OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Studies 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
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	132
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	29
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	28
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	28
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	25
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	24
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	21
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	21
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	20
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	17
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy	16
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	16
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	15
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	15
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	13
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust: The 2016 UK EU Membership Referendum	13
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	11
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	10
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	9
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	8
Perceived Deprivation and Voter Turnout in Austria: Do Views on Social Inequality Moderate the Deprivation—Abstention Nexus?	8
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	8

Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	8
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	8
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	8
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	7
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	7
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	6
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	6
Citizen Responses to Ethnic Representation	6
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	6
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	5
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)	5
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus	5
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	4
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	4
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	4
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US	4
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	4
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	4
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	4
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	4
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence	4
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	4
Intergenerational Exploitation	4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	4
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	4
Comradely Critique	4
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values	4

Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting	3
How Attitudes on Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Core Populist Radical Right Values Combine in Diverging Ideological Constellations Among Populist Radical Right-Inclined Voters	3
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources	3
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default	3
Navigating the Secular Landscape: Religious Discourse on Transgender Rights in the United Kingdom	3
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	3
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change	3
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	3
Narrative Counterspeech	3
Partisanship and Tolerance for Clientelism: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Romania	3
Structural Change Through ‘Collective Action as Democratic Practice’: Linking Grassroots Democracy With Social Justice	3
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote	3
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation	3
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?	3
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach	3
Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens	3
Small-Scale Deliberation and Mass Democracy: A Systematic Review of the Spillover Effects of Deliberative Minipublics	3
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela	3
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions	3
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	2
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	2
‘The Talk’: Risk, Racism and Family Relationships	2
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power	2
The New Authoritarianism in Public Choice	2
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion	2
The Logic of Brokerage: Why Interest Organizations Network with Their Opponents	2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’	2
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?	2
Why Was There a Hard Brexit? The British Legislative Party System, Divided Majorities and the Incentives for Factionalism	2
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics	2
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	2
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature	2
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations	2
Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election	1
Power to the People? How Participatory Budgets Affect Citizens’ Populist Attitudes	1
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK	1
The Effect of Spotlight on the Allocation of Voter Attention: Evidence From Block-Voting Ballots	1
Does Digital Campaigning Make a Difference for Individual Candidates in an Open List Proportional Representation System? The Case of the 2019 Election in Belgium	1
What Explains Interest Group Prominence in Parliamentary Speech? Policy Agenda, Partisanship, or Conflict Expansion	1
Revisiting the Base in Evidence-Based Policy	1
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence	1
Pragmatism and Associative Political Obligations	1
Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence	1
To Praise or Pressure? Patterns of Social Media Advocacy in Times of COVID-19	1
Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media	1
Does Schooling Increase Political Belief Accuracy?	1
Macroeconomic Sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: A Republican Approach	1
‘We Didn’t Know What We Were Eating Tomorrow’: How Class Origin Shapes the Political Outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain	1
Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity	1
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn	1
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation	1
Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters?	1
Unpacking Technological Risks: Different Sources of Concern and Policy Preferences	1
Capable but Not Empowered? How Emancipative Values Affect Protest Participation Across Different Contexts	1
What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teach	1
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy	1
Politics for Survival: Ideological Control and Corporate Strategic Behavior	1
Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe	1
Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation	1
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions	1
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality	1
Do We Live in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era?	1
Governing As If the Future Obliged the Present: A Scenario Exercise in Prefigurative Climate Policy	1
Media Freedom and the Escalation of State Violence	1
Deterrent or Stimulus? How Perceived Societal Stigma Affects Participation in Populist Radical Right Parties	1
Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey	1
Not Just ‘Sinking Islands’: Climate Change and Adaptation in Small Island Developing States	1
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	1
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice	1
Bordering: Australia’s Policy to Border During COVID-19	1
Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart?	1
From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel	1
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	1
How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment?	1
Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics	1
Kimonos, Ponchos and Blue Jeans: The Politics of Clothing in Alberto Fujimori’s Performative Populism	1
Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance	1