OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Political Studies is 8. 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
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice	81
Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right	75
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	59
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	57
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	54
Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Degradation and Radical Right Support—The Case of British Pub Closures	50
Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support	47
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	44
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	40
Brexit Domino? The Political Contagion Effects of Voter-endorsed Withdrawals from International Institutions	34
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	33
Will Women Executives Reduce Corruption? Marginalization and Network Inclusion	32
Economic Distress and Support for Radical Right Parties—Evidence From Sweden	32
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy	31
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	31
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	30
The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	30
The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950–2020)	26
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	26
Competing for Loyalists? How Party Positioning Affects Populist Radical Right Voting	26
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	23
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	22
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field	22
A Decline in the Social Status of the Working Class? Conflicting Evidence for 8 Western Countries, 1987–2017	21
Policy-Making in Multi-Level Systems: Ideology, Authority, and Education	20

Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees	20
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	20
How Great is the Current Danger to Democracy? Assessing the Risk With Historical Data	17
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	17
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	16
The Way we Were: How Histories of Co-Governance Alleviate Partisan Hostility	16
The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics	16
Moralizing Immigration: Political Framing, Moral Conviction, and Polarization in the United States and Denmark	15
From Benefits and Beneficiaries: The Historical Origins of Old-Age Pensions From a Political Regime Perspective	15
Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile	15
Voter and Legislator Responses to Localized Trade Shocks from China in Brazil	14
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	14
How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey	14
Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble	14
Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together	14
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	14
Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico	13
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	13
Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	13
Political Institutions and Coups in Dictatorships	13
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	13
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	12
Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia	12
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	12
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	11
Closing Open Government: Grassroots Policy Conversion of China’s Open Government Information Regulation and Its Aftermath	11
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	11
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	11
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	11
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	11
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	11
Dealing with Technological Change: Social Policy Preferences and Institutional Context	11
How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies	11
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	11
Immigration Threat, Partisanship, and Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the US, UK, and Germany	11
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How Political Alignment Shapes Electoral Backlash from Natural Disasters	11
Collusion, Co-Optation, or Evasion: The Politics of Drug Trafficking Violence in Central America	11
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	11
Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations	10
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	10
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate	10
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	10
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	10
Crisis and Convergence: How the Combination of a Weak Economy and Mainstream Party Ideological De-Polarization Fuels Anti-System Support	10
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	10
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire	9
The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies	9
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	9
What Happens When Coups Fail? The Problem of Identifying and Weakening the Enemy Within	9
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	9

The Element of Surprise: Election Timing and Opposition Preparedness	9
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	9
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India’s Quota System	9
Oil “Rents” and Political Development: What Do We Really Know About the Curse of Natural Resources?	8
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	8
The Electoral Consequences of International Migration in Sending Countries: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	8
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	8
When Does the Public Get It Right? The Information Environment and the Accuracy of Economic Sentiment	8
Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?	8
Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors	8
The Long-Term Impact of Mobilization and Repression on Political Trust	8