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

Article	Citations
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	23
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	23
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	22
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	20
Corrigendum: Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	16
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	16
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	15
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	15
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	14
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	12
Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	12
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	12
Self-coding: A method to assess semantic validity and bias when coding open-ended responses	11
Public perceptions of local influence	10
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	9
Age is measured with systematic measurement error in developing country surveys: A diagnosis and analysis of consequences	9
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	8
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	8
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	7
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	7
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data	7
Territorial wars and absolute outcomes	7
The life, death and diversity of pro-government militias: The fully revised pro-government militias database version 2.0	6
How policy influence varies with race and gender in the US courts of appeals	6

Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	5
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	5
Shame, endorse, or remain silent?: State response to human rights violations in other countries	5
Democracy, external threat, and military spending	5
Do people want smarter ballots?	5
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?	5
Political trust and public support for propaganda in China	4
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	4
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	4
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	4
What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness	4
Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	4
Entitled and self-conscious? The ego-centric underpinnings of electoral preferences during the 2020 U.S. election	4
Economic shocks and militant formation	4
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	4
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	4
Did exposure to COVID-19 affect vote choice in the 2020 presidential election?	4
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	4
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	4
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	4
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	4
Are courts “different?” Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts	3
Feminism within parties: Implications for political elite evaluations and policy attitudes	3
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	3
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	3
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	3
Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	3
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	3
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	3
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	3
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	3
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	3
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	2
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	2
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	2
Correlates of aggregate support for the radical right in Portugal	2
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
From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate	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
Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report	2
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	2
New tree, growing forrest: Updating meta-analytic evidence on solidarity between U.S. people of color through an extension and partial replication	2
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	2
Chinese views on nuclear weapons: Evidence from an online survey	2
Temporal validity as meta-science	2
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment	2
Voters don’t care too much about policy: How politicians conceive of voting motives	2
Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance	2
Age-group identity and political participation	2

Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment	2
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	2
Preferential abstention in conjoint experiments	2
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	2
PhD stipends and program placement success in political science	2
Ambivalence and perceptions of China: Two list experiments	2
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	2
If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia	2
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	1
The reputational cost of military aggression: Evidence from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	1
The genetic essentialism of the alt-right	1
Does war improve women’s political representation?	1
On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science	1
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	1
Discovering optimal ballot wording using adaptive survey design	1
How politicians learn about public opinion	1
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	1
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	1
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	1
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	1
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	1
Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion	1
Double penalty? How candidate class and gender influence voter evaluations	1
Do norm-based appeals affect the acceptance of the singular use of they/them pronouns?	1
The young and the hawkish: Generational differences in conflict attitudes in Israel	1
Judging prosecutors: Public support for prosecutorial discretion	1
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	1
Let presidents fail: Congressional deference to presidents as gambling on failure	1
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	1
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	1
PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	1
Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments	1
Who’s afraid of Sahra – Understanding the shift in votes towards Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht	1
Gambling on the constitution: Abortion rights and the 2023 constitution-making process in Chile	1
How do gender stereotypes about leadership positions change in the face of a crisis?	1
Assessing survey mode effects in the 2019 EP elections: A comparison of online and face-to-face-survey data from six European countries	1
When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists	1
Elite-public gaps in support for nuclear and chemical strikes: New evidence from a survey of British parliamentarians and citizens	1
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	1
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	1
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success	1
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	1
Constructing generalizable geographic natural experiments	1