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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	68
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	63
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	61
Now You See Me, Now You Don't: Anticipatory Coalitional Strategies in European Representative Democracies	37
The Autocrat's Corruption Dilemma	32
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	29
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	27
Africa's Lame Ducks: Second-Term Presidents and the Rule of Law	24
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	23
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	22
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	17
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	17
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	16
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	16
Banking Nationalism and Resolution in Italy and Spain	15
Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S	13
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	13
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	12
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	12
‘Congruent We Govern’: Cost of Governance in Multiparty Presidentialism	12
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	11
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	10
Dealing with the Facts of Life: The Management of Intra-Party Factionalism in the Iberian Radical Left Parties	10
Cabinet Reshuffles in Latin America: A Function of Presidential Reputation	10
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Legislative Behaviour: The Conditional Effect of Presidential Legislative Powers on Party Unity	10

The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	10
Digital Authoritarianism and the Global Technology Industry: Evidence from Iran	10
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	10
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa	10
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	10
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	9
The Comparative Politics of Cabinet Reshuffles	9
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	9
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	9
The Effect of Referendums on Autocratic Survival: Running Alone and Not Finishing Second	9
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	9
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
GOV volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
Supporters of India's BJP: Distinctly Populist and Nativist	8
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	8
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	7
Collective Power Europe? (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)	7
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	7
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	6
Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers	6
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	6
All for One, and One for All? Analysing Party Positions on EU Solidarity in Germany in Challenging Times	6
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	5
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	5
Ethnic Ties, Organized Opposition and Voter Defection in Authoritarian Elections	5
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	5
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	5
Own-Party Bias: How Voters Evaluate Electoral Outcomes	5
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison	4
Political Dynasties in Canada	4
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	4
GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic	4
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities	4
Going Local, Going Mainstream? Ethnographic Study of Two French Cities Governed by the Rassemblement National	4
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	4
Government Formation and the Radical Right: A Swedish Exception?	4
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	4
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Polity Size Matters? The Effect of Country Size on Politicians' Professionalization	3
Young People's Attitudes towards Democracy and Political Participation: Evidence from a Cross-European Study – CORRIGENDUM	3
The Rassemblement National and COVID-19: How Nativism, Authoritarianism and Expert Populism Did Not Pay Off during the Pandemic	3
The Distinctive Vocabularies of Right-Wing Populists	3
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	3
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3

GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	3
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	3
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
GOV volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014	3
Internal Politics and Activism in Former Rebel Parties	3
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	3
Antiliberalism and Counter-Enlightenment for the 21st Century: Viktor Orbán's Illiberal Political Ideology	2
The Allocation of Committee Chairs and the Oversight of Coalition Cabinets in Belgium	2
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	2
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	2
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	2
Public Trust in Latin America's Courts: Do Institutions Matter?	2
From Gender Equity to Gendered Assignments? Women and Cabinet Committees in Canada and the United Kingdom	2
From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism	2
Disaffected but Efficacious: Why People Join Populist Radical Right Parties	2
The Weight of the Past: Political Parties’ ‘Genetic’ Heritage and the Ease of their Organizational Professionalization	2
What Explains the Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy? A Systematic Review of the Literature	2
Partisan Biases among the Unemployed	2
A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition	2
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	2
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	2
Anticipating Office: Does the Populist Radical Right Decrease Its Populist Communication When It Has the Opportunity to Join Government?	2
Centre–Province Relations in Personalist Autocracies: Explaining the Emergence and Survival of Powerful Provincial Leaders	2
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	2
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	2
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties	2