OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Science Research and Methods 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
Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries	68
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science	55
The micro-task market for lemons: data quality on Amazon's Mechanical Turk	43
How corruption investigations undermine regime support: evidence from China	42
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration	38
Estimating logit models with small samples	34
Politicians unleashed? Political communication on Twitter and in parliament in Western Europe	30
Public opinion on welfare state recalibration in times of austerity: evidence from survey experiments	30
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties	29
Digital literacy and online political behavior	24
Misattributed blame? Attitudes toward globalization in the age of automation	23
How government-controlled media shifts policy attitudes through framing	22
Retrospection, fairness, and economic shocks: how do voters judge policy responses to natural disasters?	21
Polling place changes and political participation: evidence from North Carolina presidential elections, 2008–2016	21
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	19
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment	18
Point break: using machine learning to uncover a critical mass in women's representation	16
City limits to partisan polarization in the American public	16
The Supreme Court as an electoral issue: evidence from three studies	15
A tale of two peoples: motivated reasoning in the aftermath of the Brexit Vote	15
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France	15
External threat environments and individual bias against female leaders	13
Economic distress and voting: evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis	13
Complex dependence in foreign direct investment: network theory and empirical analysis	13
The durable differential deterrent effects of strict photo identification laws	12

The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures	12
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments	12
Implementing presidential particularism: bureaucracy and the distribution of federal grants	11
Thin-skinned leaders: regime legitimation, protest issues, and repression in autocracies	11
The lure of the private sector: career prospects affect selection out of Congress	10
How transnational party alliances influence national parties' policies	10
Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions	9
Evidence for the irrelevance of irrelevant events	9
Violent political rhetoric on Twitter	8
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Do campaign contributions buy favorable policies? Evidence from the insurance industry	7
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	7
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China	7
Conditional Congressional communication: how elite speech varies across medium	6
How technological change affects regional voting patterns	6
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting	6
Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs	6
Taking dyads seriously	6
Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants' rights to demonstrate	5
How to avoid incorrect inferences (while gaining correct ones) in dynamic models	5
Gender and policy persuasion	5
From principles to practice: methods to increase the transparency of research ethics in violent contexts	5
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers	5
Back to “normal”: the short-lived impact of an online NGO campaign of government discrimination in Hungary	5
Keeping tabs through collaboration? Sharing ministerial responsibility in coalition governments	5
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	5
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	5
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration	5
Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization	5
What makes policy complex?	4
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying	4
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment	4
Coalition inclusion probabilities: a party-strategic measure for predicting policy and politics	4
Belief in territorial indivisibility and public preferences for dispute resolution	4
The politics of accountability in Supreme Court nominations: voter recall and assessment of senator votes on nominees	4
Strategic government communication about performance	3
The effects of combating corruption on institutional trust and political engagement: evidence from Latin America	3
The effects of state coercion on voting outcome in protest movements: a causal forest approach	3
Separation and Rare Events	3
Through the ideology of the beholder: how ideology shapes perceptions of partisan groups	3
Divisive jobs: three facets of risk, precarity, and redistribution	3
The concreteness of social knowledge and the quality of democratic choice	3
Are rural attitudes just Republican?	3
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging	3
Does issue importance attenuate partisan cue-taking?	3
Hypothesis testing with error correction models	3
Estimating latent traits from expert surveys: an analysis of sensitivity to data-generating process	3
Can citizens guess how other citizens voted based on demographic characteristics?	3
The role of hyperparameters in machine learning models and how to tune them	3
A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing	3

Pour (tear) gas on fire? Violent confrontations and anti-government backlash	3
Detecting anomalies in data on government violence	3
Terrorism activates ethnocentrism to explain greater willingness to sacrifice civil liberties: evidence from Germany	3
Hard traveling: unemployment and road infrastructure in the shadow of political conflict	3
Economic interventions, economic perceptions and political support during the Eurozone crisis	3
Do voters want domestic politicians to scrutinize the European Union?	3
Can political speech foster tolerance of immigrants?	3
Decomposing the source of the gender gap in legislative committee service: evidence from US states	3
Last step to the throne: the conflict between rulers and their successors	3
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss	3
When growth is not enough: inequality, economic gains, and executive approval	3
How many major US laws delegate to federal agencies? (almost) all of them	3