OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Politics is 2. 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
International Anti-Corruption Commissions: Explaining Institutional Design and Autonomy	24
Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization under Germany's Antisocialist Law	23
Privatization and Judicialization in Resource Extraction: Comparing Labor Militancy in the Oil Fields of Russia and Kazakhstan	20
Dynamic Research Design: Iteration in Field-Based Inquiry	15
Review Article: The Qualitative Metamorphosis	14
Entrenchment or Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Mortgage Debt Subsidies in the United States and Germany	11
Electoral Violence, Partisan Identity, and Perceptions of Election Quality: A Survey Experiment in West Bengal, India	11
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Building a New Digital Archive: Documenting Anti-Black Violence in the "Jim Crow" U. S. South, 1930–1954	9
Recentralization in Mexico: Reconfiguring the Center in Intergovernmental Relations	8
Activists, Parties, and the Expansion of Trans Rights in Bolivia	8
Rethinking the Role of Issue-Voting in Referenda: Conjoint and Vote Choice Analyses of Preferences for Constitutional Change in Chile	8
Portraying Competence, Benevolence, or Party Loyalty? Political Propaganda and the Image-Building of Political Elites in China	8
Tracing the Pathways for Labor Migrants in Thirty States: The Nexus between Immigration Regulations and Immigrant Rights	8
What State? Political Parties and Non-State Security Provision in Lebanon	8
Ethnonationalism or a Financial-Criminal Incentive Structure? Explaining Elite Support in Crimea for Russia’s Annexation	8
Power on the Margins: Lumpenproletarian Resistance in China and Egypt	7
Recasting the Meaning of Elections: Three Strikes for the Mandate Interpretation in Europe	7
Unorganized Politics: The Political Aftermath of Social Unrest in Chile	7
The Socio-Structural Basis of the Long-Term Decline in Traditional Left-Right Class Voting in Affluent Democracies, 1964‐2019	7
Parliamentarians' Support for Direct and Deliberative Democracy in Europe: An Account of Individual-Level Determinants	7
Representation and Displacement: Labor Disembedding and Contested Neoliberalism in France	6
What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient? Evidence from Brazil’s Covid‐19 Vaccination Campaign	6
Beyond Secession: Substate Nationalism and Support for Redistribution in Spain	6
Money and Time in Access to Public Services: How Do Citizens Evaluate Different Forms of Bureaucratic Corruption?	6
A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?	6

Silence or Solidarity? The Political Pitfalls of an LGBTQI Avoidance Strategy in Hungary	5
Notes on the Contributors	5
Research Note Civil Resistance in the Streetlight: Replicating and Assessing Evidence on Nonviolent Effectiveness	5
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China	5
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics	5
The Bureaucracy of Reparations and Political Engagement	5
Over a Barrel? Oil Busts and Petrostate Stability	4
How Does Primary Election Manipulation Affect the Selection of Women Candidates? Evidence from Malawi	4
Varieties of Electoral Dominance	4
Is Chinese Investment Driving Authoritarianism? Evidence from the First Decade of the Belt and Road in Southeast Asia	4
The "Weight" of Territorial Issues: Evidence from Catalonia, Scotland, and Northern Ireland	4
Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization	3
Why Democracy Survives Presidential Encroachments: Argentina Since 1983	3
Inducing Coproduction: Policy Implementation and Teachers’ Unions in Mexico	3
From Insurgent to Incumbent: Ideology, Rebel Governance, and Statebuilding after Rebel Victory in Civil Wars	3
Sweetening the Deal: The Political Economy of Land Redistribution in South Africa’s Sugar Sector	3
Elite Threats and Punitive Violence in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Communist Eastern Europe	3
Determinants of Income Composition Inequality	3
Prompting Peasant Protest: Cashews, Coalitions, and Collective Action in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire	3
Informal Institutions and Community Development Protests: Evidence from Sub-municipal Localities in Mexico	2
A Two-Headed Creature: Bicameralism in African Autocracies	2
Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Gender Gaps in Support for Vigilante Violence	2
Resource Mobilization, Social Capital, Religion, and Protest across Latin America	2
Containing Ethnic Conflict: Repression, Cooptation, and Identity Politics	2
Shaping Ethnoracial Identities: State-Society Relations and Programmatic Differentiation in the Andes	2
Who Gains from Nonviolent Action? Unpacking the Logics of Civil Resistance	2
Pathways to Authoritarian Capitalism	2
What State? Political Parties and Non-State Security Provision in Lebanon	2
Repression Reconsidered: Bystander Effects and Legitimation in Authoritarian Regimes	2
Loyalty Signaling, Bureaucratic Compliance, and Variation in State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes	2
Revolution, Elite Fear, and Electoral Institutions	2
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience: New Perspectives on Power-Sharing and Popular Support	2