OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Research Quarterly is 3. 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
Going Feminine: Identifying How and When Female Candidates Emphasize Feminine and Masculine Traits on the Campaign Trail	33
Police Violence and Public Opinion After George Floyd: How the Black Lives Matter Movement and Endorsements Affect Support for Reforms	32
Place-Based Resentment in Contemporary U.S. Elections: The Individual Sources of America’s Urban-Rural Divide	30
What Satisfaction with Democracy? A Global Analysis of “Satisfaction with Democracy” Measures	20
Scaling Authoritarian Information Control: How China Adjusts the Level of Online Censorship	15
Catching My Anger: How Political Elites Create Angrier Citizens	15
Affective Polarization and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	14
Determinants of Rejected Mail Ballots in Georgia’s 2018 General Election	14
Does Punishing Sanctions Busters Work? Sanctions Enforcement and U.S. Trade with Sanctioned States	13
Are Political Attacks a Laughing Matter? Three Experiments on Political Humor and the Effectiveness of Negative Campaigning	13
Online Incivility in the 2020 Congressional Elections	12
TRENDS: Diploma divide: Educational attainment and the realignment of the American electorate	12
Role Model or Role Expansion? Popular Perceptions of the Military in Tunisia	12
TRENDS: Do Women Seek “Women of Color” for Public Office? Exploring Women’s Support for Electing Women of Color	11
Political Hearings Reinforce Legal Norms: Confirmation Hearings and Views of the United States Supreme Court	11
Let’s Work Together: Bill Success via Women’s Cosponsorship in U.S. State Legislatures	9
Political Competition and Right-Wing Terrorism: A County-Level Analysis of the United States	9
“They Were Laughing”: Congressional Framing of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Sexual Assault Allegations on Twitter	9
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum	9
Youth Advantage Versus Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates	9
Motivated Reasoning and Attitudes Towards Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: Evidence from Five Nominations and an Experiment	8
Information and Policy Innovation in U.S. States	8
Sore Losers: Does Terrorism and Approval of Terrorism Increase in Democracies When Election Losers Refuse to Accept Election Results?	8
How Wide is the Arc of Racial Solidarity? People of Color and Middle Easterners and North Africans	8
Who Punishes More? Partisanship, Punitive Policies, and the Puzzle of Democratic Governors	8

Guardians of Democracy or Passive Bystanders? A Conjoint Experiment on Elite Transgressions of Democratic Norms	8
From Mistrust to Understanding: Inclusive Constitution-Making Design and Agreement in Tunisia	8
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors	8
President Obama and the Emergence of Islamophobia in Mass Partisan Preferences	7
Varieties of Public Attitudes toward Immigration: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan	7
Police-Generated Killings: The Gap between Ethics and Law	7
Attitudes Towards LGBT Individuals After bostock v. Clayton County: Evidence From a Quasi Experiment	7
From Home Base to Swing States: The Evolution of Digital Advertising Strategies during the 2020 US Presidential Primary	7
Partisanship on the Playground: Expressive Party Politics Among Children	7
Value Disagreement and Partisan Sorting in the American Mass Public	7
More than Mere Access: An Experiment on Moneyed Interests, Information Provision, and Legislative Action in Congress	7
Political Crisis in Central Government and Bureaucrats’ Responses in Provincial Government: The Impact of Governors’ Characteristics	6
Identity in Campaign Finance and Elections: The Impact of Gender and Race on Money Raised in 2010–2018 U.S. House Elections	6
Partisanship, Policy, and Americans’ Evaluations of State-Level COVID-19 Policies Prior to the 2020 Election	6
Electoral Systems and the Substantive Representation of Marginalized Groups: Evidence from Women’s Issue Bills in South Korea	6
Instant Credibility: The Conditional Role of Professional Background in Policymaking Success	6
Populism and Support for Political Violence in the United States: Assessing the Role of Grievances, Distrust of Political Institutions, Social Change Threat, and Political Illiberalism	6
A Double-Edge Sword? Mass Media and Nonviolent Dissent in Autocracies	6
Who Wants to Raise Taxes?	6
Bridging the Divide: Does Social Capital Moderate the Impact of Polarization on Health?	6
Deservingness Heuristics and Policy Attitudes toward the Elderly in an Aging Society: Evidence from Japan	6
Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China	6
Measuring Democratic Listening: A Listening Quality Index	6
Inclusivity and Decentralisation of Candidate Selectorates: Factional Consequences for Centre-Left Parties in England, Germany, and the United States	6
When Clientelism Backfires: Vote Buying, Democratic Attitudes, and Electoral Retaliation in Latin America	6
When Do Men MPs Claim to Represent Women in Plenary Debates—Time-Series Cross-Sectional Evidence from the German States	5
Madame President, Madame Ambassador? Women Presidents and Gender Parity in Latin America’s Diplomatic Services	5
Economic Shocks and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Evidence From COVID-19 in Spain	5
Respectability Politics and Straight Support for LGB Rights	5
Legacies of Stalin or Putin? Public Opinion and Historical Memory in Ukraine	5
Judicial Merit Selection: Beliefs about Fairness and the Undermining of Gender Diversity on the Bench	5
Campaign Contributions and Access to Congressional Offices: Patterns in Foreign Lobbying Data	5
Laboratories of Politics: There is Bottom-up Diffusion of Policy Attention in the American Federal System	5
Perceived Exclusionary Disadvantages and Populist Attitudes: Evidence from Comparative and Longitudinal Survey Data in Six European Countries	5
Technology Threats to Employment, Issues, and Candidate and Party Preferences in the United States	5
Why Do Election Results Change after Election Day? The “Blue Shift” in California Elections	5
How Other Minorities Gained Access: The War on Poverty and Asian American and Latino Community Organizing	5
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor	5
You Think; Therefore I Am: Gender Schemas and Context in Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court, 1979–2016	5
Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court	5
Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites’ Attitudes about Gender Equality	5
Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications	5
Weather to Vote: How Natural Disasters Shape Turnout Decisions	5
Messaging Apps: A Rising Tool for Informational Autocrats	4
Does the Public Hold Governors Accountable for Policy Outcomes?	4
Gender, Power, and Colleague Aggression in U.S. State Senates	4
Islamic Constitutions and Democracy	4
Closest to the People? Incumbency Advantage and the Personal Vote in Non-Partisan Elections	4
Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense	4
Myths About Women in the Political Executive—How Gender Stereotypes Shape the Way MPs Assess the Competences of Ministers	4

The Impact of Racial Representation on Judicial Legitimacy: White Reactions to Latinos on the Bench	4
The Face of the Party: Party Leadership Selection, and the Role of Family and Faith	4
Decision-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy Crises: Presidential Leadership and Outcomes	4
Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Lobbyists	4
The Personalization of Electoral Rules: How Shifting Influence From Selectors to Voters Affects Party Unity	4
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?	4
Asking the Right Questions: A Framework for Developing Gender-Balanced Political Knowledge Batteries	4
How Does Party Position Change Happen? The Case of LGBT Rights in the U.S.	4
Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
A Quiet Revolution in State Lobbying: Government Growth and Interest Populations	4
Explaining Perceptions of Climate Change in the US	3
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment	3
Evaluating the Unequal Economy: Poverty Risk, Economic Indicators, and the Perception Gap	3
Participatory Governance and Responsiveness: Do Motivational Interventions Increase Engagement with Citizen Input?	3
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans	3
Dilemmas of Distrust: Conspiracy Beliefs, Elite Rhetoric, and Motivated Reasoning	3
Institutional Context and Accountability for Political Distrust	3
Public Approval of the Supreme Court and Its Implications for Legitimacy	3
Suspicious Minds: Unexpected Election Outcomes, Perceived Electoral Integrity and Satisfaction With Democracy in American Presidential Elections	3
Policy Influence of Delegates in Authoritarian Legislatures: Evidence from China	3
Congressional Committees, Electoral Connections, and Legislative Speech	3
“Good-Bye to Nonviolence?”	3
Patronage and Presidential Coalition Formation	3
The Second Sex in the Second District: The Policy Effects of Electing Women to County Government	3
Party Affiliation in the Southern Electorate	3
A Moveable Benefit? Spillover Effects of Quotas on Women’s Numerical Representation	3
When Bad News Becomes Routine: Slowly-Developing Problems Moderate Government Responsiveness	3
Confidence in US Elections After the Big Lie	3
Race and Resources in Brazilian Mayoral Elections	3
An Empirical Evaluation of Explanations for Political System Support	3
US Sanctions and Foreign Lobbying of the US Government	3
How U.S. Voters Elect Prosecutors: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	3
Majorities for Minorities: Participatory Constitution Making and the Protection of Minority Rights	3
Categorical Confusion: Ideological Labels in China	3
Living in the Shadow of Deportation: How Immigration Enforcement Forestalls Political Assimilation	3
Strategic Lobbying and the Pressure to Compromise Member Interests	3
Does Lobbying Affect Bill Advancement? Evidence from Three State Legislatures	3
Mavericks or Loyalists? Popular Ballot Jumpers and Party Discipline in the Flexible-List PR Context	3
Competitors in Aid: How International Rivalry Affects Public Support for Aid Under Various Frames	3
Gender Bias in Policy Representation in Post-Conflict Societies	3