OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research & Politics is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	77
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	44
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	34
Xenophobic violence in Sweden 2009–2022: Introducing the dataset	33
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	25
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	19
Reevaluating ideological asymmetries in specific support for the Supreme Court	19
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	16
Public perceptions of local influence	14
War propaganda without misinformation? Normative framing and side-taking in war	14
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	14
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	13
Descriptive representation and attitudes about local government: An experimental test using real-world stimuli	12
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	11
Fundraising on the fringe: Do ideologically extreme candidates solicit small donations?	10
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	10
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	10
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	10
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data	9
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	9
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	9
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	9
Introducing the trust in government (TrustGov) dataset: A new resource for cross-national time-series trust research	8
Do they really believe that? Measuring salient conspiracy endorsement	8
Corruption next door, satisfaction at home: Spillover effects of corruption on political trust in China	8

Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	8
Reducing affective polarization does not affect false news sharing or truth discernment	8
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	7
Political trust and public support for propaganda in China	7
Entitled and self-conscious? The ego-centric underpinnings of electoral preferences during the 2020 U.S. election	7
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	7
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?	7
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	6
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	6
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	6
Changing the lens: The contingency of results from conjoint experiments on the outcome variable and the estimand	6
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	6
Corrigendum to “An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support”	6
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	6
Feminism within parties: Implications for political elite evaluations and policy attitudes	6
Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	6
The use of confirmation and refutation frames in fact-checking war-related misinformation	6
What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness	6
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	6
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	5
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	5
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	5
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	5
Between home turf and Hinterland: Directly elected MPs focus more on local and deprived places than list candidates on social media	5
Detecting pro-kremlin disinformation using large language models	5
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	5
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	5
Are courts “different?” Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts	5
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	5
Does the perceived prestige of a political office affect support for women candidates?	4
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	4
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	4
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	4
Voters don’t care too much about policy: How politicians conceive of voting motives	4
An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support	4
Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance	4
Short-lived persuasion from campaign rallies: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. presidential election	4
Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report	4
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	4
Age-group identity and political participation	4
Linking artificial intelligence job exposure to expectations: Understanding AI losers, winners, and their political preferences	4
Preferential abstention in conjoint experiments	4
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	4
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	4
New tree, growing forrest: Updating meta-analytic evidence on solidarity between U.S. people of color through an extension and partial replication	4
Don’t answer me? A cautionary tale of personality traits and survey nonresponse	4
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	3
Do you think David can win against Goliath? Evidence on factors affecting popular perceptions of victory in Taiwan against Chinese aggression	3
From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate	3
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	3

What is populism good for? An experimental test of mobilization effects	3
If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia	3
The political roots of ageism in greying democracies: Evidence from Italy, South Korea, and the United States	3
Ambivalence and perceptions of China: Two list experiments	3
Temporal validity as meta-science	3
Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest	3
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success	3
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	3
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	3
Public campaign financing’s effects on judicial legitimacy: Evidence from a survey experiment	3
PhD stipends and program placement success in political science	3
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	3
Toxicity and U.S. Senate candidate Twitter messaging in the 2022 election	3
PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	2
From citizen input to a more egalitarian agenda: Public inquiries and the policy agenda	2
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	2
Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments	2
The genetic essentialism of the alt-right	2
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	2
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	2
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	2
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	2
Judicial influence and the importance of intersecting identities	2
Which frame fits? Policy learning with framing for climate change policy attitudes	2
Discovering optimal ballot wording using adaptive survey design	2
Exposure to protests and support for different forms of violence: Evidence from the 2019 social outburst in Chile	2
A survey experiment on post-Dobbs abortion bans	2
How politicians learn about public opinion	2
Prospective voting and the issues and leaders model: Forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election	2
Who fears which great power? Symmetric and asymmetric threat perceptions in East Asia	2
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	2
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	2
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	2
Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion	2
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	2
Gauging preference stability under authoritarianism	2