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 [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	73
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	69
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	62
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	37
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	32
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	31
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	29
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	26
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	25
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	24
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	23
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	19
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	18
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	17
Beyond Reassurance: The Reputational Effect of Cultural Reforms in Peace Agreements	17
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	16
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	15
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	15
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	15
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	15
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	14
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	13
GOV volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	12
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	12

Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism	12
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	12
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	12
The Autocrat's Corruption Dilemma	11
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	10
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	10
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	10
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	9
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	9
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	9
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	8
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	8
The Weight of the Past: Political Parties’ ‘Genetic’ Heritage and the Ease of their Organizational Professionalization	8
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	8
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	8
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	7
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	7
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016	7
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	7
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	6
Understanding the Modern Election Campaign: Analysing Campaign Eras through Financial Transparency Disclosures at the 2019 UK General Election	6
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	6
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	6
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	6
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	6
Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	5
Bringing the Legislature Back In: Examining the Structural Effects of National Legislatures on Effective Democratic Governance	5
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations	5
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	5
A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations of Youth Political Participation across Different Types of Activism	5
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	4
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	4
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	4
When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour	4
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	4
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	4
Ethnic Ties, Organized Opposition and Voter Defection in Authoritarian Elections	4
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	4
Political Dynasties in Canada	3
GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	3

Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	3
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	3
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	3
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	3
Twelve Votes for an Exit: Compromise and Responsiveness in the Brexit Process	3
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	3
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	3
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	3
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	3
Public Trust in Latin America's Courts: Do Institutions Matter?	3
The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers	2
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting	2
Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe	2
Party Institutionalization and Partisan Mobilization	2
The Far Right Out of Its Comfort Zone? Framing Opposition to Immigration during COVID-19 in Italy	2
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	2
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	2
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design	2
Render unto Caesar Just a Little Bit Longer: The Relationship between Constitutional Reforms and Executive Survival	2
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	2
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	2
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Legislative Behaviour: The Conditional Effect of Presidential Legislative Powers on Party Unity	2
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	2
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	2
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	2
All the President's Men: Comparing the Secretary General of the French Presidency and the US Chief of Staff in an Era of Presidentialization	2
How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State	2
Early Election Calling and Satisfaction with Democracy	2
Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule	2
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	2
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	2
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	2