OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Quarterly 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Ministerial Responsibility in British Government: the Testing of a Convention, 2010–2019	23
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	20
The price of casual labour	20
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Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	17
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	16
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Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	15
About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	14
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	12
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	12
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	12
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine	12
The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility	11
From Fact‐checking to Value‐checking: Normative Reasoning in the New Public Sphere	10
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	10
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	9
Why are we equals? Just because?	9
Nostalgia as mental pollution	9
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics	8
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism	8
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	8
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction	8
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	8
Fake News, Epistemic Coverage and Trust	8

Liz Truss between dogma and ideology	8
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’	8
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	8
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	7
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	7
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?	7
The Moon is a long way away	7
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State	7
The ‘pleonectic’ rift	7
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	6
Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election	6
From Donald Dewar to Humza Yousaf: The Role of Scotland's First Ministers and the Importance of Political Leadership	6
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation	6
Free speech: civic value or partisan weapon?	6
Putin not as strong as we think he is	5
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling	5
Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit	5
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	5
It's Tory Principles that Win it: A Response to Ben Jackson (and Anthony Trollope)	5
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	4
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party	4
Is Brexit a manifestation of the ‘reactionary imagination’?	4
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The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	4
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs	4
Gramsci: As modern as ever	4
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	4
A radical future for our universities, or more of the current marketing bullshit?	4
US Republicans and the New Fusionism	4
Business and Politics in the United States	3
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Ideas in Politics in International Context	3
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party	3
‘Since this is a Document of Record’: Collecting the Oral Histories of the Brexit Parliament	3
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission	3
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told	3
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up	3
Living (and dying) in America	3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail	3
American wars and Greek tragedies	3
Who started the second Cold War?	3
A confusing study of revolutions	3
Doom, gloom, and justice	3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?	3
The Conservatives’ Economic Strategy	3
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work	2
Capitalism's feeding frenzy	2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords	2
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	2

French Social Democracy in Turmoil	2
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only	2
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism	2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons	2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary	2
The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK	2
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	2
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals	2
Israel's Catastrophic Failures	2
Unprecedented Times, a Very Precedented Result: the 2021 Senedd Election	2
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy	2
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	2
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?	2
The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024	2
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons	2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	2
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?	2
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change	2
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top	2
Orwell: the good and the bad	2
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board	2
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?	2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	2
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	1
Brexit as Britain in Decline and its Crises (Revisited)	1
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness	1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism	1
The Moral Weight of a Democratic Majority	1
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?	1
Among Italy's outcasts	1
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)	1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	1
A storm of complexity	1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	1
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System	1
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian	1
Nothing works, but plenty to do	1
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century¹	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West	1
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?	1
Equality can divide	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
Starmer's sorry sad saga	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	1
Issue Information	1
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid	1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	1
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Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	1
Is inequality really not that bad?	1
Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK	1
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 1974	1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers	1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	1
Is identity the main divide in Britain now?	1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?	1