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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	133
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	30
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	29
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	28
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	24
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	22
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	21
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	17
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	16
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	16
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy	15
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	14
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	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
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	11
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	9
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	9
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	9
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	9
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	8

Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	8
Perceived Deprivation and Voter Turnout in Austria: Do Views on Social Inequality Moderate the Deprivation—Abstention Nexus?	8
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	8
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	8
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	7
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
Citizen Responses to Ethnic Representation	6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	6
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)	5
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus	5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	5
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	5
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	5
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	4
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	4
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	4
Intergenerational Exploitation	4
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default	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
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	4
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	4
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence	4
Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting	4
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change	4
Comradely Critique	4
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	4

Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	4
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	4
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote	4
Navigating the Secular Landscape: Religious Discourse on Transgender Rights in the United Kingdom	4
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	4
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	4