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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How populism and conservative media fuel conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 and what it means for COVID-19 behaviors	104
Demographic polarization and the rise of the far right: Brazil’s 2018 presidential election	35
Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment	19
Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy?	18
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	15
Do anti-poverty policies sway voters? Evidence from a meta-analysis of Conditional Cash Transfers	13
Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	13
If not now, when? Climate disaster and the Green vote following the 2021 Germany floods	12
Did exposure to COVID-19 affect vote choice in the 2020 presidential election?	12
Why do citizens (not) support democratic innovations? The role of instrumental motivations in support for participatory budgeting	9
The reputational cost of military aggression: Evidence from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	8
How do Americans want elections to be run during the COVID-19 crisis?	8
Visiting the hegemon: Explaining diplomatic visits to the United States	8
The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization	8
Chinese views on nuclear weapons: Evidence from an online survey	6
The electoral implications of uncivil and intolerant rhetoric in American politics	6
Reassessing the public goods theory of alliances	6
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	6
Correlates of aggregate support for the radical right in Portugal	6
Self-coding: A method to assess semantic validity and bias when coding open-ended responses	6
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	6
Postal delivery disruptions and the fragility of voting by mail: Lessons from Maine	5
Inexperienced or anti-establishment? Voter preferences for outsider congressional candidates	5
On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science	5
How politicians learn about public opinion	5

Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	5
Facebook algorithm changes may have amplified local republican parties	5
The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic	5
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	4
Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians	4
Transfer learning for topic labeling: Analysis of the UK House of Commons speeches 1935–2014	4
Attitudes about containment measures during the 2020/2021 coronavirus pandemic: self-interest, or broader political orientations?	4
The life, death and diversity of pro-government militias: The fully revised pro-government militias database version 2.0	4
Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States	4
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	4
When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists	4
Thematic analysis of in-group and out-group debates in an online right-wing extremist community	4
The limited effects of partisan and consensus messaging in correcting science misperceptions	4
Women bureaucrats and petty corruption. Experimental evidence from Ghana	4
Partisanship and the trolley problem: Partisan willingness to sacrifice members of the other party	4
Democracy, external threat, and military spending	4
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	4
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment	3
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	3
Changes in perceptions of media bias	3
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	3
Muslim bias or fear of fundamentalism? A survey experiment in five Western European democracies	3
Anomalous responses on Amazon Mechanical Turk: An Indian perspective	3
Presidential use of diversionary drone force and public support	3
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	3
How policy influence varies with race and gender in the US courts of appeals	3
Turning discontent into votes: Economic inequality and ethnic outbidding	3
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	3
Photo identification laws and perceptions of electoral fraud	3
Social contact and attitudes toward outsiders: The case of Japan	3
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	3
Multilateralism and public support for drone strikes	3
Age is measured with systematic measurement error in developing country surveys: A diagnosis and analysis of consequences	3
Public support for assistance for workers displaced by technology	3
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	3
Apprentices or outsiders? Age-driven heterogeneities in access to political capital and reelection	2
Who prefers nonpartisan elections? The role of individual party ID and county partisanship	2
Dealing with measurement error in list experiments: Choosing the right control list design	2
Epistemic confidence conditions the effectiveness of corrective cues against political misperceptions	2
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	2
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	2
Does issue framing shape support for COVID-19 lockdown measures? Evidence from a survey experiment in Peru	2
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	2
No home court advantage: The trump impeachment trial and attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court	2
Linking individual and group motives for violent conflict	2
Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	2
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	2
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’	2
What type of democracy do Chileans want?	2
Expert opinions and negative externalities do not decrease support for anti-price gouging policies	2

Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	2
Do people want smarter ballots?	2
Shame, endorse, or remain silent?: State response to human rights violations in other countries	2
How long does it take to admit that you do not know? Gender differences in response time to political knowledge questions	2
Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives	2
Shaping the liberal international order from the inside: A natural experiment on China’s influence in the UN human rights council	1
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	1
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	1
The war on flags: The opposition to state-sponsored LGBTQ+ symbols	1
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	1
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	1
Economic shocks and militant formation	1
Sticks and carrots for peace: The effect of manipulative mediation strategies on post-conflict stability	1
Temporal validity as meta-science	1
Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	1
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	1
Reneging on alliances: Experimental evidence	1
Reevaluating the policy success of private members bills	1
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	1
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	1
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	1
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	1
Protest and digital adaptation	1
Thinking generically and specifically in International Relations survey experiments	1
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	1
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	1
The effects of implicit biases on real-life client discrimination among public officials	1
Age-group identity and political participation	1
By any memes necessary: Belief- and chaos-driven motives for sharing conspiracy theories on social media	1
The political benefits of student loan debt relief	1
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	1
Replicating the effects of Facebook deactivation in an ethnically polarized setting	1
The (null) effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Europeans’ attitudes toward democracy	1
Partisan news versus party cues: The effect of cross-cutting party and partisan network cues on polarization and persuasion	1
Constructing generalizable geographic natural experiments	1
Semantic temporality analysis: A computational approach to time in English and German texts	1
Public campaign financing’s effects on judicial legitimacy: Evidence from a survey experiment	1
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	1
What if neither randomized control trials nor public voting records are available in a get-out-the-vote field experiment?	1