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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Republicans, Not Democrats, Are More Likely to Endorse Anti-Vaccine Misinformation	72
Explaining Governors’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	66
Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? Network Diversity, Political Discussion, and Conservative Conspiracy Theories on Social Media	23
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling: How Gender Shapes Affective Polarization	21
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	16
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	13
Politicized Battles: How Vacancies and Partisanship Influence Support for the Supreme Court	13
Vote-by-mail Ballot Rejection and Experience with Mail-in Voting	12
American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship	11
The “Trump” Effect: Political Elite and Support for Free Trade in America	10
Gasoline in the Voter’s Pocketbook: Driving Times to Work and the Electoral Implications of Gasoline Price Fluctuations	9
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	9
Minding the Black Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Public Opinion among Black Americans	8
Baptism by Wildfire? Wildfire Experiences and Public Support for Wildfire Adaptation Policies	8
Who Likes to Vote by Mail?	8
The Politics of Re-Opening Schools: Explaining Public Preferences Reopening Schools and Public Compliance with Reopening Orders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Clarifying the Ideological Asymmetry in Public Attitudes Toward Political Protest	7
Political Partisanship and Trust in Government Predict Popular Support for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Various Professions and Demographic Groups: A Research Note	7
Incivility in Congressional Tweets	7
Examining Trends in Ideological Identification: 1972–2016	7
Climate Change as a National Security Issue: Examining Framing Effects Across Party	7
Political Attacks in 280 Characters or Less: A New Tool for the Automated Classification of Campaign Negativity on Social Media	7
The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism	7
Condorcet Loser in 2016: Apparently Trump; Condorcet Winner: Not Clinton?	6
On Modeling the Social-Psychological Foundations of Support for Donald Trump	6

Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	6
The “PERFECT” Call: Congressional Representation by Tweet in the Midst of the Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal	6
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	6
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	6
Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting	6
Enraged and Engaged? Emotions as Motives for Discussing Politics	6
The Policy Polarization of Party Activists in the United States	5
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	5
What Can Conjoint Experiments Tell Us about Americans’ Abortion Attitudes?	5
Ranked-Choice Voting and Democratic Attitudes	5
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	5
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	5
From Personal Responsibility to Political Mobilization: Using Attribution Frames to Overcome Policy Feedback Effects	5
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	5
More Women Candidates: The Effects of Increased Women’s Presence on Political Ambition, Efficacy, and Vote Choice	5
Be Careful what You Count: Updating Legislative Turnover in the 50 States	5
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
Why Some Blame Politics for Their Personal Problems	4
Race, Racial Negativity, and Competing Conceptions of American National Identity	4
Tell Us How You Feel: Emotional Appeals for Votes in Presidential Primaries	4
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	4
Donald Trump’s Effect on Who is Considered “Conservative”	4
Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks	4
How Does Job Loss Affect Voting? Understanding Economic Voting Using Novel Data on COVID-19 Induced Individual-Level Unemployment Shocks	4
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	4
Vote Centers and the Voter Experience	4
“Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans”	4
Whistling Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Optimism Bias and Political Beliefs in the United States	4
The Effects of COVID-19 on External Political Efficacy	4
Cognitive Political Economy: A Growing Partisan Divide in Economic Perceptions	4
Delayed Gratification in Political Participation	4
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	4
Immigration Attitudes and White Americans’ Responsiveness to Rising Income Inequality	3
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	3
Did Black Lives Matter Protests Change Public Opinion?	3
Racial Unfairness and Fiscal Politics	3
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	3
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	3
No Balance, No Problem: Evidence of Partisan Voting in the 2021 Georgia U.S. Senate Runoffs	3
Mainstream Media Recirculation of Trust-Reducing Social Media Messages	3
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Place or Partisanship? The Conditional Role of Identities on Candidate Support	3
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Racialization of Attitudes Toward Descriptive Representation	3
Linking Members to Leaders: How Civic Associations Can Strengthen Members’ External Political Efficacy	3
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	3
Political Ambition and Constituent Service: Does Ambition Influence How Local Officials Respond to Electoral and Non-Electoral Service Requests?	3
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	3
Reliable Sources? Correcting Misinformation in Polarized Media Environments	3
Are Tax Cuts Supporters Self-Interested and/or Partisan? The Case of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act	3
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	3

Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	3
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	3
The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Legitimacy	3
Growing Tea With Subnational Roots: Tea Party Affiliation, Factionalism, and GOP Politics in State Legislatures	2
The Impact of Emotional Responses to Public Service Announcements: The Case of Gun Violence in Schools	2
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	2
The Mixed Effects of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2020 Presidential Election	2
Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting	2
Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes? Evidence From the January 6th Insurrection	2
In the Name of the President	2
Mobilizing the White: White Nationalism and Congressional Politics in the American South	2
The Supreme Court, Ideology, and the Decision to Cite or Borrow from Amicus Curiae Briefs	2
Asian and Latino American Political Conceptualization: A Dual-Concept Model	2
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	2
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	2
Is Distance to Drop Box an Appropriate Proxy for Drop Box Treatment? A Case Study of Washington State	2
Out-of-State Contributions Provide Non-Incumbent House Candidates with a Competitive Edge	2
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	2
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	2
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	2
Whose Party is It?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party	2
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	2
How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility	2
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	2
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
Going Nuclear: Federalist Society Affiliated Judicial Nominees’ Prospects and a New Era of Confirmation Politics¹	2
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	2
Non-Religious Identity Salience for Candidate Choice	1
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	1
Different Chambers, Divergent Rhetoric: Institutional Differences and Policy Representation on Social Media	1
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	1
Institutional Design and Policy Responsiveness in US States	1
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	1
Putting the Political in Political Interest: The Conditional Effect of Politics on Citizens’ Interest in Politics	1
Legislative Gridlock and Policymaking Through the Appropriations Process	1
The Personality and Politics of Cryptocurrency Investors	1
Do Ideological Attacks Change How Voters Evaluate Primary Election Candidates?	1
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	1
The Nationalization of Individual Campaign Contributions in U.S. Senate Elections, 1984-2020	1
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	1
Still the Same? Revealed Preferences and Ideological Self-Perception Among Former Members of Congress	1
Do Redistricting Commissions Avoid Partisan Gerrymanders?	1
Gubernatorial Elections Change Demand for Local Newspapers	1
Health Risks and Voting: Emphasizing Safety Measures Taken to Prevent COVID-19 Does Not Increase Willingness to Vote in Person	1
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	1
Groups, Behaviors, and Issues as Cues of Partisan Attachments in the Public	1
A Sum of Its Parts: Party Fit and Party Change in the U.S. House	1
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?	1
Ideology, Information, and Social Welfare Preferences	1
Partisans Hear, but They Don’t Listen: Testing the Limits of Partisanship in Risky Decision Making	1
National Presidential Election Turnout: 1952 to 2020	1
Party Realignment, Education, and the Turnout Advantage: Revisiting the Partisan Effect of Turnout	1
Facts in Context: Problem Perceptions, Numerical Information, and Policy Attitudes	1
Too Old to Be President?	1
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	1
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	1
Politicultural Sorting: Mapping Ideological Differences in American Leisure and Consumption	1
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	1
Allegations of Democratic Election Fraud and Support for Political Violence Among Republicans	1
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	1
White Americans’ Evaluations of the Alt-Right	1
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	1
What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations	1
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections	1
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	1
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	1
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	1
Do Partisans Always Like Their Inparty and Dislike Their Outparty? An Analysis of Partisans Across the Affective Spectrum	1
A Shadow’s Influence? How the Shadow Docket Influences Public Opinion	1