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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	108
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	77
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	77
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	74
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	71
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	66
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	52
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	50
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes	48
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	48
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	45
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	43
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	42
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	40
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	38
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	37
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	37
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	37
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	37
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	36
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	35
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	35
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	35

Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	34
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	33
Structural Responsibility	33
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance	33
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	33
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020	33
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	32
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	31
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	31
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	31
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	31
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	30
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress	30
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	30
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd	28
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	28
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	28
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age	27
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations	26
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction	25
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	25
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation	25
Curation Bubbles	24
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?	24
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data	24
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution	24
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes	23
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM	23
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy	23
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM	23
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity	23
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings	23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance	22
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe	22
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution	22
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”	22
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies	21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared	21
PSR volume 116 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South	21
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced	21
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act	21
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	21
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup	20
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War	20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States	20
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures	20
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty	20
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM	19
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology	19

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