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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	41
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza	37
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	37
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	34
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	30
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	27
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	27
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	25
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	24
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	21
Beyond Reassurance: The Reputational Effect of Cultural Reforms in Peace Agreements	17
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	17
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	16
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	16
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	16
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	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
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	14
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	13
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	12
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	12
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	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

Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	10
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	10
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	9
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	9
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	9
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation	8
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	8
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	8
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	8
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in Europe	8
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	8
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	8
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	7
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	7
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016	7
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	7
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	6
Understanding the Modern Election Campaign: Analysing Campaign Eras through Financial Transparency Disclosures at the 2019 UK General Election	6
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia	6
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	6
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	5
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	5
Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period	5
A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations of Youth Political Participation across Different Types of Activism	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	5
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations	4
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	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
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	4
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	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
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	4
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	4
The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict	4
Political Dynasties in Canada	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	3
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	3
GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	3
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	3
Public Trust in Latin America's Courts: Do Institutions Matter?	3

How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State	3
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	3
To Reinforce or Replace: Courts and Democratic Backsliding	3
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting	3
Twelve Votes for an Exit: Compromise and Responsiveness in the Brexit Process	3
When the Local is Illiberal: Local Welfare Chauvinism and the Populist Radical Right	3
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	3
Government and Opposition on the Road to EU Accession: Responsibility, Responsiveness and the Salience of Gender Equality	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
A Common Two-Dimensional Structure? Comparing Demand-side Political Spaces of Eight European Democracies	2
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	2
Render unto Caesar Just a Little Bit Longer: The Relationship between Constitutional Reforms and Executive Survival	2
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	2
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design	2
Party Institutionalization and Partisan Mobilization	2
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	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
The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers	2
The Far Right Out of Its Comfort Zone? Framing Opposition to Immigration during COVID-19 in Italy	2
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	2