OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, and Nationalism	86
Does Democracy Matter?	76
Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space	66
The US Presidency: Power and Constraint	61
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science	53
Political Control	52
Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance	51
Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Resistance	46
Courts in the Global South	40
AI as Governance	40
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	37
Three Faces of Climate Justice	35
Rural Politics in the United States	33
The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States	32
How Lobbying Matters	31
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective	30
Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization	29
The Political Role of Business Leaders	26
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	25
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	25
Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics	24
Is War in Decline?	23
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	22
Women's Suffrage: Causes and Consequences	21
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	20

Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View	19
Islamism and Armed Conflict	17
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	15
Revolution as Mass-Based Regime Change	15
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	15
Global Economic Sanctions	14
Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies	14
From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development	13
Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future	12
State Policy and Immigrant Integration	12
Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences	11
Theories of Democratic Backsliding	11
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	11
Race and Redistricting	9
The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases	9
The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States	9
Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science	9
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast	8
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	8
The Politics of Childcare	7
The Power of Beliefs	7
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	7
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	6
Organizing and Democracy: Understanding the Possibilities for Transformative Collective Action	6
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans	6
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	6
Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs	6
Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy	6