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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
GOV volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	52
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza	42
Studying Democracy in Europe: Conceptualization, Measurement and Indices	38
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties	38
How Elites Mobilize the Vernacular: A Case Study of Australian Prime Ministers' Use of ‘Fair Go’ Rhetoric	37
Transnationalization of Opposition Strategy under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey and Hungary	33
GOV volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	24
The Fast Rise of Populist Radical Right Parties: Evidence from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians	21
GOV volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	20
Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)	19
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	18
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	17
Tweeting through a Public Health Crisis: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Populist Leaders during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Neopatrimonial Rule through Formal Institutions: The Case of Turkey	16
How Populists Governed the COVID-19 Pandemic: Populist Governance and Social Policies in Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Russia and Turkey	15
From Bad to Worse: The Continuous Dilemma Facing Parliaments in European Economic and Fiscal Governance	13
Perceptual Consequences of Portfolios: How Allocation Affects Left–Right Placement	13
Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon	11
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	11
To Dog-Whistle or to Bark? Elite Communication Strategies When Invoking Conspiracy Theories	11
Denialism and Populism: Two Sides of a Coin in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil	11
GOV volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	10
Parliamentary Oversight and the Effects of Controlled Institutional Settings on Behavioural Logics	10
Come Together: Far-Right Parties and Mainstream Coalitions	10
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	10

Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent	10
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	10
GOV volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	10
Party-Based Sovereignism in EU Countries: Main Patterns and Their Justification	8
GOV volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
The Advent of Survey Experiments in Politics and International Relations	8
Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios: Government and Opposition Dynamics	8
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in Europe	8
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016	7
How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship	7
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation	7
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
Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates	6
GOV volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Viewing Violence through a Partisan Lens: How Electoral Violence Shapes Citizens' Support for Democracy	6
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches	6
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize – ERRATUM	5
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982–2019	5
The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding	5
Shocks to the System: Electoral Manipulation, Protests and the Evolution of Political Trust in Russia	5
Elizabeth Meehan ‘Best Article’ Prize	5
What Determines the Duration of Protest Events? Evidence from Africa	5
The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict	5
Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia	5
Religious Institutions’ Stances towards Autocratization in the Post-Third Wave Period	5
A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations of Youth Political Participation across Different Types of Activism	5
Party-System Polarization and Individual Perceptions of Party Differences: Two Divergent Effects on Turnout	5
Voter Preferences for EU Asylum Policies: The Role of Government Cues	4
The Impact of Government Participation on the Political Trust of Populist Party Supporters	4
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
GOV volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Political Dynasties in Canada	4
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50	4
Is the European Parliament a Key to Success for (All) Right-Wing Populist Parties? Two Different Pathways to Engaging with the EP	4
Government and Opposition on the Road to EU Accession: Responsibility, Responsiveness and the Salience of Gender Equality	3
Elections and Immigration Policy in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia and Kazakhstan	3
The Relationship between Economic Populist Sovereignism, Globalization and Populist Radical Right Politics: Voter Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States	3
The Memory Work of a Far-Right Party: Contention, Convention and Memory Appropriation	3
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting	3
How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State	3
When the Local is Illiberal: Local Welfare Chauvinism and the Populist Radical Right	3
To Reinforce or Replace: Courts and Democratic Backsliding	3
Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe	3
A Common Two-Dimensional Structure? Comparing Demand-side Political Spaces of Eight European Democracies	3
Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule	3
Cabinet Reshuffles and Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe	3
All the President's Men: Comparing the Secretary General of the French Presidency and the US Chief of Staff in an Era of Presidentialization	3
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	3

The Far Right Out of Its Comfort Zone? Framing Opposition to Immigration during COVID-19 in Italy	2
Intra-Party Leadership Contests and Effect on Levels of Satisfaction with Democracy on Party Voters	2
Targeted Nativism: Ethnic Diversity and Radical Right Parties in Europe	2
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design	2
Age Inequalities in Political Representation: A Review Article	2
Women's Work: The Gendered Nature of Appointment Politics in Subnational China	2
American Political Violence (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2023)	2
The Macro-Political Context and Interest Groups' Access to Policymakers	2
Identity Politics and Left-wing Populism	2