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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	31
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	24
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	20
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	19
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	15
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	13
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	13
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	13
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	12
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	12
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	11
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	10
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	10
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	10
The Personal is Political: Assessing the Effects of Personal Narratives on Public Opinion	10
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	9
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	9
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	9
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	9
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	9
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	9
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	8
Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	8
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	7
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	7

Popularity or Partisanship? Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens and Adults	7
The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	7
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	7
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	7
Mind the (Participation) Gap: Vouchers, Voting, and Visibility	6
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	6
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	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
Fair Game or Foul Play: Public Perceptions of Solicitor General Involvement in U.S. Supreme Court Cases	6
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	6
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	6
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	6
How College Students React to COVID Vaccine PSAs: An Experimental Investigation	6
American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship	5
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	5
Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views	5
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	5
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	5
Polarizing Online Elite Rhetoric at the Federal, State, and Local Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	4
State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	4
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	4
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	4
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	4
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	4
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	4
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	4
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	4
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	3
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	3
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	3
Incivility or Invalidity? Evaluating Perspective API Scores as a Measure of Political Incivility	3
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections	3
The Revolving Door in Judicial Politics: Former Clerks and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court	3
Welfare at the Statehouse Democracies: Assessing the Impact of Public Opinion on Welfare Policies at the State Level	3
Ideology, Information, and Social Welfare Preferences	3
Race or Place: Partisanship Among Black Rural Voters	3
Late-Deciding Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections	3
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3

Reliable Sources? Correcting Misinformation in Polarized Media Environments	3
What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations	3
Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion	3
How Educational Attainment Moderates the Recursive Relationship Between Policy Orientations and Partisanship	3
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	2
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	2
Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?	2
Institutional Design and Policy Responsiveness in US States	2
Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting	2
The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss	2
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	2
Do Polarized Issues Carry More Weight in Voter Decision-Making? Insights From the 2022 Congressional Midterm Elections	2
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	2
Preventative Polarization: Republican Senators’ Positional Adaptation in the Tea Party Era	2
Why Making Voting Easier Isn’t Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout	2
The Impact of Survey Mode on the Measurement of Polarization in the Public: 2016–2020 U.S. Panel Evidence	2
Maintaining the Machinery of Democracy: Assessing the Impact of Spending on Voting Equipment on Turnout	2
Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise	2
The Policy Preferences of Marginal Voters: Complicating Political Polarization in Education Policy	2
The Partisan Vote: Shared Partisanship and Constituent Service in the U.S. Congress	2
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	2
Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting Goalposts	2
Do network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?	2
The Effects of Targeted Campaign Messages on Candidate Evaluations	2
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	2
Reporting on Congress: Research Note on Journalists’ Norms in a Political Media Climate	2
Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes? Evidence From the January 6th Insurrection	1
Oh, the Places They’ll Go: A Geographic Analysis of Gubernatorial Campaigns	1
Encouraging Black and Latinx Radio Audiences to Register to Vote: A Field Experiment	1
Do Redistricting Commissions Avoid Partisan Gerrymanders?	1
Policy, Position-Taking, and Congressional Voting under Judicial Review	1
Whose Party is It?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party	1
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy	1
Choice Overload in Crowded Primary Elections	1
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	1
Mitigating the Turnout Effects of Bad Weather With Early Voting: 1948–2016	1
The Supreme Court and Congress: Information, Threat, and the Separation of Powers	1
Language and LGBTQ Politics: The Effect of Changing Group Labels on Public Attitudes	1
Preemptive Action: Measuring Presidential Assertiveness in Foreign Policy Lawmaking	1
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	1
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences	1
Campaign Endorsements and Election Outcomes in Judicial Elections	1
Does Interaction With Out-Party Elites in a Classroom Setting Diminish Negative Partisanship?	1
A Thermostatic Model of Congressional Elections	1
Response Latencies as Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Voter Turnout Overreports	1
Sources of Candidate Fundraising Affect Perceptions of Electability	1
Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions	1
When Push Comes to Shove: An Experimental Analysis of Voter Support of a Woman President and the 2024 Nomination	1
Landscape of Distrust: Political Trust Across America’s Urban-Rural Divide	1
Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes	1
Who is To Blame? Partisans’ Use of Blame Spreading in Reaction to Unfair or Dishonest Behavior	1
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	1
The Gender Gap in Supreme Court Legitimacy	1
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States	1
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	1
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	1
“Extending the Referendum Model of Presidential Election Outcomes: Both Candidates Matter”	1
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	1
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	1
The Personality and Politics of Cryptocurrency Investors	1
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?	1