OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Political Studies is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	48
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020	42
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	40
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	39
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	37
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	35
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	35
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	34
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	30
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	30
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	28
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	25
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	25
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	23
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	23
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	23
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	22
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	22
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	22
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	21
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	20
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	20
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	20
Hegemony, Heterogeneity, History: Varieties of Communism in Theory and Practice	19
A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space	19

Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	18
Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-Run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa	18
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	17
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi -Experiment	17
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	17
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	17
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	15
Varieties of Communism	14
The Reach of the State	14
The Legacy of Multi-Dimensional Conflict	14
Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrant Outgroups: Evidence From Kenya	14
Politically Connected Owners	13
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	13
Collective Victimhood Beliefs and Conflict-Related Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis	13
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	13
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	13
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	13
Decision-Making in the Dark: The Asymmetric Spread of COVID-19 Policies	13
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	12
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	12
Credit Claiming by Labeling	12
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	12
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	12
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	12
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	12
State-Building, Collective Efficacy, and the Co-Production of Public Goods in Rural Africa	11
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	11
Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability	11
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	11
Firm-Based Origins of Anti-System Politics	10
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	10
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	10
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	10
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	10
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	10
Capitals Under Siege: Why Some Rebel Groups Achieve Victory While Others Fail	10
Formal Institutions After Conflict: Rebel Ideology and Post-War Constitutional Design	10
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	10
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	10
Narratives of Backlash? Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses	9
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	9
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	9
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	9
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	9
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	9
Charity Begins at Home: Domestic Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Aid	9
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	9
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	9

All Politics is Local? Evidence of Local Council Incumbency Advantage in National Elections	8
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	8
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	8
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	8
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	8
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
The Local Costs of Moving: How Residential Moves Weaken Local Engagement	8
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	8
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	8
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	8
Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?	8
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	7
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	7
Bureaucratic Capacity and Political Favoritism in Public Procurement	7
Feelings of Trust, Distrust and Risky Decision-Making in Political Office. An Experimental Study With National Politicians in Three Democracies	7
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development	7
Who Wants to be Legible? Digitalization and Intergroup Inequality in Kenya	7
Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence From Local Audits in Mexico	7
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	7
Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties	7
When Strength Becomes Weakness: Precolonial State Development, Monopoly on Violence, and Civil War	7
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution: Causes and Electoral Implications Across Europe	7
Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019)	7
Pro-Democratic, but Not Anti-Authoritarian? Understanding Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Regimes	7
The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment	7
In Search of the Causes of the Globalization Backlash: Methodological Considerations on Post-treatment Bias	7
The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy	7
Do Women Prefer In-Group Police Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence From India	7