OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	42
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	36
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	36
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	31
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	25
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	24
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies	16
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	15
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	15
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	14
Better Against Than in Favor: Environmental Issue Voting in the European Elections	14
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	13
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	13
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	13
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	12
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	11
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	11
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	11
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	11
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	10
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	9
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	9
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	9

Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	9
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	9
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	9
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	9
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	8
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	8
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	8
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	8
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Sortition Within Political Parties	7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
From Productivism to Post-Productivism: Unpacking the Socio-Economic Conditions for Welfare Development in Six East Asian Economies	7
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Many Whispers From Yesteryear: How Has China’s History of Centrally Planned Socialism Shaped People’s Divergent Views of Justice Today?	6
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	6
Coalition Management and Governance Outcomes in Multiparty Presidential Regimes	6
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	6
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
Public Support for Voter ID Laws in the UK: How Citizens Weigh Electoral Integrity and Voter Access	6
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	6
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	6
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans	6
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	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
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	5
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	5
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	5
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	5
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	5
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	5
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	5
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right	5
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	5
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	5