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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	50
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	45
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	39
The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic	32
How Do Mainstream Parties ‘Become’ Mainstream, and Pariah Parties ‘Become’ Pariahs? Conceptualizing the Processes of Mainstreaming and Pariahing in the Labelling of Political Parties	29
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	26
‘Stretched But Not Snapped’: A Response to Russell and Serban on Retiring the ‘Westminster Model’	22
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	22
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	20
Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison	18
Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S	17
Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review	15
Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland	14
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	13
Collective Power Europe? (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)	13
The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland	13
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	13
The Rassemblement National and COVID-19: How Nativism, Authoritarianism and Expert Populism Did Not Pay Off during the Pandemic	12
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	12
Performing Crisis? Trump, Populism and the GOP in the Age of COVID-19	11
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	11
Does Class Shape Legislators’ Approach to Inequality and Economic Policy? A Comparative View	10
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	10
Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level: Empirical Evidence from Large Cities in Germany (1999–2016)	10
A New Wave of Social Democracy? Policy Change across the Social Democratic Party Family, 1970s–2010s	10

The Shifting Relationship between Post-War Capitalism and Democracy (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture, 2021)	10
With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government	9
Less Populist in Power? Online Communication of Populist Parties in Coalition Governments	9
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa	9
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	9
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	9
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	9
What Explains the Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy? A Systematic Review of the Literature	9
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	9
When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour	8
Ruling but not Governing: Tutelary Regimes and the Case of Myanmar	8
The Politics of Loyalty: Understanding Voters’ Attitudes after Primary Elections	8
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	8
Populists in Government: Normal or Exceptional?	8
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	8
Arrived in Power, and Yet Still Disgruntled? How Government Inclusion Moderates ‘Protest Voting’ for Far-Right Populist Parties in Europe	7
Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany	7
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties	7
How Do Populist Radical Right Parties Differentiate their Appeal? Evidence from the Media Strategy of the Hungarian Jobbik Party	7
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	7
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	7
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics	6
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession	6
Electoral Engineering in New Democracies: Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia	6
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	6
The Interview Method in Comparative Politics: The Process of Interviewing Far-Right Actors	6
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	6
Centre–Province Relations in Personalist Autocracies: Explaining the Emergence and Survival of Powerful Provincial Leaders	6
Talking War: Representation, Veterans and Ideology in Post-War Parliamentary Debates	5
Support Party Strategies on Important Policy Issues: Results from Swedish Minority Governments	5
Federal and Political Party Reforms in Asia: Is There a New Model of Federal Democracy Emerging in Ethnically Diverse Countries in Asia?	5
Personal or Impersonal Evaluations? Political Sophistication and Citizen Conceptions of the Democratic Process	5
Go Your Own Way: The Pathways to Exiting the European Union	5
Gendering Cabinet Reshuffles in France and Spain	5
The Democratic Cost of Consecutive Re-election and Presidential Term-Limit Evasion in Latin America	5
The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview	4
How Do Voters Evaluate Performance in Opposition?	4
An Eclectic Political Scientist: A Tribute to Robert Elgie	4
Supporters of India's BJP: Distinctly Populist and Nativist	4
Westminster as Usual? Three Interpretations for the UK Democracy	4
Crisis, Rhetoric and Right-Wing Populist Incumbency: An Analysis of Donald Trump's Tweets and Press Briefings	4
Mainstream Sell-Outs? How Collaboration with the Radical Right Changes Perceptions of Party Positions on Immigration	4
The Limits of Transparency: Expert Knowledge and Meaningful Accountability in Central Banking	4
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	4
What Do We Know about Power Sharing after 50 Years?	4
Who Teams Up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union	4
Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014	4
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	4
The Autocrat's Corruption Dilemma	3
The Trump Self-Coup Attempt: Comparisons and Civil–Military Relations	3

Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe	3
Cabinet Formation and Coalition Governance: The Effect of Portfolio Allocation on Coalition Agreements	3
The Social Bases of Populist Domination: Market Reforms and Popular Reactions in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe	3
Anti-Corruption Protests and University Students: Evidence from Russian Cities	3
Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change	3
Sour Grapes? Party Donors and Canadian Leadership Primaries	3
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	3
Early Election Calling and Satisfaction with Democracy	3
Pathways to Power in Authoritarian Regimes: Civil Service, Multipartyism and Legislative Selection in Cameroon	3
Government Formation and the Radical Right: A Swedish Exception?	3
Cabinet Reshuffles in Latin America: A Function of Presidential Reputation	3
Knowledge Is Power: The Staffing Advantage of Parliamentary and Ministerial Offices	3
Render unto Caesar Just a Little Bit Longer: The Relationship between Constitutional Reforms and Executive Survival	3
Ideas, Coalition Magnets and Policy Change: Comparing Variation in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Expansion across Four Latecomer Countries	3
Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Parties Matter: The Consequences of PRR Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy	3
The European Geopolitical Space and the Long Path to Brexit (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2020)	2
Party Institutionalization and Partisan Mobilization	2
Post-Neoliberalism and External Financial Liberalization: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism	2
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	2
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Twelve Votes for an Exit: Compromise and Responsiveness in the Brexit Process	2
Disaffected but Efficacious: Why People Join Populist Radical Right Parties	2
The Effect of Referendums on Autocratic Survival: Running Alone and Not Finishing Second	2
The Comparative Politics of Cabinet Reshuffles	2
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	2
Types of Solidarity in a Hybrid Regime: The Hungarian Case	2
Bringing the Legislature Back In: Examining the Structural Effects of National Legislatures on Effective Democratic Governance	2
The Use of Sovereignist Claims in Election Campaigns in France and Italy: Different Twins?	2
Campaigning on the Ability to Govern: A Study of Strategic References to Competence Made by Political Parties in Europe	2
How Do Mainstream Parties Justify Their (Un)willingness to Rule with Populist Parties? Evidence from Twitter Data	2
The Allocation of Committee Chairs and the Oversight of Coalition Cabinets in Belgium	2
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	2
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Legislative Behaviour: The Conditional Effect of Presidential Legislative Powers on Party Unity	2
Does Learning About Protest Abroad Inform Individuals’ Attitudes About Protest at Home? Experimental Evidence from Egypt	2
A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations of Youth Political Participation across Different Types of Activism	2
Party Affiliation, District-Level Incentives and the Use of Parliamentary Questions in Chile's Presidential Democracy	2
Young People's Attitudes towards Democracy and Political Participation: Evidence from a Cross-European Study	2
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	2
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	2
Dealing with the Facts of Life: The Management of Intra-Party Factionalism in the Iberian Radical Left Parties	2
‘Congruent We Govern’: Cost of Governance in Multiparty Presidentialism	2