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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	79
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	40
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	34
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	33
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	33
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	27
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	24
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza	24
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	21
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	19
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	19
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	19
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	17
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	16
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	16
Beyond Reassurance: The Reputational Effect of Cultural Reforms in Peace Agreements	16
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	15
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	15
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	14
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	13
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	12
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	12
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	12
Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism	12

GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	11
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	11
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	11
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	11
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	10
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	10
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	9
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	9
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	9
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	9
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	8
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	8
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	8
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation	8
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	8
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in Europe	8
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	8
Understanding the Modern Election Campaign: Analysing Campaign Eras through Financial Transparency Disclosures at the 2019 UK General Election	7
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	7
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	7
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
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	6
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	6
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	6
Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia	6
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	6
Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period	5
Bringing the Legislature Back In: Examining the Structural Effects of National Legislatures on Effective Democratic Governance	5
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations	5
When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	5
A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations of Youth Political Participation across Different Types of Activism	5
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	5
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	4
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	4
Ethnic Ties, Organized Opposition and Voter Defection in Authoritarian Elections	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	4
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	4
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	4
The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict	4
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	4
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	4
Public Trust in Latin America's Courts: Do Institutions Matter?	3
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	3

Political Dynasties in Canada	3
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
When the Local is Illiberal: Local Welfare Chauvinism and the Populist Radical Right	3
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	3
Twelve Votes for an Exit: Compromise and Responsiveness in the Brexit Process	3
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	3
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	3
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	3
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	3
To Reinforce or Replace: Courts and Democratic Backsliding	3
Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	3
GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	3
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	2
How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State	2
Early Election Calling and Satisfaction with Democracy	2
Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe	2
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design	2
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Legislative Behaviour: The Conditional Effect of Presidential Legislative Powers on Party Unity	2
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	2
Render unto Caesar Just a Little Bit Longer: The Relationship between Constitutional Reforms and Executive Survival	2
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	2
Government and Opposition on the Road to EU Accession: Responsibility, Responsiveness and the Salience of Gender Equality	2
The Far Right Out of Its Comfort Zone? Framing Opposition to Immigration during COVID-19 in Italy	2
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	2
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	2
The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers	2
All the President's Men: Comparing the Secretary General of the French Presidency and the US Chief of Staff in an Era of Presidentialization	2
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting	2
Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule	2
Party Institutionalization and Partisan Mobilization	2