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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework	207
Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court's Role in the 2017 Election Crisis	164
Carl Schmitt Reads Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Archival Perspectives on Convergences and Divergences	99
Endogenous preferences, credible signaling, and the security dilemma: Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide	83
The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society	80
The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change	80
Abolishing structural domination: US Reconstruction and the double bind of emancipation	71
Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data	69
Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation	54
Bureaucratic Structure and Compliance with International Agreements	53
Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe	42
Ideological Competition	40
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture	40
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Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption	36
Hierarchy and war	36
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection	36
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma	34
Competence and advice	32
Aid, Attitudes, and Insurgency: Evidence from Development Projects in Northern Afghanistan	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–	30
Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	28
Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians	28
Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics	28
How partisanship in cities influences housing policy	28

Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric	27
Issue Information	26
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency	26
The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians	25
The process and perils of coming around: The assimilation of political appointees into bureaucratic agencies	24
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad	23
Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front	22
Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy	22
Polarization in police union politics	22
Issue Information	21
Is Affective Polarization Driven by Identity, Loyalty, or Substance?	21
The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats	20
Modeling Theories of Women's Underrepresentation in Elections	20
Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma	20
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure	19
Erratum: Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive?	18
Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India	18
Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders	18
Vote buying and local public goods provision: Substitutes or complements?	17
Keyword‐Assisted Topic Models	17
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	17
The politics of teachers' union endorsements	16
Electoral responses to economic crises	16
The Practice and Legitimacy of Border Control	16
The Personal Vote in a Polarized Era	16
Local political representation as a pathway to power: A natural experiment in India	16
The Variable Persuasiveness of Political Rhetoric	16
Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India	15
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Issue Information	15
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Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem	14
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	14
Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in East Asia	13
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany	13
Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office	13
Public Opinion and Presidents’ Unilateral Policy Agendas	13
Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations	12
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico	12
Demolition and Discontent: Governing the Authoritarian City	12
National identity after conquest	12
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Strategic state violence and migration in conflict	12
Expertise acquisition in Congress	11
Civilian behavior on social media during civil war	11
Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy	10
Institutions and Political Restraint	10
Can riots represent? A democratic theory	10
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion	10
The Timing of Public Policies: Political Budget Cycles and Credit Claiming	10

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