OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Government and Opposition is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	73
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	39
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	33
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	33
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	33
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	26
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	24
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	19
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	19
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	19
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	19
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	17
Beyond Reassurance: The Reputational Effect of Cultural Reforms in Peace Agreements	17
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	16
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	16
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	16
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	16
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	16
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	15
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	15
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	14
Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism	13
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	12
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	12

To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	12
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	12
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	11
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	10
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	10
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	9
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	9
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	9
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	9
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	9
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	9
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	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	8
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	8
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	8
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	8
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	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
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	7