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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	42
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	36
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	36
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	31
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	25
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	24
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies	16
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	15
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	15
Better Against Than in Favor: Environmental Issue Voting in the European Elections	14
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	14
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	13
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	13
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	13
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	12
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	11
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	11
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	11
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	11
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	10
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	9
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	9
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	9

Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	9
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	9
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	9
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	9
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	8
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	8
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	8
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	8
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
From Productivism to Post-Productivism: Unpacking the Socio-Economic Conditions for Welfare Development in Six East Asian Economies	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Sortition Within Political Parties	7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
Public Support for Voter ID Laws in the UK: How Citizens Weigh Electoral Integrity and Voter Access	6
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	6
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	6
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans	6
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	6
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)	6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Many Whispers From Yesteryear: How Has China’s History of Centrally Planned Socialism Shaped People’s Divergent Views of Justice Today?	6
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	6
Coalition Management and Governance Outcomes in Multiparty Presidential Regimes	6
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	6
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	5
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right	5
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	5
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	5
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	5
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	5
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	5
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	5
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	5
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	5
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values	4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?	4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US	4
Explaining the (In)Stability of Voters’ Issue Ownership Perceptions: Evidence from the 2019 Swiss Election	4
Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown	4
Identity Through Distinction: Contextualizing Populist In- and Outgroup References	4

JF Bray’s Economic Republicanism	4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence	4
Navigating the Secular Landscape: Religious Discourse on Transgender Rights in the United Kingdom	4
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions	3
The Politics of Lament	3
Economic Sanctions and Informal Economies in North Korea	3
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote	3
Structural Change Through ‘Collective Action as Democratic Practice’: Linking Grassroots Democracy With Social Justice	3
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change	3
Sexual Corruption and Political (Dis)trust	3
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach	3
Partisanship and Tolerance for Clientelism: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Romania	3
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default	3
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	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
Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting	3
Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens	3
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	2
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy	2
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations	2
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice	2
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	2
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence	2
How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment?	2
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	2
The Logic of Brokerage: Why Interest Organizations Network with Their Opponents	2
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources	2
Narrative Counterspeech	2
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature	2
Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study	2
Apocalyptic Democracy	2
To Praise or Pressure? Patterns of Social Media Advocacy in Times of COVID-19	2
‘The Talk’: Risk, Racism and Family Relationships	2
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power	2
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion	2
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	2
Social Policy and Political Trust: Long-Term Effects of Welfare Generosity in Europe	2
Attacking the Things that Consume Our Planet: Civil Disobedience, Direct Action and Climate Change	2
Why Was There a Hard Brexit? The British Legislative Party System, Divided Majorities and the Incentives for Factionalism	2
The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration and the Case of “Woke”	2
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	2
Bilateral Reciprocity and Attitudes Toward Immigration	2
Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media	2
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’	2
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation	1
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality	1
Pragmatism and Associative Political Obligations	1
The Effect of Spotlight on the Allocation of Voter Attention: Evidence From Block-Voting Ballots	1
Governing As If the Future Obliged the Present: A Scenario Exercise in Prefigurative Climate Policy	1
Deterrent or Stimulus? How Perceived Societal Stigma Affects Participation in Populist Radical Right Parties	1
Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity	1
From ‘Terror State’ to Part of the ‘Jewish-Christian Civilisation’: Exploring Diversity in the German Far Right’s Position Towards Israel	1
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions	1
Partner Effects and Gender Gaps in Vote Choice in the United Kingdom: Brexit and Subsequent Elections	1
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	1
A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right’s Emergence: The Case of VOX in Spain	1
Revisiting the Base in Evidence-Based Policy	1
State Support for Religion and Social Trust	1
Capable but Not Empowered? How Emancipative Values Affect Protest Participation Across Different Contexts	1
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn	1
Not Just ‘Sinking Islands’: Climate Change and Adaptation in Small Island Developing States	1
Bordering: Australia’s Policy to Border During COVID-19	1
Kimonos, Ponchos and Blue Jeans: The Politics of Clothing in Alberto Fujimori’s Performative Populism	1
Unpacking Technological Risks: Different Sources of Concern and Policy Preferences	1
Toward a Radical Democratic Theory of Expertise	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
Does Schooling Increase Political Belief Accuracy?	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
Electoral Volatility and Party System Polarization in Latin America, 1992–2018	1
The onto-politics of body counts	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
What Explains Interest Group Prominence in Parliamentary Speech? Policy Agenda, Partisanship, or Conflict Expansion	1
Power to the People? How Participatory Budgets Affect Citizens’ Populist Attitudes	1
Macroeconomic Sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: A Republican Approach	1
Politics for Survival: Ideological Control and Corporate Strategic Behavior	1