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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	93
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	80
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	73
When Running for Office Runs in the Family: Horizontal Dynasties, Policy, and Development in the Philippines	49
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	41
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	41
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	39
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	38
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	31
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	28
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	28
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	27
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	27
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	25
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	23
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	22
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	22
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	22
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	21
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	20
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	19
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	18
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	18
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	18
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	17

Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	17
The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	17
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	16
The Reach of the State	16
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	16
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	15
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	15
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	15
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	15
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	15
Violence and Business Interest in Social Welfare: Evidence from Mexico	14
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	14
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	13
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	13
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	13
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	13
Politically Connected Owners	13
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	13
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	13
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	13
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	12
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate	12
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	12
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	12
Credit Claiming by Labeling	12
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda	12
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	12
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	11
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	11
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	11
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	11
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	11
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	10
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	10
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	10
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	10
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	10
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	10
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	10
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
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	9
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	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 Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	9
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	8
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	8

Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	8
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	8
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	8
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	8
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	8
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	8
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	8
Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019)	7
When Strength Becomes Weakness: Precolonial State Development, Monopoly on Violence, and Civil War	7
Collective Decision-Making and the Economic Vote	7
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	7
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	7
Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?	7
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	7
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	7
Feelings of Trust, Distrust and Risky Decision-Making in Political Office. An Experimental Study With National Politicians in Three Democracies	7
Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence From Local Audits in Mexico	7
Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties	7
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	7