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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bargaining outcomes and success in EU economic governance reforms	86
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy	56
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy	55
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections	51
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science	48
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	45
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict	44
Detecting true relationships in time series data with different orders of integration	44
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation	36
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians	33
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office	31
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea	26
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM	24
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed	24
Can political speech foster tolerance of immigrants?	21
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting	20
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	20
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?	19
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies	13
The policy basis of group sentiments	13
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs	13
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–1985	12
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?	12
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections	11
Do voters want domestic politicians to scrutinize the European Union?	10

Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions – CORRIGENDUM	9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence	9
Economic interventions, economic perceptions and political support during the Eurozone crisis	9
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
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans	8
Local elections do not increase local news demand	7
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda	7
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data	7
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election	7
Thin-skinned leaders: regime legitimation, protest issues, and repression in autocracies	7
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization	7
Detecting anomalies in data on government violence	7
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis	6
Estimating the locations of voters, politicians, policy outcomes, and status quos on a common scale	6
The effect of drone strikes on civilian communication: evidence from Yemen	6
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise	6
Are rural attitudes just Republican?	6
Interactions among simultaneous elections	6
Politicians unleashed? Political communication on Twitter and in parliament in Western Europe	6
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration	6
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss	5
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments	5
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland	5
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem	5
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism	5
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation	5
Last step to the throne: the conflict between rulers and their successors	5
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States	5
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements	5
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	5
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States	4
Presidential policymaking, 1877–2020	4
From principles to practice: methods to increase the transparency of research ethics in violent contexts	4
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text	4
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?	4
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text	4
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties	4
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?	4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment	3
Political shocks and asset prices	3
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th	3
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	3
Hot topics: Denial-of-Service attacks on news websites in autocracies	3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail	3
Hypothesis testing with error correction models	3
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments	3
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	3

Income, education, and policy priorities	3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties	3
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly	3
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment	3
Are voters' views about proportional outcomes shaped by partisan preferences? A survey experiment in the context of a real election	3
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India	3
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity	3
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration	3
How many major US laws delegate to federal agencies? (almost) all of them	3
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs	3