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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	50
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	46
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	45
Now You See Me, Now You Don't: Anticipatory Coalitional Strategies in European Representative Democracies	32
The Autocrat's Corruption Dilemma	29
Africa's Lame Ducks: Second-Term Presidents and the Rule of Law	25
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	24
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	22
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	21
The European Geopolitical Space and the Long Path to Brexit (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2020)	18
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	17
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Legislative Behaviour: The Conditional Effect of Presidential Legislative Powers on Party Unity	16
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	15
Banking Nationalism and Resolution in Italy and Spain	14
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	13
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	13
Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	13
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	12
Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S	12
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	11
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	10
Less Populist in Power? Online Communication of Populist Parties in Coalition Governments	10
Digital Authoritarianism and the Global Technology Industry: Evidence from Iran	10
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa	10
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10

‘Congruent We Govern’: Cost of Governance in Multiparty Presidentialism	10
The Effect of Referendums on Autocratic Survival: Running Alone and Not Finishing Second	10
Dealing with the Facts of Life: The Management of Intra-Party Factionalism in the Iberian Radical Left Parties	10
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	9
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	9
The Comparative Politics of Cabinet Reshuffles	9
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	9
Cabinet Reshuffles in Latin America: A Function of Presidential Reputation	9
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	9
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	9
Collective Power Europe? (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)	8
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	8
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	8
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	8
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	7
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Supporters of India's BJP: Distinctly Populist and Nativist	7
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	6
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	6
Political Dynasties in Canada	6
GOV volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	5
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities	5
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	5
Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison	5
Ethnic Ties, Organized Opposition and Voter Defection in Authoritarian Elections	5
Government Formation and the Radical Right: A Swedish Exception?	4
Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers	4
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	4
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	4
Own-Party Bias: How Voters Evaluate Electoral Outcomes	4
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	4
The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic	4
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Going Local, Going Mainstream? Ethnographic Study of Two French Cities Governed by the Rassemblement National	4
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	4
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	4
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession	4
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	4
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	3
GOV volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
GOV volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Internal Politics and Activism in Former Rebel Parties	3
The Weight of the Past: Political Parties’ ‘Genetic’ Heritage and the Ease of their Organizational Professionalization	3
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	3
All for One, and One for All? Analysing Party Positions on EU Solidarity in Germany in Challenging Times	3
GOV volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3

The Rassemblement National and COVID-19: How Nativism, Authoritarianism and Expert Populism Did Not Pay Off during the Pandemic	3
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	3
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	3
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	3
Centre–Province Relations in Personalist Autocracies: Explaining the Emergence and Survival of Powerful Provincial Leaders	3
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014	2
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	2
From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism	2
The Allocation of Committee Chairs and the Oversight of Coalition Cabinets in Belgium	2
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	2
An Eclectic Political Scientist: A Tribute to Robert Elgie	2
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties	2
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	2
Polity Size Matters? The Effect of Country Size on Politicians' Professionalization	2
The Distinctive Vocabularies of Right-Wing Populists	2
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	2
Young People's Attitudes towards Democracy and Political Participation: Evidence from a Cross-European Study – CORRIGENDUM	2
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	2
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	2
What Explains the Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy? A Systematic Review of the Literature	2
GOV volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Partisan Biases among the Unemployed	2
Disaffected but Efficacious: Why People Join Populist Radical Right Parties	2
From Gender Equity to Gendered Assignments? Women and Cabinet Committees in Canada and the United Kingdom	2
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	2
Cabinet Formation and Coalition Governance: The Effect of Portfolio Allocation on Coalition Agreements	2
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	2
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	2