OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research & Politics 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reevaluating ideological asymmetries in specific support for the Supreme Court	26
Corrigendum: Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	26
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	24
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	24
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	22
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	21
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	16
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	16
Public perceptions of local influence	14
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	12
Descriptive representation and attitudes about local government: An experimental test using real-world stimuli	12
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	12
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	10
Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	10
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	9
The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic	9
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	8
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	8
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	8
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	8
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	7
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data	7
The life, death and diversity of pro-government militias: The fully revised pro-government militias database version 2.0	7
Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	6
Do people want smarter ballots?	6

Shame, endorse, or remain silent?: State response to human rights violations in other countries	6
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	6
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	6
Political trust and public support for propaganda in China	6
Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	5
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	5
Changing the lens: The contingency of results from conjoint experiments on the outcome variable and the estimand	5
What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness	5
Democracy, external threat, and military spending	5
Entitled and self-conscious? The ego-centric underpinnings of electoral preferences during the 2020 U.S. election	5
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	5
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	5
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?	5
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	5
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	5
Economic shocks and militant formation	4
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	4
Feminism within parties: Implications for political elite evaluations and policy attitudes	4
Are courts “different?” Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts	4
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	4
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	4
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	4
Corrigendum to “An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support”	4
Detecting pro-kremlin disinformation using large language models	4
Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	4
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	4
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	3
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	3
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	3
Age-group identity and political participation	3
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	3
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	3
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	3
Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment	3
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	3
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	3
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	3
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	3
Preferential abstention in conjoint experiments	3
How do researchers choose their goals of inference? A survey experiment on the effects of the state of research and method preferences on the choice between research goals	2
Constructing generalizable geographic natural experiments	2
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success	2
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	2
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	2
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	2
An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support	2
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	2
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	2
Voters don’t care too much about policy: How politicians conceive of voting motives	2
Ambivalence and perceptions of China: Two list experiments	2

Let presidents fail: Congressional deference to presidents as gambling on failure	2
Public campaign financing’s effects on judicial legitimacy: Evidence from a survey experiment	2
Facebook algorithm changes may have amplified local republican parties	2
New tree, growing forrest: Updating meta-analytic evidence on solidarity between U.S. people of color through an extension and partial replication	2
Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance	2
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment	2
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	2
If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia	2
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	2
Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest	2
Temporal validity as meta-science	2
Linking artificial intelligence job exposure to expectations: Understanding AI losers, winners, and their political preferences	2
Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report	2
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	2
PhD stipends and program placement success in political science	2
From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate	2
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	2
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	1
A survey experiment on post-Dobbs abortion bans	1
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	1
Judicial influence and the importance of intersecting identities	1
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Elite-public gaps in support for nuclear and chemical strikes: New evidence from a survey of British parliamentarians and citizens	1
On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science	1
The young and the hawkish: Generational differences in conflict attitudes in Israel	1
ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification	1
The reputational cost of military aggression: Evidence from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	1
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	1
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	1
PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	1
Who’s afraid of Sahra – Understanding the shift in votes towards Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht	1
Does war improve women’s political representation?	1
Gambling on the constitution: Abortion rights and the 2023 constitution-making process in Chile	1
Do norm-based appeals affect the acceptance of the singular use of they/them pronouns?	1
The genetic essentialism of the alt-right	1
When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists	1
Discovering optimal ballot wording using adaptive survey design	1
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	1
How politicians learn about public opinion	1
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	1
Exposure to protests and support for different forms of violence: Evidence from the 2019 social outburst in Chile	1
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	1
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	1
Judging prosecutors: Public support for prosecutorial discretion	1
Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion	1
Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments	1