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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success	22
Protest and digital adaptation	22
Photo identification laws and perceptions of electoral fraud	20
Persuading climate skeptics with facts: Effects of causal evidence vs. consensus messaging	18
Sticks and carrots for peace: The effect of manipulative mediation strategies on post-conflict stability	18
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	15
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	15
Assessing survey mode effects in the 2019 EP elections: A comparison of online and face-to-face-survey data from six European countries	15
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	12
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	12
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	11
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	11
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	11
Anomalous responses on Amazon Mechanical Turk: An Indian perspective	10
Dealing with measurement error in list experiments: Choosing the right control list design	10
Arab identity and attitudes toward migration in Kuwait and Qatar	9
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	9
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	9
Do norm-based appeals affect the acceptance of the singular use of they/them pronouns?	8
Corrigendum: Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	8
Constructing generalizable geographic natural experiments	8
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	7
Does war improve women’s political representation?	7
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	6
After the ballot box: How explicit racist appeals damage constituents views of their representation in government	6

Economic shocks and militant formation	6
Getting a Seat at the Table: Changes in Military Participation in Government and Coups	6
Standing with Ukraine? How citizens trade off self-interest and principles in supporting war-torn international partners	5
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	5
The impact of real world information shocks on political attitudes: Evidence from the Panama Papers disclosures	5
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	5
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	4
Politician responses to material incentives for participation in surveys: Experimental evidence from South Africa	4
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	4
The (null) effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Europeans’ attitudes toward democracy	4
Let presidents fail: Congressional deference to presidents as gambling on failure	4
Are courts “different?” Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts	4
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	4
Partisan news versus party cues: The effect of cross-cutting party and partisan network cues on polarization and persuasion	4
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	4
Partisanship and the trolley problem: Partisan willingness to sacrifice members of the other party	4
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	4
Spelling correction with large language models to reduce measurement error in open-ended survey responses	4
Double penalty? How candidate class and gender influence voter evaluations	4
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	4
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	4
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	3
Self-coding: A method to assess semantic validity and bias when coding open-ended responses	3
Public support for assistance for workers displaced by technology	3
How do Americans want elections to be run during the COVID-19 crisis?	3
Feminism within parties: Implications for political elite evaluations and policy attitudes	3
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	3
Transfer learning for topic labeling: Analysis of the UK House of Commons speeches 1935–2014	3
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	3
Muslim bias or fear of fundamentalism? A survey experiment in five Western European democracies	3
Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	3
Inexperienced or anti-establishment? Voter preferences for outsider congressional candidates	3
How do gender stereotypes about leadership positions change in the face of a crisis?	3
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	3
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	3
Clarifying the mediation dilemma: A response to “Sticks and carrots for peace”	3
PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	3
Do sexual minorities participate more in politics?	3
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	2
Who, what, and where? Linking violence to civil wars	2
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	2
Republicans are more optimistic about economic mobility, but no less accurate	2
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	2
Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians	2
Public perceptions of local influence	2
The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization	2
By any memes necessary: Belief- and chaos-driven motives for sharing conspiracy theories on social media	2
Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	2
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	2
Apprentices or outsiders? Age-driven heterogeneities in access to political capital and reelection	2

The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	2
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	2
Replicating the effects of Facebook deactivation in an ethnically polarized setting	2
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	2
No home court advantage: The trump impeachment trial and attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court	2
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	2
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Good news about good news? The limited impacts of informing Americans about recent success in climate change mitigation	2
Women bureaucrats and petty corruption. Experimental evidence from Ghana	2
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	2
Who prefers nonpartisan elections? The role of individual party ID and county partisanship	2
Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy?	2
The electoral implications of uncivil and intolerant rhetoric in American politics	2
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	1
Counterfactual coercion: Could harsher sanctions against Russia have prevented the worst?	1
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	1
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	1
Chinese views on nuclear weapons: Evidence from an online survey	1
What does it take to be rich? Asking reasonable survey questions about income inequality	1
Gnostic notes on temporal validity	1
Is that ethical? An exploration of political scientists’ views on research ethics	1
Reevaluating the policy success of private members bills	1
The economic divide that isn’t: A comparative study on economic hardship and affective polarisation	1
What do I need to say to get your signature? Adding draft resolution text to the UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset	1
The war on flags: The opposition to state-sponsored LGBTQ+ symbols	1
The political benefits of student loan debt relief	1
Sanctuary city success? How attitudes towards irregular migrants and urban policy differ in Barcelona	1
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	1
The limited effects of partisan and consensus messaging in correcting science misperceptions	1
How long does it take to admit that you do not know? Gender differences in response time to political knowledge questions	1
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	1
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	1
What type of democracy do Chileans want?	1
Expert opinions and negative externalities do not decrease support for anti-price gouging policies	1
If not now, when? Climate disaster and the Green vote following the 2021 Germany floods	1
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	1
Turning discontent into votes: Economic inequality and ethnic outbidding	1
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	1
How politicians learn about public opinion	1
The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic	1
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	1
Multilateralism and public support for drone strikes	1
Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives	1
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	1
Using party press releases and Wikipedia page view data to analyse developments and determinants of parties’ issue prevalence: Evidence for the right-wing populist ‘Alternative for Germany’	1
Shaping the liberal international order from the inside: A natural experiment on China’s influence in the UN human rights council	1
Conglomerates at the court: The political consequences of mergers & acquisitions	1
Age is measured with systematic measurement error in developing country surveys: A diagnosis and analysis of consequences	1
Collusive and adversarial replication	1
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	1
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	1
The “tough-on-crime” left: Race, gender, and elections of law-and-order democrats	1