OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Political Studies is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Corruption and Trust: Theoretical Considerations and Evidence From Mexico	236
Comparative Pork Barrel Politics	144
From Above and Below	142
Interaction Effects in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems	140
Changing Values in Advanced Industrial Societies	125
Gender Quotas, Electoral Laws, and the Election of Women	118
Populism as a Problem of Social Integration	109
Incentives to Cultivate a Party Vote in Candidate-centric Electoral Systems	104
Lessons from Strange Cases	98
From Socialism to Social Democracy	98
The Structural Determinants of Democratic Consolidation	97
Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation	91
Learning From Others	89
With a Little Help from my Friends	85
Gender Quotas, Electoral Laws, and the Election of Women	84
Women’s Political Engagement Under Quota-Mandated Female Representation	83
Decentralization and the Development of Nationalized Party Systems in New Democracies: Evidence From Latin America	82
Lying or Believing? Measuring Preference Falsification From a Political Purge in China	82
Government Responsiveness in the European Union: Evidence From Council Voting	81
Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power	80
With a Little Help From The People? The Role of Public Opinion in Advocacy Success	80
Economic Conditions and Incumbent Support in Africa's New Democracies	79
From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy	78
Ideological Congruence and Citizen Satisfaction: Evidence From 25 Advanced Democracies	70
Explaining Vote Switching Across First- and Second-Order Elections	70

Long-Term Economic Distress, Cultural Backlash, and Support for Brexit	66
From Patronage to Program	65
Shadows From the Past: Party System Institutionalization in Asia	63
Electoral System Effects on Women's Representation	59
Value Orientations From the World Values Survey	57
Political Participation in a New Democracy	57
Automation and the Welfare State: Technological Change as a Determinant of Redistribution Preferences	56
Out of the Cabinet	56
Women Politicians, Institutions, and Perceptions of Corruption	56
From Local Strongman to Facilitator	54
The Stability of Party Identification in Western Democracies	53
Nationalism and Ethnic-Based Trust	49
How Can International Organizations Shape National Welfare States?	49
Careerists Versus Coal-Miners: Welfare Reforms and the Substantive Representation of Social Groups in the British Labour Party	48
The Politics of Trade-Offs: Studying the Dynamics of Welfare State Reform With Conjoint Experiments	47
The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State	45
Authoritarian Institutions and Women’s Rights	44
How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants	44
From Methodology to Practice	44
From Formlessness to Structure? The Institutionalization of Competitive Party Systems in Africa	44
Clientelism as Persuasion-Buying	42
From "Grand Coalition" To Left-Right Confrontation	41
Political Parties, Party Systems, and Democracy in East Asia	41
Proportionality and Turnout	41
Rights for Same-Sex Couples and Public Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians in Europe	40
Bailouts, Budget Constraints, and Leviathans	39
Attitudes Toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence From the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan	38
Coalition Agreements, Issue Attention, and Cabinet Governance	38
Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in the Dominican Republic	38
Political Scale and Electoral Turnout: Evidence From the Less Industrialized World	38
The Evolution of the Immigration Debate: Evidence from a New Dataset of Party Positions Over the Last Half-Century	37
How Sanctions Affect Public Opinion in Target Countries: Experimental Evidence From Israel	36
Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico’s Drug War	36
Do Parties “Playing the Race Card” Undermine Natives’ Support for Redistribution? Evidence From Europe	36
The Ethnic Logic of Campaign Strategy in Diverse Societies	35
Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt	35
Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence From Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs	35
Economic Sanctions and Public Opinion: Survey Experiments From Russia	34
Refining the Oil Curse	34
Social Networks and the Targeting of Vote Buying	33
Political Competition as an Obstacle to Judicial Independence: Evidence From Russia and Ukraine	33
Local Elections in Authoritarian Regimes	33
Pulling the Strings? The Strategic Use of Pro-Government Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes	32
In-Group Loyalty and the Punishment of Corruption	31
Framing by the Flock: Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success	30
In Whose Interest? Gender and Mass–Elite Priority Congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa	30
Economic Hardship and Policy Preferences in the Eurozone Periphery	30