OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Government and Opposition is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?	39
Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019)	33
Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions	28
The Self-Proclaimed Defender of Freedom: The AfD and the Pandemic	28
The Muddle of the ‘Westminster Model’: A Concept Stretched Beyond Repair	23
Who Supports Citizens Selected by Lot to be the Main Policymakers? A Study of French Citizens	22
How Do Mainstream Parties ‘Become’ Mainstream, and Pariah Parties ‘Become’ Pariahs? Conceptualizing the Processes of Mainstreaming and Pariahing in the Labelling of Political Parties	21
Presidential Instability in Latin America: Why Institutionalized Parties Matter	18
‘Stretched But Not Snapped’: A Response to Russell and Serban on Retiring the ‘Westminster Model’	18
The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic	18
Window Dressing? The Mainstreaming Strategy of the Rassemblement National in Power in French Local Government	17
Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review	15
Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S	14
The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics	14
A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US	13
Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison	13
Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland	13
Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance	11
Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19	10
The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland	10
The Rassemblement National and COVID-19: How Nativism, Authoritarianism and Expert Populism Did Not Pay Off during the Pandemic	10
A New Wave of Social Democracy? Policy Change across the Social Democratic Party Family, 1970s–2010s	9
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party: Candidate Selection in the Alternative for Germany	9
The Shifting Relationship between Post-War Capitalism and Democracy (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture, 2021)	9
Performing (during) the Coronavirus Crisis: The Italian Populist Radical Right between National Opposition and Subnational Government	9

Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience	8
The Curious Case of Belgium: Why is There no Right-Wing Populism in Wallonia?	8
Ministers, Gender and Political Appointments	8
Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19	8
With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government	8
The AfD within the AfD: Radical Right Intra-Party Competition and Ideational Change	8
Less Populist in Power? Online Communication of Populist Parties in Coalition Governments	8
Populists in Government: Normal or Exceptional?	7
Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion	7
When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour	7
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa	7
Eroding Support from Below: Performance in Local Government and Opposition Party Growth in South Africa	7
Ruling but not Governing: Tutelary Regimes and the Case of Myanmar	7
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Electoral Autocracies	7
Does Class Shape Legislators’ Approach to Inequality and Economic Policy? A Comparative View	7
Cabinet Reshuffles in Parliamentary Democracies: A Typology and Framework for Comparative Analysis	6
Core Executive Politics in the Cameron Era, 2010–16: The Dynamics of Whitehall Reform	6
Arrived in Power, and Yet Still Disgruntled? How Government Inclusion Moderates ‘Protest Voting’ for Far-Right Populist Parties in Europe	6
More Power, Less Support: The Fidesz Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary	6
Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level: Empirical Evidence from Large Cities in Germany (1999–2016)	6
Collective Power Europe? (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)	6
Performing Crisis? Trump, Populism and the GOP in the Age of COVID-19	5
The Politics of Loyalty: Understanding Voters’ Attitudes after Primary Elections	5
The Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-Handover Hong Kong	5
Personal or Impersonal Evaluations? Political Sophistication and Citizen Conceptions of the Democratic Process	5
The Erdoğan Government's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performance and Actuality in an Authoritarian Context	5
The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession	5
Electoral Engineering in New Democracies: Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia	5
Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany	5
Learning from a Peace Process: Theory, Practice and the Case of Northern Ireland	5