OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?	66
Truth, Deliberative Democracy, and the Virtues of Accuracy: Is Fake News Destroying the Public Sphere?	56
Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements	38
Seeing the Other Side? Perspective-Taking and Reflective Political Judgements in Interpersonal Deliberation	36
Explaining Attitudes Toward Refugees and Immigrants in Europe	35
Do Populist Parties Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence From Over 40 Years of Electoral History in 31 European Democracies	30
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study	28
Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages	25
The Good Politician and Political Trust: An Authenticity Gap in British Politics?	25
YouTube and Political Ideologies: Technology, Populism and Rhetorical Form	24
Populist Leadership: The Superhero Donald Trump as Savior in Times of Crisis	24
Brexit and the Everyday Politics of Emotion: Methodological Lessons from History	22
Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement	20
When You Win, Nothing Hurts: The Durability of Electoral Salience on Individuals’ Satisfaction with Democracy	20
More than Words: A Multidimensional Approach to Deliberative Democracy	20
Towards a Concept of Political Robustness	18
Economic Populist Sovereignism and Electoral Support for Radical Right-Wing Populism	18
When Planets Collide: The British Conservative Party and the Discordant Goals of Delivering Brexit and Preserving the Domestic Union, 2016–2019	18
Inclusion without Solidarity: Education, Economic Security, and Attitudes toward Redistribution	18
Can Political Trust Help to Explain Elite Policy Support and Public Behaviour in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the United Kingdom at the Height of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic	17
Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches	16
A Tale of Populism? The Determinants of Voting for Left-Wing Populist Parties in Spain	16
Policy Polarization, Income Inequality and Turnout	14
Discontent With What? Linking Self-Centered and Society-Centered Discontent to Populist Party Support	14
Constructing Digital Democracies: Facebook, Arendt, and the Politics of Design	14

Small-Scale Deliberation and Mass Democracy: A Systematic Review of the Spillover Effects of Deliberative Minipublics	13
What Kind of Disagreement Favors Reason-Giving? Analyzing Online Political Discussions across the Broader Public Sphere	13
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	13
The Right Men: How Masculinity Explains the Radical Right Gender Gap	13
The Dark Side of Politics: Participation and the Dark Triad	12
Othering, Alienation and Establishment	12
Differential Voting Weights and Relational Egalitarianism	11
Objective Conditions Count, Political Beliefs Decide: The Conditional Effects of Self-Interest and Ideology on Redistribution Preferences	11
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela	11
Exploring the Relationship Between Campaign Discourse on Facebook and the Public’s Comments: A Case Study of Incivility During the 2016 US Presidential Election	11
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	11
Deliberation and Identity Rules: The Effect of Anonymity, Pseudonyms and Real-Name Requirements on the Cognitive Complexity of Online News Comments	11
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	10
Deliberation, Democracy, and the Digital Landscape	10
Diversity and Perceptions of Immigration: How the Past Influences the Present	10
Citizens’ Governance Spaces: Democratic Action Through Disruptive Collective Problem-Solving	9
Justice and Internal Displacement	9
Political Participation and Workplace Voice: The Spillover of Suppression by Supervisors	9
The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties	9
Is Populism a Political Strategy? A Critique of an Enduring Approach	9
Demographics and (Equal?) Voice: Assessing Participation in Online Deliberative Sessions	9
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	9
Motivated Reasoning in Identity Politics: Group Status as a Moderator of Political Motivations	9
Mapping Deliberative Systems with Big Data: The Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum	9
Populism or Nationalism? The ‘Paradoxical’ Non-Emergence of Populism in Cyprus	8
Member Influence and Involvement in Civil Society Organizations: A Resource Dependency Perspective on Groups and Parties	8
Undermining a Rival Party’s Issue Competence through Negative Campaigning: Experimental Evidence from the USA, Denmark, and Australia	8
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies	8
Together or Not? Dynamics of Public Attitudes on UN and NATO	8
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics	8
Measuring Nation States’ Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation	8
Do Sociotropic Concerns Mask Prejudice? Experimental Evidence on the Sources of Public Opposition to Immigration	8
Does It Pay Off? The Effects of Party Leadership Elections on Parties’ Trustworthiness and Appeal to Voters	8
Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart?	7
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust	7
From Big Bang to Brexit: The City of London and the Discursive Power of Finance	7
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Redistribution in Democracies: Impact of Political Leaders on Welfare Policy	7
Distrust in Government and Preference for Regime Change in China	7
IMF = I’M Fired! IMF Program Participation, Political Systems, and Workers’ Rights	7
State-Led Gentrification and Self-Respect	7
The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over	7
Estimating the Effect of Competitiveness on Turnout across Regime Types	7