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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales	42
Issue Information	26
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Movements and Gatekeepers in a Hybrid Media Environment: A Comparison of the Twitter Networks of Corbynism and the People's Vote Movement	18
Business and Politics: A Relationship under Challenge. Introduction	13
The Co‐op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government	13
Indian Islamophobia as Racism	12
Issue Information ‐ TOC	12
Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond	11
How about preventing Islamophobia?	11
About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	10
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	10
Towards a united Ireland?	10
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	10
That Awkward Region: Writing and Advising on the History of Northern Ireland	9
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	9
Brexit as Britain in Decline and its Crises (Revisited)	8
Looking at ‘imperial’ buildings	8
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	8
New Labour in Power: Five Problems of Contemporary History	8
The price of casual labour	8
Should Jews be alarmed?	8
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	7
What's wrong with meritocracy?	7
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	7

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The Future of Football Fanzines: Have they Lost their Voice in this Digitalised and Deregulated Age?	6
Caste Out: Christian Dalits in Pakistan	6
Parliamentary reform: dither and delay	6
Recollecting people messing up with Europe and those who didn't	6
What are Jews for?	6
Starmer's sorry sad saga	6
Funding of Public Service Media in Germany	5
The Conservative Nation since 1974	5
Justice as fairness and social transformation	5
Orwell revisited once again	5
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	5
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	5
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Some wars are rational	5
Concealed silences in politics	5
The BBC: demystify, but not defund	4
How to be a ‘spin’ dictator	4
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	4
Collective Ministerial Responsibility in British Government: the Testing of a Convention, 2010–2019	4
The socialist republic of South Yorkshire in the 1980s	4
‘Full‐Fat, Semi‐Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit	4
Is ‘left populism’ still relevant?	4
Nothing works, but plenty to do	4
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Is inequality really not that bad?	3
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The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility	3
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	3
Such a Thing as Society: The Conservative Party, Social Liberalism, and the One Nation Tradition since the Cameron Era	3
Besting Monarchy: The Anti‐Classism Argument	3
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	3
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	3
The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion	3
Chronicles of Tory chaos	3
From Fact‐checking to Value‐checking: Normative Reasoning in the New Public Sphere	3
Irish Unification After Brexit: Old and New Political Identities?	3
Twenty Years on: The Impact and Legacy of the Private Finance Initiative in UK Schools	3
Do Celebrities Make Policy?	2
The New Politics of Public Inquiries	2
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System	2
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	2
Trust, Governance, and the Covid‐19 Pandemic: an Explainer using Longitudinal Data from the United Kingdom	2
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	2
Scrutiny of Police Institutions and the Spectre of Culture	2
The Missing Politics of UK Pensions Provision	2
A Speech to Win an Election: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	2
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	2
History as ‘An Excellent Cow Yielding the Butter One Wants’	2
Facing the Future of Crime: A Framework for Police Use of Technology	2

An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	2
The Politics of Unpolitics	2
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	2
The Politics and Pitfalls of Policing High‐Volume Crime: Responding to the Shoplifting Epidemic	2
A New Mode of Protection: The Case for Redesigning our Policing and Public Safety Institutions	2
Populism, Hegemony and Agency: Left Economics after Corbynism	2
Local Leaflets: Constituency Issue Messaging at the 2024 General Election	2
Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?	2
The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History	2
Defunding the Police is Good for our Mental Health	2
Sex and the Office for National Statistics: A Case Study in Policy Capture	2
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	2
Voting into a Void? The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly Election	1
Raising the Pension Age	1
The Fundamentals of Public Ownership: Learning from UK Historical Experience and Recent Scottish Policy	1
Harry and Meghan Shine a Light on Monarchy, and its Demands	1
Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics	1
Misogyny in the Criminal Justice System	1
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	1
The limits of identity politics	1
Softly softly, or not so softly?	1
Is identity the main divide in Britain now?	1
Mute Force and Ignorance: Incivility and Gender in Scotland	1
The Conservative Nation Redivivus?	1
Tocqueville's nationalist dilemma	1
A ‘normal’ European country: Scotland?	1
Why are we equals? Just because?	1
Introduction: Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?	1
What Would the British Party System Look Like under Proportional Representation?	1
Justice and states	1
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	1
Preparing for Government	1
Towards the Vernacular, Away from Politics? Political History after the ‘New Political History’	1
Death and/or taxes	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	1
Funding Anti‐Gender Politics in Europe	1
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	1
How different are we from cats?	1
How Do We Write the History of Brexit?	1
The Neoconservative Party, or Conservatism without Tradition?	1
Still believing in the glorious promise of the internet?	1
Fake News, Epistemic Coverage and Trust	1
Issue Information	1
Politics, the Constitution and the Independence Movement in Scotland since Devolution	1
The BBC World Service: is it Waving or Drowning?	1
The Historic, Present and Future Role of Regulation in Securing the Standards of ‘Public Value’ Media	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
Labour and the Patriot Game	1
Britain alone? Or, soon, England alone?	1
A journey from traditional Cold War mindset	1
Democracy: not yet declining or falling	1
China's Media Warfare	1
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	1
‘And I Hereby Declare the Runner‐Up to be the Winner’: The Extraordinary 2021 DUP Leadership Election	1
A storm of complexity	1
Our old enemy: influenza	1
How Should a Progressive Parliament Advance Proportional Representation?	1
BBC Funding: Much Ado about the Cost of a Coffee a Week	1
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	1
China vsUSA: is China bound to win?	1
Hella Pick: from Kindertransport child no. 4672 to world journalist	1