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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Republicans, Not Democrats, Are More Likely to Endorse Anti-Vaccine Misinformation	63
Explaining Governors’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	62
Pandemics and Partisanship: Following Old Paths into Uncharted Territory	20
Is Negative Campaigning a Matter of Taste? Political Attacks, Incivility, and the Moderating Role of Individual Differences	18
Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? Network Diversity, Political Discussion, and Conservative Conspiracy Theories on Social Media	17
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling: How Gender Shapes Affective Polarization	16
Policy Change and Public Opinion: Measuring Shifting Political Sentiment With Social Media Data	16
Do More Professionalized Legislatures Discriminate Less? The Role of Staffers in Constituency Service	14
Voter Sex, Party, and Gender-Salient Issues: Attitudes about Sexual Harassment and Brett Kavanaugh in the 2018 Elections	12
The Public’s Foreign Aid Priorities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	10
Verifying Voter Registration Records	9
Poll Worker Decision Making at the American Ballot Box	9
American Attitudes Toward COVID-19: More Trumpism Than Partisanship	9
Vote-by-mail Ballot Rejection and Experience with Mail-in Voting	9
Voter Purges After Shelby	8
Gasoline in the Voter’s Pocketbook: Driving Times to Work and the Electoral Implications of Gasoline Price Fluctuations	8
Rock the Vote or Block the Vote? How the Cost of Voting Affects the Voting Behavior of American Youth	7
Let’s Talk About Sexism: The Differential Effects of Gender Discrimination on Liberal and Conservative Women’s Political Engagement	7
Framing Automatic Voter Registration: Partisanship and Public Understanding of Automatic Voter Registration	7
The Electoral Consequences of Affective Polarization? Negative Voting in the 2020 US Presidential Election	6
The “PERFECT” Call: Congressional Representation by Tweet in the Midst of the Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal	6
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation	6
Political Partisanship and Trust in Government Predict Popular Support for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Various Professions and Demographic Groups: A Research Note	6
Clarifying the Ideological Asymmetry in Public Attitudes Toward Political Protest	6
Priming Legality: Perceptions of Latino and Undocumented Latino Immigrants	6

Expanding Constituency Support Through Shared Local Roots in U.S. House Primaries	6
Politicized Battles: How Vacancies and Partisanship Influence Support for the Supreme Court	6
Political Attacks in 280 Characters or Less: A New Tool for the Automated Classification of Campaign Negativity on Social Media	6
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	6
The Politics of Re-Opening Schools: Explaining Public Preferences Reopening Schools and Public Compliance with Reopening Orders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Climate Change as a National Security Issue: Examining Framing Effects Across Party	6
The “Trump” Effect: Political Elite and Support for Free Trade in America	6
Seeing Is Believing: An Experiment on Absentee Ballots and Voter Confidence	6
Baptism by Wildfire? Wildfire Experiences and Public Support for Wildfire Adaptation Policies	6
Ballot Cues, Business Candidates, and Voter Choices in Local Elections	5
Examining Trends in Ideological Identification: 1972–2016	5
Explaining Uncontested Seats in Congress and State Legislatures	5
The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism	5
Ranked-Choice Voting and Democratic Attitudes	5
Enraged and Engaged? Emotions as Motives for Discussing Politics	5
What Can Conjoint Experiments Tell Us about Americans’ Abortion Attitudes?	4
Moving Forward or Backsliding: A Causal Inference Analysis of the Effects of the Shelby Decision in North Carolina	4
From Personal Responsibility to Political Mobilization: Using Attribution Frames to Overcome Policy Feedback Effects	4
Lost in the Crowd: The Effect of Volatile Fields on Presidential Primaries	4
Minding the Black Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Public Opinion among Black Americans	4
The Nature of Partisan Conflict in Public Opinion: Asymmetric or Symmetric?	4
Race, Racial Negativity, and Competing Conceptions of American National Identity	4
More Women Candidates: The Effects of Increased Women’s Presence on Political Ambition, Efficacy, and Vote Choice	4
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	4
Analogical Framing: How Policy Comparisons Alter Political Support for Health Care Reform	4
White Media Attitudes in the Trump Era	4
Dueling Incumbent House Elections, 1843-2018	4
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	4
Work Requirements and Perceived Deservingness of Medicaid	4
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	4
The Policy Polarization of Party Activists in the United States	4
Condorcet Loser in 2016: Apparently Trump; Condorcet Winner: Not Clinton?	4
Who Likes to Vote by Mail?	4
Who Is Left Out? The Process of Validating Voter Registration Applications	4
Proper Protective (Voting) Equipment: How Covid-19 Safety Measures Shaped In-Person Voting Experiences During the 2020 Election	4
Partisan Politics in the 21st Century South: The Fading Impact of Antebellum Slavery	3
Racial Unfairness and Fiscal Politics	3
Are Tax Cuts Supporters Self-Interested and/or Partisan? The Case of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act	3
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	3
Linking Members to Leaders: How Civic Associations Can Strengthen Members’ External Political Efficacy	3
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	3
Political Ambition and Constituent Service: Does Ambition Influence How Local Officials Respond to Electoral and Non-Electoral Service Requests?	3
The Effects of COVID-19 on External Political Efficacy	3
On Modeling the Social-Psychological Foundations of Support for Donald Trump	3
Vote Centers and the Voter Experience	3
Delayed Gratification in Political Participation	3
Whistling Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Optimism Bias and Political Beliefs in the United States	3
Which Citizens Do Elected Officials Target With Distributive Spending? A Survey Experiment on U.S. Municipal Officials	3
Be Careful what You Count: Updating Legislative Turnover in the 50 States	3
Why Some Blame Politics for Their Personal Problems	3

Immigration Attitudes and White Americans’ Responsiveness to Rising Income Inequality	3
Tell Us How You Feel: Emotional Appeals for Votes in Presidential Primaries	3
Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	3
Donald Trump’s Effect on Who is Considered “Conservative”	3
Incivility in Congressional Tweets	3
How Partisanship Influences What Congress Says Online and How They Say It	3
Evaluating the Recessionary Impact on Election Administration Budgeting and Spending	3
The Impact of Emotional Responses to Public Service Announcements: The Case of Gun Violence in Schools	2
How Does Job Loss Affect Voting? Understanding Economic Voting Using Novel Data on COVID-19 Induced Individual-Level Unemployment Shocks	2
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	2
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	2
Sharp as a Fox: Are foxnews.com Visitors Less Politically Knowledgeable?	2
Is Distance to Drop Box an Appropriate Proxy for Drop Box Treatment? A Case Study of Washington State	2
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	2
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	2
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Racialization of Attitudes Toward Descriptive Representation	2
Whose Party is It?: Lame Ducks, Presidential Candidates, and Evaluations of the Party	2
No Balance, No Problem: Evidence of Partisan Voting in the 2021 Georgia U.S. Senate Runoffs	2
Mainstream Media Recirculation of Trust-Reducing Social Media Messages	2
Reliable Sources? Correcting Misinformation in Polarized Media Environments	2
Cognitive Political Economy: A Growing Partisan Divide in Economic Perceptions	2
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	2
The Mixed Effects of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2020 Presidential Election	2
Privatized Democracy: The Role of Election Services Vendors in the United States	2
Public Opinion and Death Penalty Policy Under Direct Democracy Institutions: A Longitudinal Analysis of the American States	2
Growing Tea With Subnational Roots: Tea Party Affiliation, Factionalism, and GOP Politics in State Legislatures	2
The Supreme Court, Ideology, and the Decision to Cite or Borrow from Amicus Curiae Briefs	2
War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?): Militarized Rhetoric and Attitudes Toward Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic	2
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	2
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	2
Demographic Moderation of Spatial Voting in Presidential Elections	2
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	2
Putting US First: How Outgroup Hostilities and Defense of the Status Quo Motivate White Evangelical Affect Toward Candidates in U.S. Elections 2004 to 2016	2
How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility	2
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	1
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	1
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	1
White Americans’ Evaluations of the Alt-Right	1
A Sum of Its Parts: Party Fit and Party Change in the U.S. House	1
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	1
Citizen Contacting in Response to Crisis: Voicing Grievances to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau	1
Three Validation Tests of the Shor–McCarty State Legislator Ideology Data	1
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	1
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	1
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	1
Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting	1
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	1
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	1
In the Name of the President	1
Do Redistricting Commissions Avoid Partisan Gerrymanders?	1
Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	1
Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting	1
Do Ideological Attacks Change How Voters Evaluate Primary Election Candidates?	1
Partisans Hear, but They Don’t Listen: Testing the Limits of Partisanship in Risky Decision Making	1
Place or Partisanship? The Conditional Role of Identities on Candidate Support	1
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	1
Too Old to Be President?	1
Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks	1
Mobilizing the White: White Nationalism and Congressional Politics in the American South	1
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	1
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	1
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	1
The Impact of Electoral Rules and Reforms on Election Outcomes	1
Ask Only What Your Country Can Do for You: Group Interests, Constituency Characteristics and Demands for Representation	1
Putting the Political in Political Interest: The Conditional Effect of Politics on Citizens’ Interest in Politics	1
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	1
Did Black Lives Matter Protests Change Public Opinion?	1
Do Partisans Always Like Their Inparty and Dislike Their Outparty? An Analysis of Partisans Across the Affective Spectrum	1
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	1
Going Nuclear: Federalist Society Affiliated Judicial Nominees’ Prospects and a New Era of Confirmation Politics¹	1
“Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans”	1
Gubernatorial Elections Change Demand for Local Newspapers	1