OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Science Research and Methods 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The shape of and solutions to the MTurk quality crisis	281
Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries	51
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science	43
Do natural disasters help the environment? How voters respond and what that means	32
How corruption investigations undermine regime support: evidence from China	32
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration	30
The micro-task market for lemons: data quality on Amazon's Mechanical Turk	29
Estimating logit models with small samples	28
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties	22
Public opinion on welfare state recalibration in times of austerity: evidence from survey experiments	22
Politicians unleashed? Political communication on Twitter and in parliament in Western Europe	20
Retrospection, fairness, and economic shocks: how do voters judge policy responses to natural disasters?	19
Polling place changes and political participation: evidence from North Carolina presidential elections, 2008–2016	18
We need to go deeper: measuring electoral violence using convolutional neural networks and social media	16
Problems with products? Control strategies for models with interaction and quadratic effects	15
Misattributed blame? Attitudes toward globalization in the age of automation	14
A tale of two peoples: motivated reasoning in the aftermath of the Brexit Vote	14
Complex dependence in foreign direct investment: network theory and empirical analysis	14
Value extremity contributes to affective polarization in the US	14
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment	13
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	13
How government-controlled media shifts policy attitudes through framing	12
Digital literacy and online political behavior	12
City limits to partisan polarization in the American public	12
Does Social Media Promote Civic Activism? A Field Experiment with a Civic Campaign	12

Point break: using machine learning to uncover a critical mass in women's representation	12
Placebo statements in list experiments: Evidence from a face-to-face survey in Singapore	11
The durable differential deterrent effects of strict photo identification laws	11
Analyzing the cross-national comparability of party positions on the socio-cultural and EU dimensions in Europe	10
Thin-skinned leaders: regime legitimation, protest issues, and repression in autocracies	10
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France	10
The lure of the private sector: career prospects affect selection out of Congress	10
The Supreme Court as an electoral issue: evidence from three studies	10
External threat environments and individual bias against female leaders	10
Causal interaction and effect modification: same model, different concepts	9
A new geography of civil war: a machine learning approach to measuring the zones of armed conflicts	9
Implementing presidential particularism: bureaucracy and the distribution of federal grants	8
The role of affective orientations in promoting perceived polarization	8
How transnational party alliances influence national parties' policies	8
Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions	8
The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures	8
Economic distress and voting: evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis	8
Authoritarian media and diversionary threats: lessons from 30 years of Syrian state discourse	8
Islam, gender segregation, and political engagement: evidence from an experiment in Tunisia	7
Do campaign contributions buy favorable policies? Evidence from the insurance industry	6
How responsive is Trade Adjustment Assistance?	6
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments	6
Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs	6
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	6
Violent political rhetoric on Twitter	6
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting	6
Taking dyads seriously	6
Keeping tabs through collaboration? Sharing ministerial responsibility in coalition governments	5
How to avoid incorrect inferences (while gaining correct ones) in dynamic models	5
The conditional nature of publication bias: a meta-regression analysis	5
Electoral reforms and the representativeness of turnout	5
Evidence for the irrelevance of irrelevant events	4
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China	4
Gender and policy persuasion	4
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment	4
Defining racial and ethnic context with geolocation data	4
Nativist policy: the comparative effects of Trumpian politics on migration decisions	4
Back to “normal”: the short-lived impact of an online NGO campaign of government discrimination in Hungary	4
Conventional and unconventional participation in Latin America: a hierarchical latent class approach	4
Coalition inclusion probabilities: a party-strategic measure for predicting policy and politics	4
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers	4
Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization	4
How many major US laws delegate to federal agencies? (almost) all of them	3
Do voters want domestic politicians to scrutinize the European Union?	3
Betting on the underdog: the influence of social networks on vote choice	3
Separation and Rare Events	3
Divisive jobs: three facets of risk, precarity, and redistribution	3
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration	3
Estimating latent traits from expert surveys: an analysis of sensitivity to data-generating process	3

Conditional Congressional communication: how elite speech varies across medium	3
From principles to practice: methods to increase the transparency of research ethics in violent contexts	3
Through the ideology of the beholder: how ideology shapes perceptions of partisan groups	3
Transformed-likelihood estimators for dynamic panel models with a very small T	3
How technological change affects regional voting patterns	3
Hypothesis testing with error correction models	3
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	3
Can citizens guess how other citizens voted based on demographic characteristics?	3
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss	3
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying	3
The effects of combating corruption on institutional trust and political engagement: evidence from Latin America	2
Are voters' views about proportional outcomes shaped by partisan preferences? A survey experiment in the context of a real election	2
Experience, institutions, and candidate emergence: the political career returns to state legislative service	2
Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants' rights to demonstrate	2
The concreteness of social knowledge and the quality of democratic choice	2
Shared interests foster interethnic cooperation among politicians	2
The politics of (de)liberalization: studying partisan effects using mixed-effects models	2
How urban riots influence political behavior: vote choices after the 2011 London riots	2
Strategic government communication about performance	2
Belief in territorial indivisibility and public preferences for dispute resolution	2
What makes policy complex?	2
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed	2
Last step to the throne: the conflict between rulers and their successors	2
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	2
Detecting anomalies in data on government violence	2
When growth is not enough: inequality, economic gains, and executive approval	2
Terrorism activates ethnocentrism to explain greater willingness to sacrifice civil liberties: evidence from Germany	2
Rallies around the flag-draped coffins: the electoral effects of security force casualties in terror attacks	2
Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation	2
A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing	2
Political alignment between firms and employees in the United States: evidence from a new dataset	2
The politics of accountability in Supreme Court nominations: voter recall and assessment of senator votes on nominees	2
State reach and development in Africa since the 1960s: new data and analysis	2
The diplomatic burden of pandemics: lessons from malaria	2
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences	1
The impact of university attendance on partisanship	1
The effects of state coercion on voting outcome in protest movements: a causal forest approach	1
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?	1
Energy versus safety: unilateral action, voter welfare, and executive accountability	1
Decomposing the source of the gender gap in legislative committee service: evidence from US states	1
Are voters too afraid to tackle corruption? Survey and experimental evidence from Mexico	1
Can't coalesce, can't constrain: redefining elite influence in non-democracies	1
Do gains in political representation sweeten tax reform in China? It depends on who you ask	1
Detecting true relationships in time series data with different orders of integration	1
Affective polarization and coalition signals	1
Do constituents know (or care) about the lawmaking effectiveness of their representatives?	1
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data	1
Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions – CORRIGENDUM	1
Explaining support for redistribution: social insurance systems and fairness	1
Am I obliged to vote? A regression discontinuity analysis of compulsory voting with ill-informed voters	1
The unequal effect of economic development on perceived labor market risks and welfare	1
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state	1
A typology of substitution: weather, armed conflict, and maritime piracy	1
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment	1
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest	1
The comparative meaning of political space: a comprehensive modeling approach	1
Bargaining outcomes and success in EU economic governance reforms	1
Hard traveling: unemployment and road infrastructure in the shadow of political conflict	1
In defense of a divided opposition: programmatic distribution and ethnic minor party support	1
Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation	1
Economic interventions, economic perceptions and political support during the Eurozone crisis	1
Justice for sale: political crises and legal development	1
Can political speech foster tolerance of immigrants?	1
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland	1
Can political alignment reduce crime? Evidence from Chile	1
When does education increase political participation? Evidence from Senegal	1
Does issue importance attenuate partisan cue-taking?	1
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost	1
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–2021	1
Hot topics: Denial-of-Service attacks on news websites in autocracies	1
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States	1
The effect of drone strikes on civilian communication: evidence from Yemen	1
When do different systems of government lead to similar power-sharing? The case of government formation	1