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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	37
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	32
The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic	27
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	23
The Muddle of the ‘Westminster Model’: A Concept Stretched Beyond Repair	21
Who Supports Citizens Selected by Lot to be the Main Policymakers? A Study of French Citizens	21
How Do Mainstream Parties ‘Become’ Mainstream, and Pariah Parties ‘Become’ Pariahs? Conceptualizing the Processes of Mainstreaming and Pariahing in the Labelling of Political Parties	19
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	18
Presidential Instability in Latin America: Why Institutionalized Parties Matter	17
Window Dressing? The Mainstreaming Strategy of the Rassemblement National in Power in French Local Government	16
‘Stretched But Not Snapped’: A Response to Russell and Serban on Retiring the ‘Westminster Model’	16
Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S	14
Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review	13
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	13
Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison	12
Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland	12
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	11
Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance	10
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	10
The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland	10
The Rassemblement National and COVID-19: How Nativism, Authoritarianism and Expert Populism Did Not Pay Off during the Pandemic	10
A New Wave of Social Democracy? Policy Change across the Social Democratic Party Family, 1970s–2010s	9
The Shifting Relationship between Post-War Capitalism and Democracy (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture, 2021)	9
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	9
Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience	8

How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	8
Ministers, Gender and Political Appointments	8
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	8
The Curious Case of Belgium: Why is There no Right-Wing Populism in Wallonia?	8
Less Populist in Power? Online Communication of Populist Parties in Coalition Governments	8
When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour	7
Ruling but not Governing: Tutelary Regimes and the Case of Myanmar	7
Does Class Shape Legislators’ Approach to Inequality and Economic Policy? A Comparative View	7
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	7
With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government	7
Eroding Support from Below: Performance in Local Government and Opposition Party Growth in South Africa	7
Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level: Empirical Evidence from Large Cities in Germany (1999–2016)	6
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	6
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	6
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	6
Unravelling the New Plebiscitary Democracy: Towards a Research Agenda	6
Populists in Government: Normal or Exceptional?	6
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	6
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession	5
Performing Crisis? Trump, Populism and the GOP in the Age of COVID-19	5
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	5
Learning from a Peace Process: Theory, Practice and the Case of Northern Ireland	5
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa	5
Personal or Impersonal Evaluations? Political Sophistication and Citizen Conceptions of the Democratic Process	5
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	5
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	5
Electoral Engineering in New Democracies: Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia	5
Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany	5
Arrived in Power, and Yet Still Disgruntled? How Government Inclusion Moderates ‘Protest Voting’ for Far-Right Populist Parties in Europe	5