OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Studies 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?	71
Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements	41
Explaining Attitudes Toward Refugees and Immigrants in Europe	37
Seeing the Other Side? Perspective-Taking and Reflective Political Judgements in Interpersonal Deliberation	36
Do Populist Parties Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence From Over 40 Years of Electoral History in 31 European Democracies	32
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study	30
Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages	26
The Good Politician and Political Trust: An Authenticity Gap in British Politics?	26
Populist Leadership: The Superhero Donald Trump as Savior in Times of Crisis	26
YouTube and Political Ideologies: Technology, Populism and Rhetorical Form	25
More than Words: A Multidimensional Approach to Deliberative Democracy	24
Towards a Concept of Political Robustness	23
When You Win, Nothing Hurts: The Durability of Electoral Salience on Individuals’ Satisfaction with Democracy	21
Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement	20
Can Political Trust Help to Explain Elite Policy Support and Public Behaviour in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the United Kingdom at the Height of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic	20
When Planets Collide: The British Conservative Party and the Discordant Goals of Delivering Brexit and Preserving the Domestic Union, 2016–2019	19
Inclusion without Solidarity: Education, Economic Security, and Attitudes toward Redistribution	19
Economic Populist Sovereignism and Electoral Support for Radical Right-Wing Populism	18
A Tale of Populism? The Determinants of Voting for Left-Wing Populist Parties in Spain	17
Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches	17
Discontent With What? Linking Self-Centered and Society-Centered Discontent to Populist Party Support	16
The Right Men: How Masculinity Explains the Radical Right Gender Gap	16
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela	15
Constructing Digital Democracies: Facebook, Arendt, and the Politics of Design	15
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	14

Small-Scale Deliberation and Mass Democracy: A Systematic Review of the Spillover Effects of Deliberative Minipublics	13
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	13
Citizens’ Governance Spaces: Democratic Action Through Disruptive Collective Problem-Solving	13
Objective Conditions Count, Political Beliefs Decide: The Conditional Effects of Self-Interest and Ideology on Redistribution Preferences	13
Othering, Alienation and Establishment	12
Diversity and Perceptions of Immigration: How the Past Influences the Present	12
Is Populism a Political Strategy? A Critique of an Enduring Approach	11
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	11
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	10
Deliberation, Democracy, and the Digital Landscape	10
Justice and Internal Displacement	10
Together or Not? Dynamics of Public Attitudes on UN and NATO	10
Motivated Reasoning in Identity Politics: Group Status as a Moderator of Political Motivations	10
The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties	9
The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over	9
Does It Pay Off? The Effects of Party Leadership Elections on Parties’ Trustworthiness and Appeal to Voters	9
Member Influence and Involvement in Civil Society Organizations: A Resource Dependency Perspective on Groups and Parties	9
Political Participation and Workplace Voice: The Spillover of Suppression by Supervisors	9
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies	9
Mapping Deliberative Systems with Big Data: The Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum	9
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	9
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Redistribution in Democracies: Impact of Political Leaders on Welfare Policy	8
Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart?	8
Permissive Winners? The Quality of Democracy and the Winner–Loser Gap in the Perception of Freedoms	8
Populism or Nationalism? The ‘Paradoxical’ Non-Emergence of Populism in Cyprus	8
Do Sociotropic Concerns Mask Prejudice? Experimental Evidence on the Sources of Public Opposition to Immigration	8
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics	8
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust	8
Undermining a Rival Party’s Issue Competence through Negative Campaigning: Experimental Evidence from the USA, Denmark, and Australia	8
From Big Bang to Brexit: The City of London and the Discursive Power of Finance	7
Estimating the Effect of Competitiveness on Turnout across Regime Types	7
State-Led Gentrification and Self-Respect	7
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK	7
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	6
How We Fail to Know: Group-Based Ignorance and Collective Epistemic Obligations	6
Looking for ‘Voice’ in Business and Citizen Groups: Who’s Being Heard?	6
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	6
Should the Equality Act 2010 Be Extended to Prohibit Appearance Discrimination?	6
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	6
Capabilities and Linguistic Justice	6
Explaining Change in Legislatures: Dilemmas of Managerial Reform in the UK House of Commons	5
Shaping Public Opinion about Regional Integration: The Rhetoric of Justification and Party Cues	5
EstablishedandExcluded? Immigrants’ Economic Progress, Attitudes toward Immigrants, and the Conditioning Role of Egalitarianism and Intergroup Contact	5
Bernard Mandeville on the Use and Abuse of Hypocrisy	5
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	5
Does Europe Need an Emergency Constitution?	5
Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election	5
Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid: Evidence from Survey Experiments	5
Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies	5
Affirmative Action in the Political Domain	5

The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs	5
Connecting Contextual and Individual Drivers of Anti-Americanism in Arab Countries	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016	4
The Role of Political Attention in Moderating the Association between Political Identities and Anthropogenic Climate Change Belief in Britain	4
Too Old to Forget: The Dynamics of Political Trust among Immigrants	4
Is China a Deviant Case? A Societal-Level Test of the Modernization Theory	4
Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation	4
Educational Attainment Has a Causal Effect on Economic, But Not Social Ideology: Evidence from Discordant Twins	4
Interests Under Construction: Views on Migration from the European Union’s Southern External Border	4
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	4
Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence	4
The Role of Self-Interest in Deliberation: A Theory of Deliberative Capital	4
Evoking Equality: The Gender Sensitivity of Parliaments through their Symbolic Function	4
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	4
The Myth of Power-Sharing and Polarisation: Evidence from Northern Ireland	3
Educating Democrats or Autocrats? The Regime-Conditional Effect of Education on Support for Democracy	3
Young Citizens’ Party Support: The “When” and “Who” of Political Influence within Families	3
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	3
Authority and Immigration	3
On the Surprising Implications of Coercion Theory	3
Explaining Public-Private Partnership Projects through Political Factors: An Assessment of Developing Countries	3
RETRACTED: Three Responses to Democracy Problems of Energy Transitions	3
Free Time Across the Life Course	3
Mobilization, Repression and Policy Concessions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Cases of Egypt and Jordan	3
Media Freedom and the Escalation of State Violence	3
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	3
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust: The 2016 UK EU Membership Referendum	3
Foreign-Born Population Growth, Negative Outgroup Contact, and Americans’ Attitudes Towards Legal and Unauthorized Immigration	3
Foundational Moments, Representative Claims and the Ecology of Social Ignorance	3
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation	3
What Kind of Electoral Outcome do People Think is Good for Democracy?	3
Constraining Denaturalization	3
A Strike against the Left: General Strikes and Public Opinion of Incumbent Governments in Spain	3
Stereotypes, Who to Blame? Exploring Individual-Level Determinants of Flemish Voters’ Political Gender Stereotypes	3
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions	3
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	3
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	3
De-centring Populism: An Empirical Analysis of the Contingent Nature of Populist Discourses	3
Understanding the Conflict of Conflicts: Is Left-Right Conflict a Necessary Condition for the Development of New Politics?	2
Where Do the Less Affluent Vote? The Effect of Neighbourhood Social Context on Individual Voting Intentions in England	2
Partisan Dealignment and Personal Vote-Seeking in Parliamentary Behaviour	2
Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance	2
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	2
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	2
Reinterpreting Authoritarian Populisms: The Elitist Plebeian Vision of State	2
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	2
The Online Market’s Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism	2
Losing the Discursive Battle but Winning the Ideological War: Who Holds Thatcherite Values Now?	2
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	2
Does Descriptive Representation Narrow the Immigrant Gap in Turnout? A Comparative Study across 11 Western European Democracies	2
State Support for Religion and Social Trust	2
Home Ownership, House Prices, and Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from South Korea and 34 Countries	2
Comradely Critique	2
The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017	2
Input from Whom? Public Reactions to Consultation Measures	2
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	2
Civil Society in Hybrid Regimes: Trade Union Activism in Post-2003 Iraq	2
Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics	2
Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe	2
Bread or Roses: How Economic Inequality Affects Regime Support in China?	2
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn	2
Who Are the People? Defining theDemosin the Measurement of Democracy	2
Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion	2
Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level	2