OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Political Science Review is 10. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy	251
State Terror and Long-Run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge	190
Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact	106
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections	80
Rebel Motivations and Repression	80
List of Reviewers	71
Nonunitary Parties, Government Formation, and Gamson’s Law	70
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities	62
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice	61
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests	61
PSR volume 117 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	59
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM	58
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	58
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism	57
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid	55
Selecting Out of “Politics”: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation	50
PSR volume 116 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	49
PSR volume 115 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	49
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance	48
Outsourcing Bureaucracy to Evade Accountability: How Public Servants Build Shadow State Capacity	47
Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali	44
Notes from the Editors: Increasing Qualitative Submissions	43
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations	40
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout	39
Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge	39

Locking Down Violence: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Non-State Actor Violence	36
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders	35
Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration	35
Hobbes and Hats	35
Collaboration and Its Political Functions	34
A Singular Enlightenment: C. L. R. James, Anti-Colonialism, and Transatlantic Political Thought	34
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	34
Representation from Below: How Women’s Grassroots Party Activism Promotes Equal Political Participation	33
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience	33
Participation, Development, and Accountability: A Survey Experiment on Democratic Decision-Making in Kenya	31
The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform	31
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	29
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	29
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	29
Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives: The Case of the Sugar Industry	28
Partisanship and Political Socialization in Electoral Autocracies	28
State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre	28
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques	28
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland – CORRIGENDUM	27
Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic	27
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey	26
India’s Farmers’ Protest: An Inclusive Vision of Indian Democracy	26
Measuring Misperceptions?	26
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam	25
Han Feizi on Reputation-Driven Disobedience: A Comparative Study	25
Going Local: Public Attitudes toward Municipal Offices of Immigration Affairs	25
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	25
Electoral Responsiveness in Closed Autocracies: Evidence from Petitions in the former German Democratic Republic	25
Unreported Realities: The Political Economy of Media-Sourced Data	25
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	25
My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead	24
The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps – CORRIGENDUM	24
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	24
Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest	23
How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging	23
Re-Evaluating Machine Learning for MRP Given the Comparable Performance of (Deep) Hierarchical Models	22
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	22
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization	22
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods	22
Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive	22
Colonial Genealogies of Pluralism: Consociation as Disavowal in Contemporary Democratic Theory	21
A Group-Based Approach to Measuring Polarization	20
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers	20
A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights Abuses	20
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments	20
PSR volume 116 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	20
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	19
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	19
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	19
“I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the COVID-19 Pandemic	19

Rethinking Rape Culture: Revelations of Intersectional Analysis	19
Partisan Leaning	19
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany	18
Trauma and Turnout: The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events	18
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery	18
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding	18
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party	18
The Paradox of Civilization: Preinstitutional Sources of Security and Prosperity	17
From Recognition to Integration: Indigenous Autonomy, State Authority, and National Identity in the Philippines	17
Social Groups as the Source of Political Belief Systems: Fresh Evidence on an Old Theory	17
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	17
Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion	17
Notes from the Editors: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for Ethical Reviews and Suspicions about Plagiarism	17
Turnout and Amendment Four: Mobilizing Eligible Voters Close to Formerly Incarcerated Floridians	17
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	17
Members of Parliament are Minimally Accountable for Their Issue Stances (and They Know It)	17
How to Read James Fitzjames Stephen: Technocracy and Pluralism in a Misunderstood Victorian	16
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	16
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	16
Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis	16
Notes from the Editors	16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact	16
Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings – Corrigendum	15
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	15
Richard Rorty and the Demands of Liberalism	15
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	15
The Class Ceiling in Politics	15
When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands	15
Understanding and Reducing Biases in Elite Beliefs About the Electorate	15
Structural Responsibility	15
Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework	15
Can Courts in Nondemocracies Deter Election Fraud? De Jure Judicial Independence, Political Competition, and Election Integrity	14
Notes from the Editors	14
Why Was the American Revolution a War? A Rationalist Interpretation	14
Ambiguous Platforms and Correlated Preferences: Experimental Evidence	14
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis	14
A Note on Posttreatment Selection in Studying Racial Discrimination in Policing	14
Financial Crises and the Selection and Survival of Women Finance Ministers	14
Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves: How Female Combatants Help Generate Gender-Inclusive Peace Agreements in Civil Wars	14
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	14
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”	14
The Liar’s Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability?	14
Bureaucratic Quality and the Gap between Implementation Burden and Administrative Capacities	14
Do Government Benefits Affect Officeholders’ Electoral Fortunes? Evidence from State Earned Income Tax Credits	13
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	13
Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation	13
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization	13
Minority Party Capacity in Congress	12
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment	12
The Case for Permanent Residency for Frontline Workers	12
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	12
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	12
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability	12
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	11
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe	11
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	11
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization	11
Introducing HiSCoD: A New Gateway for the Study of Historical Social Conflict	11
“Moderates”	11
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals	11
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	11
The Composition of Descriptive Representation	11
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	10
Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings	10
Testing the Robustness of the ANES Feeling Thermometer Indicators of Affective Polarization	10
Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression – CORRIGENDUM	10
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	10
Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws	10
PSR volume 118 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
Consolidating Progress: The Selection of Female Ministers in Autocracies and Democracies	10
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media	10
Settler Empire and the United States: Francis Lieber on the Laws of War	10