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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
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Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’	25
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement	24
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?	22
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About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)	17
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act	16
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food	15
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?	15
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine	14
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?	13
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy	13
Nostalgia as mental pollution	12
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?	12
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro	12
Why are we equals? Just because?	12
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan	11
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism	11
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism	10
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology	10
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson	9
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction	9
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	9
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’	9
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics	9

How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?	7
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945	7
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State	7
The Moon is a long way away	7
From Donald Dewar to Humza Yousaf: The Role of Scotland's First Ministers and the Importance of Political Leadership	7
Fixing the ‘Polycrisis’ in Local Government Finance: the Limits of More Incremental Reform	7
Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election	7
Putin not as strong as we think he is	6
Brexit and the Death of Devolution	6
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Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit	6
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling	6
The ‘pleonectic’ rift	6
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?	5
American wars and Greek tragedies	5
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation	5
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture	5
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party	5
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs	5
US Republicans and the New Fusionism	5
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told	5
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The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party	4
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission	4
Ideas in Politics in International Context	4
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up	4
Who started the second Cold War?	4
A confusing study of revolutions	4
Business and Politics in the United States	4
Orwell: the good and the bad	3
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism	3
Living (and dying) in America	3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy	3
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police	3
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?	3
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding	3
Israel's Catastrophic Failures	3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary	3
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board	3
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics	3
When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide	3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail	3
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only	3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change	3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?	3
The Conservatives’ Economic Strategy	3
Capitalism's feeding frenzy	3
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?	2
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons	2
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?	2

Localism, Levelling Up and Taking Back Control: Tensions in the Ambiguous Justification of English Devolution	2
Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West	2
French Social Democracy in Turmoil	2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords	2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons	2
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 1974	2
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals	2
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid	2
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century¹	2
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Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?	2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work	2
The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK	2
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?	2
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top	2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies	2
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian	2
Equality can divide	2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary	2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics	2
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia	1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?	1
From Estimating to Explaining and Eliminating Ethnic Disproportionality in Stop and Search	1
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System	1
Cricket, Englishness and Racial Thinking	1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war	1
Unite against Trumpism!	1
Liberty After Neoliberalism	1
Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice	1
Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?	1
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?	1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection	1
Is inequality really not that bad?	1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten	1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats	1
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?	1
The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024	1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?	1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction	1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism	1
Social movements re‐imagine the world	1
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting	1
Where did it all go wrong?	1
Covid and our civil liberties	1
Issue Information	1
Issue Information	1
Bringing the Emigration State Back In	1
Women and the Labour Party: Gender and the Writing of British Political History	1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic	1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right	1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?	1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?	1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English	1
No Wokery, Please, We Are Leftist	1
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday	1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police	1
The New Transition Politics of Net Zero	1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?	1
On Surprises, Strategy, the Economy and What Comes Next for Scottish Independence	1
A storm of complexity	1
The NHS: still worth fighting for, but pick the right battles	1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?	1
Did Covid‐19 transform the European Union into a ‘community of destiny’?	1
Nothing works, but plenty to do	1
Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform	1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers	1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System	1
Towards a New Ireland	1
Starmer's sorry sad saga	1
So, what is terrorism?	1
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	1
The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation	1
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?	1
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election	1