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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	93
Does Democracy Matter?	82
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	71
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	64
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	60
Political Control	57
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	54
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	54
Courts in the Global South	45
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	45
Three Faces of Climate Justice	41
AI as Governance	38
How Lobbying Matters	37
Rural Politics in the United States	37
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	37
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	32
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	30
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	30
The Political Role of Business Leaders	29
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	27
Is War in Decline?	26
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	25
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	25
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	22
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	22

Islamism and Armed Conflict	20
Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	19
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	18
Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	18
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	17
Global Economic Sanctions	17
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	16
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	16
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	15
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	15
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	13
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	13
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	13
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	12
Race and Redistricting	12
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	11
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	9
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	9
The Power of Beliefs	8
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	8
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	8
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	7
The Politics of Childcare	7
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	7
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	7
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	7
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	6
Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States	6
Criminal Violence, the State, and Society	6
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	6
Africa's Unfinished Democratic Journey: My Modest Part	6