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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	94
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	89
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	67
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	66
The Pigmentocracy of Executive Approval	62
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	61
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	60
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	55
A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis	44
Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia	40
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	39
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	38
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	36
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	34
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	32
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution: Causes and Electoral Implications Across Europe	32
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	31
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	31
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	29
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	26
Fairness and Support for Populist Parties	26
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	26
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	26
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	25
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	22

The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe	22
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	20
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion: Evidence From Poland	19
Persecuted Minorities and Defensive Cooperation: Contributions to Public Goods by Hindus and Muslims in Delhi	18
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	18
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	18
Benefits by Luck: A Study of Lotteries as a Selection Method for Government Programs	18
Candidate Debates and Partisan Divisions Evidence From Malawi’s 2019 Presidential Elections	18
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	18
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	17
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	16
How Moral Beliefs Influence Collective Violence. Evidence From Lynching in Mexico	16
Do Women Prefer In-Group Police Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence From India	16
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	16
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development	16
Domestic Legitimacy, Coethnics Abroad, and the Shape of the Homeland	15
When Does the Public Get It Right? The Information Environment and the Accuracy of Economic Sentiment	14
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	14
Message or Messenger? Source and Labeling Effects in Authoritarian Response to Protest	14
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	14
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	13
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	13
Voters and the IMF: Experimental Evidence From European Crisis Countries	13
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	13
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	13
At the Intersection of Gender and Class: How Were Newly Enfranchised Women Mobilized in Sweden?	13
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	13
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	12
Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes: A Survey Experiment in Post-Coup Myanmar	12
When Running for Office Runs in the Family: Horizontal Dynasties, Policy, and Development in the Philippines	12
Populist Discourse and Public Support for Executive Aggrandizement in Latin America	12
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	12
The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro	11
How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies	11
Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel	11
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence From Patents	11
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	11
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	11
Beyond the Myth of Legality? Framing Effects and Public Reactions to High Court Decisions in Europe	11
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	11
Centralization, Elite Capture, and Service Provision: Evidence From Taiwan	11
Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors	10
Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil	10
International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships	10
State Absence, Vengeance, and the Logic of Vigilantism in Guatemala	9
Mobilization Capacity and Violence Against Local Leaders: Anticlerical Violence During the Spanish Civil War	9
The Energy Transition and Support for the Radical Right: Evidence from the Netherlands	9
The Diffusion of Exclusion: Medieval Expulsions of Jews	9
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	9
The Political Resource Blessing or Curse? Patronage Networks, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Development in China	9

Personal Proximity and Reactions to Terrorism	9
Constituency Service and Electoral Accountability in Autocratic Legislatures	9
Criminal Victimization and Agency Attitudes in Mexico	9
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	9
Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction	9
Inequality, Exclusion, and Tolerance for Political Dissent in Latin America	8
What Kind of Democracy Do We All Support? How Partisan Interest Impacts a Citizen’s Conceptualization of Democracy	8
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa	8
“This is what the Bolsheviks do”: How Democratic Politicians Use Foreign Revolutions to Attract Voters	8
Parliament, People or Technocrats? Explaining Mass Public Preferences on Delegation of Policymaking Authority	8
The Holocaust, the Socialization of Victimhood and Outgroup Political Attitudes in Israel	8
Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset	8
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	8
Enumerator Experiences in Violent Research Environments	8