OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic: What are the Consequences of and for Trust? An Early Review of the Literature	242
The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Global Armed Conflict: Early Evidence	28
Introduction: Democratic Deliberation and Under-Represented Groups	13
Dilemmas of an Academic Feminist as Manager in the Neoliberal Academy: Negotiating Institutional Authority, Oppositional Knowledge and Change	13
Are People More Satisfied with Democracy When They Feel They Won the Election? No	12
The Elephant in the Room in Presidential Politics: Informal Powers in Western Europe	10
Deliberation against Participation? Yellow Vests and Grand Débat: A Perspective from Deliberative Theory	10
Public Office as a Stepping-Stone? Investigating the Careers of Ministerial Advisors	10
Depoliticising Gender Equality in Turbulent Times: The Case of the European Gender Action Plan for External Relations	10
When Would a State Crack Down on Fake News? Explaining Variation in the Governance of Fake News in Asia-Pacific	9
Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations	8
Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK	8
Normativity in Realist Legitimacy	8
Corruption Perceptions and Contentious Politics in Africa: How Different Types of Corruption Have Shaped Africa’s Third Wave of Protest	8
Critical Dogmatism: Academic Freedom Confronts Moral and Epistemological Certainty	7
Understanding the European Union as a Global Gender Actor: The Holistic Intersectional and Inclusive Study of Gender+ in External Actions	7
Urban Youth and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis (Are Youth Bulges Relevant Anymore?)	7
Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence	7
The Institutionalisation of Social Movements: Co-Optation and Democratic Policy-Making	7
Formal Education and Contentious Politics: The Case of Violent and Non-Violent Protest	7
Support for Liberal Democracy and Populist Attitudes: A Pilot Survey for Young Educated Citizens	7
Career Development and Progression of Early Career Academics in Political Science: A Gendered Perspective	7
‘It’s a Long Way from Kuusamo to Kuhmo’: Mapping Candidates’ Electoral Constituencies in the Finnish Open-List Single Preference Voting System	6
Technocratic Ministers in Office in European Countries (2000–2020): What’s New?	6
Foreign Policy Change: From Policy Adjustments to Fundamental Reorientations	6

Kayfabe, Smartdom and Marking Out: Can Pro-Wrestling Help Us Understand Donald Trump?	6
Rethinking Democratic Innovations: A Look through the Kaleidoscope of Democratic Theory	6
Something New on the Western Front: Twenty Years of Interest Group Research (1999–2018)	6
Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and Early Career Researcher Survey	6
Does Federalism Prevent Democratic Accountability? Assigning Responsibility for Rates of COVID-19 Testing	6
Measuring Epistemic Deliberation on Polarized Issues: The Case of Abortion Provision in Ireland	6
Two and a Half Crises: Serbian Institutional Design as the Cause of Democratic Declines	5
Auditing Ethics: A Cost–Benefit Framework for Audit Studies	5
Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents	5
Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies	5
Activist Parties and Hybrid Party Behaviours: A Typological Reassessment of Partisan Mobilisation	5
Sexual Predators in Contest for Public Office: How the American Electorate Responds to News of Allegations of Candidates Committing Sexual Assault and Harassment	5
The Sociology of Diplomats and Foreign Policy Sector: The Role of Cliques on the Policy-Making Process	5
Moving Away From Partisanship: Diversifying the Motives Behind Political Polarization	5
Slipping Off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union’s External Relations in Times of Crisis	5
Radicalizing Rights: Basic Liberties and Direct Action	5
Going Local: Parliamentary Questions as a Means of Territorial Representation in the Italian Parliament	4
Twenty-five Years of Securitization Theory: A Corpus-based Review	4
COVID-19 and the Democracy–Autocracy Freedom Divide: Reflections on Post-Pandemic Regime Change Scenarios	4
Intra-Party Deliberation, Under-Represented Groups, and Candidate Selection: The Case of Demos in Romania	4
How to Get Information Out of Members of Parliament (Without Being Told Off by the Speaker)	4
Accounting for Culture in Policy Transfer: A Blueprint for Research and Practice	4
Measuring MPs’ Responsiveness: How to Do it and Stay Out of Trouble	4
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity	4
Does the Election Winner–Loser Gap Extend to Subjective Health and Well-Being?	4
Should We or Should We Not Include Confidence Intervals in COVID-19 Death Forecasting? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
Rethinking Identity in Political Science	4
Toward a Rational Civil Society: Deliberative Thinking, Civic Participation, and Self-Efficacy among Taiwanese Young Adults	3
Blurring Lines of Responsibility: How Institutional Context Affects Citizen Biases Regarding Policy Problems	3
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence in Policy Implementation	3
Rejoinder: Women in the Profession? Assuming Gender in the Analysis of the Composition of UK Politics Departments	3
What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate It?	3
Getting Realistic About Action-Guidance: Moralism, Radical Realism and Divisions of Labour	3
Preferences, Preference Formation and Position Taking in a Eurozone Out: Lessons from the United Kingdom	3
It Is Not Only the Environment That Matters: A Short Introduction to Research on the Heritability of Political Attitudes	3
Out-of-Control COVID-19 Pandemic Hampers the Nationalism	3
Polls and the Pandemic: Estimating the Electoral Effects of a SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak	3
Distinctions With a Difference: Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in Scholarly Study	3
Covid-19 Policy Convergence in Response to Knightian Uncertainty	3
Fact-Centric Political Theory, Three Ways: Normative Behaviourism, Grounded Normative Theory, and Radical Realism	2
Houston, We Have a Problem: Enhancing Academic Freedom and Transparency in Publishing Through Post-Publication Debate	2
Perceptions of Inequality and Political Participation: The Moderating Role of Ideology	2
Diplomacy Versus Politics: Two Mutually (In)Dependent Systems	2
Challenges for Political Science Research Ethics in Autocracies: A Case Study of Central Asia	2
Participatory Institutions and Political Ideologies: How and Why They Matter?	2
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	2
The Quality of Political Information	2
Linkage to the West and Electoral Manipulation	2
Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications	2
Does Issue Alignment Matter? The Electoral Cost and Reward of Agricultural Representation in Urban and Rural Areas	2

Climate Change and the Politics of Apocalyptic Redirection	2
Members of the European Parliament’s Political Careers across Different Levels: Presenting a New Dataset of Members of the European Parliament	2
An Economic Understanding of Populism: A Conceptual Framework of the Demand and the Supply Side of Populism	2
Tactical Voting and Electoral Pacts in the 2019 UK General Election	2
Policy Diffusion Speed: A Replication Study Using the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion Database	2
International Politics and the Subnational Allocation of World Bank Development Projects	2
The Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy: Postindustrial Dilemmas or Neoliberal Contamination?	2
Defense Budget Growth and Inflation: A Wavelet-Based Study of the U.S. and Britain	2
Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies	2
Electoral Reform or Not: Party Interests Defeated Principled Arguments in the Late Nineteenth Century and Have Characterised the UK’s Electoral System Since	1
The Influence of the President and Government Coalition on Roll-Call Voting in Brazil, 2003–2006	1
Party Fragmentation, the Proportional System and Democracy in Slovenia	1
Democratization in Political Communication	1
Does Electoral Reform Change MPs’ Behavior? Evidence from Romania	1
No, Face Masks Aren’t Dehumanizing	1
Commissioned Book Review: Benjamin Biard, Laurent Bernhard and Hans-Georg Betz (eds), Do They Make a Difference? The Policy Influence of Radical Right Populist Parties in Western Europe	1
Give Me Your Least Educated: Immigration, Education and Support for Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe	1
Europeans’ Attitudes Toward the Goals of Agricultural Policy: A Case of Rural–Urban Divide?	1
The Evolution of New Party Systems: Voter Learning and Electoral Systems	1
Defensive Citizenship in Europe: Definition and Measurement	1
Value-added and Transparent Experiments	1
Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy	1
Commissioned Book Review: Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses, Knowledges Born in the Struggle: Constructing the Epistemologies of the Global South	1
Runoff Comebacks in Comparative Perspective: Two-Round Presidential Election Systems	1
Academic Career Advances and Gender Gap	1
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?	1
Politics and International Relations: A Gendered Discipline	1
Partisanship Versus Democracy: Voting in Turkey’s Competitive Authoritarian Elections	1
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	1
The Fragmented Inclusion of Gender Equality in AU-EU Relations in Times of Crises	1
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	1
Do Free Food and Beverages Bring People to the Political Meeting? The Survey Experiment of Attendance-Buying	1
Unleash Britain’s Potential (To Go Negative): Campaign Negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections on Facebook	1
Nightly News or Nightly Jokes? News Parody as a Form of Political Communication: A Review of the Literature	1
Communicating Political Positions on European Issues: A Comparison of Parties and Newspapers in Seven Countries	1
Euroscepticism and Local Far-Right Mobilization via Telegram in Light of the Fundamental Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
The Effect of Mayoral Gender on Gendered Budget: Evidence from South Korea	1
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland	1
Commissioned Book Review: Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	1
Personalised Representation in a Weak and Party-Controlled Legislature: Policy Responsiveness in the French Parliament	1
Public Impacts from Elite Audit Experiments: Aggregate and Response Delay Harms	1
Underrepresented Groups and Constitution-Making: The Mexico City Case	1
COMUNIX WhatsAppers: The Community School in Portugal and Spain	1
Behavioural Evidence, Yes; Normative Behaviourism, No	1
The Effects of Political Attitudes on Affective Polarization: Survey Evidence from 165 Elections	1
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	1
The Substantive Representation of Future Generations in Bicameral Parliaments: A Comparison of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and the Senate (2010–2014)	1
Culture and Policy Transfer: From Insight to Impact	1
Ron Johnston	1
Perceiving Freedom: Civil Liberties and COVID-19 Vaccinations	1
The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question	1
What’s Wrong With Extreme Wealth?	1
Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally: Towards a Composite Index	1
Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	1
Gender Gaps in Electoral Turnout: Surveys versus Administrative Censuses	1
Who Runs in the End? New Evidence on the Effects of Gender, Ethnicity and Intersectionality on Candidate Selection	1
Institutional Consequences of the Black Lives Matter Movement: Towards Diversity in Elite Education	1
Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK: A Pilot Study into Who Gets What in the Discipline	1
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences: Country Presidents and Political Parties in Romania	1
In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value	1
Direct Democracy and Party Membership: Testing the Role of Political Efficacy	1
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralisation in Argentina	1
Confrontational or ‘Statespersonlike’ Style? Examining Finnish and French Presidents’ Public Speeches and Messages, 2000–2020	1
A Bayesian Measurement of Political Connection and Entrepreneur Preference on Trade and Competition	1
The Strange Silence of Latin American Political Theory	1
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	1