OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Political Studies is 8. 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
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	84
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	75
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	74
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	64
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	53
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	50
When Running for Office Runs in the Family: Horizontal Dynasties, Policy, and Development in the Philippines	46
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	45
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	44
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	40
When Marriage Gets Hard: Intra-Coalition Conflict and Electoral Accountability	39
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	36
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	35
Why Physical Barriers Backfire: How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications	35
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	28
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	28
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	27
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	27
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	27
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	26
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	25
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	23
The Globalization Backlash: Exploring New Perspectives	21
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	21
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	21

State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	20
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	20
The Reach of the State	19
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	19
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	18
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	18
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	18
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	18
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	17
Insiders, Outsiders, Skills, and Preferences for Social Protection: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Argentina	17
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	17
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	17
Violence and Business Interest in Social Welfare: Evidence from Mexico	16
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	16
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	15
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	15
Politically Connected Owners	15
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	15
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	15
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	14
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda	14
Credit Claiming by Labeling	14
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	13
Economic Distress and Support for Radical Right Parties—Evidence From Sweden	13
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	13
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	13
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate	13
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	12
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	12
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	12
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	12
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	12
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	12
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	12
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	12
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	12
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	11
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	11
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	11
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	11
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	11
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	11
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	11
Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa	10
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	10
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	10
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	10
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	10
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	10
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	10

Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	9
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	9
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	9
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	9
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	9
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	9
Progress outside of paradise: Old and new comparative approaches to contentious politics	9
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	9
Feelings of Trust, Distrust and Risky Decision-Making in Political Office. An Experimental Study With National Politicians in Three Democracies	8
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
Collective Decision-Making and the Economic Vote	8
Structuring Intra-Party Politics: A Mixed-Method Study of Ideological and Hierarchical Factions in Parties	8
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	8
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	8
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	8
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	8
Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019)	8
Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies: A Cross-National Analysis	8
Changing Prices in a Changing Climate: Electoral Competition and Fossil Fuel Taxation	8
Women’s Representation and Corruption: Evidence From Local Audits in Mexico	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8