OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements	149
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework	140
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis	110
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change	102
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences	80
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data	72
Ideological Competition	71
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation	65
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide	55
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation	43
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law	40
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe	39
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan	39
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents	37
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Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection	33
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment	33
Competence and advice	32
Hierarchy and war	32
Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption	30
Erratum to “The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse” American Journal of Political Science, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2020, pp. 82–	30
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma	30
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics	28
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians	28
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies	27

Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	27
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy	27
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric	26
Polarization in police union politics	26
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency	25
Issue Information	25
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy	24
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front	24
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?	24
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad	24
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	24
Issue Information	23
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India	22
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders	20
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era	20
The politics of teachers' union endorsements	20
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma	19
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control	19
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India	19
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?	19
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure	19
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models	18
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	18
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	18
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India	17
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Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections	17
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem	16
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas	16
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Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible?	16
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico	15
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia	15
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict	15
Issue Information	15
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations	14
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office	14
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	14
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City	14
Institutions and Political Restraint	14
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany	14
National identity after conquest	14
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Collective procrastination and protest cycles	13
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates	13
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion	12
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion	12
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war	12
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy	11
Expertise acquisition in Congress	11

The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming	11
Persuasion in veto bargaining	11
Ethnic Visibility	10
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties	10
Political accountability under moral hazard	10
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration	10
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg	10
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis	10
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia	10
Differentially private survey research	10
Causal inference with latent outcomes	10
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia	10
Centripetal Representation	9
Border Anxiety in International Discourse	9
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders	9
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation	9
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory	8
Issue Information	8
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries	8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action	8
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries	8
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa	7
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?	7
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Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain	7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation	7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers	7
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects	7
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement	7
Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation	7