OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Quarterly 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The price of casual labour	26
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Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	19
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	18
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	18
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The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	14
About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	14
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	13
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine	12
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	12
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	12
The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility	12
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	11
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	11
Nostalgia as mental pollution	10
Why are we equals? Just because?	10
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	10
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	9
Fixing the ‘Polycrisis’ in Local Government Finance: the Limits of More Incremental Reform	9
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	9
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology	8
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism	8
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	7
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	7

The Moon is a long way away	7
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’	7
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics	7
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State	7
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?	7
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction	7
The ‘pleonectic’ rift	6
US Republicans and the New Fusionism	6
From Donald Dewar to Humza Yousaf: The Role of Scotland's First Ministers and the Importance of Political Leadership	6
Free speech: civic value or partisan weapon?	6
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	6
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	6
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	5
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Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit	5
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs	5
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling	5
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	5
Putin not as strong as we think he is	5
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation	4
Business and Politics in the United States	4
Who started the second Cold War?	4
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party	4
American wars and Greek tragedies	4
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Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election	4
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told	4
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission	4
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up	4
Ideas in Politics in International Context	3
Living (and dying) in America	3
Israel's Catastrophic Failures	3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail	3
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board	3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change	3
Doom, gloom, and justice	3
Orwell: the good and the bad	3
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only	3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	3
The Conservatives’ Economic Strategy	3
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism	3
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party	3
A confusing study of revolutions	3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?	3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy	3
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	3
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals	2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	2
The Moral Weight of a Democratic Majority	2
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century¹	2

Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work	2
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?	2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	2
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?	2
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Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West	2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords	2
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	2
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 1974	2
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?	2
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons	2
Equality can divide	2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons	2
Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK	2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary	2
The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK	2
Capitalism's feeding frenzy	2
French Social Democracy in Turmoil	2
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top	2
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right	1
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?	1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?	1
Issue Information	1
Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice	1
Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?	1
Is inequality really not that bad?	1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?	1
Nothing works, but plenty to do	1
No Wokery, Please, We Are Leftist	1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?	1
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia	1
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid	1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism	1
Did Covid‐19 transform the European Union into a ‘community of destiny’?	1
Bringing the Emigration State Back In	1
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	1
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?	1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten	1
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian	1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?	1
Starmer's sorry sad saga	1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	1
Localism, Levelling Up and Taking Back Control: Tensions in the Ambiguous Justification of English Devolution	1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)	1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1
The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024	1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	1
A storm of complexity	1
The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation	1
Women and the Labour Party: Gender and the Writing of British Political History	1
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System	1
So, what is terrorism?	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	1
Towards a New Ireland	1
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers	1