OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Government and Opposition is 6. 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
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
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 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
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	11
Performing Crisis? Trump, Populism and the GOP in the Age of COVID-19	11
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
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
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	9
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
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
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	7
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
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
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