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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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
What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation	18
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	18
Introduction to Symposium: Experiments with Politicians: Ethics, Power, and the Boundaries of Political Science	13
Commissioned Book Review: Nick Whittaker, Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse. The Island Race	12
Explaining Online Personalized Politics: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Social Media Consumption of Parties and Leaders	11
Commissioned Book Review: Mayur S Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts	11
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	10
Commissioned Book Review: David Judge and Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Reimagining Parliament Reimagining Parliament edited by David Judge and Cristina Leston-Bandeira. Bri	10
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	10
Corrigendum to “Radical Realism and the Motivated Reasoning Connection”	9
Ideas, Policy Feedback and the American Political Economy	9
Commissioned Book Review: Christer Pursiainen and Tuomas Forsberg, The Psychology of Foreign Policy	8
The Populist Name Game: About Populism and Naming	8
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	8
Commissioned Book Review: Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Nationalism and Hegemony: The Consolidation of the Nation in Social and Political Life	8
Commissioned Book Review: Anuradha M Chenoy and A Upadhyay, Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution	8
Why Normative Behaviourism Fails	8
Corrigendum	8
Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis	7
Presidential Activism and Success in Foreign and Defence Policy: A Study of Portugal’s Premier-Presidential Regime	7
Commissioned Book Review: Robbie Shilliam, Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction	7
Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society: Findings from France and Italy	7
The Role of Insecurity in Left Populist Ideology: A Review of Podemos	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
The Rhetoric of Innovation in Non-Tech Personal Branding: Utilizing Tech Buzzwords as a Strategy for Political Messaging	6
Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies	6
Electoral Competition and Strategic Intra-Coalition Oversight in Parliament: The Case of the Bipolar Belgian Polity	6
The Process of Democratisation, the Political Parties and the Electoral Systems in the Western Balkans (1990–2020)	6
Social Choice and Citizen Participation: Bringing Democratic Theory to Public Administration	6
The Multiverse of Taiwan’s Future: Reconsidering the Independence–Unification (Tondu) Attitudes	6
Time on Our Side: Is Scottish Independence More Likely in the Future?	6
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland	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: Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire	6
Commissioned Book Review: Gordon Sammut and Martin Bauer, The Psychology of Social Influence: Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense	6
Fostering Reasoning in the Politically Disengaged: The Role of Deliberative Minipublics	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
Economic Hardship and Welfare Policy Preferences: What Can the COVID-19 Pandemic Tell Us?	5
Commissioned Book Review: Ken M. P. Setiawan and Dirk Tomsa, Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges, and Democratic Decline	5
Education and Democratic Consolidation: A Report on Early Results	5
Sharing Prime Ministerial Power in Hung Parliamentary Systems: Deputy, Rotating and Alternating Prime Ministers	5
Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization	5
Conspiracy Everywhere	5
Commissioned Book Review: Tobias Cremer, The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West	5
The Importance and Limitation of Epistemic Norms in Political Theory	5
From the Ground Up: Investigating the Relationship between Political Trust and Citizen Participation in the Wake of the Turkey Earthquake	5
Commissioned Book Review: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees	5
Rethinking Democratic Innovations: A Look through the Kaleidoscope of Democratic Theory	5
Children, Voting, and the Meaning of Universal Suffrage	5
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence in Policy Implementation	5
Commissioned Book Review: Maria Dimova-Cookson, Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty	5
Economic Insecurity and the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Role of Labor Market Risks and Welfare Deservingness Perception	5
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences: Country Presidents and Political Parties in Romania	4
Signs of Democratic Resilience Following Aotearoa New Zealand’s March 15th Mosque Attacks	4
Commissioned Book Review: Aslı Vatansever, At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity	4
Who Runs in the End? New Evidence on the Effects of Gender, Ethnicity and Intersectionality on Candidate Selection	4
Patterns of Protest in Contemporary Africa: An Empirical Investigation of Regional Trends Employing Multiple Imputation	4
Populism Analytical Tools to Unearth the Roots of Euroscepticism	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
Editor’s Note: Looking Ahead—Expanding the PSR Community and Broadening Political Conversations	4
Future-Regarding Institutions Through a Legitimacy Lens	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
Navigating Gender and Sectarian Affiliation: An Analysis of Young Voters’ Bias Against Female Politicians in Lebanon	3
Commissioned Book Review: Manfred B. Steger and Paul James, Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times	3
Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America	3
Sources of Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting: A Scoping Review	3
Commissioned Book Review: Filip Ejdus, Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession	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
Commissioned Book Review: Matthew McManus, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism by McManusMatthew. Abingdon, Oxon and New	3

Economic Hardship and Support for Redistribution: Synthesising Five Themes in the Literature	3
Presidential Approval, Tolerant Attitudes, and Economic Performance: The Case of Latin America	3
Commissioned Book Review: Steven Griggs and David Howarth, Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticization, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures Contesti	3
Commissioned Book Review: Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption	3
Conspiracism and Civility	3
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	3
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	3
Political Economy of Natural Resource Depletion	3
Commissioned Book Review: David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance	3
Commissioned Book Review: Jorge Tamames, For the People: Left Populism in Spain and the US	2
Unleash Britain’s Potential (To Go Negative): Campaign Negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections on Facebook	2
Towards Conflict or Compromise? Intra-Executive Dynamics in Normal Times and COVID-19 Period in Semi-Presidential Democracies	2
Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political Theory?	2
Bulgarian Populist Euroscepticism: The Unavoidable Russian Dimension	2
Poverty Porn and Perceptions of Agency: An Experimental Assessment	2
Improving the Interpretation of Random Effects Regression Results	2
More Than a Theory: Conspiracy Theorising As a Practical Tradition	2
Does Politicians’ Negative Social Media Communication Backfire? A Case Study of Former US President Trump	2
Fair-Weather Voters: Personality and Vote Switching Intentions	2
Responding to Needs: Increased Attention to the Rights of Non-Citizens in Times of Migration Spikes	2
European Political Science versus the Pandemic: Patterns of Professional Adaptation	2
Twenty-five Years of Securitization Theory: A Corpus-based Review	2
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	2
Commissioned Book Review: Anita R. Gohdes, Repression in the Digital Age–Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence Repression in the Digital Age–Surve	2
Political Transnationalism: Factors Associated With Immigrants’ Voting in Their Home Country Elections	2
Politics of Rational Decision-making: The Effect of Political Alignment on Revenue Forecasts	2
Empirical and Normative Without a Universal Human Nature	2
Psychological Distress and Political Distrust during a Global Health Crisis: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey	2
The Effects of Political Attitudes on Affective Polarization: Survey Evidence from 165 Elections	2
Commissioned Book Review: Thane Gustafson, Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change	2
Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence	2
Commissioned Book Review: Patrick A. Mello, Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application	2
Party Switching in Elected Upper Chambers: The Case of the Brazilian Senate	2
Compromise in Political Theory	2
A Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe? An Answer from the Citizens’ Perspective	2
Commissioned Book Review: Paulo Alfonso B Durante, Francesco Jose BS Leandro and Enrique Martinez Galan, The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: The Case of the Belt an	2
On the Term “Environmental Refugee”: Normative Assumptions and Empirical Realities	2