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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding politicians’ discourse on inflation and cost of living in Canada	24
Shifting sands: Sources of voter volatility in the 2024 UK General Election in Scotland	17
Representation of the UK Parliament’s Power in the National Media: Too Weak, or Too Strong?	14
Leveraging automated technologies for law-making in Italy: Generative AI and constitutional challenges	13
Correction to: E-petitioning Parliament: Understanding the connections between citizens and the UK Parliament	12
Duration of coalition formation in the German states: Inertia and familiarity in a multilevel setting	11
Democracy by algorithm? Public attitudes towards AI in parliamentary decision-making in the UK and Japan	11
Leadership capital and coalition formation: office-seeking in the 2010 UK hung parliament	10
Media coverage of the 2024 elections for the European Parliament in the UK and Turkey: outsiders’ perspectives on the rise of the far right	9
You are unmuted: The impact of virtual arrangements on women and old age legislators’ participation during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
It’s Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates	8
Editorial: On the Aims and Scope of Parliamentary Affairs	7
When scandals fail to reform: media pressure, policy windows, and financial-integrity reform at Westminster	7
Correction to: Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation	7
Fear-based self-legitimation in the institutional climate change discourse: Case study of the European Parliament’s online communication	7
Parliamentary questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and parliamentary administration	6
Evaluating the UK Parliament’s career transition scheme for departing MPs	6
(De)polarizing words: How elite rhetoric shapes affective polarization toward the radical right	5
‘We Can’t Afford to be a Branch Office’: The Territorial Dynamics of the British Labour Party, 2015–2019	5
Paralysed Governments: How Political Constraints Elicit Cabinet Termination	5
After the party: motivations for volunteer recruitment and retention in independent election campaigns	5
Controlling or blaming? How members of parliament use performance audit reports	5
Does Party Colour Matter? The Effect of Government Partisanship on Pledges’ Left–Right Location	4
Parliamentarians’ perspectives on parenthood and politics in Canada’s House of Commons	4
Candidates nomination strategy in a mixed electoral system: Evidence from the 2022 Italian general election	4

An inexperienced parliament	4
Gender, Political Dynasties, and Committee Assignments: Evidence From Indonesia	4
The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election	4
Grassroots lobbying in Germany: Are moderately and greatly supported public petitions effective?	4
Using social media to communicate competence, ordinariness, and authenticity in political leadership	4
Gauging the roles of parliamentary staff	3
District Variation in Party System Competition and Women’s Candidacy in Proportional Representation Systems	3
E-petitioning Parliament: Understanding the connections between citizens and the UK Parliament	3
The 2024 UK General Election in Wales	3
The Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Plotting the route to a shallow landslide	3
Party finance: Labour exploits its advantage	3
Personal networks and parliamentary experience: why opposition initiated legislative proposals are adopted	3
Moralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak parties	3
When politicians feel pressure to represent: Evidence from South Africa	3
Correction to: Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	3
The first TikTok election? Social media, generative AI, and data-driven campaigning in the 2024 UK General Election	3
Working at home: Individual level drivers of MEPs’ focus on constituency work	3
MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?	3
Practice makes ‘perfect’? The effect of committee specialization on the complexity of parliamentary speeches	2
Shaping reform: the role of experts in the constitutional revision process. The case of Italy	2
Flag politics: explaining the meaning, failure, and persistence of the proposal for a new flag in Northern Ireland	2
Social media homophily among women and men political candidates	2
The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding	2
Representative practices of independents: How Australia’s community independents perform representation	2
Parliament’s glass ceiling: The presence of female academic experts in Belgian parliamentary hearings	2
Disability inclusion in the House of Commons: A new institutionalism story	2
There may be trouble ahead: Women’s representation, voters, and issues in the 2024 election campaign	2
A conceptual framework for understanding parliamentary skills and competences: bridging public policy and legislative studies	2
Few but good? The effects of the reduction of parliamentary seats on the socio-professional profile and political careers of Italian MPs	2
The results: How Britain voted in 2024	2
An unstable Union? The Conservative Party, the British Political Tradition, and devolution in Scotland and Wales 2010–23	2
How (and when) does party matter? Explaining MPs’ positions on assisted dying/assisted suicide	2
Rational and ambitious legislators? Role theory, between open questions and new applicability	2
Transitional Support for Former Members of Parliament: Benchmarks for ‘Professional Parliaments’	2
Burden Reduction: An Evaluation of Statutory Instruments in the UK Government’s Regulatory Off-setting and Business Impact Target Initiatives 2010–2019	2
Representation of the unenfranchised: The parliamentary representation of EU citizens in the UK after Brexit	2
Backbench roles in the twenty-first century UK House of Commons: a Latent Class Analysis	2
Digital integration in political advertising: Insights from expenditures in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections	1
Questions to the Prime Minister in the Canadian House of Commons: Transformation or tweak?	1
Enduring inequalities in British politics: Muslim women in the Labour Party	1
‘Trust the messenger’: Public trust in sources of information on COVID-19	1
The influence of school visits by politicians on young people’s attitudes towards politics	1
Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK?	1
Friendly foes or enemies within? Assessing the (in)stability of coalition governments with populists in Europe	1
Cleaning Up UK Politics: What Would Better Lobbying Regulation Look Like?	1
Northern Ireland: Sinn Féin completes a hat-trick	1
Targeting the cereal woman: Campaigns, gender, and Scottish independence	1
The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?	1
Ideological polarization in roll call votes in constitutional conventions: The case of Chile in 2021–2	1
The Domain of the Right? Explaining National Parliamentary Preferences on EU-Related Self-Empowerment	1

An Analysis of the Group Bases of British Politics: 1983–2019	1
What Do We Call an ‘MP’? On Categories of Thought in the Anthropology of Parliaments	1
The changing relationship between new cleavages and policy outcomes	1
Parliamentary dimension of the Council presidency: Testing a research framework through the case of the 2016 Dutch rotating presidency of the EU	1
Post-parliamentary career in recent Turkish politics: The post-2002 period	1
Political Parties and Civility in Parliament: The Case of Australia from 1901 to 2020	1
Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe	1
Ethnic minority voters and the 2024 General Election	1
Parliamentary signalling and party factionalism: the Labour Party under Keir Starmer	1
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	1
Conclusion: A time to take stock	1
Media coverage of feminine policy issues and electoral consequences: an analysis of mixed electoral system	1
The Irish general election of 2024: A battle lost before it was fought?	1
Instability and inequality in the British state	1
‘Down amongst the bins and potholes’: The evolving roles of local government councillors in Scotland	1
From representation to meritocracy: Understanding professionalization of the political class through UK parliamentary pay debates, 1911–2011	1
Making the Case for More Politicians: A Survey Experiment to Investigate Public Attitudes to an Expanded Welsh Parliament	1