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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How to Deal with Executive Secrecy? Opposition Perspectives and Practices in the German Bundestag	20
Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’	11
Representation of the UK Parliament’s Power in the National Media: Too Weak, or Too Strong?	11
Leveraging automated technologies for law-making in Italy: Generative AI and constitutional challenges	11
It’s Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates	10
You are unmuted: The impact of virtual arrangements on women and old age legislators’ participation during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	10
Non-Legislative Actions and Party ‘Brand’: Evidence from the Mexican Congress	10
Duration of coalition formation in the German states: Inertia and familiarity in a multilevel setting	8
Paralysed Governments: How Political Constraints Elicit Cabinet Termination	7
‘We Can’t Afford to be a Branch Office’: The Territorial Dynamics of the British Labour Party, 2015–2019	7
Standing Up for the Nations? Devolution and the Changing Territorial Role of Backbench MPs with Constituencies in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1992–2019	7
Editorial: On the Aims and Scope of Parliamentary Affairs	7
Correction to: Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	7
Parliamentary questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and parliamentary administration	7
Guns for Votes: Wedge Politics in the Canadian Multiparty System	6
Digital Intra-Party Democracy: An Exploratory Analysis of Podemos and the Labour Party	6
Candidates nomination strategy in a mixed electoral system: Evidence from the 2022 Italian general election	6
Gender, Political Dynasties, and Committee Assignments: Evidence From Indonesia	6
Does Party Colour Matter? The Effect of Government Partisanship on Pledges’ Left–Right Location	6
Using social media to communicate competence, ordinariness, and authenticity in political leadership	6
The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election	6
Australian Parties, Not Voters, Drive Under-Representation of Women	5
E-petitioning Parliament: Understanding the connections between citizens and the UK Parliament	5
Correction to: Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	5

Moralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak parties	5
Negative Interplay between Cabinet and Opposition Agendas: Evidence from Croatia	5
Do Constitutional Preferences Affect Citizens’ Representational Choices? Evidence from the Devolved UK	5
District Variation in Party System Competition and Women’s Candidacy in Proportional Representation Systems	5
Gauging the roles of parliamentary staff	5
Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	4
Practice makes ‘perfect’? The effect of committee specialization on the complexity of parliamentary speeches	4
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	4
MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?	4
Implementing Public Accounts Committee Recommendations: Evidence from the UK Government’s ‘Progress Reports’ since 2012	4
Working at home: Individual level drivers of MEPs’ focus on constituency work	4
When politicians feel pressure to represent: Evidence from South Africa	4
Disability inclusion in the House of Commons: A new institutionalism story	4
Transitional Support for Former Members of Parliament: Benchmarks for ‘Professional Parliaments’	3
An unstable Union? The Conservative Party, the British Political Tradition, and devolution in Scotland and Wales 2010–23	3
Critical Actors in a Dominant-Party Parliament? Representing Marginalised Communities in Singapore	3
How (and when) does party matter? Explaining MPs’ positions on assisted dying/assisted suicide	3
Rational and ambitious legislators? Role theory, between open questions and new applicability	3
Corrigendum	2
How Does the Strength of the Far Right Affect Ethnic Minority Political Behaviour?	2
Groupthink, Polythink and the Challenges of Decision-Making in Cabinet Government	2
Do Members of Parliament Express More Opposition in the Plenary than in the Committee? Comparing Frontstage and Backstage Behaviour in Five National Parliaments	2
Digital Mandates and Their Management: Strategies for Usage of Social Media by Brazilian Federal Legislators	2
The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?	2
Burden Reduction: An Evaluation of Statutory Instruments in the UK Government’s Regulatory Off-setting and Business Impact Target Initiatives 2010–2019	2
Populist but Pluralist? Populist Attitudes and Preferences for Political Pluralism in Parliament and Government	2
Law Making Activities during Lame Duck Sessions in Indonesia (1997–2020)	2
The past, Present and Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	2
Understanding the Emergence of Extreme Right Parties in Portugal in the Late 2010s	2
Ideological polarization in roll call votes in constitutional conventions: The case of Chile in 2021–2	2
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments	2
Social media homophily among women and men political candidates	2
The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding	2
Enduring inequalities in British politics: Muslim women in the Labour Party	2
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	2
What Do We Call an ‘MP’? On Categories of Thought in the Anthropology of Parliaments	2
Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine?	1
The state of British policymaking: How can UK government become more effective?	1
Custodians of the Palace of Westminster	1
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business: A Legislative Functions Perspective of Animal Welfare Petitions, 2010–2019	1
Parliamentary dimension of the Council presidency: Testing a research framework through the case of the 2016 Dutch rotating presidency of the EU	1
Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe	1
The Irish general election of 2024: A battle lost before it was fought?	1
An Analysis of the Group Bases of British Politics: 1983–2019	1
Political Parties and Civility in Parliament: The Case of Australia from 1901 to 2020	1
Mobilizing or Chasing Voters on Facebook? Analysing Echo-Chamber Effects at the UK Parliamentary General Election 2019	1
Instability, crisis, and statecraft in Conservative Britain, 2010–24	1
Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation, 2017–2019	1
Party fragmentation and problems of accountability in the British general election of 2024	1
Variegated Accountability: Devolved Public Accounts Committees in the UK	1

Cleaning Up UK Politics: What Would Better Lobbying Regulation Look Like?	1
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal	1
The State of the Sub-discipline: Mapping Parliamentary and Legislative Studies Using a Survey and Bibliometric Analysis of Three of Its Journals	1
The Domain of the Right? Explaining National Parliamentary Preferences on EU-Related Self-Empowerment	1
A Disciplined Dissident—Aung San Suu Kyi as Opposition Backbencher (2012–2016)	1
Friendly foes or enemies within? Assessing the (in)stability of coalition governments with populists in Europe	1
Feminist Institutional Change: The Case of the UK Women and Equalities Committee	1
The Electoral Consequences of Scandals: A Meta-Analysis	1
Instability and inequality in the British state	1
Rethinking Defection: An Analysis of Anti-defection Laws in India	1
Making the Case for More Politicians: A Survey Experiment to Investigate Public Attitudes to an Expanded Welsh Parliament	1
‘Trust the messenger’: Public trust in sources of information on COVID-19	1
Rebels in Parliament: The Effects of Candidate Selection Methods on Legislative Behaviours	1