OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is 3. 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
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	127
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	87
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	61
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	53
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	48
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	41
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	36
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	35
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	32
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	32
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	32
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	31
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	29
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	28
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	27
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	25
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	24
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	24
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	23
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	23
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	21
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	21
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	19
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	19
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	17

Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	17
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	14
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	14
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	13
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	13
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	13
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	11
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	11
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	10
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	10
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	8
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	8
Introduction	8
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	8
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	6
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	6
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	6
Community Supervision and Employment	6
“I Can’t Get Ahold of Them”: Perceptions of Administrative Burden and Administrative Exclusion across SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	6
In Electoral Disputes, State Justices Are Less Reliable GOP Allies than the U.S. Supreme Court—That’s the “Problem” the Independent State Legislature Claim Hopes to Solve	6
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	6
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	5
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	5
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	5
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	5

The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	5
From Prison to Entrepreneurship: Can Entrepreneurship be a Reentry Strategy for Justice-Impacted Individuals?	5
Legacies of the War on Poverty	5
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability	5
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	5
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	5
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	5
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	5
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	5
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	5
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	4
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	4
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	4
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	4
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	4
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	4
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	4
Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	4
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	4
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	4
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	4
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	4
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	4
How Tax Credits Can Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families	4
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	4
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	4
When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	4
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	4
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	3
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion	3
Beyond the Police: Community-Led Partnerships for Meaningful Crime Prevention and Social Justice	3
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	3
Measuring What Matters: Data Absenteeism, Science Communication, and the Perpetuation of Inequities	3
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	3
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	3
Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	3
From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole	3
Can Black Lives Matter within U.S. Democracy?	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Colorado: An Interview with Dr. Ki’i Powell, Ian McMahon, Michael Martinez-Schiferl, Rebecca Balu, and Samantha O’Neill Dunbar	3
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court	3
Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates	3
The Roberts Court and Executive Power	3