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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The UK government’s COVID-19 policy: assessing evidence-informed policy analysis in real time	54
The COVID-19 exams fiasco across the UK: four nations and two windows of opportunity	17
Constructing the coronavirus crisis: narratives of time in British political discourse on COVID-19	13
The futility of participation: austerity and public reluctance to oppose it	5
Scotland and England’s colliding nationalisms: neoliberalism and the fracturing of the United Kingdom	5
Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income	5
When are governing parties more likely to respond to public opinion? The strange case of the Liberal Democrats and tuition fees	4
“Enemies of the people”? Diverging discourses on sovereignty in media coverage of Brexit	4
Intra-party dissent over Brexit in the British Conservative Party	4
Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	4
Who are the victims of electoral fraud in Great Britain? Evidence from survey research	3
Prime Ministerial powers of patronage: Ideology and Cabinet selection under Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990	3
Politics and football fandom in post- ‘indyref’ Scotland: nationalism, unionism and stereotypes of the ‘Old Firm’	3
Who and what is their ‘people’? How British political leaders appealed to the people during the 2019 election	3
The present is a foreign country: Brexit and the performance of victimhood	3
COVID-19 and the second exams fiasco across the UK: four nations trying to avoid immediate policy failure	3
From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022	3
Brexit and the Myth of British National Identity	3
The Johnson factor: British national identity and Boris Johnson	3
MPs’ expenses: the legacy of a scandal 10 years on	3
Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules	3
The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer	3
The lessons of 1969: policy learning, policy memory and voting age reform	2
America and the special relationship: the impact of the Trump administration on relations with the UK	2
Understanding drivers of support for English city-region devolution: a case study of the Liverpool City Region	2

Elements of neoliberal Euroscepticism: how neoliberal intellectuals came to support Brexit	2
The privilege of public service and the dangers of populist technocracy: a response to Michael Gove and Dominic Cumming’s 2020 Ditchley annual lecture	2
Political community and the new parochialism: Brexit and the reimagination of British liberalism and conservatism	2
Debating the value of twinning in the United Kingdom: the need for a broader perspective	2
The dilemma of Brexit: hard choices in the narrow context of British foreign policy traditions	2
Using non-legislative tools when legislation is hard: a comparison of the Canadian, UK, and Israeli parliaments	2
Brexit and the Labour Party: Europe, cosmopolitanism and the narrowing of traditions	2
Leadership election reform in the British Labour party: democratisation or power struggle?	2
‘Building back better’ or sustaining the unsustainable? The climate impacts of Bank of England QE in the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Reading the mindset of the secretary of state: shaping policy delivery effectiveness	2
The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence	1
Working-class conservative voters in 2019: voices from a valley in northern England	1
Power-sharing and memory-sharing in Northern Ireland: a case study of Healing Through Remembering during consociational volatility	1
Managing democracy in Corbyn’s Labour Party: faction-fighting or movement-building?	1
Unmasking the Brexit negotiations: the behavioural psychology of two-level games	1
Preaching to the converted? Who attended the Camborne, Cornwall Corbyn rally in August 2017?	1
Boris Johnson: the moral case for government resignations in July 2022	1
Ironic inversions and stable purposes: reimagining political traditions in Ireland after the EU Referendum 2016	1
Between everyday politics and political elites: transmission and coupling within Westminster’s parliamentary e-petitions system	1
Do Peers respond? Attendance and critical events	1
Five decades of small business policy in England: policy as a value proposition or window dressing?	1
Privileging privatisation: accounting practices and state transformation in the UK	1
The ontological failure of David Cameron’s ‘modernisation’ of the Conservative Party	1
Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland	1
Workington Man, Brexit and populism: discussions of politics, identity and class among rugby league fans online	1
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	1
Negotiating secession: Brexit lessons for Scottish independence	1
Coming to terms with the market: accounts of neoliberal failure and rehabilitation on the British Right	1
The neoliberalisation of formal governmental relations with Britain’s Muslim communities	1
The space between leave and remain: archetypal positions of British parliamentarians on Brexit	1
Corbyn’s Momentum: social movement or something else?	0
Parsing the backstop: Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement in the Brexit debates	0
Correction to: Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	0
Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	0
Prime ministerial political leadership and the domestic politics of Brexit: Theresa May and Boris Johnson compared	0
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq	0
UKIP support in local elections: which factors play a role in determining electoral fortunes?	0
Dimitri Batrouni: ‘The Battle of Ideas in the Labour Party: from Attlee to Corbyn and Brexit’	0
Weakness not crisis: Brexit and the UK constitution	0
To build a new Jezrusalem: an historical institutionalist analysis of the origins of the Corbyn era in the Labour party	0
Radical departure or opportunity not taken? The Johnson government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission	0
Brexit and the NHS: voting behaviour and views on the impact of leaving the EU	0
Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	0
Breaking blame: uncovering third-party strategies for contesting political blame in the Brexit referendum campaign	0
‘The first, but not the last’: women’s descriptive and substantive representation in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election	0
‘The Wind of Change’: a rhetorical political analysis of Harold Macmillan’s 1960 ‘decolonization’ speech	0
Friend or foe? British receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885	0
Remind you of anyone? Comparing the gendered heroic leadership of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May	0
Judicial power and constitutional tensions: the politics of legitimation	0
To what extent do interest group messages shape the public’s climate change policy preferences?	0

The deep story of Leave voters affective assemblages: implications for political decentralisation in the UK	0
The impact of local identities on voting behaviour: a Scouse case study	0
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	0
Masculinity and femininity in media representations of party leadership candidates: men ‘play the gender card’ too	0
Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	0
Enhancing policy delivery: normalizing four critical contributions	0
Correction to: Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	0
Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain	0
Heresthetic and strategic choice in a constitutional moment: the abdication of Edward VIII	0
European networks, domestic governance and the second-order effects of Brexit	0
Correction to: Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	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
Britain, Britishness, and exceptionalism within the rhetoric of David Cameron	0
The changing class and educational composition of the UK political elite since 1945: implications for representation	0
The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018	0
Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945 by David Jeffery	0
Politics without society: explaining the rise of the Scottish National Party	0
How political parties matter in political-administrative relationships: children’s services policy in England 1997–2019	0
Theresa May and Brexit: leadership style and performance	0
Britannia’s Zealots, volume I: Tradition, empire and the forging of the Conservative Right	0
Divining the UK’s national interest: MPs’ parliamentary discourse and the Brexit withdrawal process	0
Correction to: The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018	0
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour	0
Correction to: Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	0
Britain’s ‘favoured response’ to crises: a critical review of existing literature on public inquiries	0
Correction to: The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer	0
Correction to: Prime Ministerial powers of patronage: Ideology and Cabinet selection under Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990	0
Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron's 'Big Society'	0
The 2016 UK referendum on EU membership and the importance of remaining on point during the campaign	0
Imagining Brexit, reimagining Britain	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
What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics	0
Territorial variation in territorial representation: the local base of Westminster MPs	0
A policy framework of convenience: on Covid-19 and the strategic use of resilience in the UK	0
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report	0
Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	0
Correction to: Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	0
Garnett, M. (2021) The British Prime Minister in an age of upheaval. Cambridge: Polity Press	0