OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Politics Research is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	30
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	23
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	14
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	13
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	13
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	12
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	12
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	12
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	11
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	10
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	10
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	9
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	9
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	9
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	8
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	8
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	8
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	8
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	8
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	7
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	7
Popularity or Partisanship? Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens and Adults	7

Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	7
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	7
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	7
The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	6
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	6
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	6
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	6
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
Mind the (Participation) Gap: Vouchers, Voting, and Visibility	6
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	6
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	6
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	6
How College Students React to COVID Vaccine PSAs: An Experimental Investigation	6
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	5
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	5
Polarizing Online Elite Rhetoric at the Federal, State, and Local Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	5
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	5
American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship	5
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	5
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	4
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	4
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	4
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	4
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	4
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	4
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	4
State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs	4