OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Politics is 0. 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
‘Things Fall Apart, the Centre-Right Cannot Hold’: the crises of British Conservatism since 1990	15
Two cheers for Holyrood: devolution and dimensions of fiscal accountability	12
Scotland and England’s colliding nationalisms: neoliberalism and the fracturing of the United Kingdom	11
The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance	11
UKIP support in local elections: which factors play a role in determining electoral fortunes?	8
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour	6
Fat scrounger, lean times: a tale of two bodies in austerity Britain	6
The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence	6
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	5
How to be an expert in confusing times: lessons from the Office of Budget Responsibility	5
Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland	5
Boris Johnson: the moral case for government resignations in July 2022	5
The space between leave and remain: archetypal positions of British parliamentarians on Brexit	4
Divisions within the British Parliamentary Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Results of a Cluster Analysis	4
British politics symposium on Ben Clift (2022) the OBR and the politics of technocratic economic governance (Oxford University Press)	4
Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain	4
Correction to: Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	3
Prime ministerial political leadership and the domestic politics of Brexit: Theresa May and Boris Johnson compared	3
Britain’s ‘favoured response’ to crises: a critical review of existing literature on public inquiries	3
Correction to: The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018	3
The dilemma of Brexit: hard choices in the narrow context of British foreign policy traditions	3
Divining the UK’s national interest: MPs’ parliamentary discourse and the Brexit withdrawal process	2
Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	2
Corbyn’s Momentum: social movement or something else?	2
Government decision-making and the site of power in New Labour’s ‘levelling up’: reconsidering economic regionalism	2

Privileging privatisation: accounting practices and state transformation in the UK	2
‘Building back better’ or sustaining the unsustainable? The climate impacts of Bank of England QE in the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Leadership election reform in the British Labour party: democratisation or power struggle?	1
Garnett, M. (2021) The British Prime Minister in an age of upheaval. Cambridge: Polity Press	1
Negotiating secession: Brexit lessons for Scottish independence	1
MPs’ expenses: the legacy of a scandal 10 years on	1
Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules	1
Friend or foe? British receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885	1
Unmasking the Brexit negotiations: the behavioural psychology of two-level games	1
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report	1
Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	1
Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income	1
Theresa May and Brexit: leadership style and performance	1
The impact of local identities on voting behaviour: a Scouse case study	1
Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945 by David Jeffery	1
The Labour party under Keir Starmer and the limits of the politics of performative competence	1
America and the special relationship: the impact of the Trump administration on relations with the UK	1
Scaring for the greater good? Discursive construction of fear appeals in the brexit referendum campaign	1
The futility of participation: austerity and public reluctance to oppose it	1
The changing class and educational composition of the UK political elite since 1945: implications for representation	1
Five decades of small business policy in England: policy as a value proposition or window dressing?	1
The Downing Street Chief-of-Staff: a case study in political management	1
Starmer’s election victory: from the politics of support to the politics of power	1
Territorial variation in territorial representation: the local base of Westminster MPs	1
From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022	1
Mapping domestic climate authority: insights from the UK’s multi-scale institutional architecture	1
‘The first, but not the last’: women’s descriptive and substantive representation in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election	1
Understanding drivers of support for English city-region devolution: a case study of the Liverpool City Region	1
COVID-19 and the second exams fiasco across the UK: four nations trying to avoid immediate policy failure	0
The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018	0
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	0
Correction to: Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	0
Constructing the coronavirus crisis: narratives of time in British political discourse on COVID-19	0
Who are the victims of electoral fraud in Great Britain? Evidence from survey research	0
Not now! Construction of the “now-is-not-the-time” discourse of Theresa May and Boris Johnson vis-à-vis the second Scottish independence referendum	0
Masculinity and femininity in media representations of party leadership candidates: men ‘play the gender card’ too	0
Remind you of anyone? Comparing the gendered heroic leadership of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May	0
Workington Man, Brexit and populism: discussions of politics, identity and class among rugby league fans online	0
Correction to: Prime Ministerial powers of patronage: Ideology and Cabinet selection under Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990	0
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq	0
The 2016 UK referendum on EU membership and the importance of remaining on point during the campaign	0
Britain, Britishness, and exceptionalism within the rhetoric of David Cameron	0
What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics	0
Heresthetic and strategic choice in a constitutional moment: the abdication of Edward VIII	0
Politics without society: explaining the rise of the Scottish National Party	0
Sport, soft disempowerment and the 1966 FIFA World Cup	0
Correction to: Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	0
Correction to: Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	0
Using non-legislative tools when legislation is hard: a comparison of the Canadian, UK, and Israeli parliaments	0
Imagining Brexit, reimagining Britain	0

Weakness not crisis: Brexit and the UK constitution	0
Correction to: The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer	0
How political parties matter in political-administrative relationships: children’s services policy in England 1997–2019	0
Money, territory, decarbonisation: the looming crisis of British politics	0
‘The Wind of Change’: a rhetorical political analysis of Harold Macmillan’s 1960 ‘decolonization’ speech	0
Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron's 'Big Society'	0
Correction to: Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	0
To build a new Jezrusalem: an historical institutionalist analysis of the origins of the Corbyn era in the Labour party	0
Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	0
The Bank of England and conservative sound money politics: economic ideas in a contested political sphere	0
The Labour Left from Benn to Momentum: continuity and change in strategy and tactics	0
Breaking blame: uncovering third-party strategies for contesting political blame in the Brexit referendum campaign	0
Power-sharing and memory-sharing in Northern Ireland: a case study of Healing Through Remembering during consociational volatility	0
Working-class conservative voters in 2019: voices from a valley in northern England	0
Britain’s whiz kids: the PAR, CPRS and managerialism in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s	0
The lessons of 1969: policy learning, policy memory and voting age reform	0
A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment	0
‘Mr Rules’: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics	0
Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	0
A policy framework of convenience: on Covid-19 and the strategic use of resilience in the UK	0
Correction to: Mapping domestic climate authority: insights from the UK’s multi-scale institutional architecture	0
Radical departure or opportunity not taken? The Johnson government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission	0
The Johnson factor: British national identity and Boris Johnson	0
Loving a good fight: personality traits and reactions to conflict in TV debates	0
Dimitri Batrouni: ‘The Battle of Ideas in the Labour Party: from Attlee to Corbyn and Brexit’	0
Correction to: Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	0
Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era	0
Judicial power and constitutional tensions: the politics of legitimation	0
Brexit and the NHS: voting behaviour and views on the impact of leaving the EU	0
Transparency in action or political fiction? The pre-inquiry phase of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry	0
Between everyday politics and political elites: transmission and coupling within Westminster’s parliamentary e-petitions system	0
Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	0
The OBR and the unintended economic consequences of Mr Osborne	0
The OBR and the neo-liberal paradox	0