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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Political communication in the real world: evidence from a natural experiment in Germany	68
Roll-call voting under random seating assignment	60
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy	49
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM	44
Bargaining outcomes and success in EU economic governance reforms	41
Last step to the throne: the conflict between rulers and their successors	35
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss	34
Do winners spread more words? Factional competition and local media reports on corruption investigation in China	33
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis	32
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying	27
Estimating public opinion from surveys: the impact of including a “don't know” response option in policy preference questions	23
Belief in Territorial Indivisibility and Public Preferences for Dispute Resolution – CORRIGENDUM	22
Divisive jobs: three facets of risk, precarity, and redistribution	21
Taking dyads seriously	19
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China	16
How to avoid incorrect inferences (while gaining correct ones) in dynamic models	16
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings	15
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era	15
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation	14
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States	13
Happy birthday: you get to vote!	13
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?	11
Asymmetric flooding as a tool for foreign influence on social media	11
Estimating logit models with small samples	10
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy	9

Campaign communication and legislative leadership	8
Pour (tear) gas on fire? Violent confrontations and anti-government backlash	8
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany	7
The concreteness of social knowledge and the quality of democratic choice	7
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties	6
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science	6
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption	6
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement	6
(Mis)perception of party congruence and satisfaction with democracy	6
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	6
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians	5
Setting the tone: the diffusion of moral and moral-emotional appeals across political and public discourse	5
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France	5
RAM volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians	5
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements	5
RAM volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Traditional institutions in Africa: past and present	5
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	4
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism	4
Through the ideology of the beholder: how ideology shapes perceptions of partisan groups	4
The politics of accountability in Supreme Court nominations: voter recall and assessment of senator votes on nominees	4
Surrounded and threatened: how neighborhood composition reduces ethnic voting through intimidation	4
The Supreme Court as an electoral issue: evidence from three studies	3
Detecting true relationships in time series data with different orders of integration	3
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text	3
When does education increase political participation? Evidence from Senegal	3
Decomposing the source of the gender gap in legislative committee service: evidence from US states	3
A typology of substitution: weather, armed conflict, and maritime piracy	3
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office	3
Trust in government and American public opinion toward foreign aid	3
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem	3
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–2021	3
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records	3
Incentivized choice in large-scale voting experiments	3
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism	3
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text	3
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest	3
Affective polarization and the destabilization of core political values	3
Indirect rule and public goods provision: evidence from colonial India	3
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict	3
A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing	3
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation	3
Economic distress and voting: evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis	3
International inequality and demand for redistribution in the Global South	3
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers	3
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3

The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election	3
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems	2
Farming then fighting: agricultural idle time and armed conflict	2
Can political alignment reduce crime? Evidence from Chile	2
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM	2
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	2
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies	2
The national network of US state legislators on Twitter	2
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed	2
Public opinion on welfare state recalibration in times of austerity: evidence from survey experiments	2
Introducing ICBe: an event extraction dataset from narratives about international crises	2
The role of hyperparameters in machine learning models and how to tune them	2
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine	2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland	2
Presidential policymaking, 1877–2020	2
Trade openness, job sectors, and social policy preferences: evidence from China	2
What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?	2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation	2
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments	2
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States	2
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland	2
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China	2
Self-reported political ideology	2
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs	2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state	2
Perceived beneficiaries and support for the globalization of higher education: a survey experiment on attitudes toward international students	2
Does a universal basic income affect voter turnout? Evidence from Alaska	1
The unequal effect of economic development on perceived labor market risks and welfare	1
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico	1
Rallies around the flag-draped coffins: the electoral effects of security force casualties in terror attacks	1
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach	1
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting	1
Am I obliged to vote? A regression discontinuity analysis of compulsory voting with ill-informed voters	1
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	1
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?	1
From principles to practice: methods to increase the transparency of research ethics in violent contexts	1
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments	1
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?	1
Coalition inclusion probabilities: a party-strategic measure for predicting policy and politics	1
Persistent unilateral action	1
The American public's attitudes over how judges use legal principles to make decisions	1
Experience, institutions, and candidate emergence: the political career returns to state legislative service	1
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity	1
The policy basis of group sentiments	1
A spatiotemporal analysis of NATO member states' defense spending: how much do allies actually free ride?	1
The effects of state coercion on voting outcome in protest movements: a causal forest approach	1
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties	1
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants? – ADDENDUM	1
Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries	1
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	1
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences	1
Can political speech foster tolerance of immigrants?	1
Can citizens guess how other citizens voted based on demographic characteristics?	1
Persistence of voice pitch bias against policy differences	1
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence	1
What makes policy complex?	1
Two terms of endearment? Incumbent-party performance in US presidential elections	1
The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers	1
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th	1
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM	1
Explaining support for redistribution: social insurance systems and fairness	1
Interest group lobbying and partisan polarization in the United States: 1999–2016	1
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?	1
The impact of university attendance on partisanship	1
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?	1
Justice-level heterogeneity in certiorari voting: US Supreme Court October terms 1939, 1968, and 1982	1
Energy versus safety: unilateral action, voter welfare, and executive accountability	1
Political shocks and asset prices	1
Are local policy attitudes distinct?	1
Digital literacy and online political behavior	1
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India	1
Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: evidence from a youth program in Israel	1
Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation	1