OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Parliamentary Affairs 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments	13
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal	11
Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe	11
Legislative Behaviour of MPs in the Czech Republic in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic	10
Representation of the UK Parliament’s Power in the National Media: Too Weak, or Too Strong?	9
Which MPs get elevated to the UK House of Lords?	9
How to Deal with Executive Secrecy? Opposition Perspectives and Practices in the German Bundestag	8
Weaponizing women and gender: Party appeals to women voters ahead of the 2024 UK general election	8
Leveraging automated technologies for law-making in Italy: Generative AI and constitutional challenges	8
Making the Case for More Politicians: A Survey Experiment to Investigate Public Attitudes to an Expanded Welsh Parliament	8
Rural Decline and Spatial Voting Patterns	8
The Fix is in? Parliamentary Scrutiny of Appointments of the Heads of Brazilian Regulatory Agencies	7
Against the Void: Constituency Work and Connection Building Evidence from Australia	7
Behind the Scenes: What is Parliamentary Performance and How Can We Measure It?	7
Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’	7
When the Worlds of Preferences Collide: Determinants of MP’s Attitudes on the Italian Questione Romana 1861–1870	7
Selecting Sunak: Conservative MPs’ Nomination Preferences in the (Second) British Conservative Party Leadership Election	6
Does Party Colour Matter? The Effect of Government Partisanship on Pledges’ Left–Right Location	6
E-petitioning Parliament: Understanding the connections between citizens and the UK Parliament	6
Interest Groups’ Recruitment of Incumbent Parliamentarians to Their Boards	6
Towards the Substantive Representation of Women: A Study of the Indonesian Women’s Parliamentary Caucus	5
Negative Interplay between Cabinet and Opposition Agendas: Evidence from Croatia	5
Law Making Activities during Lame Duck Sessions in Indonesia (1997–2020)	5
Leader Change, Time in Office and the Determinants of Voter Perceptions	5
Gauging the roles of parliamentary staff	5

Rethinking Defection: An Analysis of Anti-defection Laws in India	5
Digital Mandates and Their Management: Strategies for Usage of Social Media by Brazilian Federal Legislators	4
Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization	4
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees: The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee’s New Independent Expert Panel	4
Australian Parties, Not Voters, Drive Under-Representation of Women	4
Correction to: Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	4
ThePastof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	4
How Far Can Populist Governments Go? The Impact of the Populist Government on the Hungarian Parliament	4
Understanding the Emergence of Extreme Right Parties in Portugal in the Late 2010s	4
Ideological polarization in roll call votes in constitutional conventions: The case of Chile in 2021–2	4
The past, Present and Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	4
What Factors Shape the Substantive Representation of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Parliament? Testing the Impact of Minority Membership, Political Values and Awareness	4
Political Parties and Civility in Parliament: The Case of Australia from 1901 to 2020	3
Cleaning Up UK Politics: What Would Better Lobbying Regulation Look Like?	3
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	3
Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine?	3
District Variation in Party System Competition and Women’s Candidacy in Proportional Representation Systems	3
Moralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak parties	3
Do Members of Parliament Express More Opposition in the Plenary than in the Committee? Comparing Frontstage and Backstage Behaviour in Five National Parliaments	3
Enduring inequalities in British politics: Muslim women in the Labour Party	3
Not so different: Comparing British MPs’ and voters’ attitudes to climate change	2
It’s Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates	2
Duration of coalition formation in the German states: Inertia and familiarity in a multilevel setting	2
Non-Legislative Actions and Party ‘Brand’: Evidence from the Mexican Congress	2
Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 2022	2
Parliamentary dimension of the Council presidency: Testing a research framework through the case of the 2016 Dutch rotating presidency of the EU	2
Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	2
Correction to: Democracy (Not) on Display: A Structural Collocation Analysis of the Mother of All Parliaments’ Reluctance to Broadcast Herself	2
Missing an Opportunity? The Limited Civic Imagination of Votes at 16	2
Do Constitutional Preferences Affect Citizens’ Representational Choices? Evidence from the Devolved UK	2
The Personality Divide Between Citizens and Politicians: The Case of the Four Largest Spanish Parties	2
Instability and inequality in the British state	2
Lowering the Voting Age to 16 in Practice: Processes and Outcomes Compared	2
When politicians feel pressure to represent: Evidence from South Africa	2
Public Support for Votes at 16 in the UK: The Effects of Framing on Rights and Policy Change	2
You are unmuted: The impact of virtual arrangements on women and old age legislators’ participation during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	2
Legitimacy of the Suspension of Standing Orders: The Case of the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of Malaysia	1
Practice makes ‘perfect’? The effect of committee specialization on the complexity of parliamentary speeches	1
Parliamentary questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and parliamentary administration	1
From Rab to Raab: The Construction of the Office of First Secretary of State	1
The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	1
How Young People in Scotland Experience the Right to Vote at 16: Evidence on ‘Votes-at-16’ in Scotland from Qualitative Work with Young People	1
Presidential legislative initiatives under semi-presidentialism: What accounts for their success and failure?	1
Riding the COVID-19 Wave? Issue Attention during the Pandemic	1
Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation, 2017–2019	1
Variegated Accountability: Devolved Public Accounts Committees in the UK	1
What Do We Call an ‘MP’? On Categories of Thought in the Anthropology of Parliaments	1
Better not to vote to restore democracy? Boycotting the 2023 national referendum as a manifestation of (anti)party identification: The case of Poles voting abroad	1
Standing Up for the Nations? Devolution and the Changing Territorial Role of Backbench MPs with Constituencies in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1992–2019	1

Speaking for the Voiceless? Representative Claims-Making on Behalf of Future Generations in Belgium	1
Working at home: Individual level drivers of MEPs’ focus on constituency work	1
Feminist Institutional Change: The Case of the UK Women and Equalities Committee	1
Implementing Public Accounts Committee Recommendations: Evidence from the UK Government’s ‘Progress Reports’ since 2012	1
Procedural Justice: New Approaches to Parliament’s Engagement with the Public?	1
Hegemonic defeatism: The mainstreaming of far-right politics in France	1
Editorial: On the Aims and Scope of Parliamentary Affairs	1
How (and when) does party matter? Explaining MPs’ positions on assisted dying/assisted suicide	1
Mobilizing or Chasing Voters on Facebook? Analysing Echo-Chamber Effects at the UK Parliamentary General Election 2019	1
Correction to: Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	1
MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?	1
The asymmetric power model 20 years on	1
Custodians of the Palace of Westminster	1
The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?	1