OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Politics Research is 3. 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
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	9
Gasoline in the Voter’s Pocketbook: Driving Times to Work and the Electoral Implications of Gasoline Price Fluctuations	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
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
Clarifying the Ideological Asymmetry in Public Attitudes Toward Political Protest	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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