Political Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Studies 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.)
ArticleCitations
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19133
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene30
Rights in the Liberal Tradition29
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide28
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right24
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States22
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 202121
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe17
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include16
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level16
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy15
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?14
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–201513
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint13
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations12
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience11
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment10
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China10
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities9
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement9
Must Refugees Be Grateful?9
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study9
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics8
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy8
Perceived Deprivation and Voter Turnout in Austria: Do Views on Social Inequality Moderate the Deprivation—Abstention Nexus?8
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers8
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies8
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries7
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System7
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada7
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany7
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification7
Citizen Responses to Ethnic Representation6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles6
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions6
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties6
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)5
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation5
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout5
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils5
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)5
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–19924
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design4
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?4
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence4
Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting4
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change4
Comradely Critique4
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?4
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function4
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism4
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote4
Navigating the Secular Landscape: Religious Discourse on Transgender Rights in the United Kingdom4
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism4
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities4
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy4
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust4
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America4
Intergenerational Exploitation4
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default4
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values4
How Attitudes on Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Core Populist Radical Right Values Combine in Diverging Ideological Constellations Among Populist Radical Right-Inclined Voters3
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources3
Structural Change Through ‘Collective Action as Democratic Practice’: Linking Grassroots Democracy With Social Justice3
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria3
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach3
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions3
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?3
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation3
Partisanship and Tolerance for Clientelism: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Romania3
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier3
Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens3
Sexual Corruption and Political (Dis)trust3
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy2
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power2
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance2
Why Was There a Hard Brexit? The British Legislative Party System, Divided Majorities and the Incentives for Factionalism2
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power2
Narrative Counterspeech2
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics2
The Logic of Brokerage: Why Interest Organizations Network with Their Opponents2
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy2
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?2
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’2
‘The Talk’: Risk, Racism and Family Relationships2
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature2
The New Authoritarianism in Public Choice2
Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media1
How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment?1
What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teach1
Politics for Survival: Ideological Control and Corporate Strategic Behavior1
State Support for Religion and Social Trust1
Governing As If the Future Obliged the Present: A Scenario Exercise in Prefigurative Climate Policy1
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality1
Deterrent or Stimulus? How Perceived Societal Stigma Affects Participation in Populist Radical Right Parties1
Does Schooling Increase Political Belief Accuracy?1
Power to the People? How Participatory Budgets Affect Citizens’ Populist Attitudes1
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK1
Not Just ‘Sinking Islands’: Climate Change and Adaptation in Small Island Developing States1
Attacking the Things that Consume Our Planet: Civil Disobedience, Direct Action and Climate Change1
Capable but Not Empowered? How Emancipative Values Affect Protest Participation Across Different Contexts1
Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe1
From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel1
To Praise or Pressure? Patterns of Social Media Advocacy in Times of COVID-191
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations1
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions1
Discursive Strategies and Sequenced Institutional Change: The Case of Marriage Equality in the United States1
Do We Live in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era?1
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence1
Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election1
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice1
Media Freedom and the Escalation of State Violence1
A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right’s Emergence: The Case of VOX in Spain1
Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters?1
Does Digital Campaigning Make a Difference for Individual Candidates in an Open List Proportional Representation System? The Case of the 2019 Election in Belgium1
Bordering: Australia’s Policy to Border During COVID-191
Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart?1
Kimonos, Ponchos and Blue Jeans: The Politics of Clothing in Alberto Fujimori’s Performative Populism1
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China1
The Effect of Spotlight on the Allocation of Voter Attention: Evidence From Block-Voting Ballots1
Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation1
Pragmatism and Associative Political Obligations1
Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey1
‘We Didn’t Know What We Were Eating Tomorrow’: How Class Origin Shapes the Political Outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain1
Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance1
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation1
Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity1
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic1
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn1
Macroeconomic Sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: A Republican Approach1
Unpacking Technological Risks: Different Sources of Concern and Policy Preferences1
Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics1
What Explains Interest Group Prominence in Parliamentary Speech? Policy Agenda, Partisanship, or Conflict Expansion1
Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence1
Revisiting the Base in Evidence-Based Policy1
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