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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	106
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	81
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020	47
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	47
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	46
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	37
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	35
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	30
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	29
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	28
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	27
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	27
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	27
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	26
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	25
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	24
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	23
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	22
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	20
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	19
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	19
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	19
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	19
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	19
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	19

Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	18
Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-Run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa	18
The Reach of the State	18
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	18
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	17
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	17
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	17
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	16
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	16
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	16
The Legacy of Multi-Dimensional Conflict	15
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	15
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	15
Violence and Business Interest in Social Welfare: Evidence from Mexico	15
Politically Connected Owners	15
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	15
Decision-Making in the Dark: The Asymmetric Spread of COVID-19 Policies	14
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	14
Collective Victimhood Beliefs and Conflict-Related Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis	14
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	13
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	13
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	13
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	13
Credit Claiming by Labeling	12
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda	12
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	12
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	11
Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability	11
Formal Institutions After Conflict: Rebel Ideology and Post-War Constitutional Design	11
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	11
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	11
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	10
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	10
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	10
Charity Begins at Home: Domestic Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Aid	10
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	10
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	10
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	10
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	10
Capitals Under Siege: Why Some Rebel Groups Achieve Victory While Others Fail	10
Firm-Based Origins of Anti-System Politics	10
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	10
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	10
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	9
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	9
All Politics is Local? Evidence of Local Council Incumbency Advantage in National Elections	9
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	9
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	9
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	9
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	9

How Mechanization Shapes Coups	9
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	9
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	9
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	8
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	8
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	8
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	8
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	8
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	8
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	8
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	7
Who Wants to be Legible? Digitalization and Intergroup Inequality in Kenya	7
Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence From Local Audits in Mexico	7
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	7
Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019)	7
Feelings of Trust, Distrust and Risky Decision-Making in Political Office. An Experimental Study With National Politicians in Three Democracies	7
Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?	7
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	7
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	7
When Strength Becomes Weakness: Precolonial State Development, Monopoly on Violence, and Civil War	7
Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties	7
Pro-Democratic, but Not Anti-Authoritarian? Understanding Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Regimes	7