OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	90
Does Democracy Matter?	82
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	71
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	63
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	58
Political Control	56
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	54
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	53
AI as Governance	42
Courts in the Global South	41
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	38
Three Faces of Climate Justice	36
Rural Politics in the United States	36
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	35
How Lobbying Matters	34
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	30
The Political Role of Business Leaders	30
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	29
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	27
Is War in Decline?	25
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	25
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	25
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	22
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	21
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	21

Islamism and Armed Conflict	19
Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	17
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	16
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	16
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	16
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	15
Global Economic Sanctions	15
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	14
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	14
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	13
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	12
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	12
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	11
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	11
Race and Redistricting	10
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	9
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	9
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	9
The Power of Beliefs	8
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	8
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	7
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	7
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	7
The Politics of Childcare	7
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	6
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	6
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society	6
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	6
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	6
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	6