OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Politics Research is 1. 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
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	31
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	24
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	22
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	21
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	16
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	14
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	13
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	12
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	12
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	11
The Personal is Political: Assessing the Effects of Personal Narratives on Public Opinion	11
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	11
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	11
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	10
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	10
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	9
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	9
Popularity or Partisanship? Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens and Adults	9
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	8
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	8
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	8
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	7
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	7
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	7

Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	7
Fair Game or Foul Play: Public Perceptions of Solicitor General Involvement in U.S. Supreme Court Cases	7
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	7
Mind the (Participation) Gap: Vouchers, Voting, and Visibility	6
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	6
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	6
How College Students React to COVID Vaccine PSAs: An Experimental Investigation	6
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	6
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	6
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	6
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	6
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	6
The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	6
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	5
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	5
Campaigning During a Crisis: The Pandemic’s Impact on Congressional Campaign Strategy and Spending in 2020	5
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	5
Polarizing Online Elite Rhetoric at the Federal, State, and Local Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Voting Wars: Public Opinion About Battles Over Voting Rules	5
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	4
Playing Ball: Collaboration in the U.S. Congress	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
Interest Groups and Legislative Ideology: Who Influences Whom?	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	4
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	4
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	4
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	4
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	4
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	4
Concede or Resist? Experimental Evidence on How Partisanship Shapes Local Officials’ Responses to Preemption	4
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	4
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	4
What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations	3
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	3
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	3
State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs	3
Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?	3
Do network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?	3
Resentment or Empowerment? Civic Education and the Political Efficacy of Rural Individuals	3
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections	3
How Educational Attainment Moderates the Recursive Relationship Between Policy Orientations and Partisanship	3
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	3
Welfare at the Statehouse Democracies: Assessing the Impact of Public Opinion on Welfare Policies at the State Level	3
The Revolving Door in Judicial Politics: Former Clerks and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court	3

The Impact of Survey Mode on the Measurement of Polarization in the Public: 2016–2020 U.S. Panel Evidence	3
Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting	3
Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion	3
Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout	3
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Poll Worker Experience and Polling Place Operations	3
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	3
Institutional Design and Policy Responsiveness in US States	3
Late-Deciding Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections	3
Ideology, Information, and Social Welfare Preferences	3
Race or Place: Partisanship Among Black Rural Voters	3
Incivility or Invalidity? Evaluating Perspective API Scores as a Measure of Political Incivility	3
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	2
Maintaining the Machinery of Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Spending on Voting Equipment on Turnout	2
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	2
Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions	2
The Signals of Unlikely Allies: Ideologically Diverse Amicus Coalitions and Judicial Behavior	2
The Effects of Targeted Campaign Messages on Candidate Evaluations	2
The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss	2
The Partisan Vote: Shared Partisanship and Constituent Service in the U.S. Congress	2
Do Polarized Issues Carry More Weight in Voter Decision-Making? Insights From the 2022 Congressional Midterm Elections	2
Preventative Polarization: Republican Senators’ Positional Adaptation in the Tea Party Era	2
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	2
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	2
Reporting on Congress: Research Note on Journalists’ Norms in a Political Media Climate	2
The Policy Preferences of Marginal Voters: Complicating Political Polarization in Education Policy	2
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	2
Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise	2
Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting Goalposts	2
The Personality and Politics of Cryptocurrency Investors	1
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	1
Sources of Candidate Fundraising Affect Perceptions of Electability	1
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	1
Response Latencies as Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Voter Turnout Overreports	1
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	1
A Thermostatic Model of Congressional Elections	1
Encouraging Black and Latinx Radio Audiences to Register to Vote: A Field Experiment	1
Do Redistricting Commissions Avoid Partisan Gerrymanders?	1
Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes	1
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy	1
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	1
When Push Comes to Shove: An Experimental Analysis of Voter Support of a Woman President and the 2024 Nomination	1
“Extending the Referendum Model of Presidential Election Outcomes: Both Candidates Matter”	1
Choice Overload in Crowded Primary Elections	1
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	1
Whose Party is It?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party	1
Landscape of Distrust: Political Trust Across America’s Urban-Rural Divide	1
Campaign Endorsements and Election Outcomes in Judicial Elections	1
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?	1
Does Interaction With Out-Party Elites in a Classroom Setting Diminish Negative Partisanship?	1
Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather With Early Voting: 1948–2016	1
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	1
The Supreme Court and Congress: Information, Threat, and the Separation of Powers	1
Policy, Position-Taking, and Congressional Voting under Judicial Review	1
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	1
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States	1
The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Legitimacy	1
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	1