OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science is 7. 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
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements	163
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework	146
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change	119
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences	105
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data	89
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide	77
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation	71
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law	70
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis	58
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation	48
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe	46
Ideological Competition	43
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan	41
Issue Information ‐ Table of Contents	40
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption	34
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment	34
Competence and advice	32
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma	32
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection	32
Hierarchy and war	32
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics	31
Erratum to “The Well‐Ordered Society under Crisis: A Formal Analysis of Public Reason vs. Convergence Discourse” American Journal of Political Science, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2020, pp. 82–	31
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	31
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy	30

Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians	29
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric	27
Issue Information	27
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad	26
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency	26
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy	25
Polarization in police union politics	25
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front	25
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies	25
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	23
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?	23
Issue Information	22
The politics of teachers' union endorsements	21
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma	21
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India	21
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders	21
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure	20
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?	20
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?	20
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control	19
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India	19
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	19
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	19
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections	18
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era	18
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models	18
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India	16
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Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible?	16
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico	15
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem	15
Issue Information	15
National identity after conquest	15
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia	15
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas	15
Institutions and Political Restraint	14
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office	14
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany	14
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	14
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations	14
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City	14
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict	14
Collective procrastination and protest cycles	13
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Civilian behavior on social media during civil war	12
When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion	12
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates	12
Expertise acquisition in Congress	12
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion	12

Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy	12
Ethnic Visibility	11
Can riots represent? A democratic theory	11
Persuasion in veto bargaining	11
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming	11
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis	10
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration	10
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries	10
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders	10
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia	10
Differentially private survey research	10
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia	10
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation	10
Border Anxiety in International Discourse	9
Centripetal Representation	9
Political accountability under moral hazard	8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties	8
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg	8
Causal inference with latent outcomes	8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action	7
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low‐ and middle‐income countries	7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers	7
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Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory	7
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa	7
Encouraging loyalty and defection: The impact of campaigns on tactical voting in Britain	7
Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants' political engagement	7
Issue Information	7
Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?	7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation	7