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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Democracy and the Politics of Coronavirus: Trust, Blame and Understanding	36
Brexit and Parliament: The Anatomy of a Perfect Storm	24
Gender, Power and Privilege in the Parliamentary Workplace	16
The Party Abroad: A New Modus Operandi for Political Parties	16
A Tale of Two Women: A Comparative Gendered Media Analysis of UK Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May	15
Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption	15
Not a Brexit Election? Pessimism, Promises and Populism ‘UK-Style’	14
Institutionalising Citizen Deliberation in Parliament: The Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue in the German-speaking Community of Belgium	14
The Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: How to Research Legislators’ (UN)Equal Opportunities to Represent	11
Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)	9
A Rhetorical Political Analysis of Theresa May’s Statecraft on Brexit	9
Complements or Substitutes? The Interdependence between Coalition Agreements and Parliamentary Questions as Monitoring Mechanisms in Coalition Governments	8
Too Few, Too Little: Parliaments’ Response to Sexism and Sexual Harassment	8
Political Parties and Diaspora: A Case Study of Romanian Parties’ Involvement Abroad	8
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2019: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians	7
How Do Coronavirus Attitudes Fit into Britain’s Ideological Landscape?	7
Do Anti-Elitist Parties Use Their Parliamentary Tools Differently?	7
Styles of Representation in Constituencies in the Homeland and Abroad: The Case of Italy	7
Digital Intra-Party Democracy: An Exploratory Analysis of Podemos and the Labour Party	6
Lowering the Voting Age to 16 in Practice: Processes and Outcomes Compared	6
Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?	6
UK Parties Abroad and Expatriate Voters: The Brexit Backlash	6
Populist but Pluralist? Populist Attitudes and Preferences for Political Pluralism in Parliament and Government	6
Vandenberg Vanished: US Congress and the Politicisation of Military Interventions	6
When is Access to Political Capital Gendered? Lessons from the Czech Parliament	5

What Factors Shape the Substantive Representation of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Parliament? Testing the Impact of Minority Membership, Political Values and Awareness	5
Can Opposition Parties Be Responsible?	5
Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings: Parliamentary Work in Denmark, Finland and Sweden	5
A Transparent Digital Election Campaign? The Insights and Significance of Political Advertising Archives for Debates on Electoral Regulation	5
Did Theresa May Kill the War Powers Convention? Comparing Parliamentary Debates on UK Intervention in Syria in 2013 and 2018	5
Parliaments Facing the Virtual Challenge: A Conceptual Approach for New Models of Representation	4
US Parties Abroad: Partisan Mobilising in a Federal Context	4
Incumbency and Identity: The 2021 Senedd Election	4
Globalisation and the Movement of People: What It Means for Party Politics? An Introduction	4
Reasserting the Centre: The Brexit Doctrine and the Imperative Mandate in British Politics	4
Parliamentary Procedure under Theresa May: Nothing Has Changed?	4
How Women Shape Negativity in Parliamentary Speeches—A Sentiment Analysis of Debates in the Austrian Parliament	4
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business: A Legislative Functions Perspective of Animal Welfare Petitions, 2010–2019	4
Do Politicians Discriminate against Ethnic Minority Constituents? A Field Experiment on Social Interactions between Citizens and Swedish Local Politicians	4
Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	4
How Far Can Populist Governments Go? The Impact of the Populist Government on the Hungarian Parliament	4
Feminist Institutional Change: The Case of the UK Women and Equalities Committee	4
Labour’s 2019 Campaign: A Defeat of Epic Proportions	4
From Bad to Worse? The Media and the 2019 Election Campaign	4
Australian Parties, Not Voters, Drive Under-Representation of Women	4
Italian Political Parties and Their Organisation beyond National Borders	4
Do Coalition Governments with Populist Parties Attempt to Rationalise Law-Making in Parliaments? Evidence from the Czech Chamber of Deputies	3
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments	3
Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’	3
Groupthink, Polythink and the Challenges of Decision-Making in Cabinet Government	3
Disempowerment through the Backdoor: The Impact of Populist Parties on the National Parliament in Poland	3
Mobilizing or Chasing Voters on Facebook? Analysing Echo-Chamber Effects at the UK Parliamentary General Election 2019	3
Understanding the Emergence of Extreme Right Parties in Portugal in the Late 2010s	3
Behind the Scenes: What is Parliamentary Performance and How Can We Measure It?	3
Interest Groups’ Recruitment of Incumbent Parliamentarians to Their Boards	3
Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election	3
Implementing Public Accounts Committee Recommendations: Evidence from the UK Government’s ‘Progress Reports’ since 2012	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
OUP accepted manuscript	3
Exploring Responses to the Collapse of Devolution in Northern Ireland 2017–2020 through the Lens of Multi-Level Governance	3
Selecting Sunak: Conservative MPs’ Nomination Preferences in the (Second) British Conservative Party Leadership Election	3
From Minority Government to Parliamentary Stalemate: Why Election 2019 was Needed to Break the Brexit Logjam	3
‘Temporarily’ Abroad: Partisan Organisation and Mobilisation outside Australia	3
Speaking for the Voiceless? Representative Claims-Making on Behalf of Future Generations in Belgium	3
Introduction: The ‘Votes-at-16’ Debate in the UK	2
Confrontational but Respecting the Rules: The Minor Impact of the Finns Party on Legislative–Executive Relations	2
Ministerial Advisers as Power Resources: Exploring Expansion, Stability and Contraction in Westminster Ministers’ Offices	2
Party Quotas and Gender Differences in Candidate Experience in Australia: 1987–2016	2
Parliamentary Recruitment in the UK House of Commons: De-Gendering Workplace Structures, Gendering the Applicant	2
MPs’ Constituency Orientation in the Absence of Electoral Districts: The Case of Extreme Proportional Electoral Systems	2
Public Support for Votes at 16 in the UK: The Effects of Framing on Rights and Policy Change	2
Negative Interplay between Cabinet and Opposition Agendas: Evidence from Croatia	2
Rewarding Some, But Not All? The Selectoral Consequences of Parliamentary Activity for Newcomers and Experienced MPs in Belgium (1995–2019)	2
How Niche Parties React to Losing Their Niche: The Cases of the Brexit Party, the Green Party and Change UK	2
Guns for Votes: Wedge Politics in the Canadian Multiparty System	2

Standing Up for the Nations? Devolution and the Changing Territorial Role of Backbench MPs with Constituencies in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1992–2019	2
A Vote of Frustration? Young Voters in the UK General Election 2019	2
‘Mistake overturned, so I call it a lesson learned’:1 The Conservatives	2
Digital Mandates and Their Management: Strategies for Usage of Social Media by Brazilian Federal Legislators	2
Against the Void: Constituency Work and Connection Building Evidence from Australia	2
Gendered Patterns of Committee Assignments—To What Extent Are Women in Parliamentary Party Groups Game Changers?	2
Tribes and Turbulence: The 2019 UK General Election in Scotland	2
Twenty Years after: Statute of Limitations and the Asymmetric Burdens of Justice in Northern Ireland and Post-war Germany	2
Bicameral Lawmaking: Analysing the Choices of Revising Chambers	2
‘Girly Swots’ and the Most Diverse Parliament Ever: Women’s Representation, Voters and Issues in the 2019 Election Campaign	2
Missing an Opportunity? The Limited Civic Imagination of Votes at 16	2
Applause Invitations in Political Speeches: A Comparison of Two British Party Political Leaders (Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn)	2
New Challenger Parties in Opposition: Isolation or Cooperation?	2
From Rab to Raab: The Construction of the Office of First Secretary of State	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
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees: The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee’s New Independent Expert Panel	1
Leader Change, Time in Office and the Determinants of Voter Perceptions	1
Localising Global Norms: The Case of Family-Friendly Parliaments	1
Legislative Behaviour of MPs in the Czech Republic in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic	1
How Does the Strength of the Far Right Affect Ethnic Minority Political Behaviour?	1
Whatever Happened to the Progressive Case for the Union? How Scottish Labour’s Failure to Subsume a Clearly Left of Centre Identity with a Pro-Union One Helps to Explain Its Decline	1
Rebels in Parliament: The Effects of Candidate Selection Methods on Legislative Behaviours	1
A Return to ‘Normality’ at Last? How the Electoral System Worked in 2019	1
Legitimacy of the Suspension of Standing Orders: The Case of the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of Malaysia	1
Custodians of the Palace of Westminster (Custodians)	1
The Parliamentarisation of Security in the UK and Australia	1
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	1
The Results: How Britain Voted	1
Northern Ireland: From the Centre to the Margins?	1
The Referendum in the UK’s Constitution: From Parliamentary to Popular Sovereignty?	1
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal	1
Regional Parliaments and Democratic Crises: The Performance of ECOWAS and MERCOSUR Parliaments in the Democracy Protection Agenda	1
The Voter ID Debate: An Analysis of Political Elite Framing in the UK Parliament	1
The Electoral Consequences of Scandals: A Meta-Analysis	1
The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?	1
Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t: The Use of Prime Ministerial Discretion and the Royal Prerogative	1
It’s Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates	1
MPS, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?	1
Trustworthiness, Stability and Productivity of Minority Governments in Australia	1
Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine?	1
The Fix is in? Parliamentary Scrutiny of Appointments of the Heads of Brazilian Regulatory Agencies	1
Mandated Representation: Exploring the Consequences of Gender Quota Design on Parliamentary Activity	1
The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding	1
Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud	1
Decision Responsiveness and the Legitimacy of Public Agencies	1
Electoral Revolutions: Towards a General Theory of Rapid Changes in Voter Turnout	1
Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation, 2017–2019	1