OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Science Research and Methods 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections	88
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy	49
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy	37
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	34
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation	28
Measuring inter-party communication: a transformer-based approach	24
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship	23
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office	22
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes	19
How descriptive over- and under-representation impacts citizens’ evaluations of decision-making across policy domains	17
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach	17
Validating open-source machine translation for quantitative text analysis	16
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians	16
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea	15
Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion	14
Local taxes and economic voting: evidence from city ballot measures	13
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM	13
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict	13
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed	12
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies	12
Improving studies of sensitive topics using prior evidence: an informative Bayesian approach for list experiments	11
The policy basis of group sentiments	11
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM	11
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–1985	10
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?	10

The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment	10
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats	10
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs	10
Do party leaders influence roll-call voting in congress?	9
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?	9
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects	9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence	9
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research	9
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections	9
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda	8
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans	8
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization	8
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences	8
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election	8
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data	8
Inequality, information, and income tax policy preferences in Austria and Germany	7
Energy transition, financial markets and EU interventionism: lessons from the Ukraine crisis	7
Interactions among simultaneous elections	7
Are rural attitudes just Republican?	6
Modeling issue competence over time: a Bayesian framework for estimating dynamic issue ownership	6
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis	6
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text	6
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan	6
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States	6
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes	6
What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? Experimental and panel-based evidence from Ukraine in 2022	6
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism	6
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States	6
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland	6
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement?	6
Local elections do not increase local news demand	6
How voters respond to economic shocks from abroad	6
Re-examining the effects of Western sanctions on democracy and human rights in the 21 ^st century	6
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem	6
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States	6
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise	6
Presidential policymaking, 1877–2020	5
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements	5
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India	5
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties	5
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th	5
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism	5
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation	5
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?	5
When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM	5
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments	5
Participatory unilateralism: understanding Congress’s role in presidential unilateral policymaking	5
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text	5
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections	5
Analyzing the impact of events through surveys: formalizing biases and introducing the dual randomized survey design	5

RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Navigating the mismeasurement of intermediary variables in message-based experiments	4
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions	4
Propaganda to a cynical audience	4
Laboratories of democratic renewal: explaining substantial improvement in the quality of democracy in the American States	4
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs	4
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity	4
Survey measures of democratic attitudes and social desirability bias	4
The shadow of social desirability bias: evidence from reassessing the sources of political trust in China	4
What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences	4
Income, education, and policy priorities	4
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China	4
Measuring time preferences in large surveys	4
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945	4
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly	4
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China	4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment	4
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment	4