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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	55
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza	46
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	39
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	38
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	38
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	34
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	24
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	21
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	20
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	19
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	19
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic: Populist Governance and Social Policies in Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Russia and Turkey	16
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	16
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	14
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	13
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	12
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	12
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	11
Parliamentary Oversight and the Effects of Controlled Institutional Settings on Behavioural Logics	11
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	11
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	11
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	11
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	10
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10

Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	9
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	9
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in 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
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	7
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016	7
Institutional Design and Differences in Roll-Call Voting Cohesion in Bicameral Legislatures: The Chilean Congress, 2006–2018	7
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	7
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	6
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	6
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	6
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	6
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	6
Understanding the Modern Election Campaign: Analysing Campaign Eras through Financial Transparency Disclosures at the 2019 UK General Election	6
Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia	6
The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	5
Conditional Humanitarianism: Citizen Preferences for Economic Sanctions in Democratic Sender States	5
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	5
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	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
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	5
Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period	5
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	4
Political Dynasties in Canada	4
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	4
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	4
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	4
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	4
When the Local is Illiberal: Local Welfare Chauvinism and the Populist Radical Right	3
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	3
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting	3
A Common Two-Dimensional Structure? Comparing Demand-side Political Spaces of Eight European Democracies	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
Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe	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
To Reinforce or Replace: Courts and Democratic Backsliding	3
Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State	3
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	3
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design	2
Identity Politics and Left-wing Populism	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
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	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
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	2
Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule	2
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	1
Navigating the Periphery: Competing Geopolitical Visions and the Dynamics of Moldovan Party Politics (2001–2024)	1
The Spiral of Ressentiment: Emotions and Stigma in Populist Radical-Right Party Activism	1
No Longer the Only Game in Town? Immigration, Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in the West	1
Cabinet Reshuffles and Parliamentary No-Confidence Motions	1
Partisan Biases among the Unemployed	1
Normalizing the Radical Right’s Discourse on Press Freedom in the European Parliament: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to the EMFA Debates	1
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	1
Anticipating Office: Does the Populist Radical Right Decrease Its Populist Communication When It Has the Opportunity to Join Government?	1
Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review	1
Gendering Cabinet Reshuffles in France and Spain	1
GOV volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism	1
Public Opinion and the ‘Presidentialization’ of Semi-Presidential Systems: Explaining Support for a Stronger and More Confrontational Presidency	1
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	1
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	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
Polity Size Matters? The Effect of Country Size on Politicians' Professionalization	1