OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	34
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	30
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	29
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	27
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	25
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	21
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	20
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	19
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	17
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	15
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	14
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy	13
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	13
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	12
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	11
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	10
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	10
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	9
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	9
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	9
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	9
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	8
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	8

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 Democracies	8
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	8
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	8
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	8
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	8
Sortition Within Political Parties	7
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 Canada	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	7
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 Populists	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
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 Principles	6
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	5
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	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 life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	5
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 Access	5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	5
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	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
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
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 Nexus	5
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right	4
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 Success	4
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	4
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence	4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	4
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans	4
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	4
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	4

Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values	4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US	4
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	4