OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Parliamentary Affairs is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’	12
How to Deal with Executive Secrecy? Opposition Perspectives and Practices in the German Bundestag	9
The Fix is in? Parliamentary Scrutiny of Appointments of the Heads of Brazilian Regulatory Agencies	9
Does Party Colour Matter? The Effect of Government Partisanship on Pledges’ Left–Right Location	8
Behind the Scenes: What is Parliamentary Performance and How Can We Measure It?	8
A Mobile Phone in One Hand and Erskine May in the Other: The European Research Group’s Parliamentary Revolution	8
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal	8
Weaponizing women and gender: Party appeals to women voters ahead of the 2024 UK general election	7
Legislative Behaviour of MPs in the Czech Republic in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic	7
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	6
Representation of the UK Parliament’s Power in the National Media: Too Weak, or Too Strong?	6
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments	6
Making the Case for More Politicians: A Survey Experiment to Investigate Public Attitudes to an Expanded Welsh Parliament	6
Interest Groups’ Recruitment of Incumbent Parliamentarians to Their Boards	6
When the Worlds of Preferences Collide: Determinants of MP’s Attitudes on the Italian Questione Romana 1861–1870	5
Selecting Sunak: Conservative MPs’ Nomination Preferences in the (Second) British Conservative Party Leadership Election	5
Leveraging automated technologies for law-making in Italy: Generative AI and constitutional challenges	5
Rural Decline and Spatial Voting Patterns	5
Exploring Responses to the Collapse of Devolution in Northern Ireland 2017–2020 through the Lens of Multi-Level Governance	5
Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe	5
Against the Void: Constituency Work and Connection Building Evidence from Australia	5
Which MPs get elevated to the UK House of Lords?	5
Towards the Substantive Representation of Women: A Study of the Indonesian Women’s Parliamentary Caucus	5
The past, Present and Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	4
Political Parties and Civility in Parliament: The Case of Australia from 1901 to 2020	4

Rethinking Defection: An Analysis of Anti-defection Laws in India	4
Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization	4
What Factors Shape the Substantive Representation of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Parliament? Testing the Impact of Minority Membership, Political Values and Awareness	4
Do Constitutional Preferences Affect Citizens’ Representational Choices? Evidence from the Devolved UK	4
Moralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak parties	4
Leader Change, Time in Office and the Determinants of Voter Perceptions	4
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees: The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee’s New Independent Expert Panel	4
Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine?	4
Enduring inequalities in British politics: Muslim women in the Labour Party	4
ThePastof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies	4
Gauging the roles of parliamentary staff	3
New Challenger Parties in Opposition: Isolation or Cooperation?	3
Correction to: Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	3
Cleaning Up UK Politics: What Would Better Lobbying Regulation Look Like?	3
District Variation in Party System Competition and Women’s Candidacy in Proportional Representation Systems	3
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments	3
Negative Interplay between Cabinet and Opposition Agendas: Evidence from Croatia	3
Law Making Activities during Lame Duck Sessions in Indonesia (1997–2020)	3
Digital Mandates and Their Management: Strategies for Usage of Social Media by Brazilian Federal Legislators	3
Australian Parties, Not Voters, Drive Under-Representation of Women	3