OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Science Research and Methods 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections	83
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy	47
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy	37
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	33
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation	26
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea	21
Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion	21
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach	20
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians	19
Measuring inter-party communication: a transformer-based approach	17
Local taxes and economic voting: evidence from city ballot measures	17
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship	16
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict	16
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes	15
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office	15
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed	13
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM	13
Improving studies of sensitive topics using prior evidence: an informative Bayesian approach for list experiments	12
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM	12
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies	12
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?	11
The policy basis of group sentiments	11
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	11
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs	11
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–1985	10

Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?	10
The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment	10
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections	9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence	9
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects	9
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans	9
Do party leaders influence roll-call voting in congress?	9
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data	8
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda	8
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences	8
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research	8
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization	8
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election	8
Interactions among simultaneous elections	7
Local elections do not increase local news demand	7
Energy transition, financial markets and EU interventionism: lessons from the Ukraine crisis	7
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise	7
Inequality, information, and income tax policy preferences in Austria and Germany	7
What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? Experimental and panel-based evidence from Ukraine in 2022	6
Modeling issue competence over time: a Bayesian framework for estimating dynamic issue ownership	6
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement?	6
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States	6
Participatory unilateralism: understanding Congress’s role in presidential unilateral policymaking	6
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes	6
Re-examining the effects of Western sanctions on democracy and human rights in the 21 ^st century	6
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis	6
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text	6
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism	6
How voters respond to economic shocks from abroad	6
Are rural attitudes just Republican?	6
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties	6
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements	6
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation	6
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan	5
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India	5
When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM	5
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	5
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem	5
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections	5
Analyzing the impact of events through surveys: formalizing biases and introducing the dual randomized survey design	5
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland	5
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States	5
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism	5
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?	5
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text	5
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments	4
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	4
Presidential policymaking, 1877–2020	4
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China	4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment	4

Navigating the mismeasurement of intermediary variables in message-based experiments	4
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	4
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
The shadow of social desirability bias: evidence from reassessing the sources of political trust in China	4
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions	4
Propaganda to a cynical audience	4
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th	4
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity	4
Income, education, and policy priorities	4
Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias	4
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs	4