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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Size and Structure of the Gender Gap in Economic Evaluations	81
Finding DORI: Using Item Response Theory to Measure Difficulty of Registration in the U.S. and Its Impact on Voters	27
Encouraging Black and Latinx Radio Audiences to Register to Vote: A Field Experiment	27
DCPS or Sidwell Friends? How Politician Schooling Choices Affect Voter Evaluations	19
Be Careful what You Count: Updating Legislative Turnover in the 50 States	17
The Impact of Judicial Selection Method on State Supreme Court Justice Ideology	15
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	14
Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities	13
Preventative Polarization: Republican Senators’ Positional Adaptation in the Tea Party Era	12
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	11
Mobilizing the White: White Nationalism and Congressional Politics in the American South	11
Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups	10
Mobilizing Peripheral Partisan Voters: A Field Experimental Analysis From Three California Congressional Election Campaigns	10
Partisan Self-Interest and Views on the Electoral College: How Electoral Inversions Activate Differences in Support for the System	10
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	10
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	9
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	9
In the Name of the President	9
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	8
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	8
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	8
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	7
Gubernatorial Elections Change Demand for Local Newspapers	7
A Sum of Its Parts: Party Fit and Party Change in the U.S. House	6
The Sharing of Pandemic-Related Information From U.S. Government Twitter Accounts	6

Do Political Beliefs Drive Environment Selection?	6
The Trump Advantage in Policy Recall Among Voters	6
Targeted Abortion Frames Do Not Mobilize Political Action-Taking	6
When Politics Override Place: How Political Affiliation Supersedes Rural Identity	6
Research Note: “Comparing Traditional Presidential Rhetoric: Trump Versus Biden”	6
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	6
r/The_Donald Had a Forum: How Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities Shapes Identity and Spreads Extreme Rhetoric	6
Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising	6
The Effects of Targeted Campaign Messages on Candidate Evaluations	6
The Relationship Between Racial Attitudes and Perceived Economic Threat Among Whites: A Three Study Analysis	6
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	6
The Great Lockdown and Economic Voting: Estimating the Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on the 2020 US Presidential Election	5
A Shadow’s Influence? How the Shadow Docket Influences Public Opinion	5
Incivility in Congressional Tweets	5
Who is To Blame? Partisans’ Use of Blame Spreading in Reaction to Unfair or Dishonest Behavior	5
Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes	5
The Conditional Effects of Latino Candidates and Partisanship on Latino Turnout	5
White Racial Identity and Preferences for (Non) White Immigrants in the United States	5
Do Violations of Democratic Norms Change Political Attitudes? Evidence From the January 6th Insurrection	5
Preemptive Action: Measuring Presidential Assertiveness in Foreign Policy Lawmaking	5
Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes	5
Out-of-State Contributions Provide Non-Incumbent House Candidates with a Competitive Edge	5
Rulemakers’ Professional Experience and Rulemaking Efficiency in U.S. Federal Agencies	5
Considerations of American Democracy, Feeling Like a Loser, and Support for Changing the Rules	5
County Sheriffs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The Will of the People or a Lack of Accountability?	5
Political Partisanship and Trust in Government Predict Popular Support for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Various Professions and Demographic Groups: A Research Note	4
The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era	4
The Price of Legislative Success: The President's Legislative Agenda and Midterm Seat Loss	4
Whistling Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Optimism Bias and Political Beliefs in the United States	4
Political Attacks in 280 Characters or Less: A New Tool for the Automated Classification of Campaign Negativity on Social Media	4
What Public Comments During Rulemaking Do (and Why)	4
The Qualitative Differences Between Self-Identification as a Born-Again and/or Evangelical Christian	4
Still the Same? Revealed Preferences and Ideological Self-Perception Among Former Members of Congress	4
When Advocates Become Adjudicators: Tracing the Effects of Prosecutorial and Public Defense Experience on Judicial Decision Making	4
“Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans”	4
Cross-Cutting Identities in American Politics: Gender, Party, and Attitudes on Gun Reform	4
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South	4
It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence	4
Oh, the Places They’ll Go: A Geographic Analysis of Gubernatorial Campaigns	4
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences	4
More Women Candidates: The Effects of Increased Women’s Presence on Political Ambition, Efficacy, and Vote Choice	3
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Racialization of Attitudes Toward Descriptive Representation	3
Going Nuclear: Federalist Society Affiliated Judicial Nominees’ Prospects and a New Era of Confirmation Politics¹	3
Baptism by Wildfire? Wildfire Experiences and Public Support for Wildfire Adaptation Policies	3
Cognitive Political Economy: A Growing Partisan Divide in Economic Perceptions	3
See G.I. Jane Run: The Rise of Female Military Veteran Candidates for Congress	3
Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting	3
Following the Science? Examining the Issuance of Stay-At-Home Orders Related to COVID-19 by U.S. Governors	3
Polarization in COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion Networks	3
Legislature Size and Interest Mobilization: The Effects of Institutional Change	3

Politicized Battles: How Vacancies and Partisanship Influence Support for the Supreme Court	3
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City	3
Donald Trump’s Effect on Who is Considered “Conservative”	3
All Eyes on Kansas: Voter Turnout and the 2022 Abortion Referendum	2
Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? Network Diversity, Political Discussion, and Conservative Conspiracy Theories on Social Media	2
Immigration Attitudes and Positive Messaging: Evidence From the United States	2
The Partisan Vote: Shared Partisanship and Constituent Service in the U.S. Congress	2
Voting in the Mall: Ideology, Grievance, and Political Consumerism	2
Enraged and Engaged? Emotions as Motives for Discussing Politics	2
Vote-by-mail Ballot Rejection and Experience with Mail-in Voting	2
Don’t You be My Neighbor: Support for Racial-Exclusion Constitutional Provisions in Mid-19th Century Indiana and Illinois	2
Gender Affinity, Ideology, and the Contributions of Individuals to Women State Supreme Court Candidates	2
NIMBY Syndrome and Abortion Access	2
Facts in Context: Problem Perceptions, Numerical Information, and Policy Attitudes	2
Affect Toward Transgender People, Political Awareness, and Support for Transgender Rights	2
Professed Democracy Support and Openness to Politically Congenial Authoritarian Actions Within the American Public	2
Republicans, Not Democrats, Are More Likely to Endorse Anti-Vaccine Misinformation	2
Gasoline Prices and Presidential Approval Ratings of the United States	2
Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising	2
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric	2
Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming	2
The Nationalization of Individual Campaign Contributions in U.S. Senate Elections, 1984-2020	2
Party Realignment, Education, and the Turnout Advantage: Revisiting the Partisan Effect of Turnout	2
Do Lawmakers Respond to Crisis Ideologically or Pragmatically?	2
Erratum to “Descriptive Representation and Prosecutorial Discretion: Race, Sex, and Carceral Disparities”	2
When Do Voters Punish Politicians Who Violate Democratic Norms?	2
Is Distance to Drop Box an Appropriate Proxy for Drop Box Treatment? A Case Study of Washington State	2
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?	2
The Effects of Wage Information on Support for Redistributive Spending	2
The “Politics of Talk” Have Changed	1
Principled or Partisan? The Effect of Cancel Culture Framings on Support for Free Speech	1
Talk Local to Me: Assessing the Heterogenous Effects of Localistic Appeals	1
Welfare at the Statehouse Democracies: Assessing the Impact of Public Opinion on Welfare Policies at the State Level	1
Place or Partisanship? The Conditional Role of Identities on Candidate Support	1
Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America	1
The Influence of Local Patriotism on Participation in Local Politics, Civic participation, Trust in Local Government and Collective Action	1
More Candidates and Fewer Voters: How an Abundance of Choice Demobilizes the Electorate	1
Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations	1
Who Controls the Immigration Bureaucracy? The Relative Influence of the Three Branches Over Asylum Policy Implementation	1
Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions	1
The Mixed Effects of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2020 Presidential Election	1
Too Old to Be President?	1
Critical Mass Claims and Ideological Divides Among Women in the U.S. House of Representatives	1
On Modeling the Social-Psychological Foundations of Support for Donald Trump	1
Economics, COVID, Election Forecasting: Did Trump Escape Blame?	1
Candidate Repositioning, Valence, and a Backfire Effect from Criticism	1
Asian and Latino American Political Conceptualization: A Dual-Concept Model	1
Card-Carrying Members on the Ballot: Group Affiliations and Their Electoral Implications	1
The Revolving Door in Judicial Politics: Former Clerks and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court	1
Divisions in the Big Tent: Group Sentiments and Candidate Preferences within the Democratic Party	1
Why Do People Engage in Unlawful Political Protest? Examining the Role of Authoritarianism in Illegal Protest Behavior	1
Minority Versus Minority: Partisanship and Inter-Group Competitions Among Asian Americans	1
Humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Public Support for Political Compromise	1
Are Shifts in Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes Associated With Declines in Religious Behavior and Affiliation?	1
Tell Us How You Feel: Emotional Appeals for Votes in Presidential Primaries	1
Blind Trust, Blind Skepticism: Liberals’ & Conservatives’ Response to Academic Research	1
Evaluating the Effect of Descriptive Norms on Political Tolerance	1
Change and Continuity in Citizens’ Evaluations of Supreme Court Nominees	1
Who Thinks It is Easy to Register and Vote?	1
In the Light: Procedural Legitimacy, the Shadow Docket, and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	1
Dynamics of Partisan Competition for Legislative Majorities in the U.S. House & Senate, 1959–2020	1
The Civic Value of Education: How Scholastic Experiences Create Active Citizens	1
An Intersectional Exploration of Psychological Violence, Threats, and Physical Violence of Mayors in 2021	1
What Can Conjoint Experiments Tell Us about Americans’ Abortion Attitudes?	1
When Push Comes to Shove: An Experimental Analysis of Voter Support of a Woman President and the 2024 Nomination	1
Who Feels the Bern? An Analysis of Support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary	1
National Presidential Election Turnout: 1952 to 2020	1
Vote Centers and the Voter Experience	1
Do Partisans Always Like Their Inparty and Dislike Their Outparty? An Analysis of Partisans Across the Affective Spectrum	1
Is There a Tradeoff Between Policy Responsiveness and Government Effectiveness? Evidence From the American States	1
Are Tax Cuts Supporters Self-Interested and/or Partisan? The Case of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act	1