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

Article	Citations
The price of casual labour	23
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Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	18
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	18
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	16
About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	15
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The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	14
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine	13
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	12
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	12
The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility	12
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	11
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	10
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	10
Nostalgia as mental pollution	10
Why are we equals? Just because?	10
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	9
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	9
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	9
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’	9
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics	8
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism	8
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction	8
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology	8

The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	7
The ‘pleonectic’ rift	7
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	7
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?	7
The Moon is a long way away	7
Free speech: civic value or partisan weapon?	7
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	7
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State	7
From Donald Dewar to Humza Yousaf: The Role of Scotland's First Ministers and the Importance of Political Leadership	7
Putin not as strong as we think he is	6
Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election	6
Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit	6
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation	6
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling	6
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	6
Is Brexit a manifestation of the ‘reactionary imagination’?	5
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Gramsci: As modern as ever	5
US Republicans and the New Fusionism	5
It's Tory Principles that Win it: A Response to Ben Jackson (and Anthony Trollope)	5
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	5
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party	4
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	4
A radical future for our universities, or more of the current marketing bullshit?	4
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs	4
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told	4
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	4
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism	3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy	3
Business and Politics in the United States	3
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Ideas in Politics in International Context	3
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party	3
Orwell: the good and the bad	3
Israel's Catastrophic Failures	3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?	3
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission	3
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up	3
Doom, gloom, and justice	3
‘Since this is a Document of Record’: Collecting the Oral Histories of the Brexit Parliament	3
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only	3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change	3
American wars and Greek tragedies	3
Who started the second Cold War?	3
A confusing study of revolutions	3
Living (and dying) in America	3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail	3
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top	2
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals	2
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?	2

The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK	2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons	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
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	2
French Social Democracy in Turmoil	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
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 1974	2
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?	2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary	2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	2
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	2
The Conservatives’ Economic Strategy	2
Capitalism's feeding frenzy	2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords	2
Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK	2
The Moral Weight of a Democratic Majority	2
Unprecedented Times, a Very Precedented Result: the 2021 Senedd Election	2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	2
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?	2
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	2
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board	2
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism	1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right	1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid	1
Is identity the main divide in Britain now?	1
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Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	1
So, what is terrorism?	1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?	1
The problem with the idea of self‐interest	1
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System	1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)	1
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness	1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	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
A storm of complexity	1
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	1
Equality can divide	1
Among Italy's outcasts	1
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?	1
Starmer's sorry sad saga	1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?	1
Is inequality really not that bad?	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	1
Towards a New Ireland	1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?	1
Issue Information	1
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian	1
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century¹	1
Brexit as Britain in Decline and its Crises (Revisited)	1
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?	1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten	1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	1
The Neoconservative Party, or Conservatism without Tradition?	1
Nothing works, but plenty to do	1
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia	1