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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	76
Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why	70
Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes: A Survey Experiment in Post-Coup Myanmar	69
Populist Discourse and Public Support for Executive Aggrandizement in Latin America	61
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	49
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	45
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	42
Persecuted Minorities and Defensive Cooperation: Contributions to Public Goods by Hindus and Muslims in Delhi	41
Betrayed by the Elites: How Corruption Amplifies the Political Effects of Recessions	38
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	36
Domestic Legitimacy, Coethnics Abroad, and the Shape of the Homeland	34
At the Intersection of Gender and Class: How Were Newly Enfranchised Women Mobilized in Sweden?	34
(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research	30
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	30
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development	27
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	26
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence From Patents	26
When Technocratic Appointments Signal Credibility	25
Do Women Prefer In-Group Police Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence From India	25
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	23
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	23
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	20
Standing up for Democracy? Explaining Citizens’ Support for Democratic Checks and Balances	19
Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia	19
The Pigmentocracy of Executive Approval	19

When Running for Office Runs in the Family: Horizontal Dynasties, Policy, and Development in the Philippines	18
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	18
Beyond the Myth of Legality? Framing Effects and Public Reactions to High Court Decisions in Europe	18
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	18
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	17
Message or Messenger? Source and Labeling Effects in Authoritarian Response to Protest	17
Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution: Causes and Electoral Implications Across Europe	17
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	16
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	16
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	15
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	15
Benefits by Luck: A Study of Lotteries as a Selection Method for Government Programs	15
The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe	14
Globalization Backlash in Developing Countries: Broadening the Research Agenda	14
A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis	14
Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India	13
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	13
How Moral Beliefs Influence Collective Violence. Evidence From Lynching in Mexico	13
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	13
Voters and the IMF: Experimental Evidence From European Crisis Countries	12
Fairness and Support for Populist Parties	12
Interest Groups and Central Bank Credit Policies: Evidence From 1600-1914	12
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion: Evidence From Poland	12
Electoral Rules, Women’s Representation and the Qualification of Politicians	12
Candidate Debates and Partisan Divisions Evidence From Malawi’s 2019 Presidential Elections	12
Building Tolerance for Backsliding by Trash-Talking Democracy: Theory and Evidence From Mexico	12
Sovereign Risk and Government Change: Elections, Ideology and Experience	11
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	11
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	11
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	11
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	11
Technological Risk and Policy Preferences	11
The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico	11
State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development	11
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom	10
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	10
(Un)Natural Disasters: Electoral Cycles in Disaster Relief	9
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	9
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	9
Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset	9
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time? Territorial Autonomy and Conflict During Regime Transitions	9
Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	9
The Violent Legacy of Fascism: Evidence From Italy	9
Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?	9
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	8
“This is what the Bolsheviks do”: How Democratic Politicians Use Foreign Revolutions to Attract Voters	8
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	8
Political Regimes and Informal Social Insurance	8

Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	8
Minding (Your Own and) Others’ Business: Assigning Co-Responsibility in Cabinet Decisions	8
Political Budgetary Cycles in Autocratic Redistribution	8
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	8
Fragmentation of Political Authority and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Explaining Instances of Minority Accommodation in Israel and Estonia	8
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	7
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	7
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	7
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	7
Historical Inequality at the Grassroots: Local Public Goods in an Indian District, 1905–2011	7
Collective Action Infrastructure: The Downstream Effects of Urban Neighborhood Organizing	7
Democratic Backsliding and Ethnic Politics: The Republican Party in the United States	7
The Persistence of Rural Underdevelopment: Evidence from Land Reform in Italy	7
Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil	7
The Holocaust, the Socialization of Victimhood and Outgroup Political Attitudes in Israel	7
Negative Campaigning and Vote Choice in Europe: How Do Different Partisan Groups React to Campaign Attacks?	7
The Diffusion of Exclusion: Medieval Expulsions of Jews	7