OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Politics 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 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
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
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour	6
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
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	5
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
The space between leave and remain: archetypal positions of British parliamentarians on Brexit	4
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
Correction to: Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	3
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

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
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
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