Political Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Political Studies is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19142
Rights in the Liberal Tradition32
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe29
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States28
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide22
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right22
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 202121
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene19
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level18
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include17
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–201516
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint15
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations14
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience13
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