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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework	190
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis	157
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences	95
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide	82
Ideological Competition	76
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society	76
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements	69
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe	56
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change	52
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation	50
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation	46
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data	39
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption	38
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection	36
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma	36
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan	36
Competence and advice	34
Hierarchy and war	32
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
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians	29
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy	27
Issue Information	26
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric	26
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	26

Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics	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
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians	24
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?	24
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad	22
Polarization in police union politics	22
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies	22
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front	22
Issue Information	21
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era	20
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections	20
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models	19
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	18
The politics of teachers' union endorsements	18
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma	18
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?	18
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure	17
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?	17
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India	16
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders	16
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	16
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control	15
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What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	15
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Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India	15
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany	14
Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem	14
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India	14
Issue Information	14
National identity after conquest	13
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas	13
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia	13
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City	13
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office	13
Strategic state violence and migration in conflict	12
Expertise acquisition in Congress	12
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	12
Institutions and Political Restraint	12
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico	12
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations	12
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The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming	11
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion	11
Making the other side mad: How out‐group distaste benefits less competent candidates	11
Ethnic Visibility	10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory	10
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy	10
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war	10

Collective procrastination and protest cycles	10
Banklash: How Media Coverage of Bank Scandals Moves Mass Preferences on Financial Regulation	9
Political accountability under moral hazard	9
Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders	9
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries	9
Correction to Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration	9
Causal inference with latent outcomes	9
External Validity and Meta‐Analysis	9
Parliamentary Constraints and Long‐Term Development: Evidence from the Duchy of Württemberg	8
Border Anxiety in International Discourse	8
Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action	8
Party Elite Engagement and Coordination in House Primary Elections: A Test of Theories of Parties	8
Centripetal Representation	8
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia	8
Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory	8
Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa	7
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Issue Information	7
Opposition rule under autocracy: Evidence from Russia	7
No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects	7
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	7
Differentially private survey research	7
The Míkmaw Concordat: Rethinking Treaty Making between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers	7
Babel Fish Democracy? Prospects for Addressing Democratic Language Barriers through Machine Translation and Interpretation	7
Persuasion in veto bargaining	7