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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Republicans, Not Democrats, Are More Likely to Endorse Anti-Vaccine Misinformation	63
Explaining Governors’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	62
Pandemics and Partisanship: Following Old Paths into Uncharted Territory	20
Is Negative Campaigning a Matter of Taste? Political Attacks, Incivility, and the Moderating Role of Individual Differences	18
Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? Network Diversity, Political Discussion, and Conservative Conspiracy Theories on Social Media	17
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling: How Gender Shapes Affective Polarization	16
Policy Change and Public Opinion: Measuring Shifting Political Sentiment With Social Media Data	16
Do More Professionalized Legislatures Discriminate Less? The Role of Staffers in Constituency Service	14
Voter Sex, Party, and Gender-Salient Issues: Attitudes about Sexual Harassment and Brett Kavanaugh in the 2018 Elections	12
The Public’s Foreign Aid Priorities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	10
American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship	9
Vote-by-mail Ballot Rejection and Experience with Mail-in Voting	9
Verifying Voter Registration Records	9
Poll Worker Decision Making at the American Ballot Box	9
Gasoline in the Voter’s Pocketbook: Driving Times to Work and the Electoral Implications of Gasoline Price Fluctuations	8
Voter Purges After Shelby	8
Let’s Talk About Sexism: The Differential Effects of Gender Discrimination on Liberal and Conservative Women’s Political Engagement	7
Framing Automatic Voter Registration: Partisanship and Public Understanding of Automatic Voter Registration	7
Rock the Vote or Block the Vote? How the Cost of Voting Affects the Voting Behavior of American Youth	7
Priming Legality: Perceptions of Latino and Undocumented Latino Immigrants	6
Expanding Constituency Support Through Shared Local Roots in U.S. House Primaries	6
Politicized Battles: How Vacancies and Partisanship Influence Support for the Supreme Court	6
Political Attacks in 280 Characters or Less: A New Tool for the Automated Classification of Campaign Negativity on Social Media	6
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	6
The Politics of Re-Opening Schools: Explaining Public Preferences Reopening Schools and Public Compliance with Reopening Orders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6

Climate Change as a National Security Issue: Examining Framing Effects Across Party	6
The “Trump” Effect: Political Elite and Support for Free Trade in America	6
Seeing Is Believing: An Experiment on Absentee Ballots and Voter Confidence	6
Baptism by Wildfire? Wildfire Experiences and Public Support for Wildfire Adaptation Policies	6
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	6
The “PERFECT” Call: Congressional Representation by Tweet in the Midst of the Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal	6
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	6
Political Partisanship and Trust in Government Predict Popular Support for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Various Professions and Demographic Groups: A Research Note	6
Clarifying the Ideological Asymmetry in Public Attitudes Toward Political Protest	6
The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism	5
Ranked-Choice Voting and Democratic Attitudes	5
Enraged and Engaged? Emotions as Motives for Discussing Politics	5
Ballot Cues, Business Candidates, and Voter Choices in Local Elections	5
Examining Trends in Ideological Identification: 1972–2016	5
Explaining Uncontested Seats in Congress and State Legislatures	5
Analogical Framing: How Policy Comparisons Alter Political Support for Health Care Reform	4
White Media Attitudes in the Trump Era	4
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	4
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	4
Work Requirements and Perceived Deservingness of Medicaid	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
The Policy Polarization of Party Activists in the United States	4
Condorcet Loser in 2016: Apparently Trump; Condorcet Winner: Not Clinton?	4
Who Likes to Vote by Mail?	4
Who Is Left Out? The Process of Validating Voter Registration Applications	4
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	4
What Can Conjoint Experiments Tell Us about Americans’ Abortion Attitudes?	4
Moving Forward or Backsliding: A Causal Inference Analysis of the Effects of the Shelby Decision in North Carolina	4
From Personal Responsibility to Political Mobilization: Using Attribution Frames to Overcome Policy Feedback Effects	4
Lost in the Crowd: The Effect of Volatile Fields on Presidential Primaries	4
Minding the Black Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Public Opinion among Black Americans	4
The Nature of Partisan Conflict in Public Opinion: Asymmetric or Symmetric?	4
Race, Racial Negativity, and Competing Conceptions of American National Identity	4
More Women Candidates: The Effects of Increased Women’s Presence on Political Ambition, Efficacy, and Vote Choice	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4