OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Comparative International Development 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
Labor Co-optation in Autocracies: Instrument of Control or Double-Edged Sword?	33
Correction to: Defining and Explaining Modes of Protesting: A Comparative‑Historical Analysis of Argentina and Chile	14
Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam	12
Domestic Political Unrest and Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment	12
Incumbent Responses to Armed Groups in Nigeria and Kenya	10
The Complex Imprint of Foreign Rule: Tracking Differential Legacies along the Administrative Hierarchy	9
Dietrich Rueschemeyer	9
Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation	9
Correction to: Inequality and Immigration Policy	8
Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South	8
Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints	8
Effect of Participation and Alignment on the Sustainability of Development Aid Output: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda	7
Remittances and Revenue in Latin America, 1990–2017	7
Jumpstarting Ideological Alignments in Clientelist Party Systems: Evidence from Honduras’s 2009 Coup	7
Subsidy Entrepreneurship and a Culture of Rent-Seeking in Singapore’s Developmental State	7
ICPD at Thirty: Moving Beyond Rights Toward Justice in Global Reproductive Health	7
From Shielding to Pushing: Evolving Risk Management Regimes in China’s Infrastructure Export Industrial Policy	6
Does Foreign Aid Undermine Political Responsiveness? Evidence from Kenya	6
Broker Rhetoric and Persuasion in Clientelist Systems	6
Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection	6
Correction to: Electoral Confidence and Political Budget Cycles in Non-OECD Countries	5
Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions	5
Why Are Firms in High-income Economies More Productive than in Middle-income Economies? Decomposing the Firm Labor Productivity Gap	5
Sectoral Interests and Regional Bloc Voting in African Countries	5
The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence: Theory and Evidence from a Maoist-affected State in India	5

Exit or Voice? Corruption Perceptions and Emigration	5
Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest?	5
Governance by Uncertainty: Changing Patterns in China’s Environmental Enforcement	5
Varieties of Policy Advocacy: Elite Activism and Education Politics in Latin America	5
Shifting Ground Beneath our Feet: New Research in the Political Science and Sociology of Global Health and its Significance	5
Propaganda and Blame Attribution during Economic Downturns: Evidence from China	4
Static Electricity: Institutional and Ideational Barriers to China’s Market Reforms	4
Abortion Within Reason or Right: Navigating Reproductive Governance and Abortion Stigma in Madagascar’s Urban Central Highlands	4
Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America	4
Opportunities and Choices During Environmental Licensing: Community Participation in Latin America’s Extractive Sectors	4
Governance by Patching: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Policy Implementation	4
Comparing Advantages in India’s Computer Hardware and Software Sectors	4
Factionalized Mobilization: Development Paradigm Shifts and Marginalization in Colombia	4
Violent Legitimacy: How Soldiers View the Risks of Military Policing in Brazil	4
Seeking Autonomy in the Semi-periphery: Neomercantilism and Diversification in Turkey	4
Dependency, Capacity, and Agency: Austerity and Leadership Failures in Brazil’s Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts	3
To Ban or Not to Ban: Explaining Abortion Policy in Poland, Russia, and Turkey	3
Unlocking the Potential of Participatory Planning: How Flexible and Adaptive Governance Interventions Can Work in Practice	3
Correction to: Ethnic Polarization and Human Development: The Conditional Effects of Minority Language Recognition	3
Social Inclusion Among People with Mobility Limitations: Theorizing Disability Regimes in the Global South	3
New Editorial Team	3
The Political Economy of Intermediate Capital Account Regimes: a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
Input-Factor Mobility and the Impact of Host Country Institutions on Foreign Direct Investment in Natural Resources	3
Bargains and Banking: How Institutionalized Political Bargains Have Shaped the Development of Indian Banking	3
Lethal Violence and the Americas: Beyond the U.S.-European Comparisons on Crime and Punishment	3
State Violence and the Political Consequences of Property Rights: Evidence from Colombia	3
When Does Electoral Cooperation End? How Relative Changes in Popular Support Undermine Election Alliances in India	3
Out with the Old, in with the New? The Indian Public Sector’s Role in the Energy Transition	3
“No se Cuidan (They Don’t Take Care of Themselves)”: Reframing Reproductive Rights as Contraceptive Responsibility in Post-ICPD Mexico	3
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Land Reform and Local Agents Under the Chinese Communist Regime	3
Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina	2
Reproductive Justice for Adolescent Migrant Girls in the Post-ICPD Era: A Critical Analysis of Contraceptive Care for Venezuelan Girls in Colombia	2
Protestant Ethic Without Protestantism: The Developmental Role of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church	2
The Party Is Over: Policy Switch and Party Dismantling in Moreno’s Ecuador	2
Connect First, then Suppress: Chinese vs. Western Communication Development Projects and Internet Freedom	2
Can Partial Growth Coalitions Build Pathways Out of the Middle-Income Trap? The Case of Querétaro, México	2
From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe	2
When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist: Unpacking Local Wartime Legacies	2
Biomedical and Spiritual Approaches to Mental Health in Tanzania: How Power and the Struggle for Public Authority Shaped Care	2
Puzzling Partnerships: Overseas Infrastructure Development by Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Humanitarian Organizations	2
Contentious Origins of Authoritarian Social Protection: China’s “Threat-Driven” Strategy in Redistribution	2
(When) Does Informal Labor Close Political Gender Gaps? Theory and Evidence from Urban India	2
Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case	2
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Governance in Chile	2
Why the Global Gag Rule Failed in India: The Legacy of Postcolonial Population Control in Reproductive Governance	2
Analyzing the Diversity of a Large Emerging Market: Sectoral Politics in India’s Multi-level Political Economy	2
Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America	2
Inequality and Immigration Policy	2
Legislator Attributes and Advocacy Focus: Non-electoral Sources of Parochialism in an Indirectly-Elected Legislature	2
Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective	2

Fairness and Tax Morale in Developing Countries	2
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It	2
The Role of Historical Malaria in Institutions and Contemporary Economic Development	2