OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Parliamentary Affairs is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From Jean-Marie to Marine Le Pen: Electoral Change on the Far Right	99
From Big Government to Big Society: Changing the State-Society Balance	65
Questions to the Prime Minister: A Comparative Study of PMQs from Thatcher to Cameron	42
Britain's First Live Televised Party Leaders' Debate: From the News Cycle to the Political Information Cycle	41
Pressure Politics: From 'Insider' Politics to Direct Action?	40
Does Citizenship Education Work? Evidence from a Decade of Citizenship Education in Secondary Schools in England	34
Mainstreaming in Westminster and Whitehall: From Labour's Ministry for Women to the Women and Equality Unit	32
Party Gate-Keeping and Women's Appointment to Parliamentary Committees: Evidence from the Italian Case	25
Determinants of Party Cohesion: Evidence from the Case of the Israeli Parliament1	24
Italian Politics and the 1992 Elections: From ‘Stable Instability’ to Instability and Change	23
Enhancing the Substantive Representation of Women: Lessons from Transitions to Democracy	23
From Coalition to Catastrophe: The Electoral Meltdown of the Liberal Democrats	21
Votes At 16: New Insights from Scotland on Enfranchisement	19
Do Ethnic Minority Candidates Mobilise Ethnic Minority Voters? Evidence from the 2010 UK General Election	19
Parliamentary Activity, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote. Evidence from Flexible-List Systems	18
Austria: a democracy under threat from the freedom party?	17
Public service reform from Thatcher to Blair: a third way	17
Local Government: From Modernisation to Consolidation	16
Committee Assignments: Theories, Causes and Consequences	15
Ideology and Party Switching: A Comparison of 12 West European Countries	14
Productivity and Reselection in a Party-based Environment: Evidence from the Portuguese Case	13
Politics and Popular Music: From Policing to Packaging	13
Two Faces of Party Unity: Roll-Call Behavior and Vote Explanations in the German Bundestag	13
From Dutch disease to Dutch model? Consensus government in practice	13
Power behind the Scenes: The Importance of Informal Space in Legislatures1	13

Values and the Votes from Mitterrand to Hollande: The Rise of the Two-axis Politics	12
Political Disaffection: What We Can Learn from Asking the People	12
Same Species, Different Breed: The Conditional Effect of Legislator Activities in Parliament on Re-Selection in a Mixed-Member Electoral System	12
Italy: the extreme right comes in from the cold	12
Money, Sex and Broken Promises: Politicians’ Bad Behaviour Reduces Trust	11
From Membership to Management? The Future of Political Parties as Democratic Organisations	11
Sweden’s Parliamentary Democracy at 100	10
Between Diversity, Representation and ‘Best Evidence’: Rethinking Select Committee Evidence-Gathering Practices	10
A Matter of Life or Death: A Survey Experiment on the Perceived Legitimacy of Political Decision-Making on Euthanasia	9
The Rise of Court Government? Testing the Centralisation of Power Thesis with Longitudinal Data from Canada	9
The National Audit Office and the Select Committee System 1979–2019	9
Are Backbenchers Fighting Back? Intra-Party Contestation in German Parliament Debates on the Greek Crisis	9
With Happiness and Glory, from your MP: The Use of e-Newsletters in the UK Parliaments	9
A Case of ‘You Can Always Get What You Want’? Committee Assignments in the European Parliament	9
The Politics of Parliamentary Reform: Lessons from the House of Commons (2001–2005)	9
Towards Regulation in the UK: From 'General Good Sense' to 'Formalised Rules'	8
Chairing UK Select Committees: Walking Between Friends and Foes	8
Local and National Voting in British Elections: Lessons from the Synchro-Polls of 1979	8
How Public Engagement Became a Core Part of the House of Commons Select Committees	8
‘For the Many, Not the Few’: Strategising the Campaign Trail at the 2017 UK General Election	7
From One of Us to One of Them: The Socialisation of New MPs	7
A Means to an End and an End in Itself: Select Committee Membership, Parliamentary Roles and Parliamentary Careers, 1979–Present	7
Conservative Feminists? An Exploration of Feminist Arguments in Parliamentary Debates of the Bundestag1	7
Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)	7
Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal	7
Political Parties and MPs’ Morality Policy Voting Behaviour: Evidence from Germany	7
France: the front national from crossroads to crossroads?	7
Effects of the Mixed Parallel Electoral System in Lithuania: The Worst of All Worlds?	6
Recall of MPs in the UK: 'If I Were You I Wouldn't Start from Here'	6
Developing Democracy in Kosova: From Grass Roots to Government	6
Balancing Costs of Legislative Party Switching in the Danish Parliament 1953–2015	6
The Televised Leaders' Debate in Britain: From Talking Heads to Headless Chickens	6
Select Committees and Brexit: Parliamentary Influence in a Divisive Policy Area	6
Intra-Party Group Unity in the European Parliament Prior to its First Direct Elections in 1979	6
Prompting Legislative Agreement and Loyalty: What Role for Intra-Party Democracy?	6
Switzerland: right-wing and xenophobic parties, from margin to mainstream?	6