OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Parliamentary Affairs is 3. 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
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
Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’	11
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	10
Non-Legislative Actions and Party ‘Brand’: Evidence from the Mexican Congress	10
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
Duration of coalition formation in the German states: Inertia and familiarity in a multilevel setting	8
‘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
Paralysed Governments: How Political Constraints Elicit Cabinet Termination	7
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
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
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
Australian Parties, Not Voters, Drive Under-Representation of Women	5
E-petitioning Parliament: Understanding the connections between citizens and the UK Parliament	5
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
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
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
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