OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets	109
Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?	82
American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti‐Establishment Orientations	67
To Repress or to Co‐opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance	65
People Haven't Had Enough of Experts: Technocratic Attitudes among Citizens in Nine European Democracies	63
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	62
Re‐Assessing Elite‐Public Gaps in Political Behavior	59
The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity	56
How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World	53
Pleasing the Principal: U.S. Influence in World Bank Policymaking	50
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	48
Labor Unions and White Racial Politics	44
Policy Diffusion: The Issue‐Definition Stage	44
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	43
Gender Quotas and International Reputation	41
Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want from Political Representation	39
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design	37
Does Public Opinion Affect Political Speech?	36
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not	34
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	32
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access	32
Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy	31
Paper Cuts: How Reporting Resources Affect Political News Coverage	30
Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching	26
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law	25

The Dictator's Power‐Sharing Dilemma: Countering Dual Outsider Threats	25
The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy	24
The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence	24
Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning	24
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition	23
Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees	23
The Divide Over Independence: Explaining Preferences for Secession in an Advanced Open Economy	22
What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation	21
State Visits and Leader Survival	21
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting	21
Multidimensional Representation	21
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It	19
How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration	19
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops	19
Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies	18
Strength in Numbers: How Women's Groups Close India's Political Gender Gap	18
Candidate Supply Is Not a Barrier to Immigrant Representation: A Case–Control Study	18
Reference Points and Democratic Backsliding	17
Political Scandal: A Theory	17
Do Politicians Discriminate Against Internal Migrants? Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments in India	16
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants	16
How War Changes Land: Soil Fertility, Unexploded Bombs, and the Underdevelopment of Cambodia	15
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis	15
Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators	15
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?	14
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?	14
Fault Lines: The Effects of Bureaucratic Power on Electoral Accountability	14
Partisan Procurement: Contracting with the United States Federal Government, 2003–2015	14
Partisan‐Motivated Evaluations of Sexual Misconduct and the Mitigating Role of the #MeToo Movement	14
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections	14
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World	13
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting	13
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism	13
How Markets Shape Values and Political Preferences: A Field Experiment	13
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	12
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?	12
Bringing War Back in: Victory and State Formation in Latin America	12
If They Endorse It, I Can't Trust It: How Outgroup Leader Endorsements Undercut Public Support for Civil War Peace Settlements	12
Hassling: How States Prevent a Preventive War	12
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses	12
Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter‐Driven Accountability in Senegal	12
Effectiveness of Connected Legislators	12
Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions	11
Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility	11
Winning Hearts and Minds in Civil Wars: Governance, Leadership Change, and Support for Violent Groups in Iraq	11
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars	11
City‐State Ideological Incongruence and Municipal Preemption	11
How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?	10
How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil	10
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines	10

Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise?	10
Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America	10
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	10
Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy	10
Change We Can Believe In: Structural and Content Dynamics within Belief Networks	10
Sexism and the Far‐Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash	10
Propaganda and Skepticism	10
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	10
Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent's Perspective	10
Media Influence on Vote Choices: Unemployment News and Incumbents' Electoral Prospects	10
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior	10
Misgovernance and Human Rights: The Case of Illegal Detention without Intent	9
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment	9
Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning	9
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial	9
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments	9
Democratization and Representative Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia's Civil Service, 1980–2015	9