OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science is 8. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets	131
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	94
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	90
American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti‐Establishment Orientations	88
How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World	75
Re‐Assessing Elite‐Public Gaps in Political Behavior	74
The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity	73
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	55
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not	54
Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want from Political Representation	50
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design	49
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	44
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access	40
Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy	36
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting	33
The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy	33
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law	30
Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning	29
Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees	28
The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence	27
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It	24
Political Scandal: A Theory	24
Strength in Numbers: How Women's Groups Close India's Political Gender Gap	23
Reference Points and Democratic Backsliding	23
Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies	22

How War Changes Land: Soil Fertility, Unexploded Bombs, and the Underdevelopment of Cambodia	21
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops	21
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World	21
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models	20
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants	20
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems	19
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses	19
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	18
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections	18
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism	18
Partisan‐Motivated Evaluations of Sexual Misconduct and the Mitigating Role of the #MeToo Movement	18
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?	18
Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility	18
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis	18
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?	17
Partisan Procurement: Contracting with the United States Federal Government, 2003–2015	17
Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent's Perspective	17
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial	16
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting	16
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment	16
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?	16
How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics	15
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments	15
Propaganda and Skepticism	15
Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy	15
Bringing War Back in: Victory and State Formation in Latin America	15
The Great Society, Reagan's Revolution, and Generations of Presidential Voting	15
Sortition as Anti‐Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture	15
In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea	14
How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?	14
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	14
Do Campaign Contribution Limits Curb the Influence of Money in Politics?	14
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil	14
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	13
Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics within Belief Networks	13
Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning	13
City‐State Ideological Incongruence and Municipal Preemption	13
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars	13
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation	12
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation	12
Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter‐Driven Accountability in Senegal	12
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming	12
Placebo Tests for Causal Inference	12
Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict	11
Phantom Counterfactuals	11
Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash	11
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders	10
Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems	10
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis	10
Commitment Problems in Alliance Formation	10

Adaptive Experimental Design: Prospects and Applications in Political Science	10
Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace	10
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators	10
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior	10
Channels for Influence or Maps of Behavior? A Field Experiment on Social Networks and Cooperation	9
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis	9
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries	9
Censorship and the Impact of Repression on Dissent	9
Measuring Agenda Setting in Interactive Political Communication	9
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion	9
Public Money Talks Too: How Public Campaign Financing Degrades Representation	8
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders	8
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory	8
All the President's Justices? The Impact of Presidential Copartisanship on Supreme Court Job Approval	8
Metrics Management and Bureaucratic Accountability: Evidence from Policing	8
Strategic Allocation of Irrevocable and Durable Benefits	8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties	8