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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	204
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	96
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	85
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	75
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	75
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	66
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	65
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	64
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	64
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	63
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	63
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	60
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	59
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	59
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	55
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	51
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	51
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	50
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	47
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	43
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	41
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	41
Structural Responsibility	41
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	41

Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	38
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	38
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	37
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	36
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	36
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	34
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	32
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	32
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	32
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	32
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	32
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	31
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data	30
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution	30
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?	29
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd	29
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy	29
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations	29
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction	29
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	29
Curation Bubbles	29
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation	28
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity	28
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM	27
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes	27
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age	27
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM	27
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings	27
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”	26
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe	25
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution	25
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis	24
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced	24
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”	24
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act	24
Elite Cues and Noncompliance	24
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India	23
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies	23
PSR volume 116 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	23
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM	23
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	23
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South	23
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup	22
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy	22
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism	22
Legal Civic Orders and Equitable Lived Citizenships	22
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico	22
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty	21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy	21
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes	21

Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared	21
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States	20
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War	20
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices	20
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing	20
Effectiveness of Incumbent’s Strategic Communication during Economic Crisis under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey	20
Jeremy Bentham: Pauperism, Colonialism, and Imperialism	20
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries	20
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	20
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform	20
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?	19
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice	19
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques	19
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship	19
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank	19
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico	19
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice	18
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests	18
Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion	18
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy	18
Partisan Leaning	18
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM	18
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party	18
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism	17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany	17
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle	17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders	17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations	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	17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change	17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below	17
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization	17
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category	16
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	16
The Class Ceiling in Politics	16
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes	16
“Moderates”	16
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM	16
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis	16
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	15
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians	15
PSR volume 115 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	15
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber	15
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes	15
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities	15
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland	14
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe	14
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	14
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria	14
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia	14
Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition	14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation	14
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion	14
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators	13
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies	13
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece	13
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule	13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation	13
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India	13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds	13
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism	13
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma	13
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?	13
Swords and Plowshares: Property Rights, Collective Action, and Nonstate Governance in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1920–1948	13
Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders	13
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming	13
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust	13
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM	12
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community	12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM	12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism	12