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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	30
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	23
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	20
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	17
We Have It Totally Under Control? Exploring the Effects of Ideology and Knowing Someone Diagnosed With COVID-19 on Evaluations of President Trump’s Leadership on the Pandemic	14
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	13
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	13
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	12
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	12
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	12
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	11
Hahn-Sigelman Prizes 2020-2024	10
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	10
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	9
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	9
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	9
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	8
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	8
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	8
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	8
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	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
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	7

In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	7
Popularity or Partisanship? Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens and Adults	7
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	7
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	6
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	6
How College Students React to COVID Vaccine PSAs: An Experimental Investigation	6
The Effects of the Great Compromise on the Constitutional Convention of 1787	6
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	6
Too Close to Home? Proximity to BLM Protests and Support for Police Spending	6
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	6
Fair Game or Foul Play: Public Perceptions of Solicitor General Involvement in U.S. Supreme Court Cases	6
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	6
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
Polarizing Online Elite Rhetoric at the Federal, State, and Local Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations	5
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	5
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
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	5
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	4
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	4
State Courts, Public Opinion, and the Changing Abortion Landscape after Dobbs	4
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	4
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	4
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	4
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	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
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	4
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	3
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	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
Incivility or Invalidity? Evaluating Perspective API Scores as a Measure of Political Incivility	3
Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion	3
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	3
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	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
Race or Place: Partisanship Among Black Rural Voters	3
Do network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?	3

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