OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies Review is 2. 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
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	19
Explaining Online Personalized Politics: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Social Media Consumption of Parties and Leaders	16
Commissioned Book Review: Aslı Vatansever, At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity	15
Commissioned Book Review: David Judge and Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Reimagining Parliament	15
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	15
Introduction to Symposium: Experiments with Politicians: Ethics, Power, and the Boundaries of Political Science	14
Commissioned Book Review: Neil Mitchell, Why Delegate	11
Culture and Policy Transfer: From Insight to Impact	11
The Myth of Academics’ Non-interference in Legislatures	10
Commissioned Book Review: Daniel Lee, The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations	10
Commissioned Book Review: András Körösényi, Gábor Illés and Attila Gyulai, The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making	9
Party Fragmentation, the Proportional System and Democracy in Slovenia	9
Presidential Activism: Causes, Patterns and Consequences	8
Commissioned Book Review: The Ethics of Researching the Far Right	8
Democracy and the Corruption of Speech	8
Efficacy and Action: How Targeted Messages Influence Support of Social Advocacy Organizations	8
Commissioned Book Review: Nick Whittaker, Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse. The Island Race	8
What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation	8
Commissioned Book Review: Marianna Griffini, The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right. From Mare Nostrum to Mare Vostrum	7
Commissioned Book Review: Robinson Woodward-Burns, Hidden Laws	7
Commissioned Book Review: Yanina Welp, The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America	7
Commissioned Book Review: Tamara K. Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L. Flear and Matthew Wood, Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit	7
Commissioned Book Review: Giorgos Venizelos, Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump	7
Using Qualitative Inquiries to Analyse the Dynamism of Factionalism	7
Commissioned Book Review: Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, Digital Inequalities in the Global South	6

Urban Youth and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis (Are Youth Bulges Relevant Anymore?)	6
Ethics Audits in Cross-National Research: Experiences from Correspondence Study Field Experiments with National Politicians in Four European Democracies	6
Does Cross-Regime Contact Change the Evaluation of Democracy? Evidence From Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China	6
The Elephant in the Room in Presidential Politics: Informal Powers in Western Europe	6
Commissioned Book Review: Edward Ashbee, Countering China: US Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative	6
Commissioned Book Review: C Vaccari and A Valeriani, Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies	6
Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America	5
Do Free Food and Beverages Bring People to the Political Meeting? The Survey Experiment of Attendance-Buying	5
Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents	5
Three’s (Not Necessarily) A Crowd: State-of-the-Art Review of the Strategic Triangle	5
Commissioned Book Review: David Coen, Alexander Katsaitis, and Matia Vannoni, Business Lobbying in the European Union	5
Sources of Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting: A Scoping Review	5
The Use of Machine Learning Methods in Political Science: An In-Depth Literature Review	5
Commissioned Book Review: René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens and Imar de Vries, The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture	5
Commissioned Book Review: Robin Attfield, The Ethics of the Climate Crisis	4
Beyond Cultural Narratives: A Data-Driven Analysis of How Citizens Define Successful Integration	4
Commissioned Book Review: Srdjan Vucetic, Greatness and Decline: National Identity and British Foreign Policy	4
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	4
Commissioned Book Review: Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC	4
Commissioned Book Review: Simon Weschle, Money in Politics: Self-Enrichment, Campaign Spending, and Golden Parachutes	4
Commissioned Book Review: Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination	4
Commissioned Book Review: Fred Paxton, Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	4
Commissioned Book Review: Jack Holland, Selling War and Peace. Syria and the Anglosphere	4
The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question	4
Stability or Stagnation: Non-Monotonic Association Between Party System Closure and Satisfaction With Democracy	4
Runoff Comebacks in Comparative Perspective: Two-Round Presidential Election Systems	3
Commissioned Book Review: David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance	3
Political Parties and Forms of Citizens’ Involvement in Decision-Making: A Special Section	3
Auditing Ethics: A Cost–Benefit Framework for Audit Studies	3
Are People More Satisfied with Democracy When They Feel They Won the Election? No	3
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	3
Factions and the Redistributive Effects of Reform in Japan	3
Communicative Democracy and Voter Choice: Evidence From a Conjoint Analysis in Taiwan	3
Commissioned Book Review: Manfred B. Steger and Paul James, Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times	3
Why Do Political Candidates Use Social Media in Election Campaigning? An Explanation Offered by a Cost-Benefit Calculation Using Survey Data	3
Presidential Approval, Tolerant Attitudes, and Economic Performance: The Case of Latin America	3
Testing Causal Inference Between Social Media News Reliance and (Dis)trust of EU Institutions with an Instrumental Variable Approach: Lessons From a Null-Hypothesis Case	3
Populist Visual Communication: A State-of-the-Art Review	3
Getting Realistic About Action-Guidance: Moralism, Radical Realism and Divisions of Labour	3
Populism Analytical Tools to Unearth the Roots of Euroscepticism	3
The Electoral Connection Revisited: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
The Populist Name Game: About Populism and Naming	3
What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate It?	3
Commissioned Book Review: Patrick A Mello and Falk Ostermann, Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods	3
Commissioned Book Review: Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers, Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective	3
Polarization, Media Professionalism, and Support for Press Freedoms in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Report on Early Results	3
Climate Justice and Political Feasibility	3
Commissioned Book Review: Mayur S Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts	3
Practices of Transformative Populism: An Illustrative Study of the Bernie Sanders Presidential Runs	3
What Is the Effect of Political Influencers on TikTok? Early Results From a Field Experiment With Young Adults	3

Partisanship Versus Democracy: Voting in Turkey’s Competitive Authoritarian Elections	3
Commissioned Book Review: Ajay Gudavarthy, Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’	3
The Moderating Effect of Ideological Identification on How Economic News and Economic Growth Impact Individual Economic Perceptions: Evidence From Chile	3
Commissioned Book Review: Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire	2
The Politics of Path-Creation: Theory-Building of Social Policy Reform in Post-Economic Crisis Indonesia	2
Commissioned Book Review: Filip Ejdus, Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession	2
Sexual Predators in Contest for Public Office: How the American Electorate Responds to News of Allegations of Candidates Committing Sexual Assault and Harassment	2
Commissioned Book Review: Clare Birchall and Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19	2
Commissioned Book Review: Anuradha M Chenoy and A Upadhyay, Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution	2
Unveiling Political (Dis)trust Building across Different Life Stages: A Focus Group Analysis on Trust and Distrust to COVID-Related Restrictions in Italy	2
Economic Hardship and Support for Redistribution: Synthesising Five Themes in the Literature	2
Commissioned Book Review: Christer Pursiainen and Tuomas Forsberg, The Psychology of Foreign Policy	2
Commissioned Book Review: Rahul Ranjan, The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	2
Commissioned Book Review: Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption	2
Commissioned Book Review: François Burgat, Understanding Political Islam	2
Commissioned Book Review: Steven Griggs and David Howarth, Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticization, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures	2
Commissioned Book Review: Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Nationalism and Hegemony: The Consolidation of the Nation in Social and Political Life	2
Commissioned Book Review: Robert B. Zoellick, America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	2
More Electoral Competition Without More Voter Participation: Quasi-Experimental Test of a Term Limit Reform in Ecuador	2
The European Union-Intersectionality Framework: Unpacking Intersectionality in the ‘Union of Equality’ Agenda	2
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	2
Democratic Decline and the Politics of the Upswing: How the United States May Have Come Together a Century Ago but Can It Do It Again?	2
Navigating Gender and Sectarian Affiliation: An Analysis of Young Voters’ Bias Against Female Politicians in Lebanon	2