OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Politics Research is 1. 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
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	85
In the Name of the President	31
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	27
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	20
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	17
We Have It Totally Under Control? Exploring the Effects of Ideology and Knowing Someone Diagnosed With COVID-19 on Evaluations of President Trump’s Leadership on the Pandemic	16
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	15
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	13
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	13
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	12
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	12
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	11
Baptism by Wildfire? Wildfire Experiences and Public Support for Wildfire Adaptation Policies	10
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	10
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	10
Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	9
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	9
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	8
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	8
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	8
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	8
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	8
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	7
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	7
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	7

Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	6
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	6
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	6
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	6
Would You Sell Your Vote?	6
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	6
The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	6
Fair Game or Foul Play: Public Perceptions of Solicitor General Involvement in U.S. Supreme Court Cases	6
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	6
Is Distance to Drop Box an Appropriate Proxy for Drop Box Treatment? A Case Study of Washington State	6
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	6
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	6
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	6
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	5
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	5
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	5
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	5
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	5
Mind the (Participation) Gap: Vouchers, Voting, and Visibility	5
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	5
American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship	5
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	5
How College Students React to COVID Vaccine PSAs: An Experimental Investigation	5
Polarizing Online Elite Rhetoric at the Federal, State, and Local Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	4
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	4
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	4
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	4
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	4
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	4
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
Putting US First: How Outgroup Hostilities and Defense of the Status Quo Motivate White Evangelical Affect Toward Candidates in U.S. Elections 2004 to 2016	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
Do network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?	3
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections	3
Incivility or Invalidity? Evaluating Perspective API Scores as a Measure of Political Incivility	3
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	3
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	3
The Revolving Door in Judicial Politics: Former Clerks and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court	3
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	3
Institutional Design and Policy Responsiveness in US States	3
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Vote Centers and the Voter Experience	3

Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	3
Reliable Sources? Correcting Misinformation in Polarized Media Environments	3
Welfare at the Statehouse Democracies: Assessing the Impact of Public Opinion on Welfare Policies at the State Level	3
Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting	3
Don’t You be My Neighbor: Support for Racial-Exclusion Constitutional Provisions in Mid-19th Century Indiana and Illinois	3
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	3
Preventative Polarization: Republican Senators’ Positional Adaptation in the Tea Party Era	2
Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting Goalposts	2
Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion	2
The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss	2
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	2
Does Interaction With Out-Party Elites in a Classroom Setting Diminish Negative Partisanship?	2
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	2
Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather With Early Voting: 1948–2016	2
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
The Effects of Targeted Campaign Messages on Candidate Evaluations	2
Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?	2
Race or Place: Partisanship Among Black Rural Voters	2
What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations	2
Mainstream Media Recirculation of Trust-Reducing Social Media Messages	2
Vote-by-mail Ballot Rejection and Experience with Mail-in Voting	2
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	2
Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions	2
When Push Comes to Shove: An Experimental Analysis of Voter Support of a Woman President and the 2024 Nomination	2
The Partisan Vote: Shared Partisanship and Constituent Service in the U.S. Congress	2
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	2
Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout	2
How Educational Attainment Moderates the Recursive Relationship Between Policy Orientations and Partisanship	2
Ideology, Information, and Social Welfare Preferences	2
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	2
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	2
Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise	2
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	2
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	2
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	2
A Thermostatic Model of Congressional Elections	1
Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes	1
The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Legitimacy	1
The Personality and Politics of Cryptocurrency Investors	1
“Extending the Referendum Model of Presidential Election Outcomes: Both Candidates Matter”	1
Why Some Blame Politics for Their Personal Problems	1
Response Latencies as Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Voter Turnout Overreports	1
Too Old to Be President?	1
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	1
Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes? Evidence From the January 6th Insurrection	1
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences	1
Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes	1
Oh, the Places They’ll Go: A Geographic Analysis of Gubernatorial Campaigns	1
Campaign Endorsements and Election Outcomes in Judicial Elections	1
Do Redistricting Commissions Avoid Partisan Gerrymanders?	1
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy	1
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?	1
Minding the Black Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Public Opinion among Black Americans	1
Encouraging Black and Latinx Radio Audiences to Register to Vote: A Field Experiment	1
Do Partisans Always Like Their Inparty and Dislike Their Outparty? An Analysis of Partisans Across the Affective Spectrum	1
Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks	1
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Racialization of Attitudes Toward Descriptive Representation	1
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	1
Political Ambition and Constituent Service: Does Ambition Influence How Local Officials Respond to Electoral and Non-Electoral Service Requests?	1
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	1
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States	1
Landscape of Distrust: Political Trust Across America’s Urban-Rural Divide	1
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	1
Choice Overload in Crowded Primary Elections	1
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	1
Are Tax Cuts Supporters Self-Interested and/or Partisan? The Case of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act	1
The Effects of Wage Information on Support for Redistributive Spending	1
Out-of-State Contributions Provide Non-Incumbent House Candidates with a Competitive Edge	1
Preemptive Action: Measuring Presidential Assertiveness in Foreign Policy Lawmaking	1
Whose Party is It?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party	1
Who is To Blame? Partisans’ Use of Blame Spreading in Reaction to Unfair or Dishonest Behavior	1