OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Government and Opposition is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysing Women's Substantive Representation: From Critical Mass to Critical Actors	251
From ‘Normal Incidents’ to Political Crises: Understanding the Selective Politicization of Policy Failures	153
Varieties of Populist Parties and Party Systems in Europe: From State-of-the-Art to the Application of a Novel Classification Scheme to 66 Parties in 33 Countries	121
Political Realignment in Advanced Industrial Society: From Class‐Based Politics to Quality‐of‐Life Politics	86
Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland's Conflict, and its Agreement. Part 1: What Consociationalists Can Learn from Northern Ireland	83
Democratic Accountability and Political Effectiveness from a Cosmopolitan Perspective	67
Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland's Conflict, and its Agreement 2.-What Critics of Consociation Can Learn from Northern Ireland	58
From the Sociology of Politics to Political Sociology	54
Varieties of Inclusionary Populism? SYRIZA, Podemos and the Five Star Movement	52
The Global Economics of European Populism: Growth Regimes and Party System Change in Europe (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2017)	44
From Sticks to Carrots: Electoral Manipulation in Africa, 1986–2012	42
Corruption, Political Stability and Development: Comparative Evidence from Egypt and Morocco	38
Five Ways of Institutionalizing Political Opposition: Lessons from the Advanced Democracies	37
Civic Participation in a Hybrid Regime: Limited Pluralism in Policymaking and Delivery in Contemporary Russia	30
Global Shifts and the Limits of the EU’s Transformative Power in the European Periphery: Comparative Perspectives from Hungary and Turkey	30
Party Competition in the 2013 Italian Elections: Evidence from an Expert Survey	30
Electoral Mobilization and Authoritarian Elections: Evidence from Post-Soviet Russia	29
Party Competition and Government Formation in Multilevel Settings: Evidence from Germany	25
From ‘Opening Up’ to Democratic Renewal: Deepening Public Engagement in Legislative Committees	24
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	21
What Affects Invalid Voting? A Review and Meta-Analysis	20
From Prague to Baghdad: Lustration Systems and their Political Effects	20
Economic Intimidation in Contemporary Elections: Evidence from Romania and Bulgaria	19
Examining and Explaining the Northern League's ‘U-Turn’ from Europe	19
A Zero-Sum Game? Repression and Protest in China	17

Electoral Performance by Post-Rebel Parties	16
Minority Governments and Pledge Fulfilment: Evidence from Portugal	16
Transforming State Visions: Ideology and Ideas in Armed Groups Turned Political Parties – Introduction to Special Issue	15
Electoral System Reform in Democracy's Grey Zone: Lessons from Putin's Russia	13
Declining Trust in Elites and Why We Should Worry About It – With Empirical Evidence from Germany	13
Young and Temporary: Youth Employment Insecurity and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties in Europe	12
Gender Politics and Conservatism: The View from the British Conservative Party Grassroots	12
Learning to Depart from a Policy Path: Institutional Change and the Reform of German Labour Market Policy	12
Social Capital, Learning and EU Regional Policy Networks: Evidence from Greece	12
Shifting Power-Centres of Semi-Presidentialism: Exploring Executive Coordination in Lithuania	12
Resisting the Irresistible: ‘Failed Opposition’ in Azerbaijan and Belarus Revisited	11
Under the Influence: Pay-Offs to Legislative Support Parties under Minority Governments	11
Grand Coalitions and Democratic Dysfunction: Two Warnings from Central Europe	11
Ambivalent Moderation: The FMLN’s Ideological Accommodation to Post-War Politics in El Salvador	11
The Portuguese Radical Left Parties Supporting Government: From Policy-Takers to Policymakers?	11
Online Repression and Self-Censorship: Evidence from Southeast Asia	10
Merkel's Germany and the European Union: Between Emergency and the Rule of Rules	10
The Difficulty of Justifying European Integration as a Consequence of Depoliticization: Evidence from the 2005 French Referendum	9
From Election to Government: Principal Rules and Deviant Cases	9
The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland	9
How Party Systems Shape Local–National Gender Gaps	9
The Limits of Resistance Ideologies? The CNDD-FDD and the Legacies of Governance in Burundi	9
How is Government Stability Affected by the State of the Economy? Payoff Structures, Government Type and Economic State	9
Economic Expectations and Satisfaction with Democracy: Evidence from Italy	9
How Do They Get In? Radical Parties and Government Participation in European Democracies	8
The Demand and Supply of Parliamentary Policy Advocacy: Evidence from UK Health Policy, 1997–2005	8
Inequality under Authoritarian Rule	8
The Fast Track from the Soviet Union to the World Economy: External Liberalization in Estonia and Latvia	8
Letter from Ireland	8
Policy Failure and Petroleum Predation: The Economics of Civil War Debate Viewed ‘From the War-Zone’	7
Adapting to Peacetime Politics? Rebranding and Ideological Change in Former Rebel Parties	7
The Intensity of Government–Opposition Divide as Measured through Legislative Speeches and What We Can Learn from It: Analyses of Japanese Parliamentary Debates, 1953–2013	7
Constrained Politics: Labour Market Actors, Political Parties and Swedish Labour Immigration Policy	7
Multi-Method Research in the Social Sciences: A Review of Recent Frameworks and a Way Forward	7
From Fujimori to Toledo: The 2001 Elections and the Vicissitudes of Democratic Government in Peru	7
Eroding Support from Below: Performance in Local Government and Opposition Party Growth in South Africa	6
Making Progress in Northern Ireland? Evidence from Recent Elections	6
From the Revolution to Liberalization	6
Explaining the Kurdish Democratic Union Party's Self-Governance Practices in Northern Syria, 2012–18	6
The Changeableness of Subnational Constitutions: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	6
Resource Dependency and Political Opportunity: Explaining the Transformation from Excluded Political Opposition Parties to Human Rights Organizations in Post-Communist Uzbekistan	6
Mainstream Party Strategies Towards Extreme Right Parties: The French 2007 and 2012 Presidential Elections	6
Autocracies and the Control of Societal Organizations	6
‘Bridges Over Troubled Waters’? The Competitive Symbiosis of Social Democracy and Radical Left in Crisis-Ridden Southern Europe	5
Putting Politics in the Lab: A Review of Lab Experiments in Political Science	5
Cross-Class and Cross-Ideological Convergences over Time: Insights from the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutionary Uprisings	5
With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government	5
Cohesion and Identity: the Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim	5
On Liberalization	5
The Revolutionary Democracy of Ethiopia: A Wartime Ideology Both Shaping and Shaped by Peacetime Policy Needs	5

Political Parties, Social Class, and Economic Policy Preferences	5
When Media and Politics Overlap: Inferences from the Italian Case	4
The Electoral Success of the Radical Left: Explaining the Least Likely Case of the Communist Party in Graz	4
Learning from a Peace Process: Theory, Practice and the Case of Northern Ireland	4
The Judicial Review Debate: From Partnership to Friction	4
Resource Wealth as Leverage: Natural Resources and the Failure of Non-Violent Campaigns	4
Governing from the Centre: the 1977 French Local Elections	4
Letter from Romania	4
From Occupation to State‐building: Palestinian Political Society Meets Palestinian Civil Society	4
From Socialist Unification to Socialist Scission 1966–69: Socialist Unification and the Italian Party System	3
How Likely is Proportional Representation in the House of Commons? Lessons from International Experience	3
What Governments Want from International Economic Institutions and How they Get It	3
Workers’ and Clients’ Mutualism Compared: Perspectives from the Past in the Development of the Welfare State	3
Party Mobilization and Electoral Systems	3
From ‘Organic’ Legislators to ‘Organicistic’ Interpreters: Intellectuals in Yugoslavia and Post‐Yugoslav States	3
Turning-points of Post-communist Transition: Lessons from the Case of Estonia	3
Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level: Empirical Evidence from Large Cities in Germany (1999–2016)	3
Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation	3
Economic Crisis, Bureaucratic Quality and Democratic Breakdown	3
Recommended Accommodation. Arend Lijphart: Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1977, 248 pages, £10.80.	3
How Do Populist Radical Right Parties Differentiate their Appeal? Evidence from the Media Strategy of the Hungarian Jobbik Party	2
The Evolution of Party Policy and Cleavage Voting under Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland	2
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities	2
Unbuilding from the Inside: Leadership and Democratization in South Africa and South Korea	2
From Party Government to Party Governance	2
Technocracy, Trust and Democracy: Evidence on Citizens’ Attitudes from a Natural Experiment in Italy	2
The Legacy of a Revolution that Never Happened: The Post-War Politics of Former Rebel Party RUFP in Sierra Leone	2
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	2
Spending Levels of Political Parties: An Explanation Based on a Multilevel Analysis	2
Support Party Strategies on Important Policy Issues: Results from Swedish Minority Governments	2
Gramsci, the Via Italiana, and the Classical Marxist‐Leninist Approach to Revolution	2
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	2
Not All Experience is Created Equal: MP Career Typologies and Ministerial Appointments in the Canadian House of Commons, 1968–2015	2
Who Affects Government Declarations and Why? Contrasting the Left–Right Scale with the Welfare Dimension	2
Passing Time, Changing Minds? The Determinants of Faction Membership After Party Fusion	2
Identity Change and Rebel Party Political Success	2
On World Models and Political Science	2