OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Parliamentary Affairs is 1. 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
Digital Intra-Party Democracy: An Exploratory Analysis of Podemos and the Labour Party	12
Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)	10
How Do Coronavirus Attitudes Fit into Britain’s Ideological Landscape?	9
Complements or Substitutes? The Interdependence between Coalition Agreements and Parliamentary Questions as Monitoring Mechanisms in Coalition Governments	9
Populist but Pluralist? Populist Attitudes and Preferences for Political Pluralism in Parliament and Government	8
Vandenberg Vanished: US Congress and the Politicisation of Military Interventions	8
Do Anti-Elitist Parties Use Their Parliamentary Tools Differently?	8
How Far Can Populist Governments Go? The Impact of the Populist Government on the Hungarian Parliament	7
Lowering the Voting Age to 16 in Practice: Processes and Outcomes Compared	7
What Factors Shape the Substantive Representation of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Parliament? Testing the Impact of Minority Membership, Political Values and Awareness	7
Styles of Representation in Constituencies in the Homeland and Abroad: The Case of Italy	7
Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?	6
Understanding the Emergence of Extreme Right Parties in Portugal in the Late 2010s	6
How Women Shape Negativity in Parliamentary Speeches—A Sentiment Analysis of Debates in the Austrian Parliament	6
Parliaments Facing the Virtual Challenge: A Conceptual Approach for New Models of Representation	6
Feminist Institutional Change: The Case of the UK Women and Equalities Committee	6
Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election	5
Long Hours, Uneasy Feelings: Parliamentary Work in Denmark, Finland and Sweden	5
Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’	5
Ministerial Advisers as Power Resources: Exploring Expansion, Stability and Contraction in Westminster Ministers’ Offices	5
Did Theresa May Kill the War Powers Convention? Comparing Parliamentary Debates on UK Intervention in Syria in 2013 and 2018	5
Behind the Scenes: What is Parliamentary Performance and How Can We Measure It?	5
Can Opposition Parties Be Responsible?	5
Exploring the Substantive Representation of Non-Humans in UK Parliamentary Business: A Legislative Functions Perspective of Animal Welfare Petitions, 2010–2019	5
Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	5

Incumbency and Identity: The 2021 Senedd Election	4
Do Coalition Governments with Populist Parties Attempt to Rationalise Law-Making in Parliaments? Evidence from the Czech Chamber of Deputies	4
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments	4
Disempowerment through the Backdoor: The Impact of Populist Parties on the National Parliament in Poland	4
Implementing Public Accounts Committee Recommendations: Evidence from the UK Government’s ‘Progress Reports’ since 2012	4
Australian Parties, Not Voters, Drive Under-Representation of Women	4
Against the Void: Constituency Work and Connection Building Evidence from Australia	4
Standing Up for the Nations? Devolution and the Changing Territorial Role of Backbench MPs with Constituencies in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1992–2019	4
Mobilizing or Chasing Voters on Facebook? Analysing Echo-Chamber Effects at the UK Parliamentary General Election 2019	4
Exploring Responses to the Collapse of Devolution in Northern Ireland 2017–2020 through the Lens of Multi-Level Governance	4
Groupthink, Polythink and the Challenges of Decision-Making in Cabinet Government	4
The Electoral Consequences of Scandals: A Meta-Analysis	3
Digital Mandates and Their Management: Strategies for Usage of Social Media by Brazilian Federal Legislators	3
The Referendum in the UK’s Constitution: From Parliamentary to Popular Sovereignty?	3
OUP accepted manuscript	3
Gendered Patterns of Committee Assignments—To What Extent Are Women in Parliamentary Party Groups Game Changers?	3
Speaking for the Voiceless? Representative Claims-Making on Behalf of Future Generations in Belgium	3
New Challenger Parties in Opposition: Isolation or Cooperation?	3
Whatever Happened to the Progressive Case for the Union? How Scottish Labour’s Failure to Subsume a Clearly Left of Centre Identity with a Pro-Union One Helps to Explain Its Decline	3
Selecting Sunak: Conservative MPs’ Nomination Preferences in the (Second) British Conservative Party Leadership Election	3
How Does the Strength of the Far Right Affect Ethnic Minority Political Behaviour?	3
Public Support for Votes at 16 in the UK: The Effects of Framing on Rights and Policy Change	3
Do Members of Parliament Express More Opposition in the Plenary than in the Committee? Comparing Frontstage and Backstage Behaviour in Five National Parliaments	3
Interest Groups’ Recruitment of Incumbent Parliamentarians to Their Boards	3
Confrontational but Respecting the Rules: The Minor Impact of the Finns Party on Legislative–Executive Relations	2
The State of the Sub-discipline: Mapping Parliamentary and Legislative Studies Using a Survey and Bibliometric Analysis of Three of Its Journals	2
Guns for Votes: Wedge Politics in the Canadian Multiparty System	2
The Voter ID Debate: An Analysis of Political Elite Framing in the UK Parliament	2
MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?	2
Legislative Behaviour of MPs in the Czech Republic in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic	2
Introduction: The ‘Votes-at-16’ Debate in the UK	2
Decision Responsiveness and the Legitimacy of Public Agencies	2
Party Quotas and Gender Differences in Candidate Experience in Australia: 1987–2016	2
Custodians of the Palace of Westminster	2
Missing an Opportunity? The Limited Civic Imagination of Votes at 16	2
Rewarding Some, But Not All? The Selectoral Consequences of Parliamentary Activity for Newcomers and Experienced MPs in Belgium (1995–2019)	2
Catalysing Marginalisation? The Effect of Populist Governments on the Legislative and Scrutiny Functions of the Italian Parliament	2
Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud	2
Bicameral Lawmaking: Analysing the Choices of Revising Chambers	2
Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation, 2017–2019	2
Negative Interplay between Cabinet and Opposition Agendas: Evidence from Croatia	2
Gender, Political Dynasties, and Committee Assignments: Evidence From Indonesia	1
Parliamentary Committees and Ex-post Oversight: Institutional Options and Design	1
‘We Can’t Afford to be a Branch Office’: The Territorial Dynamics of the British Labour Party, 2015–2019	1
Legitimacy of the Suspension of Standing Orders: The Case of the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of Malaysia	1
Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t: The Use of Prime Ministerial Discretion and the Royal Prerogative	1
What Are Petitions Good for? Institutional Design and Democratic Functions	1
Non-Legislative Actions and Party ‘Brand’: Evidence from the Mexican Congress	1
Towards the Substantive Representation of Women: A Study of the Indonesian Women’s Parliamentary Caucus	1
Trustworthiness, Stability and Productivity of Minority Governments in Australia	1

Representation of the UK Parliament’s Power in the National Media: Too Weak, or Too Strong?	1
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal	1
Party Whips and Expertise: Explaining Committee Switching in the Scottish Parliament	1
Rebels in Parliament: The Effects of Candidate Selection Methods on Legislative Behaviours	1
The state of British policymaking: How can UK government become more effective?	1
The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?	1
Variegated Accountability: Devolved Public Accounts Committees in the UK	1
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	1
Enduring inequalities in British politics: Muslim women in the Labour Party	1
Leader Change, Time in Office and the Determinants of Voter Perceptions	1
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees: The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee’s New Independent Expert Panel	1
The Fix is in? Parliamentary Scrutiny of Appointments of the Heads of Brazilian Regulatory Agencies	1
The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding	1
Regional Parliaments and Democratic Crises: The Performance of ECOWAS and MERCOSUR Parliaments in the Democracy Protection Agenda	1
From Rab to Raab: The Construction of the Office of First Secretary of State	1
Electoral Revolutions: Towards a General Theory of Rapid Changes in Voter Turnout	1
The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	1
How Young People in Scotland Experience the Right to Vote at 16: Evidence on ‘Votes-at-16’ in Scotland from Qualitative Work with Young People	1
The past, Present and Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	1
Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine?	1
Weaponizing women and gender: Party appeals to women voters ahead of the 2024 UK general election	1
When the Worlds of Preferences Collide: Determinants of MP’s Attitudes on the Italian Questione Romana 1861–1870	1