OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Government and Opposition 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	59
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	50
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	46
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	44
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza	42
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	24
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	23
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	22
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	21
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	19
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	18
How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic: Populist Governance and Social Policies in Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Russia and Turkey	17
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	17
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	17
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Clarity of Responsibility and the Performance of Government Parties in European Second-Order Elections	14
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	13
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	12
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	11
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	11
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	11
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	11
Parliamentary Oversight and the Effects of Controlled Institutional Settings on Behavioural Logics	11
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10

Contested Ownership, Negative Tone: How Issue Ownership Competition Fuels Online Negativity in Belgium	9
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	9
When Will an Authoritarian Regime Concede? A Framework for Strategic Campaigning through Issue Selection and Framing	9
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation	8
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	8
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in Europe	8
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016	7
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	7
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	7
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	7
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	7
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	7
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	7
Institutional Design and Differences in Roll-Call Voting Cohesion in Bicameral Legislatures: The Chilean Congress, 2006–2018	7
Understanding the Modern Election Campaign: Analysing Campaign Eras through Financial Transparency Disclosures at the 2019 UK General Election	7
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	7
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	6
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	6
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	6
Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period	6
Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia	6
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	6
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	5
A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations of Youth Political Participation across Different Types of Activism	5
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	5
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	5
Conditional Humanitarianism: Citizen Preferences for Economic Sanctions in Democratic Sender States	5
Crises and Electoral Accountability: How Do Individual Characteristics of Crises Affect Performance and Responsibility Evaluations among Voters?	4
Political Dynasties in Canada	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	4
The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict	4
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	3
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State	3
Coal and Collective Action in Appalachia: Findings from a New Dataset	3
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	3
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	3
The Memory Work of a Far-Right Party: Contention, Convention and Memory Appropriation	3
All the President's Men: Comparing the Secretary General of the French Presidency and the US Chief of Staff in an Era of Presidentialization	3
When the Local is Illiberal: Local Welfare Chauvinism and the Populist Radical Right	3
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	3
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	3
To Reinforce or Replace: Courts and Democratic Backsliding	3
A Common Two-Dimensional Structure? Comparing Demand-side Political Spaces of Eight European Democracies	2
The Far Right Out of Its Comfort Zone? Framing Opposition to Immigration during COVID-19 in Italy	2
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	2
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting	2

Government and Opposition on the Road to EU Accession: Responsibility, Responsiveness and the Salience of Gender Equality	2
The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers	2
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design	2
Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe	2
Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule	2
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	2
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	1
From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism	1
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	1
Gendering Cabinet Reshuffles in France and Spain	1
No Longer the Only Game in Town? Immigration, Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in the West	1
The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview	1
Populism and Polarization: A Nostalgic Narrative of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’	1
Polity Size Matters? The Effect of Country Size on Politicians' Professionalization	1
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	1
Identity Politics and Left-wing Populism	1
Navigating the Periphery: Competing Geopolitical Visions and the Dynamics of Moldovan Party Politics (2001–2024)	1
A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition	1
The Left–Right Divide in Democratic Disappointment and Support for Populists in Europe	1
Coalition Preferences and Party Systems	1
GOV volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Partisan Biases among the Unemployed	1
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	1
Public Opinion and the ‘Presidentialization’ of Semi-Presidential Systems: Explaining Support for a Stronger and More Confrontational Presidency	1
The Spiral of Ressentiment: Emotions and Stigma in Populist Radical-Right Party Activism	1
Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy	1
Sour Grapes? Party Donors and Canadian Leadership Primaries	1
Anticipating Office: Does the Populist Radical Right Decrease Its Populist Communication When It Has the Opportunity to Join Government?	1
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1