OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Comparative International Development is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic Political Unrest and Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment	33
Incumbent Responses to Armed Groups in Nigeria and Kenya	15
Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation	14
Correction to: Defining and Explaining Modes of Protesting: A Comparative‑Historical Analysis of Argentina and Chile	12
Dietrich Rueschemeyer	10
Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam	10
The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule: Tracking Differential Legacies along the Administrative Hierarchy	9
ICPD at Thirty: Moving Beyond Rights Toward Justice in Global Reproductive Health	9
Labor Co-optation in Autocracies: Instrument of Control or Double-Edged Sword?	9
Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints	8
Jumpstarting Ideological Alignments in Clientelist Party Systems: Evidence from Honduras’s 2009 Coup	8
Effect of Participation and Alignment on the Sustainability of Development Aid Output: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda	8
Correction to: Inequality and Immigration Policy	8
Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South	8
Remittances and Revenue in Latin America, 1990–2017	7
Subsidy Entrepreneurship and a Culture of Rent-Seeking in Singapore’s Developmental State	7
Shifting Ground Beneath our Feet: New Research in the Political Science and Sociology of Global Health and its Significance	6
The Politics of Public Transportation: Bus Operators’ Power and State Capacity in Costa Rica’s Greater Metropolitan Area and Santiago, Chile	6
Does Foreign Aid Undermine Political Responsiveness? Evidence from Kenya	6
Broker Rhetoric and Persuasion in Clientelist Systems	6
Why Are Firms in High-income Economies More Productive than in Middle-income Economies? Decomposing the Firm Labor Productivity Gap	6
Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection	6
From Shielding to Pushing: Evolving Risk Management Regimes in China’s Infrastructure Export Industrial Policy	5
Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest?	5
Correction to: Electoral Confidence and Political Budget Cycles in Non-OECD Countries	5

The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence: Theory and Evidence from a Maoist-affected State in India	5
Exit or Voice? Corruption Perceptions and Emigration	5
Authoritarian Regime Origin and the Emergence of Territorial Contenders	5
Governance by Uncertainty: Changing Patterns in China’s Environmental Enforcement	5
Varieties of Policy Advocacy: Elite Activism and Education Politics in Latin America	5
Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions	5
Sectoral Interests and Regional Bloc Voting in African Countries	5
Factionalized Mobilization: Development Paradigm Shifts and Marginalization in Colombia	4
Propaganda and Blame Attribution during Economic Downturns: Evidence from China	4
Opportunities and Choices During Environmental Licensing: Community Participation in Latin America’s Extractive Sectors	4
Seeking Autonomy in the Semi-periphery: Neomercantilism and Diversification in Turkey	4
Abortion Within Reason or Right: Navigating Reproductive Governance and Abortion Stigma in Madagascar’s Urban Central Highlands	4
Governance by Patching: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Policy Implementation	4
Comparing Advantages in India’s Computer Hardware and Software Sectors	4
Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America	4
Violent Legitimacy: How Soldiers View the Risks of Military Policing in Brazil	3
The Political Economy of Intermediate Capital Account Regimes: a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
When Does Electoral Cooperation End? How Relative Changes in Popular Support Undermine Election Alliances in India	3
“No se Cuidan (They Don’t Take Care of Themselves)”: Reframing Reproductive Rights as Contraceptive Responsibility in Post-ICPD Mexico	3
Dependency, Capacity, and Agency: Austerity and Leadership Failures in Brazil’s Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts	3
State Violence and the Political Consequences of Property Rights: Evidence from Colombia	3
Input-Factor Mobility and the Impact of Host Country Institutions on Foreign Direct Investment in Natural Resources	3
Unlocking the Potential of Participatory Planning: How Flexible and Adaptive Governance Interventions Can Work in Practice	3
Out with the Old, in with the New? The Indian Public Sector’s Role in the Energy Transition	3
To Ban or Not to Ban: Explaining Abortion Policy in Poland, Russia, and Turkey	3
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Land Reform and Local Agents Under the Chinese Communist Regime	3
Bargains and Banking: How Institutionalized Political Bargains Have Shaped the Development of Indian Banking	3
Correction to: Ethnic Polarization and Human Development: The Conditional Effects of Minority Language Recognition	3
From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe	2
Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case	2
Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective	2
The Party Is Over: Policy Switch and Party Dismantling in Moreno’s Ecuador	2
Can Partial Growth Coalitions Build Pathways Out of the Middle-Income Trap? The Case of Querétaro, México	2
Why the Global Gag Rule Failed in India: The Legacy of Postcolonial Population Control in Reproductive Governance	2
Social Inclusion Among People with Mobility Limitations: Theorizing Disability Regimes in the Global South	2
Fairness and Tax Morale in Developing Countries	2
Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina	2
(When) Does Informal Labor Close Political Gender Gaps? Theory and Evidence from Urban India	2
When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist: Unpacking Local Wartime Legacies	2
American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective	2
Lethal Violence and the Americas: Beyond the U.S.-European Comparisons on Crime and Punishment	2
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Governance in Chile	2
The History of Another American Frontier: Chilean Araucanía in Northern Perspective	2
Connect First, then Suppress: Chinese vs. Western Communication Development Projects and Internet Freedom	2
Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America	2
Biomedical and Spiritual Approaches to Mental Health in Tanzania: How Power and the Struggle for Public Authority Shaped Care	2
Analyzing the Diversity of a Large Emerging Market: Sectoral Politics in India’s Multi-level Political Economy	2
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It	2
The Role of Historical Malaria in Institutions and Contemporary Economic Development	2