OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Theoretical Politics is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Electoral inequity	12
Talking to the enemy: Explaining the emergence of peace talks in interstate war	11
Slacktivism	8
Why do voters elect less qualified candidates?	7
Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: Coordination and information aggregation	7
Congressional oversight and electoral accountability	7
Identity and the limits of fair assessment	5
Decentralised information transmission in the shadow of conflict	5
Decentralized legislative oversight of bureaucratic policy making	5
Biased politicians and independent agencies	4
A visa for a revolution? A theory of anti-authoritarian immigration policy	3
Erratum to ‘Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats’	2
Explanation, formal models, and rational choice	2
A formal model of party competition with salience	2
The evolution of consensus through coordinated action	2
Indirect accountability of political appointees	2
Tell me the truth? Dictatorship and the commitment to media freedom	2
Delegation, capture and endogenous information structures	1
Misaligned interests and the credibility of alleged support	1
Social Power and Non-cooperative Game Theory	1
Do supermajority rules really deter extremism? the role of electoral competition	1
Rational erraticism	1
Simultaneous elections	1
The political economy of noncompliance in customs unions	1
A comment on Powell and formal models of power sharing	1

Quantifying theory in politics: Identification, interpretation, and the role of structural methods	1
Formal models in normative political theory	1
Distributive politics and asymmetric participation	1
Contemporary social federalism: Sorting, natural polarization, and policy devolvement	1
Bayesian explanations for persuasion	1
The limits of information revelation in multilateral negotiations: A theory of treatymaking	1
Minimal voting paradoxes	1
Solving the guardianship dilemma by war	1
Axioms for defeat in democratic elections	1
Justice, inclusion, and incentives	0
Collective agency and positive political theory	0
Indirect rule and mass threat: Two paths to direct rule	0
Strategic avoidance and rulemaking procedures	0
A theory of policy sabotage	0
Law enforcement and political misinformation	0
Political correctness and elite prestige	0
Polarization and cultural divergence	0
Ideological sorting	0
Poor people’s beliefs and the dynamics of clientelism	0
Power sharing with weak institutions	0
Electoral accountability and political competence	0
An information-based explanation for partisan media sorting	0
Explaining legal inconsistency	0
On status quo bias and the existence of Condorcet cycles in binary voting situations	0
(Not) Addressing issues in electoral campaigns	0
Multidimensional policies, asymmetric public perception and stability in autocracies	0
Clientelism and development: Vote-buying meets patronage	0
A new formal model analysis of deterrent to brinkmanship and the causes of the armament dilemma	0
Zone defense: Why liberal cities build too few homes	0
Explaining patterns in the onset of interstate war	0
Accountability and learning with motivated agents	0
On the separation of executive and legislative powers: Executive independence, liberty, and social welfare	0
Beyond a universal principle of justice: Normative implications of preference measurement assumptions	0
Generalized medians and electoral competition with valence	0
Models of inter-election change in partisan vote share	0
Gender, sexism, and war	0
Mowing the grass	0
Access to justice in revenue-seeking legal institutions	0
Informative campaigning in multidimensional politics: The role of naïve voters	0
Informative campaigns, overpromising, and policy bargaining	0
The NIMBY problem	0
Separation of powers with ideological parties	0
Inefficient voting with identical voters	0