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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	32
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	24
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	24
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	22
Constitutional Amendment Proposals as Position-Taking Activity in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–2020)	16
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	13
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	13
Trapped in a Vicious Cycle of Political Negativity and Incivility on Social Media? Yes, but Only Before Elections	13
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	12
The Personal is Political: Assessing the Effects of Personal Narratives on Public Opinion	11
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	11
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	11
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	10
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	10
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	10
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	10
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	9
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	8
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	8
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	8
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	8
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	8
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Popularity or Partisanship? Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens and Adults	8
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	7

Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	7
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	7
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	7
Fair Game or Foul Play: Public Perceptions of Solicitor General Involvement in U.S. Supreme Court Cases	7
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	7
The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	7
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	6
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	6
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	6
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	6
Mind the (Participation) Gap: Vouchers, Voting, and Visibility	6
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	6
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	6
How College Students React to COVID Vaccine PSAs: An Experimental Investigation	6
Polarizing Online Elite Rhetoric at the Federal, State, and Local Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Campaigning During a Crisis: The Pandemic’s Impact on Congressional Campaign Strategy and Spending in 2020	5
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	5
The Voting Wars: Public Opinion About Battles Over Voting Rules	5
Tweeting for a Win: How the Competitiveness of a Congressional District Affects Party Nominee Language Use on Twitter	5
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	4
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	4
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
Concede or Resist? Experimental Evidence on How Partisanship Shapes Local Officials’ Responses to Preemption	4
Welfare at the Statehouse Democracies: Assessing the Impact of Public Opinion on Welfare Policies at the State Level	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	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
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	4
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	4
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	4
Playing Ball: Collaboration in the U.S. Congress	4
State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs	4
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	4
Interest Groups and Legislative Ideology: Who Influences Whom?	4
The Revolving Door in Judicial Politics: Former Clerks and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court	4
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	3
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	3
Late-Deciding Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections	3
Resentment or Empowerment? Civic Education and the Political Efficacy of Rural Individuals	3
Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting	3
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	3
How Educational Attainment Moderates the Recursive Relationship Between Policy Orientations and Partisanship	3

Incivility or Invalidity? Evaluating Perspective API Scores as a Measure of Political Incivility	3
Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion	3
Race or Place: Partisanship Among Black Rural Voters	3
The Impact of Survey Mode on the Measurement of Polarization in the Public: 2016–2020 U.S. Panel Evidence	3
Poll Worker Experience and Polling Place Operations	3
What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations	3
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections	3
Do network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?	3
Institutional Design and Policy Responsiveness in US States	3
When Push Comes to Shove: An Experimental Analysis of Voter Support of a Woman President and the 2024 Nomination	2
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	2
The Policy Preferences of Marginal Voters: Complicating Political Polarization in Education Policy	2
Reporting on Congress: Research Note on Journalists’ Norms in a Political Media Climate	2
Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout	2
Preventative Polarization: Republican Senators’ Positional Adaptation in the Tea Party Era	2
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	2
The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss	2
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	2
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	2
The Effects of Targeted Campaign Messages on Candidate Evaluations	2
Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting Goalposts	2
The Signals of Unlikely Allies: Ideologically Diverse Amicus Coalitions and Judicial Behavior	2
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	2
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	2
Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather With Early Voting: 1948–2016	2
The Partisan Vote: Shared Partisanship and Constituent Service in the U.S. Congress	2
Maintaining the Machinery of Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Spending on Voting Equipment on Turnout	2
Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?	2
Ideology, Information, and Social Welfare Preferences	2
Congressional Earmarks and Credit Claiming in a Partisan Era	2
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	1
Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks	1
Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes? Evidence From the January 6th Insurrection	1
Preemptive Action: Measuring Presidential Assertiveness in Foreign Policy Lawmaking	1
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	1
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?	1
Encouraging Black and Latinx Radio Audiences to Register to Vote: A Field Experiment	1
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	1
Who is To Blame? Partisans’ Use of Blame Spreading in Reaction to Unfair or Dishonest Behavior	1
Does Interaction With Out-Party Elites in a Classroom Setting Diminish Negative Partisanship?	1
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	1
Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions	1
Choice Overload in Crowded Primary Elections	1
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States	1
Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes	1
A Thermostatic Model of Congressional Elections	1
Out-of-State Contributions Provide Non-Incumbent House Candidates with a Competitive Edge	1
Policy, Position-Taking, and Congressional Voting under Judicial Review	1
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	1
Response Latencies as Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Voter Turnout Overreports	1
Whose Party is It?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party	1
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy	1
Sources of Candidate Fundraising Affect Perceptions of Electability	1
The Supreme Court and Congress: Information, Threat, and the Separation of Powers	1
Do Polarized Issues Carry More Weight in Voter Decision-Making? Insights From the 2022 Congressional Midterm Elections	1
The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Legitimacy	1
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	1
Americans’ Attitudes Towards Asians in the Trump COVID Era	1
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences	1
Oh, the Places They’ll Go: A Geographic Analysis of Gubernatorial Campaigns	1
The Personality and Politics of Cryptocurrency Investors	1
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	1
Landscape of Distrust: Political Trust Across America’s Urban-Rural Divide	1
Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes	1
“Extending the Referendum Model of Presidential Election Outcomes: Both Candidates Matter”	1
Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise	1
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	1
Campaign Endorsements and Election Outcomes in Judicial Elections	1