OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies Review is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Commissioned Book Review: C Vaccari and A Valeriani, Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies	21
Commissioned Book Review: András Körösényi, Gábor Illés and Attila Gyulai, The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making	19
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	18
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	17
What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation	16
Commissioned Book Review: Nick Whittaker, Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse. The Island Race	12
Introduction to Symposium: Experiments with Politicians: Ethics, Power, and the Boundaries of Political Science	12
Commissioned Book Review: Mayur S Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts	11
Explaining Online Personalized Politics: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Social Media Consumption of Parties and Leaders	11
Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents	10
Commissioned Book Review: David Judge and Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Reimagining Parliament	9
Commissioned Book Review: Yanina Welp, The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participa	9
Why Normative Behaviourism Fails	8
Commissioned Book Review: Christer Pursiainen and Tuomas Forsberg, The Psychology of Foreign Policy	8
Commissioned Book Review: Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Nationalism and Hegemony: The Consolidation of the Nation in Social and Political Life	8
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	8
Commissioned Book Review: Anuradha M Chenoy and A Upadhyay, Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution	8
Ideas, Policy Feedback and the American Political Economy	8
Presidential Activism and Success in Foreign and Defence Policy: A Study of Portugal’s Premier-Presidential Regime	8
Commissioned Book Review: Robbie Shilliam, Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction	7
The Rhetoric of Innovation in Non-Tech Personal Branding: Utilizing Tech Buzzwords as a Strategy for Political Messaging	7
Unveiling Political (Dis)trust Building across Different Life Stages: A Focus Group Analysis on Trust and Distrust to COVID-Related Restrictions in Italy	7
Commissioned Book Review: Gordon Sammut and Martin Bauer, The Psychology of Social Influence: Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense	7
Social Choice and Citizen Participation: Bringing Democratic Theory to Public Administration	7
Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society: Findings from France and Italy	7

Commissioned Book Review: Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire	7
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland	7
The Populist Name Game: About Populism and Naming	7
Fostering Reasoning in the Politically Disengaged: The Role of Deliberative Minipublics	6
Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis	6
The Multiverse of Taiwan’s Future: Reconsidering the Independence–Unification (Tondu) Attitudes	6
The Process of Democratisation, the Political Parties and the Electoral Systems in the Western Balkans (1990–2020)	6
Economic Hardship and Welfare Policy Preferences: What Can the COVID-19 Pandemic Tell Us?	6
Time on Our Side: Is Scottish Independence More Likely in the Future?	6
The Role of Insecurity in Left Populist Ideology: A Review of Podemos	6
Commissioned Book Review: Jeff Miller, Democracy in Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens	6
Commissioned Book Review: Marina Prentoulis, Left Populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos	6
Commissioned Book Review: Yonique Campbell, Citizenship on the Margins: State Power, Security and Precariousness in 21st-Century Jamaica	6
Electoral Competition and Strategic Intra-Coalition Oversight in Parliament: The Case of the Bipolar Belgian Polity	6
Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies	6
Conspiracy Everywhere	6
Commissioned Book Review: Marija Aleksovska, Under Watchful Eyes: Experimental Studies on Accountability and Decision-Making Behaviour in the Public Sector	6
Climate Change and the Politics of Apocalyptic Redirection	6
Rethinking Democratic Innovations: A Look through the Kaleidoscope of Democratic Theory	5
Commissioned Book Review: Tobias Cremer, The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West	5
Education and Democratic Consolidation: A Report on Early Results	5
Commissioned Book Review: Maria Dimova-Cookson, Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty	5
Who Runs in the End? New Evidence on the Effects of Gender, Ethnicity and Intersectionality on Candidate Selection	5
From the Ground Up: Investigating the Relationship between Political Trust and Citizen Participation in the Wake of the Turkey Earthquake	5
Children, Voting, and the Meaning of Universal Suffrage	5
The Importance and Limitation of Epistemic Norms in Political Theory	5
Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization	5
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence in Policy Implementation	5
Commissioned Book Review: Ken M. P. Setiawan and Dirk Tomsa, Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges, and Democratic Decline	5
Sharing Prime Ministerial Power in Hung Parliamentary Systems: Deputy, Rotating and Alternating Prime Ministers	5
Economic Insecurity and the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Role of Labor Market Risks and Welfare Deservingness Perception	5
Commissioned Book Review: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees	5
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	4
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences: Country Presidents and Political Parties in Romania	4
Commissioned Book Review: Tamara K. Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L. Flear and Matthew Wood, Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit Not What the Bus Pro	4
Sources of Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting: A Scoping Review	4
Patterns of Protest in Contemporary Africa: An Empirical Investigation of Regional Trends Employing Multiple Imputation	4
Signs of Democratic Resilience Following Aotearoa New Zealand’s March 15th Mosque Attacks	4
Ethics Audits in Cross-National Research: Experiences from Correspondence Study Field Experiments with National Politicians in Four European Democracies	4
Commissioned Book Review: Aslı Vatansever, At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity	4
Editor’s Note: Looking Ahead—Expanding the PSR Community and Broadening Political Conversations	4
Commissioned Book Review: Srdjan Vucetic, Greatness and Decline: National Identity and British Foreign Policy	4
Commissioned Book Review: Robin Attfield, The Ethics of the Climate Crisis The Ethics of the Climate Crisis by AttfieldRobin. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. 176 pp., £14	4
Political Economy of Natural Resource Depletion	3
Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America	3
Commissioned Book Review: Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption	3
Commissioned Book Review: Steven Griggs and David Howarth, Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticization, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures Contesti	3
Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political Theory?	3
Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence	3
Commissioned Book Review: Manfred B. Steger and Paul James, Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times	3

Commissioned Book Review: Filip Ejdus, Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession	3
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	3
Commissioned Book Review: Rahul Ranjan, The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	3
Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy	3
Conspiracism and Civility	3
Measuring MPs’ Responsiveness: How to Do it and Stay Out of Trouble	3
Commissioned Book Review: Donatella Della Porta, Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency: The Protests Against Anti-Contagion Measures and Vaccination During the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Populism Analytical Tools to Unearth the Roots of Euroscepticism	3
Presidential Approval, Tolerant Attitudes, and Economic Performance: The Case of Latin America	3
Commissioned Book Review: Matthew McManus, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism by McManusMatthew. Abingdon, Oxon and New	3
Poverty Porn and Perceptions of Agency: An Experimental Assessment	3
Navigating Gender and Sectarian Affiliation: An Analysis of Young Voters’ Bias Against Female Politicians in Lebanon	3
Political Transnationalism: Factors Associated With Immigrants’ Voting in Their Home Country Elections	3
Commissioned Book Review: Patrick A. Mello, Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application	3
Economic Hardship and Support for Redistribution: Synthesising Five Themes in the Literature	3
Commissioned Book Review: David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance	3