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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Announcements	60
Announcements	51
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions?	28
Strategic Lobbying and the Pressure to Compromise Member Interests	25
Public Goods, Expressive Values, and Protest Participation: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in Hong Kong	22
Islam, Origin Countries, and Democracy Satisfaction Among Immigrants in Western Europe	21
Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behaviors	18
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster	18
Protesting With Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano Del 19	18
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets	17
Does Familiarity Breed Esteem? A Field Experiment on Emergent Attitudes Toward Members of Congress	17
Gender Gaps in Policy Responsiveness	17
Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians	16
Race, Contact Effects, and Effective Lawmaking in Congressional Committee Hearings	14
Selling them Short? Differences in News Coverage of Female and Male Candidate Qualifications	14
The Democrats Loss of the White Working Class: Another Look at the Evidence	14
Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense	13
The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation	12
Does Artificial Intelligence Speak Our Language?: A Gadamerian Assessment of Generative Language Models	12
The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes	12
What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy Benefit-Cost Tradeoffs	12
Asking Versus Telling: The Supreme Court’s Strategic Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments	11
Mavericks or Loyalists? Popular Ballot Jumpers and Party Discipline in the Flexible-List PR Context	11
Does Inflammatory Rhetoric Boost Support for Political Violence? Considering the Role of Geographic Context	11
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion	11

Subnational Elections and Media Freedom in Autocracies: Diffusion of Local Reputation and Regime Survival	11
Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers: Reputational Chaining and LGBT+ Rights in Bosnia	10
Supply-Side Anti-Pluralists and Demand-Side Anti-Plutocrats: The Case of 21st Century Populism	10
Latino Tú Latino Yo: Group Threat and Group Consciousness in California	10
The Political Psychology of Cancel Culture: Value Framing or Group Identity?	10
Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime	9
Nevertheless, He Persisted: White Men and the Links Between Incumbency and Group Descriptive Representation	9
The Heat is On: Does Civil Litigation Affect Policing Practices?	9
Congressional Redistricting and Strategic Copartisans: Partisan Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, 1800–1824	9
The American Dreamers: The Effects of Media Coverage of Immigrants’ Age-at-Arrival	9
Does the Salience of Partisan Competition Increase Affective Polarization in the United States?	9
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum	9
Compliance with Public Health Orders: The Role of Trust, Representation, and Expertise	9
Are Citizens More Politically Engaged when Candidate Selection is Democratic? Analysis of Seven Parliamentary Election Cycles in Israel (1996–2015)	9
Who Substitutes Service for Politics? Assessing the Roles of Youth and Partisan Alienation in Americans’ Forms of Civic Engagement	8
Constrained but Not Transformed: Civilian-Led Certification Reform and Officer Misconduct	8
Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility	8
Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach	8
Is Public Ignorance a Problem? An Epistemic Defense of Really Existing Democracies	8
How Wide is the Arc of Racial Solidarity? People of Color and Middle Easterners and North Africans	8
Attitudes Towards LGBT Individuals After bostock v. Clayton County: Evidence From a Quasi Experiment	8
Priming Norms to Combat Affective Polarization	7
Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting	7
International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict	7
Essential services, public education workers, and the right to strike	7
Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media	7
The Democratic Majority and the 2016 American Presidential Election: Feminist Political Behavior Across Multiple Axes of Identity	7
Left-Right Social Identity and the Polarization of Political Tolerance	7
Descriptive Representation and Innovation in American Legislatures	7
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor	7
Perceptions of Local Political Corruption	7
Echo Chambers or Doom Scrolling? Homophily, Intensity, and Exposure to Elite Social Media Messages	6
How the Intensity of Preference for Ideological Judges Influences Court Support	6
The Education Cyrus Missed	6
Announcements	6
All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media	6
Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy	6
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment	6
Youthfulness and Legislation: Rousseau on the Constituent Moment	6
Courts and Horizontal Accountability in Hybrid Regimes: Judicial Review and the Quality of Democracy	6
Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C.	6
Democratizing U.S. Courts: Perceived Representation and Support for Judicial Elections	5
Political Network Diversity and Trust in Online Political Content	5
Redistributive Policy Preferences: The Effects of Family Income and Poverty Attributions	5
The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence	5
Understanding the News Coverage of Gay Candidates: Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 Primary Campaign and the Partisan News Media	5
The Role of State and National Institutional Evaluations in Fostering Collective Accountability Across the U.S. States	5
Anchoring or Expanding? Gender and Judicial Nominations	5
Viewed from Different Engels? Differences in Reactions to “Socialism” as a Policy Label	5
Announcements	5

Political Development and Political Thought	5
Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions	5
Overcoming Resource Competition Among Co-Ethnics: Elites, Endorsements, and Multiracial Support for Urban Distributive Policies	5
Announcements	5
Public Perceptions of Wartime Atrocities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	5
Among the Bodies of Our Children: Using Amici Briefs to Analyze State Motivation in Indigenous Law Cases	5
The Rise of the “Democrat Party”: Republican Elites, Partisan Slurs, and Linguistic Polarization	5
Inviting the Populists to the Party: Populist Appeals in Presidential Primaries	5
On the Internet, No One Knows You’re an Activist: Patterns of Participation and Response in an Online, Opt-in Survey Panel	5
Confidence in US Elections After the Big Lie	4
A Social Media Platform Model of Supreme Court News	4
Ask and You Shall Receive: The Effects of Negativity and Fundraising Appeals on Facebook	4
Issue Responsiveness in Canadian Politics: Are Parties Responsive to the Public Salience of Climate Change in the Question Period?	4
The Racial Gap in Trust in Elections (and How to Close It)	4
Corrigendum	4
Thoreau’s Dialectic of Dissent and Contemporary Activism	4
The Unitary Executive Theory in Practice: Bureaucratic Structure as an Obstacle to Executive Unilateralism	4
Health and Election Outcomes: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	4
Electoral Institutions and Identity Based Clientelism in Jordan	4
Ain’t No Fortunate Son: The Political Calculus of Conscription	4
Engraved in the Heart: How Rousseau’s Citizens are Motivated Toward the Common Good	4
Congressional Committees, Electoral Connections, and Legislative Speech	3
Who Decides? Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primaries	3
Authoritarian Youth: Bidirectional Effects Between Authoritarianism, National Identification, and Political Participation Among Czech Youth	3
Using Process Tracing to Investigate Elite Experience Accrual: Explaining Margaret Thatcher’s Support for US Air Strikes Against Libya	3
Shaming in a Shameless World: The Broken Dialectic of the Self	3
Announcements	3
Authoritarian Opposition? Authoritarian Disposition and Resistance to Public Health Mitigation Strategies During COVID-19	3
Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court	3
Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation	3
The People’s Captain: Understanding Police Officers as an Electoral Brand	3
Countering “Fake News” Through Public Education and Advertisements: An Experimental Analysis	3
Motivated Reasoning and Attitudes Towards Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: Evidence from Five Nominations and an Experiment	3
Do Scandals Matter?	3
Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns	3
How to Smuggle Contraband and Influence Border Policy	3
Expressive Epistemic Injustice: Definition, Measurement, and Deliberative Cure	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
Public Support for State Challenges to National Laws	3
Sex, Campaign Contributions, and State Courts of Last Resort	3
The Spread of Symbolic Policies: Juneteenth, Interests, and Representation in the U.S. States	3
Silencing Human Rights Defenders Once and for All? Determinants of Human Rights Defenders’ Killings	3
Guardians of Democracy or Passive Bystanders? A Conjoint Experiment on Elite Transgressions of Democratic Norms	3
Announcements	3
Sexual Identities and the Role of Marriage in Social Movement Activism	3
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans	3
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement	3
Life, Liberty, and Litigation: Do Constitutional Rights Impact Climate Litigation Outcome?	3
The “Return” of the People? Understanding Populism by Exploring Citizens’ Conceptions of Peoplehood in Western Europe	3
When Do Men MPs Claim to Represent Women in Plenary Debates—Time-Series Cross-Sectional Evidence from the German States	3
Women’s Representation and Implications for Fairness, Trust, and Performance in Local Government: A Survey Experiment in Sri Lanka	3