OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research & Politics 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	32
Corrigendum: Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	27
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	27
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	26
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	26
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	22
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	19
Reevaluating ideological asymmetries in specific support for the Supreme Court	17
Public perceptions of local influence	17
Descriptive representation and attitudes about local government: An experimental test using real-world stimuli	14
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	13
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	12
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	11
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	10
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	10
Vote-by-mail policy and the 2020 presidential election	10
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	9
The effects of partisan framing on COVID-19 attitudes: Experimental evidence from early and late pandemic	8
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data	8
Fundraising on the fringe: Do ideologically extreme candidates solicit small donations?	8
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	8
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	8
Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	7
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	7
The life, death and diversity of pro-government militias: The fully revised pro-government militias database version 2.0	7

Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	7
Do people want smarter ballots?	6
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?	6
Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	6
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	6
Democracy, external threat, and military spending	6
Shame, endorse, or remain silent?: State response to human rights violations in other countries	6
Political trust and public support for propaganda in China	6
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	6
Changing the lens: The contingency of results from conjoint experiments on the outcome variable and the estimand	5
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	5
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	5
Entitled and self-conscious? The ego-centric underpinnings of electoral preferences during the 2020 U.S. election	5
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	5
What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness	5
Corrigendum to “An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support”	5
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	5
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	4
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	4
Detecting pro-kremlin disinformation using large language models	4
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	4
Are courts “different?” Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts	4
Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election	4
Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	4
Feminism within parties: Implications for political elite evaluations and policy attitudes	4
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	4
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	4
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	4
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	4
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	4
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	4
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	4
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	4
Economic shocks and militant formation	4
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	3
Linking artificial intelligence job exposure to expectations: Understanding AI losers, winners, and their political preferences	3
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	3
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	3
New tree, growing forrest: Updating meta-analytic evidence on solidarity between U.S. people of color through an extension and partial replication	3
An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support	3
Preferential abstention in conjoint experiments	3
Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment	3
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	3
Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report	3
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	3
Age-group identity and political participation	3
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	2
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	2
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	2
How politicians learn about public opinion	2

PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	2
Ambivalence and perceptions of China: Two list experiments	2
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	2
How do researchers choose their goals of inference? A survey experiment on the effects of the state of research and method preferences on the choice between research goals	2
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	2
If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia	2
Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest	2
PhD stipends and program placement success in political science	2
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success	2
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	2
Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Temporal validity as meta-science	2
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	2
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	2
Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance	2
From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate	2
Constructing generalizable geographic natural experiments	2
Prospective voting and the issues and leaders model: Forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election	2
Public campaign financing’s effects on judicial legitimacy: Evidence from a survey experiment	2
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	2
Judicial influence and the importance of intersecting identities	2
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment	2
Let presidents fail: Congressional deference to presidents as gambling on failure	2
Voters don’t care too much about policy: How politicians conceive of voting motives	2
Facebook algorithm changes may have amplified local republican parties	2
Beliefs and opinions about “illegal” and “undocumented” immigrants: Conceptual replication of a null result	1
On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science	1
The genetic essentialism of the alt-right	1
Elite-public gaps in support for nuclear and chemical strikes: New evidence from a survey of British parliamentarians and citizens	1
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	1
Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments	1
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	1
How do gender stereotypes about leadership positions change in the face of a crisis?	1
Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text	1
Assessing survey mode effects in the 2019 EP elections: A comparison of online and face-to-face-survey data from six European countries	1
When a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, people feel more positive toward conspiracy theorists	1
Exposure to protests and support for different forms of violence: Evidence from the 2019 social outburst in Chile	1
Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion	1
A survey experiment on post-Dobbs abortion bans	1
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	1
Discovering optimal ballot wording using adaptive survey design	1
ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification	1
The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization	1
Do norm-based appeals affect the acceptance of the singular use of they/them pronouns?	1
Judging prosecutors: Public support for prosecutorial discretion	1
Does war improve women’s political representation?	1
Who’s afraid of Sahra – Understanding the shift in votes towards Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht	1
The reputational cost of military aggression: Evidence from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	1
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	1
Gambling on the constitution: Abortion rights and the 2023 constitution-making process in Chile	1
Double penalty? How candidate class and gender influence voter evaluations	1
The young and the hawkish: Generational differences in conflict attitudes in Israel	1