OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Government and Opposition 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	37
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	32
The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic	27
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	23
The Muddle of the ‘Westminster Model’: A Concept Stretched Beyond Repair	21
Who Supports Citizens Selected by Lot to be the Main Policymakers? A Study of French Citizens	21
How Do Mainstream Parties ‘Become’ Mainstream, and Pariah Parties ‘Become’ Pariahs? Conceptualizing the Processes of Mainstreaming and Pariahing in the Labelling of Political Parties	19
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	18
Presidential Instability in Latin America: Why Institutionalized Parties Matter	17
‘Stretched But Not Snapped’: A Response to Russell and Serban on Retiring the ‘Westminster Model’	16
Window Dressing? The Mainstreaming Strategy of the Rassemblement National in Power in French Local Government	16
Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S	14
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	13
Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review	13
Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison	12
Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland	12
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	11
Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance	10
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	10
The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland	10
The Rassemblement National and COVID-19: How Nativism, Authoritarianism and Expert Populism Did Not Pay Off during the Pandemic	10
A New Wave of Social Democracy? Policy Change across the Social Democratic Party Family, 1970s–2010s	9
The Shifting Relationship between Post-War Capitalism and Democracy (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture, 2021)	9
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	9
Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience	8

How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	8
Ministers, Gender and Political Appointments	8
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	8
The Curious Case of Belgium: Why is There no Right-Wing Populism in Wallonia?	8
Less Populist in Power? Online Communication of Populist Parties in Coalition Governments	8
When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour	7
Ruling but not Governing: Tutelary Regimes and the Case of Myanmar	7
Does Class Shape Legislators’ Approach to Inequality and Economic Policy? A Comparative View	7
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	7
With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government	7
Eroding Support from Below: Performance in Local Government and Opposition Party Growth in South Africa	7
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	6
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	6
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	6
Unravelling the New Plebiscitary Democracy: Towards a Research Agenda	6
Populists in Government: Normal or Exceptional?	6
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	6
Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level: Empirical Evidence from Large Cities in Germany (1999–2016)	6
Performing Crisis? Trump, Populism and the GOP in the Age of COVID-19	5
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	5
Learning from a Peace Process: Theory, Practice and the Case of Northern Ireland	5
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa	5
Personal or Impersonal Evaluations? Political Sophistication and Citizen Conceptions of the Democratic Process	5
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	5
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	5
Electoral Engineering in New Democracies: Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia	5
Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany	5
Arrived in Power, and Yet Still Disgruntled? How Government Inclusion Moderates ‘Protest Voting’ for Far-Right Populist Parties in Europe	5
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession	5
Go Your Own Way: The Pathways to Exiting the European Union	4
An Eclectic Political Scientist: A Tribute to Robert Elgie	4
Collective Power Europe? (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)	4
The Limits of Transparency: Expert Knowledge and Meaningful Accountability in Central Banking	4
Talking War: Representation, Veterans and Ideology in Post-War Parliamentary Debates	4
The Politics of Loyalty: Understanding Voters’ Attitudes after Primary Elections	4
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	4
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	4
Trading Liberty: Assisted Repatriation in Liberal Democracies	4
Gendering Cabinet Reshuffles in France and Spain	4
Support Party Strategies on Important Policy Issues: Results from Swedish Minority Governments	4
Federal and Political Party Reforms in Asia: Is There a New Model of Federal Democracy Emerging in Ethnically Diverse Countries in Asia?	4
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	4
Mainstream Sell-Outs? How Collaboration with the Radical Right Changes Perceptions of Party Positions on Immigration	3
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	3
What Do We Know about Power Sharing after 50 Years?	3
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	3
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	3
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	3
What Explains the Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy? A Systematic Review of the Literature	3
Supporters of India's BJP: Distinctly Populist and Nativist	3

How Do Voters Evaluate Performance in Opposition?	3
Cabinet Formation and Coalition Governance: The Effect of Portfolio Allocation on Coalition Agreements	3
How Do Populist Radical Right Parties Differentiate their Appeal? Evidence from the Media Strategy of the Hungarian Jobbik Party	3
Centre–Province Relations in Personalist Autocracies: Explaining the Emergence and Survival of Powerful Provincial Leaders	3
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties	3
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities	3
Westminster as Usual? Three Interpretations for the UK Democracy	3
Crisis, Rhetoric and Right-Wing Populist Incumbency: An Analysis of Donald Trump's Tweets and Press Briefings	3
Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Dissecting Electoral Support for the Far Right: A Comparison between Mature and Post-Communist European Democracies	3
Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014	3
Knowledge Is Power: The Staffing Advantage of Parliamentary and Ministerial Offices	2
Does Learning About Protest Abroad Inform Individuals’ Attitudes About Protest at Home? Experimental Evidence from Egypt	2
Types of Solidarity in a Hybrid Regime: The Hungarian Case	2
Early Election Calling and Satisfaction with Democracy	2
Cabinet Reshuffles in Latin America: A Function of Presidential Reputation	2
Campaigning on the Ability to Govern: A Study of Strategic References to Competence Made by Political Parties in Europe	2
Who Teams Up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union	2
Disaffected but Efficacious: Why People Join Populist Radical Right Parties	2
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	2
Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism	2
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations	2
The Use of Sovereignist Claims in Election Campaigns in France and Italy: Different Twins?	2
Render unto Caesar Just a Little Bit Longer: The Relationship between Constitutional Reforms and Executive Survival	2
The Autocrat's Corruption Dilemma	2
How Do Mainstream Parties Justify Their (Un)willingness to Rule with Populist Parties? Evidence from Twitter Data	2
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	2
Government Formation and the Radical Right: A Swedish Exception?	2
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Legislative Behaviour: The Conditional Effect of Presidential Legislative Powers on Party Unity	2
Party Institutionalization and Partisan Mobilization	2
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	2
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Young People's Attitudes towards Democracy and Political Participation: Evidence from a Cross-European Study	2
Pathways to Power in Authoritarian Regimes: Civil Service, Multipartyism and Legislative Selection in Cameroon	2
The Allocation of Committee Chairs and the Oversight of Coalition Cabinets in Belgium	2
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	2