OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Government and Opposition is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	52
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza	42
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	38
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	37
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	33
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
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	18
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	17
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	16
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	15
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	13
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	13
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	11
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	11
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	11
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	11
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	10
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
Parliamentary Oversight and the Effects of Controlled Institutional Settings on Behavioural Logics	10

Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	10
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	10
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	8
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in Europe	8
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	8
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	8
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	7
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation	7
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016	7
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	6
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	6
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	6
Understanding the Modern Election Campaign: Analysing Campaign Eras through Financial Transparency Disclosures at the 2019 UK General Election	6
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	6
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	5
The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict	5
Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia	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
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	5
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	5
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	5
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	5