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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Gender Gap in Attitudes Towards Monetary Policy? The Case of Satisfaction With the Bank of England	55
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies	53
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	40
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	37
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	35
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	25
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	24
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	24
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	22
Better Against Than in Favor: Environmental Issue Voting in the European Elections	21
Trust, Prosociality and Immigration Policy Views: Evidence From Swedish Twin Data During 2009–2010	20
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	20
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	20
Voting in a constrained democracy: Evidence from the 1963 and 1964 legislative elections in Greece	18
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	16
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	15
Labour-Intensive Geographies and Support for Radical-Right Parties	14
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	14
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	13
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	13
What Is Centrism?	12
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	12
Quotas Unhinged? How the Change to Preferential Voting Impacts Women’s Representation in Two German Länder	11
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	11
Decoding Legislative Dynamics: Empirics on Bill Modifications in China	11

Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	11
The return to compulsory voting: Invalid voting and its representational challenges in Chile’s subnational elections	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10
Technical Legitimacy	10
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	10
(Un)conditional? The role of integration and psychological predispositions in citizens’ attitudes toward immigrant enfranchisement	9
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	9
Experts, Experts Everywhere! Survey Experimental Evidence on How Involving Expertise Affects Decision-Making Legitimacy	9
(How) Is Meat Becoming Political? The Changing Ideological Correlates of Meat Consumption in The Netherlands	9
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	8
Political Trust in Crisis: Can Social Protection Make a Difference?	8
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	8
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	8
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	8
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	8
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	8
From Productivism to Post-Productivism: Unpacking the Socio-Economic Conditions for Welfare Development in Six East Asian Economies	8
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Sortition Within Political Parties	7
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	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
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Testing political solidarity: The effect of discrimination information on groups’ immigration attitudes	6
Social Limits to Spending: Subjective Perceptions of Low Economic Status and Support for Taxes Meant to Finance Social Welfare	6
Coalition Management and Governance Outcomes in Multiparty Presidential Regimes	6
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
The Many Whispers From Yesteryear: How Has China’s History of Centrally Planned Socialism Shaped People’s Divergent Views of Justice Today?	6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	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
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	6
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	6
Public Support for Voter ID Laws in the UK: How Citizens Weigh Electoral Integrity and Voter Access	5
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	5
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans	5
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	5
Moral Judgments of Discrimination: The Effects of Expressive and Deliberative Disrespect	5
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right	5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	4
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	4
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US	4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	4

One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	4
Feeling overlooked and underrepresented? Citizens’ preferences for dialect-speaking representatives	4
Explaining the (In)Stability of Voters’ Issue Ownership Perceptions: Evidence from the 2019 Swiss Election	4
The added value of youth wings: Do they nurture the members their parties want?	4
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence	4
JF Bray’s Economic Republicanism	4
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values	4
Support for (liberal) democracy among authoritarian, populist, and radical Western Europeans	3
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions	3
Navigating the Secular Landscape: Religious Discourse on Transgender Rights in the United Kingdom	3
Structural Change Through ‘Collective Action as Democratic Practice’: Linking Grassroots Democracy With Social Justice	3
Identity Through Distinction: Contextualizing Populist In- and Outgroup References	3
Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens	3
The Politics of Lament	3
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?	3
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	3
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change	3
Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting	3
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default	3
Sexual Corruption and Political (Dis)trust	3
A Naturally-Occurring Experiment on the Electoral Impact of President Biden’s Decision to Exit the 2024 Presidential Race	3
Partisanship and Tolerance for Clientelism: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Romania	3
Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown	3
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote	3
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources	2
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy	2
Transition or Interregnum? Two Ways of Understanding Politics in the Anthropocene	2
The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration and the Case of “Woke”	2
Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study	2
Nexit, Frexit or Grexit? A Comparison of Party and Citizen Positions Towards European Union Exit Referendums	2
The politics of crime prevention: Evidence from Colombia	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	2
How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment?	2
The Logic of Brokerage: Why Interest Organizations Network with Their Opponents	2
Whose China Shock? Partisanship, import exposure, and trade rhetoric in the US Senate	2
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach	2
Economic Sanctions and Informal Economies in North Korea	2
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power	2
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature	2
Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey	2
Subjective General Health and Non-institutional Political Participation: Do Age and Education Matter?	2
Apocalyptic Democracy	2
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?	2
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	2
Narrative Counterspeech	2
Bilateral Reciprocity and Attitudes Toward Immigration	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
How Attitudes on Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Core Populist Radical Right Values Combine in Diverging Ideological Constellations Among Populist Radical Right-Inclined Voters	2
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations	2
Editor’s Introduction	2
Measuring Changes in Corruption Over Time	2
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation	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
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion	2
Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media	2
Attacking the Things that Consume Our Planet: Civil Disobedience, Direct Action and Climate Change	2
To Praise or Pressure? Patterns of Social Media Advocacy in Times of COVID-19	2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’	2
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence	2
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	2
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	2
The government financial advantage of early elections: Evidence from UK MP candidate spending	2