OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Comparative International Development is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Incumbent Responses to Armed Groups in Nigeria and Kenya	22
Domestic Political Unrest and Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment	12
Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam	11
Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation	10
Jumpstarting Ideological Alignments in Clientelist Party Systems: Evidence from Honduras’s 2009 Coup	9
Correction to: Inequality and Immigration Policy	8
Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints	8
The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule: Tracking Differential Legacies along the Administrative Hierarchy	8
Effect of Participation and Alignment on the Sustainability of Development Aid Output: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda	6
Subsidy Entrepreneurship and a Culture of Rent-Seeking in Singapore’s Developmental State	6
Broker Rhetoric and Persuasion in Clientelist Systems	6
Remittances and Revenue in Latin America, 1990–2017	6
ICPD at Thirty: Moving Beyond Rights Toward Justice in Global Reproductive Health	6
Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South	6
Shifting Ground Beneath our Feet: New Research in the Political Science and Sociology of Global Health and its Significance	5
The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence: Theory and Evidence from a Maoist-affected State in India	5
Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection	5
Why Are Firms in High-income Economies More Productive than in Middle-income Economies? Decomposing the Firm Labor Productivity Gap	5
Exit or Voice? Corruption Perceptions and Emigration	5
Does Foreign Aid Undermine Political Responsiveness? Evidence from Kenya	5
From Shielding to Pushing: Evolving Risk Management Regimes in China’s Infrastructure Export Industrial Policy	5
Comparing Advantages in India’s Computer Hardware and Software Sectors	4
Sectoral Interests and Regional Bloc Voting in African Countries	4
Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions	4
Propaganda and Blame Attribution during Economic Downturns: Evidence from China	4

Correction to: Electoral Confidence and Political Budget Cycles in Non-OECD Countries	4
Seeking Autonomy in the Semi-periphery: Neomercantilism and Diversification in Turkey	4
Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest?	4
Governance by Uncertainty: Changing Patterns in China’s Environmental Enforcement	4
Abortion Within Reason or Right: Navigating Reproductive Governance and Abortion Stigma in Madagascar’s Urban Central Highlands	3
To Ban or Not to Ban: Explaining Abortion Policy in Poland, Russia, and Turkey	3
The Political Economy of Intermediate Capital Account Regimes: a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America	3
Static Electricity: Institutional and Ideational Barriers to China’s Market Reforms	3
State Violence and the Political Consequences of Property Rights: Evidence from Colombia	3
New Editorial Team	3
Factionalized Mobilization: Development Paradigm Shifts and Marginalization in Colombia	3
Opportunities and Choices During Environmental Licensing: Community Participation in Latin America’s Extractive Sectors	3
Compensating for Instability? Economic Openness, Threat of Social Unrest, and Welfare Provision in China	3
Governance by Patching: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Policy Implementation	3
Out with the Old, in with the New? The Indian Public Sector’s Role in the Energy Transition	2
Dependency, Capacity, and Agency: Austerity and Leadership Failures in Brazil’s Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts	2
When Does Electoral Cooperation End? How Relative Changes in Popular Support Undermine Election Alliances in India	2
The Role of Historical Malaria in Institutions and Contemporary Economic Development	2
Why the Global Gag Rule Failed in India: The Legacy of Postcolonial Population Control in Reproductive Governance	2
Fairness and Tax Morale in Developing Countries	2
When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist: Unpacking Local Wartime Legacies	2
Correction to: Ethnic Polarization and Human Development: The Conditional Effects of Minority Language Recognition	2
Input-Factor Mobility and the Impact of Host Country Institutions on Foreign Direct Investment in Natural Resources	2
“No se Cuidan (They Don’t Take Care of Themselves)”: Reframing Reproductive Rights as Contraceptive Responsibility in Post-ICPD Mexico	2
Correction to: The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism	2
Analyzing the Diversity of a Large Emerging Market: Sectoral Politics in India’s Multi-level Political Economy	2
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Governance in Chile	2
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It	2
Social Inclusion Among People with Mobility Limitations: Theorizing Disability Regimes in the Global South	2
Bargains and Banking: How Institutionalized Political Bargains Have Shaped the Development of Indian Banking	2
Unlocking the Potential of Participatory Planning: How Flexible and Adaptive Governance Interventions Can Work in Practice	2
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Land Reform and Local Agents Under the Chinese Communist Regime	2
From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe	2
Can Partial Growth Coalitions Build Pathways Out of the Middle-Income Trap? The Case of Querétaro, México	2
Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case	2
Strategic Advocacy: Doula Care, Liminality, and Reproductive Justice	1
The Fiscal Logic of Responsiveness: Public Finance, Elections, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China	1
The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America: The Case of Vicky Barahona in Santiago de Chile (2000–2016)	1
Contentious Origins of Authoritarian Social Protection: China’s “Threat-Driven” Strategy in Redistribution	1
The Party Is Over: Policy Switch and Party Dismantling in Moreno’s Ecuador	1
Connect First, then Suppress: Chinese vs. Western Communication Development Projects and Internet Freedom	1
Public Service Provision and the Virtuous Circle: Evidence from Malawi	1
Unruly Mystics and the State: Antinomian Dervishes, Religion, and State Formation in Medieval Anatolia	1
Foreign Aid, Norm Diffusion, and Local Support for Gender Equality: Comparing Evidence from the World Bank and China’s Aid Projects in Africa	1
Votes for Water: Ethnic Service Delivery and Criminality in Karachi, Pakistan	1
Reconsidering the Rubber Stamp Thesis: A Consolidation Theory of Oil Expropriations and Legislatures in Party-based Autocracies	1
Does Democracy Matter for Lifespan Inequalities? Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex	1
Production Networks and Innovation in the Semi-periphery: The Transition to Electric Vehicles in South Korea and Spain	1
Inequality and Immigration Policy	1

Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America	1
Governing Subterranean Wealth in India: The Shifting Boundaries Around Mining’s Sectoral Political Network	1
Transformation Towards Renewable Energy Systems: Evaluating the Role of Development Financing Institutions	1
Biomedical and Spiritual Approaches to Mental Health in Tanzania: How Power and the Struggle for Public Authority Shaped Care	1
Decentralization and Pro-poor Participation in Ghana: Unmasking the Barriers to Inclusive Grassroots Development	1
Reproductive Justice for Adolescent Migrant Girls in the Post-ICPD Era: A Critical Analysis of Contraceptive Care for Venezuelan Girls in Colombia	1
The Impact of Institutional Formation on Firms’ Strategic Choices in Knowledge Development, Absorptive Capacity and Vertical Integration	1
Take or Reject State Power? The Dual Dilemma for Teachers’ Unions in Brazil and Mexico	1
Puzzling Partnerships: Overseas Infrastructure Development by Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Humanitarian Organizations	1
(When) Does Informal Labor Close Political Gender Gaps? Theory and Evidence from Urban India	1
Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina	1
State, Business Association, and Diaspora: The Structure of Governance in the Indian IT-BPM Sector	1
Legislator Attributes and Advocacy Focus: Non-electoral Sources of Parochialism in an Indirectly-Elected Legislature	1
Extending a Hand: Corruption and Solidarity with the Less Privileged Domestically and Beyond	1
Vote Buying as Rent Seeking: Land Sales in China’s Village Elections	1