OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Research Quarterly is 3. 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
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets	45
Announcements	42
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness	42
Strategic Lobbying and the Pressure to Compromise Member Interests	22
Announcements	21
Protesting With Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano Del 19	20
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?	18
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors	17
Public Goods, Expressive Values, and Protest Participation: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in Hong Kong	17
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation	16
Does Familiarity Breed Esteem? A Field Experiment on Emergent Attitudes Toward Members of Congress	16
Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense	16
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster	16
Asking Versus Telling: The Supreme Court’s Strategic Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments	15
Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models	15
What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs	15
Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications	13
Sanctuary in a Trumpist Context: Creating Spaces of Democratic Exception	13
Race and Resources in Brazilian Mayoral Elections	13
Race, Contact Effects, and Effective Lawmaking in Congressional Committee Hearings	12
Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians	12
The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence	11
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes	11
Subnational Elections and Media Freedom in Autocracies: Diffusion of Local Reputation and Regime Survival	11
Warrior candidates: Do voters value combat experience in postwar elections?	10

Mavericks or Loyalists? Popular Ballot Jumpers and Party Discipline in the Flexible-List PR Context	10
The Political Psychology of Cancel Culture: Value Framing or Group Identity?	10
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion	10
Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime	10
Supply-Side Anti-Pluralists and Demand-Side Anti-Plutocrats: The Case of 21st Century Populism	9
Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers: Reputational Chaining and LGBT+ Rights in Bosnia	9
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum	9
Latino Tú Latino Yo: Group Threat and Group Consciousness in California	9
Compliance with Public Health Orders: The Role of Trust, Representation, and Expertise	8
Nevertheless, He Persisted: White Men and the Links Between Incumbency and Group Descriptive Representation	8
How Wide is the Arc of Racial Solidarity? People of Color and Middle Easterners and North Africans	8
Uncertainty, Profit, and the Limits of Markets	8
Who Substitutes Service for Politics? Assessing the Roles of Youth and Partisan Alienation in Americans’ Forms of Civic Engagement	8
Are Citizens More Politically Engaged when Candidate Selection is Democratic? Analysis of Seven Parliamentary Election Cycles in Israel (1996–2015)	8
Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Copartisans: Partisan Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, 1800–1824	8
The Heat is On: Does Civil Litigation Affect Policing Practices?	8
Descriptive Representation and Innovation in American Legislatures	7
Is Public Ignorance a Problem? An Epistemic Defense of Really Existing Democracies	7
Does the Salience of Partisan Competition Increase Affective Polarization in the United States?	7
The American Dreamers: The Effects of Media Coverage of Immigrants’ Age-at-Arrival	7
Priming Norms to Combat Affective Polarization	7
Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility	7
Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach	7
Essential services, public education workers, and the right to strike	7
Attitudes Towards LGBT Individuals After bostock v. Clayton County: Evidence From a Quasi Experiment	7
Left-Right Social Identity and the Polarization of Political Tolerance	7
Catching My Anger: How Political Elites Create Angrier Citizens	7
Media Discrimination and Gender Differences in Political Ambition in a Laboratory Experiment	6
International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict	6
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor	6
Perceptions of Local Political Corruption	6
How the Intensity of Preference for Ideological Judges Influences Court Support	6
Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting	6
Echo Chambers or Doom Scrolling? Homophily, Intensity, and Exposure to Elite Social Media Messages	6
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment	6
The Democratic Majority and the 2016 American Presidential Election: Feminist Political Behavior Across Multiple Axes of Identity	5
Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media	5
The Education Cyrus Missed	5
Political Development and Political Thought	5
Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C.	5
Announcements	5
All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media	5
Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries	5
Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions	5
Youthfulness and Legislation: Rousseau on the Constituent Moment	5
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy	5
Announcements	5
The Rise of the “Democrat Party”: Republican Elites, Partisan Slurs, and Linguistic Polarization	5
Redistributive Policy Preferences: The Effects of Family Income and Poverty Attributions	4
The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence	4

Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China	4
Viewed from Different Engels? Differences in Reactions to “Socialism” as a Policy Label	4
Confidence in US Elections After the Big Lie	4
Public Perceptions of Wartime Atrocities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	4
Announcements	4
Ask and You Shall Receive: The Effects of Negativity and Fundraising Appeals on Facebook	4
Dilemmas of Distrust: Conspiracy Beliefs, Elite Rhetoric, and Motivated Reasoning	4
Overcoming Resource Competition Among Co-Ethnics: Elites, Endorsements, and Multiracial Support for Urban Distributive Policies	4
Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations	4
Political Network Diversity and Trust in Online Political Content	4
Health and Election Outcomes: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	4
Democratizing U.S. Courts: Perceived Representation and Support for Judicial Elections	4
On the Internet, No One Knows You’re an Activist: Patterns of Participation and Response in an Online, Opt-in Survey Panel	4
The Role of State and National Institutional Evaluations in Fostering Collective Accountability Across the U.S. States	4
Issue Responsiveness in Canadian Politics: Are Parties Responsive to the Public Salience of Climate Change in the Question Period?	4
Does Local Autonomy Breed Leviathans? An Empirical Examination of All Cities in the United States	4
Electoral Institutions and Identity Based Clientelism in Jordan	3
Ain’t No Fortunate Son: The Political Calculus of Conscription	3
The Authoritarian Predisposition and American Public Support for Social Security	3
Shaming in a Shameless World: The Broken Dialectic of the Self	3
Motivated Reasoning and Attitudes Towards Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: Evidence from Five Nominations and an Experiment	3
Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns	3
Announcements	3
Expressive Epistemic Injustice: Definition, Measurement, and Deliberative Cure	3
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans	3
Going Feminine: Identifying How and When Female Candidates Emphasize Feminine and Masculine Traits on the Campaign Trail	3
A Social Media Platform Model of Supreme Court News	3
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement	3
Who Decides? Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primaries	3
Guardians of Democracy or Passive Bystanders? A Conjoint Experiment on Elite Transgressions of Democratic Norms	3
Using Process Tracing to Investigate Elite Experience Accrual: Explaining Margaret Thatcher’s Support for US Air Strikes Against Libya	3
Sexual Identities and the Role of Marriage in Social Movement Activism	3
Silencing Human Rights Defenders Once and for All? Determinants of Human Rights Defenders’ Killings	3
Thoreau’s Dialectic of Dissent and Contemporary Activism	3
Authoritarian Opposition? Authoritarian Disposition and Resistance to Public Health Mitigation Strategies During COVID-19	3
Engraved in the Heart: How Rousseau’s Citizens are Motivated Toward the Common Good	3
The “Return” of the People? Understanding Populism by Exploring Citizens’ Conceptions of Peoplehood in Western Europe	3
Partisanship, Slavery, and the Demise of the National Road	3
Racism Despite Integration: Diversity for the Sake of Mission Readiness in the U.S. Military	3
Do Scandals Matter?	3
Public Support for State Challenges to National Laws	3
Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation	3
Announcements	3
Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court	3