OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research & Politics is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic constraints in crisis bargaining	59
Russian adventurism and Central Asian leaders’ foreign policy rhetoric: Evidence from the UN General Debate corpus	42
Reevaluating ideological asymmetries in specific support for the Supreme Court	32
Corrigendum: Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain	26
New evidence reveals curvilinear relationship between levels of democracy and deforestation	23
Voting experience in a new era: The impact of past eligibility on the breakdown of mainstream parties	21
The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence	19
Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections	19
Public perceptions of local influence	13
Xenophobic violence in Sweden 2009–2022: Introducing the dataset	13
What explains election-driven family conflicts?	12
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes	12
Rents, refugees, and the populist radical right	10
Stand up and be counted: Using traffic cameras to assess voting behavior in real time	10
Bureaucracy and policymaking: Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	9
Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation	9
New data, new results? How data sources and vintages affect the replicability of research	9
The electoral consequences of policy-making in coalition governments	9
Descriptive representation and attitudes about local government: An experimental test using real-world stimuli	9
Fundraising on the fringe: Do ideologically extreme candidates solicit small donations?	9
Women’s descriptive representation and support for the inclusion of gender-related provisions in trade agreements	8
Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data	8
Do they really believe that? Measuring salient conspiracy endorsement	7
Stability and change in the opinion–policy relationship: Evidence from minimum wage laws	7
Does sports success increase government support? Voter (ir)rationality in a multiparty context	7

Understanding public attitudes toward restrictive voting laws in the United States	6
Does affective empathy capacity condition individual variation in support for military escalation? Evidence from a survey vignette	6
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?	6
The unexpected results of the peace referendum changed conflict termination preferences in Colombia	6
Political trust and public support for propaganda in China	6
Gender stereotypes and petty corruption among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	6
Entitled and self-conscious? The ego-centric underpinnings of electoral preferences during the 2020 U.S. election	6
Reducing affective polarization does not affect false news sharing or truth discernment	6
Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale	6
Corruption next door, satisfaction at home: Spillover effects of corruption on political trust in China	6
Introducing the trust in government (TrustGov) dataset: A new resource for cross-national time-series trust research	6
Political shock and international students: Estimating the “Trump effect”	6
Corrigendum to “An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support”	5
Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries	5
From masks to mismanagement: A global assessment of the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests	5
What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness	5
The use of confirmation and refutation frames in fact-checking war-related misinformation	5
Feminism within parties: Implications for political elite evaluations and policy attitudes	5
Detecting pro-kremlin disinformation using large language models	5
Changing the lens: The contingency of results from conjoint experiments on the outcome variable and the estimand	5
Machine-learning applications to authoritarian selections: The case of China	5
Using MI-LASSO to study populist radical right voting in times of pandemic	5
The effect of party identification and party cues on populist attitudes	4
Distributive politics as behavioral localism: Evidence from a vignette experiment in Hungary	4
Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science	4
Unexpected, but consistent and pre-registered: Experimental evidence on interview language and Latino views of COVID-19	4
Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study	4
Are courts “different?” Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts	4
Does polygyny cause intergroup conflict? Re-examining Koos and Neupert-Wentz (2020)	4
Did you hear about Clarence Thomas? Measuring public attention toward the Supreme Court	4
Entering the “foxhole”: Partisan media priming and the application of racial justice in America	4
Between home turf and Hinterland: Directly elected MPs focus more on local and deprived places than list candidates on social media	4
Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil	4
Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions	4
Ambivalence and perceptions of China: Two list experiments	3
Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance	3
The PARTYPRESS Database: A new comparative database of parties’ press releases	3
Linking artificial intelligence job exposure to expectations: Understanding AI losers, winners, and their political preferences	3
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)	3
Don’t answer me? A cautionary tale of personality traits and survey nonresponse	3
If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia	3
The power of history: How a victimization narrative shapes national identity and public opinion in China	3
Public campaign financing’s effects on judicial legitimacy: Evidence from a survey experiment	3
Age-group identity and political participation	3
New tree, growing forrest: Updating meta-analytic evidence on solidarity between U.S. people of color through an extension and partial replication	3
Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report	3
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	3
Voters don’t care too much about policy: How politicians conceive of voting motives	3
The political roots of ageism in greying democracies: Evidence from Italy, South Korea, and the United States	3
PhD stipends and program placement success in political science	3

Preferential abstention in conjoint experiments	3
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil	3
An incomplete recipe: One-dimensional latent variables do not capture the full flavor of democratic support	3
From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate	3
Belt and road initiative membership and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	3
Participation incentives in a survey of international non-profit professionals	2
The (racial) implications of “special favors”	2
Longing for the “Good Old Days” or longing for a racist and sexist past?	2
Judicial influence and the importance of intersecting identities	2
From citizen input to a more egalitarian agenda: Public inquiries and the policy agenda	2
Constructing generalizable geographic natural experiments	2
Toxicity and U.S. Senate candidate Twitter messaging in the 2022 election	2
Introducing the MMAD Repressive Actors Dataset	2
Null effects of social media ads on voter registration: Three digital field experiments	2
Electability salience can bias voting decisions	2
Discovering optimal ballot wording using adaptive survey design	2
Which frame fits? Policy learning with framing for climate change policy attitudes	2
Prospective voting and the issues and leaders model: Forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election	2
Replicating the literature on prefecture-level meritocratic promotion in China	2
PACs and January 6th: Campaign finance and objections to the Electoral College vote count	2
What is populism good for? An experimental test of mobilization effects	2
Worldviews, attitudes to science and science policy in Kuwait: The engagement and mobilisation effects	2
Temporal validity as meta-science	2
Online focus groups as a tool to study policy professionals	2
A survey experiment on post-Dobbs abortion bans	2
Fitting z-curves to estimate the size of the UESD file drawer and the replicability of published findings	2
Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion	2
What is sentiment meant to mean to language models?	2
How politicians learn about public opinion	2
Gauging preference stability under authoritarianism	2
Do long constitutions really hamper economic performance? A comment on Tsebelis and Nardi (2016a)	2
Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption	2
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success	2
Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest	2
Infectious disease and political violence: Evidence from malaria and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa	2