OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Political Science Review is 12. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	103
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	72
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	70
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	70
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	68
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	66
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	65
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	57
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	56
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	54
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	49
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	47
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	46
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	46
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	44
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	43
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	42
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	42
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	37
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	36
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	36
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	36
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	36
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	35

Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	34
Structural Responsibility	34
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	33
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	33
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	33
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	32
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	32
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	32
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	31
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd	30
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	30
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	30
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	30
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age	29
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution	29
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	28
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations	28
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy	27
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction	27
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation	26
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings	26
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes	26
Curation Bubbles	25
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data	25
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM	24
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?	24
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM	24
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity	24
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies	23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”	23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe	23
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis	22
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced	22
Elite Cues and Noncompliance	22
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act	22
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution	22
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South	21
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy	21
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures	21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared	21
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	21
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty	21
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War	21
PSR volume 116 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	21
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup	21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy	20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States	20
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM	20

Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes	20
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform	19
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism	19
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices	19
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing	19
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries	19
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico	19
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM	18
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques	18
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico	18
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	18
Partisan Leaning	18
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship	18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank	18
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?	18
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice	18
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice	18
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders	17
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism	17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below	17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy	17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations	17
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party	17
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle	17
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests	17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany	17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	17
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact	17
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals	16
“Moderates”	16
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization	16
The Class Ceiling in Politics	16
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians	15
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	15
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis	15
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category	15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria	15
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	15
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes	15
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland	15
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM	15
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion	14
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities	14
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber	14
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe	14
Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition	14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes	14
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	13
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma	13
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust	13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds	13
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?	13
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies	13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation	13
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation	13
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia	13
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators	13
Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders	13
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece	12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM	12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM	12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism	12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming	12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism	12
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India	12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule	12
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	12
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire	12