OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Politics Research is 4. 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
Mobilizing the White: White Nationalism and Congressional Politics in the American South	11
Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy	11
Building Support Through the Personalization of Twitter Messages in a Permanent Campaign	10
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
In the Name of the President	9
A Tormenting Dilemma: American Identity and Attitudes Towards Torture	9
Who Gives to American Trade and Professional Association Political Action Committees and Why?	9
Friendship is Rare: The Influence of Off-Bench Friendships on Support for the U.S. Supreme Court	8
White Constituents and Congressional Voting	8
Errors and Calibration in Mail Ballot Signature Rejections	8
Gubernatorial Elections Change Demand for Local Newspapers	7
Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election	7
A Delicate Hand or Two-Fisted Aggression? How Gendered Language Influences Candidate Perceptions	6
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
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
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
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
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