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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
De-Policing as Reform? Police Tactics after Black Lives Matter’s 2020 Protests	38
Constitutional Amendment Proposals as Position-Taking Activity in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–2020)	28
Trapped in a Vicious Cycle of Political Negativity and Incivility on Social Media? Yes, but Only Before Elections	17
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	15
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	14
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	14
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	14
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	12
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	11
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	11
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	11
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	11
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	10
The Personal is Political: Assessing the Effects of Personal Narratives on Public Opinion	10
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	10
Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide	9
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	9
Popularity or Partisanship? Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens and Adults	9
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	9
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	9
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	8
Climate Change and Terrorism News: Similar or Different?	8
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	8
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	8
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	8

The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	7
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	7
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	7
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	7
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	7
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	7
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	7
Fair Game or Foul Play: Public Perceptions of Solicitor General Involvement in U.S. Supreme Court Cases	6
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	6
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	6
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	6
The Voting Wars: Public Opinion About Battles Over Voting Rules	5
President Biden and Diversity in Executive Appointments	5
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	5
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	5
Tweeting for a Win: How the Competitiveness of a Congressional District Affects Party Nominee Language Use on Twitter	5
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	5
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	5
Campaigning During a Crisis: The Pandemic’s Impact on Congressional Campaign Strategy and Spending in 2020	5
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	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
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	5
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	4
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	4
State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs	4
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	4
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	4
Interest Groups and Legislative Ideology: Who Influences Whom?	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
Concede or Resist? Experimental Evidence on How Partisanship Shapes Local Officials’ Responses to Preemption	4
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
Political Awareness and Sorting	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	4
Playing Ball: Collaboration in the U.S. Congress	4
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections	3
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	3
Resentment or Empowerment? Civic Education and the Political Efficacy of Rural Individuals	3
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	3
Ideology, Information, and Social Welfare Preferences	3
Institutional Design and Policy Responsiveness in US States	3
What Drives a Contemporary Lack of Trust in Government and Science in the United States?	3
Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion	3
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Poll Worker Experience and Polling Place Operations	3
Race or Place: Partisanship Among Black Rural Voters	3
Welfare at the Statehouse Democracies: Assessing the Impact of Public Opinion on Welfare Policies at the State Level	3

Late-Deciding Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections	3
How Educational Attainment Moderates the Recursive Relationship Between Policy Orientations and Partisanship	3
The Impact of Survey Mode on the Measurement of Polarization in the Public: 2016–2020 U.S. Panel Evidence	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
What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations	3
Do network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?	3
Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting Goalposts	3
The Signals of Unlikely Allies: Ideologically Diverse Amicus Coalitions and Judicial Behavior	3
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	2
The Effects of Targeted Campaign Messages on Candidate Evaluations	2
Perceptions of Political Corruption in State Government	2
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	2
Reporting on Congress: Research Note on Journalists’ Norms in a Political Media Climate	2
Maintaining the Machinery of Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Spending on Voting Equipment on Turnout	2
Preventative Polarization: Republican Senators’ Positional Adaptation in the Tea Party Era	2
Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout	2
Congressional Earmarks and Credit Claiming in a Partisan Era	2
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	2
The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss	2
Delegate, Trustee, or Personal: Preferences for Different Forms of Representation in America	2
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	2
Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?	2
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
In Search of Determinants of Abortion Policy in a Post-Casey World	1
Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions	1
The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Legitimacy	1
Choice Overload in Crowded Primary Elections	1
A Thermostatic Model of Congressional Elections	1
Does Interaction With Out-Party Elites in a Classroom Setting Diminish Negative Partisanship?	1
Campaign Endorsements and Election Outcomes in Judicial Elections	1
Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather With Early Voting: 1948–2016	1
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	1
The Policy Preferences of Marginal Voters: Complicating Political Polarization in Education Policy	1
Response Latencies as Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Voter Turnout Overreports	1
Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes	1
Out-of-State Contributions Provide Non-Incumbent House Candidates with a Competitive Edge	1
Encouraging Black and Latinx Radio Audiences to Register to Vote: A Field Experiment	1
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	1
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	1
Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes	1
Landscape of Distrust: Political Trust Across America’s Urban-Rural Divide	1
Drivers of Congressional Behavior: Analyzing Members, Constituents, and Committees With CongressData	1
The Rural-Urban Divide in Public Goods Satisfaction	1
Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise	1
Assessing Ideological Representation Using Policy Repositioning: Panel Evidence From 2012 to 2020	1
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?	1
The Supreme Court and Congress: Information, Threat, and the Separation of Powers	1
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	1
Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks	1
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	1
Sources of Candidate Fundraising Affect Perceptions of Electability	1
“Extending the Referendum Model of Presidential Election Outcomes: Both Candidates Matter”	1
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy	1
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States	1
When Push Comes to Shove: An Experimental Analysis of Voter Support of a Woman President and the 2024 Nomination	1
The Personality and Politics of Cryptocurrency Investors	1
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	1
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	1
The Partisan Vote: Shared Partisanship and Constituent Service in the U.S. Congress	1
Do Polarized Issues Carry More Weight in Voter Decision-Making? Insights From the 2022 Congressional Midterm Elections	1
Policy, Position-Taking, and Congressional Voting under Judicial Review	1
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences	1
Preemptive Action: Measuring Presidential Assertiveness in Foreign Policy Lawmaking	1