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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Interbranch Warfare: Senate Amending Process and Restrictive House Rules	37
Police-Generated Killings: The Gap between Ethics and Law	34
Agnosticism on Racial Integration: Liberal-Democratic or Libertarian?	33
Dilemmas of Distrust: Conspiracy Beliefs, Elite Rhetoric, and Motivated Reasoning	24
Police Violence and Public Opinion After George Floyd: How the Black Lives Matter Movement and Endorsements Affect Support for Reforms	20
Protesting With Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano Del 19	16
Fed Up: The Determinants of Public Opposition to the U.S. Federal Reserve	16
Domesticity and Political Participation: At Home with the Jacobin Women	16
Embattlement and Resilience Among White Evangelical Democrats	15
Political Development and Political Thought	15
Can People Use Party Cues to Assess Policymaker Positions? Ecological Rationality and Political Heuristics	14
Marginalization as a Structural Constraint: How Group Position Shapes Out-Group Hostility	13
Rise of Populism: Identity Threats as an Explanation in Relation With Deprivation and Cultural Fear	13
Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries	12
Media Coverage of the Senate Filibuster and Its Effects on Public Opinion	12
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness	11
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors	11
Weather to Vote: How Natural Disasters Shape Turnout Decisions	11
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets	10
Globaloney: Extended Party Networks and the Dissemination of Anti-Globalization Insults	9
How You Rate Depends on Who Investigates: Partisan Bias in ABA Ratings of US Courts of Appeals Nominees, 1958–2020	9
An Empirical Evaluation of Explanations for Political System Support	9
When Congress Prevails: Veto Overrides and Legislative Fragmentation in Multiparty Legislatures	9
The Rise of the “Democrat Party”: Republican Elites, Partisan Slurs, and Linguistic Polarization	8
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	8

When Policymakers are Asked: Why and How Polarization Varies Across States	8
Sexual Violence Against Men in Civil Conflict	8
Western Political Science Association (WPSA)	8
Legacies of Stalin or Putin? Public Opinion and Historical Memory in Ukraine	8
Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China	8
Public Goods, Expressive Values, and Protest Participation: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in Hong Kong	8
Are Descriptive Representatives More Successful Passing Group-Relevant Legislation? The Case of Native American State Legislators	8
Strategic Lobbying and the Pressure to Compromise Member Interests	7
A Double-Edge Sword? Mass Media and Nonviolent Dissent in Autocracies	7
Announcements	7
Disinformation and Regime Survival	7
Dostoyevsky and the Defense of Compassion	7
Announcements	7
The Education Cyrus Missed	7
Identity in Campaign Finance and Elections: The Impact of Gender and Race on Money Raised in 2010–2018 U.S. House Elections	7
When Elections Wait: A Cross-National Analysis of Election Postponement During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Grieving Critically: Barack Obama and the Counter-Eulogy	7
Place-Based Resentment in Contemporary U.S. Elections: The Individual Sources of America’s Urban-Rural Divide	7
Policy Consequences of Revolving-Door Lobbying	7
Between Two Fires: The Institutional and Public Constraints to Unilateral Policy Change	7
Announcements	6
Myths About Women in the Political Executive—How Gender Stereotypes Shape the Way MPs Assess the Competences of Ministers	6
Messaging Apps: A Rising Tool for Informational Autocrats	6
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster	6
Amy Coney Barrett is Not Enough: How Descriptive and Substantive Representation Shape Trust and Legitimacy of the Federal Courts	6
Why Do Election Results Change after Election Day? The “Blue Shift” in California Elections	6
Foreign Military Intervention and Cabinet Government Stability	6
Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C.	6
Unequal Resources, Unequal Careers: The Role of Campaign Financing in the Gender Gap in Candidates’ Persistence in Brazil	6
Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions	5
Understanding the Factors that Affect the Incidence of Bellwether Counties: A Conditional Probability Model	5
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?	5
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy	5
The Moderating Effect of Democracy on Climate-Induced Social Conflict: Evidence from Indian Districts	5
Political Crisis in Central Government and Bureaucrats’ Responses in Provincial Government: The Impact of Governors’ Characteristics	5
Perceptions of Threat, American National Identity, and Americans’ Attitudes Toward Documented and Undocumented Immigrants	5
Does the Public Hold Governors Accountable for Policy Outcomes?	5
Online Incivility in the 2020 Congressional Elections	5
Constitutional Innovation and Imitation in the American States	5
The Impact of Racial Representation on Judicial Legitimacy: White Reactions to Latinos on the Bench	5
A Moveable Benefit? Spillover Effects of Quotas on Women’s Numerical Representation	5
Announcements	5
Unintended Institutional Interactions: Presidential Coattails and Gender Parity Quotas	5
Heidegger’s Post-Western Politics	4
Announcements	4
Overcoming Resource Competition Among Co-Ethnics: Elites, Endorsements, and Multiracial Support for Urban Distributive Policies	4
Partisan Asymmetries in Earmark Representation	4
Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Lobbyists	4
Asking Versus Telling: The Supreme Court’s Strategic Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments	4
What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs	4

Deceptively Stable? How the Stability of Aggregate Abortion Attitudes Conceals Partisan Induced Shifts	4
Political Knowledge in the Context of Changing Institutions	4
From Public Participation to Constitutional Legitimacy: Evidence from Tunisia	4
Racial Stereotypes, Racial Threat, and Support for Felon Disenfranchisement Among White Americans	4
Competitors in Aid: How International Rivalry Affects Public Support for Aid Under Various Frames	4
The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence	4
Announcements	4
Redistributive Policy Preferences: The Effects of Family Income and Poverty Attributions	4
Suspicious Minds: Unexpected Election Outcomes, Perceived Electoral Integrity and Satisfaction With Democracy in American Presidential Elections	4
Partisan (A) Symmetries in Hardball: Mass Level Support of Hardball Equivalent Across Party and Race	4
Suppression by Mobilization: How Information Control Strategies Contain Political Criticism in Autocracies	4
Technology Threats to Employment, Issues, and Candidate and Party Preferences in the United States	4
Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models	4
Announcements	4
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes	3
Determinants of Rejected Mail Ballots in Georgia’s 2018 General Election	3
Sanctuary in a Trumpist Context: Creating Spaces of Democratic Exception	3
On the Internet, No One Knows You’re an Activist: Patterns of Participation and Response in an Online, Opt-in Survey Panel	3
The Traceability of Presidential Policymaking in the Face of Congressional Sanctioning	3
Proponents, Caretakers, and the Dynamics of Administrative Leadership Turnover in U.S. Executive Agencies	3
Agree on How to Disagree: Aristotelian Ethics and Conversational Virtue	3
Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense	3
Harnessing the Power of Emotions: How Women of Color Use Emotional Appeals in Their Campaign Messages	3
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation	3
Analyzing Failed Institutional Change Attempts	3
Does Familiarity Breed Esteem? A Field Experiment on Emergent Attitudes Toward Members of Congress	3
Minority Language Recognition and Political Trust in Authoritarian Regimes	3
The Appointment of Men as Representatives to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women	3
Race, Contact Effects, and Effective Lawmaking in Congressional Committee Hearings	3
The Attorneys’ Gender: Exploring Counsel Success before the U.S. Supreme Court	3
Particularism or Policy? When Distributive Outlays Flow to the President’s Core Supporters	3
Analyzing Attention to Scandal on Twitter: Elites Sell What Supporters Buy	3
Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations	3
The Party Replies: Examining Local Party Responsiveness to Prospective Campaign Volunteers	3
Competing Criteria: Rethinking Congressional Redistricting and Representation	3
Harm and Helmets: How Harmful Social Costs Fail to Justify Paternalistic Health and Safety Regulations	3
The Role of State and National Institutional Evaluations in Fostering Collective Accountability Across the U.S. States	3