OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Political Science is 9. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets	105
Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information‐Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?	79
People Haven't Had Enough of Experts: Technocratic Attitudes among Citizens in Nine European Democracies	62
To Repress or to Co‐opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance	62
American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti‐Establishment Orientations	61
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	60
Re‐Assessing Elite‐Public Gaps in Political Behavior	58
The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity	53
How Political Parties Shape Public Opinion in the Real World	50
Pleasing the Principal: U.S. Influence in World Bank Policymaking	46
Labor Unions and White Racial Politics	42
Policy Diffusion: The Issue‐Definition Stage	42
A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data	39
Gender Quotas and International Reputation	38
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes: A Meta‐Analysis	37
Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want from Political Representation	37
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design	35
Does Public Opinion Affect Political Speech?	35
Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax‐Break Policy	29
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?	29
Paper Cuts: How Reporting Resources Affect Political News Coverage	29
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access	27
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not	27
Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching	25
Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law	25

The Dictator's Power‐Sharing Dilemma: Countering Dual Outsider Threats	25
The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy	24
The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence	23
Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning	23
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition	23
The Divide Over Independence: Explaining Preferences for Secession in an Advanced Open Economy	22
What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation	21
State Visits and Leader Survival	21
Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees	21
Multidimensional Representation	21
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It	19
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting	19
Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops	19
How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration	18
Political Scandal: A Theory	17
Party Sub‐Brands and American Party Factions	17
Candidate Supply Is Not a Barrier to Immigrant Representation: A Case–Control Study	17
Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco: Protest and Public Violence in Liberal Autocracies	16
Do Politicians Discriminate Against Internal Migrants? Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments in India	16
At‐Large Elections and Minority Representation in Local Government	15
Policy Inventing and Borrowing among State Legislatures	15
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants	15
Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators	15
How War Changes Land: Soil Fertility, Unexploded Bombs, and the Underdevelopment of Cambodia	14
Strength in Numbers: How Women's Groups Close India's Political Gender Gap	14
Observational Equivalence in Explaining Attitude Change: Have White Racial Attitudes Genuinely Changed?	14
Partisan‐Motivated Evaluations of Sexual Misconduct and the Mitigating Role of the #MeToo Movement	14
Local Immigration and Support for Anti‐Immigration Parties: A Meta‐Analysis	14
Brokers, Social Networks, Reciprocity, and Clientelism	13
Reference Points and Democratic Backsliding	13
Fault Lines: The Effects of Bureaucratic Power on Electoral Accountability	13
If They Endorse It, I Can't Trust It: How Outgroup Leader Endorsements Undercut Public Support for Civil War Peace Settlements	12
Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections	12
Partisan Procurement: Contracting with the United States Federal Government, 2003–2015	12
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World	12
Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics?	12
When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?	12
Hassling: How States Prevent a Preventive War	12
How Markets Shape Values and Political Preferences: A Field Experiment	11
Winning Hearts and Minds in Civil Wars: Governance, Leadership Change, and Support for Violent Groups in Iraq	11
City‐State Ideological Incongruence and Municipal Preemption	11
Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions	11
Effectiveness of Connected Legislators	11
Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting	11
Able and Mostly Willing: An Empirical Anatomy of Information's Effect on Voter‐Driven Accountability in Senegal	11
Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses	10
Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility	10
UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars	10
Propaganda and Skepticism	10
When and Why Are Campaigns’ Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	10

How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil	10
Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise?	10
Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior	10
Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent's Perspective	10
Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy	10
Media Influence on Vote Choices: Unemployment News and Incumbents' Electoral Prospects	10
Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America	10
Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be Impartial	9
How Weakly Institutionalized Parties Monitor Brokers in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Postconflict Liberia	9
Party Nomination Strategies in List Proportional Representation Systems	9
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines	9
Causal Inference with Latent Treatments	9
Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning	9
Misgovernance and Human Rights: The Case of Illegal Detention without Intent	9
Bringing War Back in: Victory and State Formation in Latin America	9