OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South European Society and Politics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The organization of Brothers of Italy: an activist and centralized party led by a “mother in the family”	43
The Silent Electoral Earthquake in Cyprus: A Crisis of Political Representation	35
Towards a predominant party system: the May 2023 election in Greece	28
Civicness, social relations and environmental behaviour: a new kaleidoscope of social capital in Italy	22
Political Participation among Natives and Immigrants: Identity and Socio-economic Status within the Turkish Cypriot Electorate	14
Partisan Sentiments and Political Trust: A Longitudinal Study of Spain	14
Perceived victimhood in Italian politics: political ideology, populism, and economic grievance	12
A moral or class divide for populist parties? ‘The people’ in the discourse of Podemos and Vox in Spain	10
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Evolution of Democratic Digital Innovations in Podemos	10
Democratic Backsliding, Conflict, and Partisan Mobilisation of Ethnic Groups: Local Government Control and Electoral Participation in Turkey	10
Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties: Evidence from Southern Europe	10
Southern Europe Managing the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Crucial Effect of Timing	10
The Italian Democratic Party at the Crossroad: Party Activism and the Middle-Level Élite	8
Media Diet and Polarisation: Evidence from Spain	8
Yet Another Populist Party? Understanding the Rise of Brothers of Italy	8
A Portuguese Miracle: The Politics of the First Phase of Covid-19 in Portugal	7
The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine	7
‘Your Luck is Our Luck’: Covid-19, the Radical Right and Low Polarisation in the 2022 Portuguese Elections	7
Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic under Right-wing Populist Rule: Turkey in the First Phase	7
Changing Preferences versus Issue Salience: The Political Success of Anti-immigration Parties in Italy	7
Post-industrial alignment and class support for radical left parties in Southern Europe	6
Playing populist: the relationship of convenience between populist language and demarcationist ideological positions in the Italian parliament (1948-2020)	6
The Limits of Power Concentration and Expert Knowledge in Emergency Management: Spain’s Government Response during the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic	5
Trust, Satisfaction and Political Engagement during Economic Crisis: Young Citizens in Southern Europe	5
The road ahead: a note from the (new) editors of South European Society and Politics	5

The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis	4
When and why high civil servants demand information from interest groups in policymaking. A Southern European perspective	4
Are All Populist Voters the Same? Institutional Distrust and the Five Star Movement in Italy	4
Electoral Competition and Partisan Affective Polarisation in Spain	3
Age and Descriptive Representation in Southern Europe: The Impact of the Great Recession on National Parliaments	3
Competitive yet unfair: May 2023 elections and authoritarian resilience in Turkey	3
Territorial Polarisation after Radical Parties’ Breakthrough in Spain	2
Up close and personal: how size affects politics in 65 Greek island municipalities	2
Bridging gaps: how investment in public childcare affects women’s employment in Italy and Spain	2
A bitter victory and a sweet defeat: the July 2023 Spanish general election	2
The nationalisation of subnational elections in polarised Spain: the May 2023 regional and local elections	2
Gender equality policies in Turkey’s opposition municipalities: factors that impact policy-making according to gender advocates	2
The 2024 local elections in Turkey: a critical juncture for Turkish democracy?	1
Framing Gender through Affects: Antifeminism and Love in the Spanish Far Right (Vox)	1
Perceptions of populist radical right mainstreaming as a threat to democracy: evidence from Italian voters	1
Italy, the Sick Man of Europe: Policy Response, Experts and Public Opinion in the First Phase of Covid-19	1
Affective Polarisation in Times of Political Instability and Conflict. Spain from a Comparative Perspective	1
Between regional cores and provinces: the electoral bases of political party support in Italy and Spain	1
A Popular Mandate for Strongmen: What Public Opinion Data Reveals About Support for Executive Aggrandizement in Turkey, 1996-2018	1
Shared or Self-rule? Regional Legislative Initiatives in Multi-level Spain, 1979-2021	1
The relevance and resilience of the cordon sanitaire in Portugal: the March 2024 legislative elections	1