political Selection	17
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy	16
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	15
The Power to Resist: Mobilization and the Logic of Terrorist Attacks in Civil War	15
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	15
The Role of Corporate Political Connections in Commercial Lawsuits: Evidence From Chinese Courts	15
A Decline in the Social Status of the Working Class? Conflicting Evidence for 8 Western Countries, 1987–2017	14
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	14
Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type	14
Civilian Contention in Civil War: How Ideational Factors Shape Community Responses to Armed Groups	14
Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile	13
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	13
Does Class-Based Campaigning Work? How Working Class Appeals Attract and Polarize Voters	13
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	13
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	13
Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble	13
The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics	12
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	12
How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey	12
Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	12
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility	11
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	11
The Gender Gap in Political Clientelism: Problem-Solving Networks and the Division of Political Work in Argentina	11
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	11
Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees	11
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	10
Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together	10
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	10
Voter and Legislator Responses to Localized Trade Shocks from China in Brazil	10
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	10
From Benefits and Beneficiaries: The Historical Origins of Old-Age Pensions From a Political Regime Perspective	10
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	10
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	10
State Dependency and the Limits of Middle Class Support for Democracy	10
Political Corruption Cycles: High-Frequency Evidence from Argentina’s Notebooks Scandal	10
Political Institutions and Coups in Dictatorships	10
Electoral Preferences Among Multiethnic Voters in Africa	9
Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico	9
Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat	9
Election Administration, Resource Allocation, and Turnout: Evidence From Kenya	9

Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia	9
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	9
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How Political Alignment Shapes Electoral Backlash from Natural Disasters	9
Status-quo or Grievance Coalitions: The Logic of Cross-ethnic Campaign Appeals in Africa’s Highly Diverse States	9
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	9
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	9