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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Levelling Up	42
The Pork Barrel Politics of the Towns Fund	27
The Ambiguous Ideology of Levelling Up	26
Reflections on COP26: International Diplomacy, Global Justice and the Greening of Capitalism	23
The Politics of Covid Vaccine Hesitancy and Opposition	18
Thinking Globally about Attitudes to Immigration: Concerns about Social Conflict, Economic Competition and Cultural Threat	13
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda	12
The 2022 World Cup and Migrants' Rights in Qatar: Racialised Labour Hierarchies and the Influence of Racial Capitalism	12
Covid‐19 and Football: Crisis Creates Opportunity	11
English Devolution and the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Governing Dilemmas in the Shadow of the Treasury	11
Conservative Party Statecraft and the Johnson Government	11
Beyond Euro‐Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti‐racism	10
From Fact‐checking to Value‐checking: Normative Reasoning in the New Public Sphere	10
Sex and the Office for National Statistics: A Case Study in Policy Capture	10
Trust, Governance, and the Covid‐19 Pandemic: an Explainer using Longitudinal Data from the United Kingdom	10
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	9
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	9
The Brexit Negotiations and the Anglosphere	8
Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales	8
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons	8
As You Were: The Scottish Parliament Election of 2021	8
UK‐US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’	8
Brexit as Britain in Decline and its Crises (Revisited)	8
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	7
The Forward March of Devolution Halted—and the Limits of Progressive Unionism	7

The 2021 Metro Mayors Elections: Localism Rebooted?	7
Questions of Sovereignty: Redefining Politics in Scotland?	6
Business, Government and Policy‐making Capacity: UK Energy and Net Zero Transitions	6
Elite Studies: for a New Approach	6
Germany's Federal Election of 2021: Multi‐Crisis Politics and the Consolidation of the Six‐Party System	6
Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK	6
Class Composition, Labour's Strategy and the Politics of Work	6
One Man's Damage: The Consequences of Boris Johnson's Assault on the British Political System	6
Big Tech Lobbying in the EU	6
The Degenerative Tendencies of Long‐Serving Governments…1963…1996…2009…the Conservatives in 2022?	6
Post Brexit and Post‐Covid: Reflections on the Contemporary Conservative Party	5
Walking the Dark Side: Evading Parliamentary Scrutiny	5
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	5
The Future of Northern Ireland: the Role of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Institutions	5
Strategies for Climate Change Post COP26	5
What Social Media Facilitates, Social Media should Regulate: Duties in the New Public Sphere	5
Women Voters Taking the Wheel?	5
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work	5
Clear Blue Water? The 2019 Party Manifestos	5
Indian Islamophobia as Racism	5
Welsh Devolution and the Union: Reform Debates after Brexit	4
Scotland’s Faltering Green Industrial Revolution	4
Fake News, Epistemic Coverage and Trust	4
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	4
Mainstreaming Authoritarianism	4
The Politics of Unpolitics	4
The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK	4
The Remaking of Conservatism: Boris Johnson and the Politics of Brexit	4
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia	4
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	3
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	3
South Korea: The Lasting Pitfalls of the ‘Imperial Presidency’	3
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?	3
‘Reopen the Coal Mines’? Deindustrialisation and the Labour Party	3
Industrial Policies or Industrial Strategy: The Difficulty of Enacting Long‐Term Supply‐Side Reform in the UK	3
Destroying one Public Service Bargain Without Making Another: A Comment on Lowe and Pemberton, The Official History of the British Civil Service, Volume II: 1982–1997	3
The Future of Football Fanzines: Have they Lost their Voice in this Digitalised and Deregulated Age?	3
A Social Guarantee to Meet Everyone's Needs within Environmental Limits	3
Looking for Starmerism	3
The Labour Party Under Keir Starmer: ‘Thanks, But no “isms” Please!’	3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy	3
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	3
‘This Really has the Potential to Destroy us’: Jeremy Corbyn's Management of the Problem of Anti‐semitism in the Labour Party¹	3
Racism towards the Chinese Minority in Malaysia: Political Islam and Institutional Barriers	3
A Strategic Left? Starmerism, Pluralism and the Soft Left	3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	2
From ‘Judicial Mind’ to ‘Democratic Soul’: Law and Politics on the Bureaucratic Frontline	2
Thatcherism and Brexit as Political Projects	2
Exploring Sovereignty in Scotland	2
‘A Mood in the Air … Like 1945’: Democratic Socialism and the Post‐Corbyn Labour Party	2

The Elite Education of Education Secretaries	2
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?	2
The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility	2
Independence is not Going Away: The Importance of Education and Birth Cohorts	2
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	2
The Changing of the Praetorian Guard? The Size, Structure and Composition of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee and the Enduring Importance of Labour's Trade Unions	2
Back to the Stone Age: Europe's Mainstream Right and Climate Change	2
Walking the Tightrope: Private and Public Interests in Conservative Immigration Policy	2
Dobbs v. Jackson and the Revival of the States' Rights Constitution	2
Women, Civility and the Language of Politics: Realities and Representations	2
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	2
State Racism and Surveillance in Xinjiang (People's Republic of China)	2
The Problems of Starmerism	2
Rethinking the Post‐Truth Polarisation Narrative: Social Roles and Hinge Commitments in the Plural Public Sphere	2
Our Man in Madrid: Bullfighting Enters the Political Arena	2
Voting into a Void? The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly Election	2
Unprecedented Times, a Very Precedented Result: the 2021 Senedd Election	2
The Missing Politics of UK Pensions Provision	2
Collective Ministerial Responsibility in British Government: the Testing of a Convention, 2010–2019	2
The Politics of Power and of Support: Introduction to an Andrew Gamble Inspired Special Section on the Conservative Party	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	1
Introduction: Corbynism and its Aftermath	1
The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion	1
Choosing the Conservative Leader: a View from History	1
Bad Piano? Bad Music? A Response to Comments on Lowe and Pemberton, The Official History of the British Civil Service, Volume II: 1982–1997	1
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?	1
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	1
International Best Practice and the Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission	1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1
Parliament's One‐Year Review of the Coronavirus Act 2020: Another Example of Parliament's Marginalisation in the Covid‐19 Pandemic	1
Misogyny in the Criminal Justice System	1
Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West	1
Mute Force and Ignorance: Incivility and Gender in Scotland	1
From ‘I Think’ to ‘I Feel’	1
Keeping Democracies Alive: The Role of Public Service Media	1
How (Not) to Form a Progressive Alliance: Lessons from the History of Left Cooperation	1
Cricket, Englishness and Racial Thinking	1
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	1
Anti‐feminist Conservative Women Intellectuals and the Rhetoric of Reaction	1
Irish Unification After Brexit: Old and New Political Identities?	1
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The Guardian and Press Reform: a Wheel Come Full Circle	1
Demanding the Impossible: Public Procurement as Industrial Strategy	1
Business and Politics: A Relationship under Challenge. Introduction	1
Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination: Introduction	1
The New Trading ‘Relationship’ between Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Why, What and How	1
Why the Everyday Economy is the Innovation Labour Needs	1
The Road to Victory Runs Through Scotland? Prospects for Labour in the Post‐Sturgeon Era	1
The Future of Irish‐UK Relations: Borders and Identities after Brexit: Introduction	1
A Woman's Place is in the House: Reclaiming Civility, Tolerance and Respect in Political Life	1
How Do We Write the History of Brexit?	1
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	1
The Conservative Nation Redivivus?	1
Women and Civility in British Politics: Reflections on a Changing Environment	1
‘Since this is a Document of Record’: Collecting the Oral Histories of the Brexit Parliament	1
Populism, Hegemony and Agency: Left Economics after Corbynism	1
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	1
A New Mode of Protection: The Case for Redesigning our Policing and Public Safety Institutions	1
Prawn Cocktails and Cold Shoulders: Labour, the Conservatives and the City of London since the 1990s	1
Twenty Years on: The Impact and Legacy of the Private Finance Initiative in UK Schools	1
Those who Wear the Crown Wield the Knife: the Brutality of Recent Takeover Reshuffles	1
What's wrong with meritocracy?	1
The Role of Multi‐Level Governance in Shaping Regional Growth and Competitiveness in the Basque Country	1
The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History	1
Talking to Voters about the ‘Everyday Economy’	1
Why Wouldn't They Be Reconciled? Corbyn's Leadership and the Recalcitrance of the Parliamentary Labour Party	1
New Jerusalems? The Labour Party's Economic Policy‐Making in Hard Times	1
A Second Scottish Independence Referendum: Should the Diaspora get a Vote?	1
Britain’s Choice: Polarisation or Cohesion	1
The Antinomies of Insurgency: The Case of the Scottish National Party	1
Labour and the Patriot Game	1
Farmer Protests and Income Developments in the EU	1
Three English By‐Elections–What Have we Learned?	1
The Neoconservative Party, or Conservatism without Tradition?	1
A Farewell to Northern Ireland? Constitutional Options for Irish Unity	1
Facing the Future of Crime: A Framework for Police Use of Technology	1