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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How populism and conservative media fuel conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 and what it means for COVID-19 behaviors	87
Demographic polarization and the rise of the far right: Brazil’s 2018 presidential election	31
Conspiracy theories, election rigging, and support for democratic norms	30
How partisanship and sexism influence voters’ reactions to political #MeToo scandals	18
Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy?	17
Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections	16
Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment	14
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	13
Awareness of Spitzenkandidaten in the 2019 European elections: The effects of news exposure in domestic campaign contexts	11
Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset	10
Do anti-poverty policies sway voters? Evidence from a meta-analysis of Conditional Cash Transfers	10
Towards a unified anti-Europe narrative on the right and left? The challenge of Euroscepticism in the 2019 European elections	9
The surprising decline of international mediation in armed conflicts	9
Public attitudes about emergent issues in LGBTQ rights: Conversion therapy and religious refusals	9
Economic perceptions and voting behavior in US presidential elections	8
Did exposure to COVID-19 affect vote choice in the 2020 presidential election?	8
Political engagement and turnout among same-sex couples in Western Europe	8
Why do citizens (not) support democratic innovations? The role of instrumental motivations in support for participatory budgeting	8
If not now, when? Climate disaster and the Green vote following the 2021 Germany floods	8
(Un)settling the precedent: Contrasting institutionalisation dynamics in the spitzenkandidaten procedure of 2014 and 2019	7
Political equality without social equality? Social distortion of voter turnout in the European elections 2019 across nine European capitals	7
Comparing ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Media for Violence Monitoring and Crisis Response: Evidence from Kenya	7
How do Americans want elections to be run during the COVID-19 crisis?	7
Air superiority and battlefield victory	7
Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	7

Did local civil rights protest liberalize whites’ racial attitudes?	6
Capturing group alignments: Introducing the Government and Armed Actors Relations Dataset (GAARD)	6
Combining bottom-up monitoring and top-down accountability: A field experiment on managing corruption in Uganda	5
Selling international law enforcement: Elite justifications and public values	5
The electoral implications of uncivil and intolerant rhetoric in American politics	5
Correlates of aggregate support for the radical right in Portugal	5
The reputational cost of military aggression: Evidence from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
Visiting the hegemon: Explaining diplomatic visits to the United States	4
Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States	4
Transfer learning for topic labeling: Analysis of the UK House of Commons speeches 1935–2014	4
Chinese views on nuclear weapons: Evidence from an online survey	4
Symbolic politics and self-interest in post-Affordable Care Act health Insurance coverage	4
Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians	4
Education, early life, and political participation: New evidence from a sibling model	4
Do political connections make businesspeople richer? Evidence from Russia, 2003–2010	4
Curving the resource curse: Negative effects of oil and gas revenue on nonviolent resistance campaign onset	4
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	4
Reassessing the public goods theory of alliances	4
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	4
Democracy, external threat, and military spending	3
Facebook algorithm changes may have amplified local republican parties	3
The life, death and diversity of pro-government militias: The fully revised pro-government militias database version 2.0	3
The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic	3
The impact of group identity on coalition formation	3
Mobilizing opposition voters under electoral authoritarianism: A field experiment in Russia	3
The limited effects of partisan and consensus messaging in correcting science misperceptions	3
Are electoral autocracies better for the poor? Evidence from social assistance programs	3
The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization	3
Anomalous responses on Amazon Mechanical Turk: An Indian perspective	3
Presidential use of diversionary drone force and public support	3
Citizen preferences about border arrangements in divided societies: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Northern Ireland	3
Multilateralism and public support for drone strikes	3
Postal delivery disruptions and the fragility of voting by mail: Lessons from Maine	3
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	3
Photo identification laws and perceptions of electoral fraud	2
Are popular and powerful committees more representative? Evidence from the ninth European Parliament	2
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment	2
Shame, endorse, or remain silent?: State response to human rights violations in other countries	2
How policy influence varies with race and gender in the US courts of appeals	2
Changes in perceptions of media bias	2
Women bureaucrats and petty corruption. Experimental evidence from Ghana	2
Exploring mainstream Euroscepticism: Similarities and differences between Eurosceptic claims of centre-right and radical right parties	2
Partisanship and the trolley problem: Partisan willingness to sacrifice members of the other party	2
Dealing with measurement error in list experiments: Choosing the right control list design	2
On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science	2
Learning about principles or prospects for success? An experimental analysis of information support for nonviolent resistance	2
Attitudes about containment measures during the 2020/2021 coronavirus pandemic: self-interest, or broader political orientations?	2
Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives	2
Does issue framing shape support for COVID-19 lockdown measures? Evidence from a survey experiment in Peru	2
Age is measured with systematic measurement error in developing country surveys: A diagnosis and analysis of consequences	2

Inexperienced or anti-establishment? Voter preferences for outsider congressional candidates	2
Self-coding: A method to assess semantic validity and bias when coding open-ended responses	2
Automated text analysis for understanding radical activism: The topical agenda of the North American animal liberation movement	2
When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists	2
What type of democracy do Chileans want?	2
A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany	2
Turning discontent into votes: Economic inequality and ethnic outbidding	2
Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	2
Camouflaged propaganda: A survey experiment on political native advertising	2
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	1
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	1
Epistemic confidence conditions the effectiveness of corrective cues against political misperceptions	1
Economic shocks and militant formation	1
Semantic temporality analysis: A computational approach to time in English and German texts	1
Heuristics and political accountability in complex governance: An experimental test	1
Age-group identity and political participation	1
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	1
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	1
Who prefers nonpartisan elections? The role of individual party ID and county partisanship	1
Bottom-up accountability and public service provision: Evidence from a field experiment in Brazil	1
Public support for assistance for workers displaced by technology	1
The (null) effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Europeans’ attitudes toward democracy	1
Personality’s cross-national impact across EU attitude dimensions	1
Social contact and attitudes toward outsiders: The case of Japan	1
Sticks and carrots for peace: The effect of manipulative mediation strategies on post-conflict stability	1
Linking individual and group motives for violent conflict	1
The effects of implicit biases on real-life client discrimination among public officials	1
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	1
How long does it take to admit that you do not know? Gender differences in response time to political knowledge questions	1
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	1
How politicians learn about public opinion	1
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	1
Muslim bias or fear of fundamentalism? A survey experiment in five Western European democracies	1
Partisan news versus party cues: The effect of cross-cutting party and partisan network cues on polarization and persuasion	1
Do people want smarter ballots?	1
Protest and digital adaptation	1
Thinking generically and specifically in International Relations survey experiments	1
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	1
Thematic analysis of in-group and out-group debates in an online right-wing extremist community	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
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
No home court advantage: The trump impeachment trial and attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court	1
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	1
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	1