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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	39
Corrigendum: Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	32
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	28
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	27
Reevaluating ideological asymmetries in specific support for the Supreme Court	25
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	21
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	19
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	17
Public perceptions of local influence	15
Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	13
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	13
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	11
Descriptive representation and attitudes about local government: An experimental test using real-world stimuli	11
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	10
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	9
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	9
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	9
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	8
Fundraising on the fringe: Do ideologically extreme candidates solicit small donations?	8
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	8
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	8
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data	8
The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic	8
Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	7
Shame, endorse, or remain silent?: State response to human rights violations in other countries	7

Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	7
The life, death and diversity of pro-government militias: The fully revised pro-government militias database version 2.0	7
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	7
Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	6
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	6
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	6
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	6
Political trust and public support for propaganda in China	6
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	6
What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness	6
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?	6
Entitled and self-conscious? The ego-centric underpinnings of electoral preferences during the 2020 U.S. election	6
Changing the lens: The contingency of results from conjoint experiments on the outcome variable and the estimand	6
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	5
Economic shocks and militant formation	5
Corrigendum to “An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support”	5
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	5
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	5
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	5
Detecting pro-kremlin disinformation using large language models	4
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	4
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	4
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	4
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	4
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	4
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	4
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	4
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	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
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	4
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	4
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	4
Age-group identity and political participation	3
New tree, growing forrest: Updating meta-analytic evidence on solidarity between U.S. people of color through an extension and partial replication	3
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	3
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	3
Facebook algorithm changes may have amplified local republican parties	3
Preferential abstention in conjoint experiments	3
Linking artificial intelligence job exposure to expectations: Understanding AI losers, winners, and their political preferences	3
Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment	3
If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia	3
Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance	3
An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support	3
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	3
Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report	3
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	3
Toxicity and U.S. Senate candidate Twitter messaging in the 2022 election	2
How politicians learn about public opinion	2
Let presidents fail: Congressional deference to presidents as gambling on failure	2

Prospective voting and the issues and leaders model: Forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election	2
Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest	2
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	2
Temporal validity as meta-science	2
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	2
Ambivalence and perceptions of China: Two list experiments	2
From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate	2
From citizen input to a more egalitarian agenda: Public inquiries and the policy agenda	2
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	2
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	2
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	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
Judicial influence and the importance of intersecting identities	2
Public campaign financing’s effects on judicial legitimacy: Evidence from a survey experiment	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
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	2
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	2
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	2
PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	2
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment	2
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	2
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	2
Voters don’t care too much about policy: How politicians conceive of voting motives	2
PhD stipends and program placement success in political science	2
Do norm-based appeals affect the acceptance of the singular use of they/them pronouns?	1
What does it take to be rich? Asking reasonable survey questions about income inequality	1
When repression surprises: Contextual deviations and protest mobilization	1
Double penalty? How candidate class and gender influence voter evaluations	1
Who’s afraid of Sahra – Understanding the shift in votes towards Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht	1
Women bureaucrats and petty corruption. Experimental evidence from Ghana	1
Gambling on the constitution: Abortion rights and the 2023 constitution-making process in Chile	1
Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments	1
Elite-public gaps in support for nuclear and chemical strikes: New evidence from a survey of British parliamentarians and citizens	1
Discovering optimal ballot wording using adaptive survey design	1
Does war improve women’s political representation?	1
Multilateralism and public support for drone strikes	1
Public perceptions of television and online political advertising	1
Populism vs. the planet: How leaders undermine climate adaptation (1995–2020)	1
How do gender stereotypes about leadership positions change in the face of a crisis?	1
Beliefs and opinions about “illegal” and “undocumented” immigrants: Conceptual replication of a null result	1
On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science	1
The genetic essentialism of the alt-right	1
A survey experiment on post-Dobbs abortion bans	1
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	1
The young and the hawkish: Generational differences in conflict attitudes in Israel	1
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	1
Collusive and adversarial replication	1
The “tough-on-crime” left: Race, gender, and elections of law-and-order democrats	1
Shaping the liberal international order from the inside: A natural experiment on China’s influence in the UN human rights council	1
The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization	1
Judging prosecutors: Public support for prosecutorial discretion	1
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	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
Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion	1
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	1
Exposure to protests and support for different forms of violence: Evidence from the 2019 social outburst in Chile	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