OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Studies is 2. 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
Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?	93
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study	33
Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages	32
Towards a Concept of Political Robustness	28
Can Political Trust Help to Explain Elite Policy Support and Public Behaviour in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the United Kingdom at the Height of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic	22
Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches	21
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	20
Citizens’ Governance Spaces: Democratic Action Through Disruptive Collective Problem-Solving	17
Is Populism a Political Strategy? A Critique of an Enduring Approach	17
Small-Scale Deliberation and Mass Democracy: A Systematic Review of the Spillover Effects of Deliberative Minipublics	16
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	16
Motivated Reasoning in Identity Politics: Group Status as a Moderator of Political Motivations	16
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	16
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela	15
Objective Conditions Count, Political Beliefs Decide: The Conditional Effects of Self-Interest and Ideology on Redistribution Preferences	14
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	14
Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election	13
The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over	13
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies	12
Othering, Alienation and Establishment	12
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	11
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK	11
The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties	11
Member Influence and Involvement in Civil Society Organizations: A Resource Dependency Perspective on Groups and Parties	11
Justice and Internal Displacement	11

Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	11
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	10
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust	10
Populism or Nationalism? The ‘Paradoxical’ Non-Emergence of Populism in Cyprus	9
How We Fail to Know: Group-Based Ignorance and Collective Epistemic Obligations	9
Mapping Deliberative Systems with Big Data: The Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum	9
Should the Equality Act 2010 Be Extended to Prohibit Appearance Discrimination?	9
Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart?	9
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics	9
State-Led Gentrification and Self-Respect	8
Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level	8
Looking for ‘Voice’ in Business and Citizen Groups: Who’s Being Heard?	7
Evoking Equality: The Gender Sensitivity of Parliaments through their Symbolic Function	7
From Big Bang to Brexit: The City of London and the Discursive Power of Finance	7
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	7
Capabilities and Linguistic Justice	7
Affirmative Action in the Political Domain	7
Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies	6
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	6
Where Do the Less Affluent Vote? The Effect of Neighbourhood Social Context on Individual Voting Intentions in England	6
What Kind of Electoral Outcome do People Think is Good for Democracy?	6
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	6
Does Europe Need an Emergency Constitution?	6
Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation	6
Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence	5
Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe	5
Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	5
Are Populists Politically Intolerant? Citizens’ Populist Attitudes and Tolerance of Various Political Antagonists	5
Free Time Across the Life Course	5
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	5
Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid: Evidence from Survey Experiments	5
Educational Attainment Has a Causal Effect on Economic, But Not Social Ideology: Evidence from Discordant Twins	5
De-centring Populism: An Empirical Analysis of the Contingent Nature of Populist Discourses	5
Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016	5
Bernard Mandeville on the Use and Abuse of Hypocrisy	5
Too Old to Forget: The Dynamics of Political Trust among Immigrants	5
The Online Market’s Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism	5
Explaining Public-Private Partnership Projects through Political Factors: An Assessment of Developing Countries	5
Young Citizens’ Party Support: The “When” and “Who” of Political Influence within Families	4
Foundational Moments, Representative Claims and the Ecology of Social Ignorance	4
On the Surprising Implications of Coercion Theory	4
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	4
Does Descriptive Representation Narrow the Immigrant Gap in Turnout? A Comparative Study across 11 Western European Democracies	4
The Role of Self-Interest in Deliberation: A Theory of Deliberative Capital	4
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions	4
Group Appeals of Parties in Times of Economic and Identity Conflicts and Realignment	4
Interests Under Construction: Views on Migration from the European Union’s Southern External Border	4
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation	4

Reinterpreting Authoritarian Populisms: The Elitist Plebeian Vision of State	4
‘The Talk’: Risk, Racism and Family Relationships	4
Authority and Immigration	4
Climate Sceptics or Climate Nationalists? Understanding and Explaining Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions towards Climate Change (1990–2022)	4
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	4
Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics	4
State Support for Religion and Social Trust	4
Constraining Denaturalization	4
Who Are the People? Defining the Demos in the Measurement of Democracy	3
A Strike against the Left: General Strikes and Public Opinion of Incumbent Governments in Spain	3
Foreign-Born Population Growth, Negative Outgroup Contact, and Americans’ Attitudes Towards Legal and Unauthorized Immigration	3
Understanding the Conflict of Conflicts: Is Left-Right Conflict a Necessary Condition for the Development of New Politics?	3
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	3
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote	3
Do We Live in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era?	3
Scaling Up? Unpacking the Effect of Deliberative Mini-Publics on Legitimacy Perceptions	3
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	3
Exploring the Causes of Technocratic Minister Appointments in Europe	3
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust: The 2016 UK EU Membership Referendum	3
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	3
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	3
Security or Social Spending? Perceptions of Insecurity, Victimization, and Policy Priorities in Mexico and Brazil	3
Building Trust in Political Office: Testing the Efficacy of Political Contact and Authentic Communication	3
Media Freedom and the Escalation of State Violence	3
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	3
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	3
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	3
Civil Society in Hybrid Regimes: Trade Union Activism in Post-2003 Iraq	3
Bread or Roses: How Economic Inequality Affects Regime Support in China?	3
Mobilization, Repression and Policy Concessions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Cases of Egypt and Jordan	3
Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance	2
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn	2
Content Independence and Political Obligation: Scope Limitations of Content-Independent Moral Reasons	2
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	2
Narrative Counterspeech	2
Losing the Discursive Battle but Winning the Ideological War: Who Holds Thatcherite Values Now?	2
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?	2
Comradely Critique	2
The Varying Mechanisms of Media Access: Explaining Interest Groups’ Media Visibility across Political Systems	2
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’	2
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	2
Post-Truth is Misplaced Distrust in Testimony, Not Indifference to Facts: Implications for Deliberative Remedies	2
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	2
Home Ownership, House Prices, and Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from South Korea and 34 Countries	2
Educating Democrats or Autocrats? The Regime-Conditional Effect of Education on Support for Democracy	2
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	2
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality	2
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	2