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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-1934
Rights in the Liberal Tradition30
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 States27
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right25
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 Anthropocene20
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide19
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include17
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level15
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics14
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy13
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
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–201511
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement10
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?10
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?10
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council9
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study9
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China9
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment9
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System8
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities8
Perceived Deprivation and Voter Turnout in Austria: Do Views on Social Inequality Moderate the Deprivation—Abstention Nexus?8
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies8
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap8
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies8
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics8
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis8
Sortition Within Political Parties7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means7
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions6
The Many Whispers From Yesteryear: How Has China’s History of Centrally Planned Socialism Shaped People’s Divergent Views of Justice Today?6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles6
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks5
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash5
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups5
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout5
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)5
Public Support for Voter ID Laws in the UK: How Citizens Weigh Electoral Integrity and Voter Access5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation5
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups5
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils5
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust5
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)5
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus5
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right4
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?4
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success4
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism4
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–19924
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy4
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans4
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America4
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy4
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US4
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design4
Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting3
Partisanship and Tolerance for Clientelism: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Romania3
Identity Through Distinction: Contextualizing Populist In- and Outgroup References3
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default3
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions3
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach3
Structural Change Through ‘Collective Action as Democratic Practice’: Linking Grassroots Democracy With Social Justice3
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote3
Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens3
Sexual Corruption and Political (Dis)trust3
Social Policy and Political Trust: Long-Term Effects of Welfare Generosity in Europe3
JF Bray’s Economic Republicanism3
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?3
Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown3
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change3
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria3
Economic Sanctions and Informal Economies in North Korea3
Navigating the Secular Landscape: Religious Discourse on Transgender Rights in the United Kingdom3
Narrative Counterspeech2
‘The Talk’: Risk, Racism and Family Relationships2
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations2
Why Was There a Hard Brexit? The British Legislative Party System, Divided Majorities and the Incentives for Factionalism2
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources2
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance2
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion2
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature2
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?2
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power2
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’2
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power2
Attacking the Things that Consume Our Planet: Civil Disobedience, Direct Action and Climate Change2
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy2
The Logic of Brokerage: Why Interest Organizations Network with Their Opponents2
How Attitudes on Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Core Populist Radical Right Values Combine in Diverging Ideological Constellations Among Populist Radical Right-Inclined Voters2
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy1
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions1
Governing As If the Future Obliged the Present: A Scenario Exercise in Prefigurative Climate Policy1
Power to the People? How Participatory Budgets Affect Citizens’ Populist Attitudes1
Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters?1
The Effect of Spotlight on the Allocation of Voter Attention: Evidence From Block-Voting Ballots1
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic1
A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right’s Emergence: The Case of VOX in Spain1
Capable but Not Empowered? How Emancipative Values Affect Protest Participation Across Different Contexts1
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality1
Macroeconomic Sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: A Republican Approach1
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence1
What Explains Interest Group Prominence in Parliamentary Speech? Policy Agenda, Partisanship, or Conflict Expansion1
Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe1
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China1
Does Schooling Increase Political Belief Accuracy?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
‘We Didn’t Know What We Were Eating Tomorrow’: How Class Origin Shapes the Political Outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain1
Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election1
Bordering: Australia’s Policy to Border During COVID-191
Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity1
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
Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey1
Politics for Survival: Ideological Control and Corporate Strategic Behavior1
The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration and the Case of “Woke”1
Revisiting the Base in Evidence-Based Policy1
Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media1
Unpacking Technological Risks: Different Sources of Concern and Policy Preferences1
Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence1
To Praise or Pressure? Patterns of Social Media Advocacy in Times of 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
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn1
Deterrent or Stimulus? How Perceived Societal Stigma Affects Participation in Populist Radical Right Parties1
From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel1
Not Just ‘Sinking Islands’: Climate Change and Adaptation in Small Island Developing States1
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice1
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation1
Pragmatism and Associative Political Obligations1
Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study1
Toward a Radical Democratic Theory of Expertise1
Apocalyptic Democracy1
How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment?1
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