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

Article	Citations
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	98
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	82
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	74
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	52
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	42
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	41
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	40
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	32
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020	31
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	28
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	27
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	26
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	25
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	25
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	24
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	23
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	23
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	20
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	19
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	18
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	18
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	18
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	18
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	18
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	17

The Reach of the State	17
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	17
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	17
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	16
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	16
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	16
Breaking the Cabinet’s Glass Ceiling: The Gendered Effect of Political Experience in Presidential Democracies	15
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	15
Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-Run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa	15
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach	15
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	14
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	14
Violence and Business Interest in Social Welfare: Evidence from Mexico	14
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	13
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	13
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	13
Politically Connected Owners	13
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	13
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	13
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	13
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	13
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	12
Credit Claiming by Labeling	12
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	12
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	12
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda	12
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	11
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	11
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	11
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	11
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	11
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	11
Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	11
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	10
Partisanship as Cause, Not Consequence, of Participation	10
Charity Begins at Home: Domestic Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Aid	10
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	10
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	10
Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy	10
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	10
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	10
Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment	10
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	9
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	9
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	9
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	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
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	8
All Politics is Local? Evidence of Local Council Incumbency Advantage in National Elections	8

From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	8
Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending	8
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	8
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	8
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	8
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	8
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	8
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	8
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	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