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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	30
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About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	25
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	23
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	22
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The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	15
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	15
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine	14
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	14
Unbroken, but Dangerous: The UK's Political Finance Regime and the Rationale for Reform	13
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	13
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	12
Nostalgia as mental pollution	12
Why are we equals? Just because?	11
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism	11
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?	11
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology	10
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	10
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction	9
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	9
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics	9
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	8
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State	7
The ‘pleonectic’ rift	7

Fixing the ‘Polycrisis’ in Local Government Finance: the Limits of More Incremental Reform	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
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	7
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	7
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	7
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	7
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’	7
Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit	6
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation	6
Putin not as strong as we think he is	6
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling	5
US Republicans and the New Fusionism	5
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party	5
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	5
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The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	5
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs	5
Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election	5
Business and Politics in the United States	4
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up	4
Who started the second Cold War?	4
A confusing study of revolutions	4
American wars and Greek tragedies	4
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told	4
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When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide	3
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	3
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?	3
Living (and dying) in America	3
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism	3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?	3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change	3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	3
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission	3
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board	3
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party	3
Israel's Catastrophic Failures	3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail	3
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	3
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	3
Capitalism's feeding frenzy	3
Ideas in Politics in International Context	3
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only	3
Orwell: the good and the bad	3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy	3
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals	2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	2
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 1974	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2

Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid	2
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century¹	2
How Trump Gets on Our Nerves	2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons	2
French Social Democracy in Turmoil	2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work	2
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	2
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	2
The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024	2
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian	2
Localism, Levelling Up and Taking Back Control: Tensions in the Ambiguous Justification of English Devolution	2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	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
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons	2
Equality can divide	2
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness	2
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?	2
Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West	2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary	2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords	2
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top	2
Unlocking the Pensions Debate: The Origins and Future of the ‘Triple Lock’	1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	1
Where did it all go wrong?	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	1
Did Covid‐19 transform the European Union into a ‘community of destiny’?	1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?	1
Bringing the Emigration State Back In	1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right	1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	1
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?	1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	1
The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1
So, what is terrorism?	1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers	1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?	1
Cricket, Englishness and Racial Thinking	1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism	1
Unite against Trumpism!	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
The NHS: still worth fighting for, but pick the right battles	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Understanding Inequality in the UK : What Can We Learn from the Deaton Review?	1
Starmer's sorry sad saga	1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)	1
Nothing works, but plenty to do	1
Towards a New Ireland	1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?	1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	1
Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice	1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	1
Restructuring UK government at the Centre—Why the IfG Commission's Naïve Plan will not Work	1
Social movements re‐imagine the world	1
Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald: Comparing the Rise of Reform with the Rise of Labour	1
On Surprises, Strategy, the Economy and What Comes Next for Scottish Independence	1
Issue Information	1
Issue Information	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
A storm of complexity	1
Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	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
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten	1
Is inequality really not that bad?	1
No Wokery, Please, We Are Leftist	1
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?	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
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia	1
From Estimating to Explaining and Eliminating Ethnic Disproportionality in Stop and Search	1
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	1