OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	127
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	35
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation	27
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	25
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 Teach	25
Discursive Strategies and Sequenced Institutional Change: The Case of Marriage Equality in the United States	25
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	24
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	21
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	20
Reassessing the Role and the Benefits of Junior Ministers in Coalition Governments	18
Minority Affirmations and the Boundaries of the Nation: Evidence From Québec	17
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	16
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	15
The Justice Argument Against Catholic Integralism	15
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	15
De-centring Populism: An Empirical Analysis of the Contingent Nature of Populist Discourses	14
Explaining Public-Private Partnership Projects through Political Factors: An Assessment of Developing Countries	10
Should Deliberative Democrats Eschew Modernist Social Science?	10
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence	9
Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics	9
Affirmative Action in the Political Domain	9
The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending	9
Localizing Human Rights: Modeling Human Rights Cities	8
Does Europe Need an Emergency Constitution?	8
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	8

Narrating Against Uncertainty: Newspaper Documentation in the Syrian Revolutionary Movement	8
Addressing the Will Theory Challenge to Animal Rights	8
Varieties of Populist Attitudes in Brexit Britain: Socio-Political and Psychological Correlates of a New Multi-dimensional Scale	8
Are Populists Politically Intolerant? Citizens’ Populist Attitudes and Tolerance of Various Political Antagonists	7
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	7
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK	7
Politics Versus Economics: The Case of Spanish Regional Financing	7
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions	7
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	7
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	7
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources	7
National Attachments and Good Citizenship: A Double-Edged Sword	6
Globalization, Automation, and the Welfare State: Evidence from the OECD and South Korea	6
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	6
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)	6
Citizen Responses to Ethnic Representation	6
Where Do the Less Affluent Vote? The Effect of Neighbourhood Social Context on Individual Voting Intentions in England	6
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality	6
Civil Society in Hybrid Regimes: Trade Union Activism in Post-2003 Iraq	6
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	6
Presidential Speeches in Chile (1832–2021): A Methodological Approach	5
How Attitudes on Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Core Populist Radical Right Values Combine in Diverging Ideological Constellations Among Populist Radical Right-Inclined Voters	5
David Hume and the Politics of Slavery	5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	5
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	5
Climate Sceptics or Climate Nationalists? Understanding and Explaining Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions towards Climate Change (1990–2022)	5
How We Fail to Know: Group-Based Ignorance and Collective Epistemic Obligations	5
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	5
Intra-Executive Dynamics and Presidential Popularity in Semi-Presidential Regimes	5
Theorizing Far-Right Foreign Policy: Insights From Germany	4
Does Digital Campaigning Make a Difference for Individual Candidates in an Open List Proportional Representation System? The Case of the 2019 Election in Belgium	4
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	4
The Parliamentary Origins of Party Strength in Western Europe before the Second World War	4
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	4
Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey	4
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	4
Civility and Environmental Politics	4
Towards a Concept of Political Robustness	4
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	4
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust: The 2016 UK EU Membership Referendum	4
Understanding the Conflict of Conflicts: Is Left-Right Conflict a Necessary Condition for the Development of New Politics?	4
Group Appeals of Parties in Times of Economic and Identity Conflicts and Realignment	4
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach	4
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice	4
What Drives Opposition to Social Rights for Immigrants? Clarifying the Role of Psychological Predispositions	4
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’	4
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation	4
Narrative Counterspeech	3
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	3
Does In-Group Consolidation Polarize Attitudes Toward Immigrants?	3

The Online Market’s Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism	3
Authoritarian, But Not Nativist: Classifying Far-Right Parties in Latin America	3
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	3
Capabilities and Linguistic Justice	3
Pragmatism and Associative Political Obligations	3
Unpacking Technological Risks: Different Sources of Concern and Policy Preferences	3
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	3
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	3
What Is French Liberalism?	3
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	3
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	3
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	3
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	3
Enactors of the State: The Everyday Coproduction of Security in the Prevention of Radicalisation	3
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy	3
Foreign-Born Population Growth, Negative Outgroup Contact, and Americans’ Attitudes Towards Legal and Unauthorized Immigration	3
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions	3
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	3
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	3
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion	2
Exploring the Causes of Technocratic Minister Appointments in Europe	2
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain: A Competence Shock and Its Electoral Consequences	2
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus	2
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	2
Educational Attainment Has a Causal Effect on Economic, But Not Social Ideology: Evidence from Discordant Twins	2
Revisiting the Base in Evidence-Based Policy	2
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	2
Evoking Equality: The Gender Sensitivity of Parliaments through their Symbolic Function	2
Macroeconomic Sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: A Republican Approach	2
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	2
Authority and Immigration	2
The Electoral Consequences of Tax Increases: Are Parties Punished for Raising Taxes?	2
Power and Truth in Science-Related Populism: Rethinking the Role of Knowledge and Expertise in Climate Politics	2
Campaigning or Not in the 2016 Referendum? UK Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations and European Union Membership	2
Does Schooling Increase Political Belief Accuracy?	2
Selecting Diversity: Ethnicity, Party Strategies and Candidate Selection in New Zealand Elections, 1996–2020	2
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	2
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	2
Who Do People Prefer to Be in Charge? An In-Depth Analysis of UK Citizens’ Preferences for Politicians, Citizens, Experts, and/or Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking	2
Bordering: Australia’s Policy to Border During COVID-19	1
The Effect of Spotlight on the Allocation of Voter Attention: Evidence From Block-Voting Ballots	1
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	1
From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel	1
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	1
Foreign Agents? Public Attitudes Toward Nongovernmental Organizations in a Backsliding Democracy	1
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	1
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature	1
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics	1
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	1
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	1
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power	1
Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion	1
Between Decline and Distress Innovations: The Transformation of the Belgian French-Speaking Christian-democratic Party (cdH)	1
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy	1
Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters?	1
Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level	1
Capable but Not Empowered? How Emancipative Values Affect Protest Participation Across Different Contexts	1
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	1
Political Communication as a Tragedy of the Commons	1
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	1
Intergenerational Exploitation	1
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	1
The Role of Ethnic Diversity and Residential Segregation in Shaping Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Support for Brexit	1
Do Protests Change Citizens’ Perceptions of Political Parties? Evidence From the 15-M in Spainz	1
‘The Talk’: Risk, Racism and Family Relationships	1
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	1
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	1
Young Citizens’ Party Support: The “When” and “Who” of Political Influence within Families	1
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	1
The New Authoritarianism in Public Choice	1
Kimonos, Ponchos and Blue Jeans: The Politics of Clothing in Alberto Fujimori’s Performative Populism	1
What Explains Interest Group Prominence in Parliamentary Speech? Policy Agenda, Partisanship, or Conflict Expansion	1
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?	1
Where Do They Go and Why, How Do They Vary and What Is Their Impact: Assessing Leaders’ Campaign Visits in England 2010–2019	1