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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The price of casual labour	26
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	24
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Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	21
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	20
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About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	15
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	14
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	14
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine	13
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	13
Nostalgia as mental pollution	12
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	12
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	12
Why are we equals? Just because?	11
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	11
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	11
Fixing the ‘Polycrisis’ in Local Government Finance: the Limits of More Incremental Reform	10
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	10
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology	9
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism	9
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction	9
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	8
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics	8
The Moon is a long way away	7

Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’	7
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	7
Free speech: civic value or partisan weapon?	7
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	7
From Donald Dewar to Humza Yousaf: The Role of Scotland's First Ministers and the Importance of Political Leadership	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
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling	6
The ‘pleonectic’ rift	6
Putin not as strong as we think he is	6
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	6
Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit	6
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	6
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	5
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On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs	5
Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election	5
US Republicans and the New Fusionism	5
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	5
American wars and Greek tragedies	4
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party	4
A confusing study of revolutions	4
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation	4
Business and Politics in the United States	4
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Who started the second Cold War?	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	4
The Conservatives’ Economic Strategy	3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail	3
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism	3
Living (and dying) in America	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
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	3
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only	3
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party	3
Israel's Catastrophic Failures	3
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board	3
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	3
Doom, gloom, and justice	3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change	3
Orwell: the good and the bad	3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	3
Capitalism's feeding frenzy	2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords	2
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?	2
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?	2

Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century¹	2
The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK	2
Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK	2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons	2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary	2
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	2
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top	2
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?	2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	2
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons	2
Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West	2
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Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals	2
When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide	2
French Social Democracy in Turmoil	2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work	2
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 1974	2
Equality can divide	2
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid	1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?	1
A storm of complexity	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Unite against Trumpism!	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	1
Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice	1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism	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
So, what is terrorism?	1
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?	1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?	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
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
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right	1
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian	1
Issue Information	1
The NHS: still worth fighting for, but pick the right battles	1
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	1
Issue Information	1
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	1
The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation	1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?	1
No Wokery, Please, We Are Leftist	1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	1
Bringing the Emigration State Back In	1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness	1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Towards a New Ireland	1
Starmer's sorry sad saga	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform	1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	1
Nothing works, but plenty to do	1
Did Covid‐19 transform the European Union into a ‘community of destiny’?	1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	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
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?	1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten	1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	1
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia	1
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1