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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes	109
Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis	93
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020	50
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield	49
How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies	40
How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	38
Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021	32
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico	31
Peacekeepers Without Helmets: How Violence Shapes Local Peacebuilding by Civilian Peacekeepers	31
Party System Congruence and Bicameralism	30
The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines	30
How Soft Propaganda Persuades	30
Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries	29
Corrigendum to the Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico	28
Well-Behaved Women: Engendering Political Interest in Public Opinion Research	28
Violent Elections and Citizens’ Support for Democratic Constraints on the Executive: Evidence From Nigeria	24
Stalling the State: How Digital Platforms Contribute to and Profit From Delays in the Enforcement and Adoption of Regulations	22
Personal Networks, State Financial Backing, and Foreign Direct Investment	22
State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile	21
The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement	21
Gender and Authoritarian Politics: Citizens and Elites’ Responses to Gender Reforms	21
When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia	21
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support	20
The Soldier in the State: Explaining Public Trust in the Armed Forces	20
Mobilization and Strategies: Comparing Trade Lobbying in the US and Canada	19

The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT+ Support in Mosul Iraq	19
Beyond Replication: Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis in Political Science	18
Good Citizenship and Native-Immigrant Conflict: Experimental Evidence From Europe	18
The Reach of the State	18
Vote Buying, Norms, Context, and Trust in Elections	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	18
Electoral Systems, Partisan Politics, and Income Redistribution: A Critical Quasi-Experiment	17
Cross-National Social Influence: How Foreign Votes Can Affect Domestic Public Opinion	17
Do Culturally Embedded Political Leaders Help or Hinder Economic Development?	16
Decision-Making in the Dark: The Asymmetric Spread of COVID-19 Policies	16
Ethnic Media and the Mobilization of Identity	16
The Legacy of Multi-Dimensional Conflict	16
Violence and Business Interest in Social Welfare: Evidence from Mexico	16
Politically Connected Owners	15
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France	15
Collective Victimhood Beliefs and Conflict-Related Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis	15
Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons From Paraguay	15
Reacting to Democratization: How Authoritarian Legacies Shape Democratic Party Development	14
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China	14
Symptoms and Stereotypes: Perceptions and Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi and Zambia	14
Rebel Taxation as Extortion or a Technology of Governance? Telling the Difference in India’s Northeast	13
More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile	13
Credit Claiming by Labeling	13
Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability	13
Formal Institutions After Conflict: Rebel Ideology and Post-War Constitutional Design	12
Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting	12
The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes	12
Policing in a Post-Conflict State: Evidence from Uganda	12
Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment	12
Varieties of Ambiguity: How do Voters Evaluate Ambiguous Policy Statements?	11
Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions	11
Capitals Under Siege: Why Some Rebel Groups Achieve Victory While Others Fail	11
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking	11
What is to be Done? How Radical Leftists Help to Solve the Problem of Personalist Party-Building in Latin America	11
Defending Parliament Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion	11
Firm-Based Origins of Anti-System Politics	11
The Decline of Religion and Its Rise in Electoral Politics: Religious Belief, Religious Practice, and the Strength of Religious Voting Cleavages	11
Social Capital in North Korea: Shadow Economy, Shared Norms and Social Networks	10
Narratives of Backlash? Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses	10
The Local Costs of Moving: How Residential Moves Weaken Local Engagement	10
The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing Populism	10
Charity Begins at Home: Domestic Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Aid	10
Social Influencers and Election Outcomes	10
Candidate Qualifications and Out-Group Support: Evidence From Afghanistan	10
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance	10
Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities	10
Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality	10
Pushing Boundaries: How Lawmakers Shape Judicial Decision-Making	10
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation and Expectations of Police Bias	10

Who is Afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Explaining Opposition to and Support for Gender Equality	10
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence	9
How Mechanization Shapes Coups	9
All Politics is Local? Evidence of Local Council Incumbency Advantage in National Elections	9
Norms of Democracy, Staged Democrats, and Supply of Exclusionary Ideology	9
Early-Life Origins of Wartime Behaviour: The Irish Potato Famine and Desertion in the American Civil War	9
Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities	9
From Pledge to Poll: Investigating the Impact of Campaign Promises on Party Alignment	9
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement	9
Corruption and Voter Turnout: Evidence From Second Generation Americans	9
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Mexico	8
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks	8
Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018	8
Pro-Democratic, but Not Anti-Authoritarian? Understanding Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Regimes	8
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime Type	8
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy	8
Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?	8
Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary	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
Regulatory Visions and the State in E. Asia: The Irrational Investor Problem in the Comparative Politics of Finance	8