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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?	68
Truth, Deliberative Democracy, and the Virtues of Accuracy: Is Fake News Destroying the Public Sphere?	57
Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements	39
Seeing the Other Side? Perspective-Taking and Reflective Political Judgements in Interpersonal Deliberation	36
Explaining Attitudes Toward Refugees and Immigrants in Europe	35
Do Populist Parties Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence From Over 40 Years of Electoral History in 31 European Democracies	31
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study	30
The Good Politician and Political Trust: An Authenticity Gap in British Politics?	26
Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages	25
YouTube and Political Ideologies: Technology, Populism and Rhetorical Form	25
Populist Leadership: The Superhero Donald Trump as Savior in Times of Crisis	24
More than Words: A Multidimensional Approach to Deliberative Democracy	23
Brexit and the Everyday Politics of Emotion: Methodological Lessons from History	22
Towards a Concept of Political Robustness	22
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	20
Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement	20
When You Win, Nothing Hurts: The Durability of Electoral Salience on Individuals’ Satisfaction with Democracy	20
When Planets Collide: The British Conservative Party and the Discordant Goals of Delivering Brexit and Preserving the Domestic Union, 2016–2019	19
Economic Populist Sovereignism and Electoral Support for Radical Right-Wing Populism	18
Inclusion without Solidarity: Education, Economic Security, and Attitudes toward Redistribution	18
Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches	17
A Tale of Populism? The Determinants of Voting for Left-Wing Populist Parties in Spain	16
The Right Men: How Masculinity Explains the Radical Right Gender Gap	15
Discontent With What? Linking Self-Centered and Society-Centered Discontent to Populist Party Support	15
Constructing Digital Democracies: Facebook, Arendt, and the Politics of Design	15

Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	14
Policy Polarization, Income Inequality and Turnout	14
Objective Conditions Count, Political Beliefs Decide: The Conditional Effects of Self-Interest and Ideology on Redistribution Preferences	13
What Kind of Disagreement Favors Reason-Giving? Analyzing Online Political Discussions across the Broader Public Sphere	13
Small-Scale Deliberation and Mass Democracy: A Systematic Review of the Spillover Effects of Deliberative Minipublics	13
Deliberation and Identity Rules: The Effect of Anonymity, Pseudonyms and Real-Name Requirements on the Cognitive Complexity of Online News Comments	12
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela	12
Othering, Alienation and Establishment	12
The Dark Side of Politics: Participation and the Dark Triad	12
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	11
Diversity and Perceptions of Immigration: How the Past Influences the Present	11
Differential Voting Weights and Relational Egalitarianism	11
Exploring the Relationship Between Campaign Discourse on Facebook and the Public’s Comments: A Case Study of Incivility During the 2016 US Presidential Election	11
Citizens’ Governance Spaces: Democratic Action Through Disruptive Collective Problem-Solving	10
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	10
Justice and Internal Displacement	10
Motivated Reasoning in Identity Politics: Group Status as a Moderator of Political Motivations	10
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	10
Deliberation, Democracy, and the Digital Landscape	10
Is Populism a Political Strategy? A Critique of an Enduring Approach	9
Political Participation and Workplace Voice: The Spillover of Suppression by Supervisors	9
The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties	9
Mapping Deliberative Systems with Big Data: The Case of the Scottish Independence Referendum	9
The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over	8
Apocalypticism as Radical Realism? On the Dangers and Benefits of Wishful Thinking in Prefigurative Politics	8
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies	8
Member Influence and Involvement in Civil Society Organizations: A Resource Dependency Perspective on Groups and Parties	8
Do Sociotropic Concerns Mask Prejudice? Experimental Evidence on the Sources of Public Opposition to Immigration	8
Does It Pay Off? The Effects of Party Leadership Elections on Parties’ Trustworthiness and Appeal to Voters	8
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust	8
Together or Not? Dynamics of Public Attitudes on UN and NATO	8
Undermining a Rival Party’s Issue Competence through Negative Campaigning: Experimental Evidence from the USA, Denmark, and Australia	8
Populism or Nationalism? The ‘Paradoxical’ Non-Emergence of Populism in Cyprus	8
Distrust in Government and Preference for Regime Change in China	8
State-Led Gentrification and Self-Respect	7
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	7
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK	7
Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Redistribution in Democracies: Impact of Political Leaders on Welfare Policy	7
Permissive Winners? The Quality of Democracy and the Winner–Loser Gap in the Perception of Freedoms	7
IMF = I’M Fired! IMF Program Participation, Political Systems, and Workers’ Rights	7
Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart?	7
From Big Bang to Brexit: The City of London and the Discursive Power of Finance	7
Estimating the Effect of Competitiveness on Turnout across Regime Types	7
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	6
How We Fail to Know: Group-Based Ignorance and Collective Epistemic Obligations	6
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	6
Should the Equality Act 2010 Be Extended to Prohibit Appearance Discrimination?	6
Deliberative Systems Theory and Citizens’ Use of Online Media: Testing a Critical Theory of Democracy on a High Achiever	6
Boris Johnson to the Rescue? How the Conservatives Won the Radical-Right Vote in the 2019 General Election	5
Capabilities and Linguistic Justice	5

Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Explaining Change in Legislatures: Dilemmas of Managerial Reform in the UK House of Commons	5
Moaners, Gloaters, and Bystanders: Perceived Fairness of the United Kingdom’s 2016 Referendum on the European Union	5
Bernard Mandeville on the Use and Abuse of Hypocrisy	5
Human Rights Violations, Political Conditionality and Public Attitudes to Foreign Aid: Evidence from Survey Experiments	5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	5
Does Europe Need an Emergency Constitution?	5
EstablishedandExcluded? Immigrants’ Economic Progress, Attitudes toward Immigrants, and the Conditioning Role of Egalitarianism and Intergroup Contact	5
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	5
Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies	5
Linking Theories of Motivation, Game Mechanics, and Public Deliberation to Design an Online System for Participatory Budgeting	5
Shaping Public Opinion about Regional Integration: The Rhetoric of Justification and Party Cues	5
Looking for ‘Voice’ in Business and Citizen Groups: Who’s Being Heard?	5
Connecting Contextual and Individual Drivers of Anti-Americanism in Arab Countries	5
Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016	4
The Role of Political Attention in Moderating the Association between Political Identities and Anthropogenic Climate Change Belief in Britain	4
Second-Order Political Thinking: Compromise versus Populism	4
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	4
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	4
Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation	4
Too Old to Forget: The Dynamics of Political Trust among Immigrants	4
Educational Attainment Has a Causal Effect on Economic, But Not Social Ideology: Evidence from Discordant Twins	4
Explaining the Constitutional Integration and Resurgence of Traditional Political Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Affirmative Action in the Political Domain	4
The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs	4
The Role of Self-Interest in Deliberation: A Theory of Deliberative Capital	4
Evoking Equality: The Gender Sensitivity of Parliaments through their Symbolic Function	4
Interests Under Construction: Views on Migration from the European Union’s Southern External Border	4
Is China a Deviant Case? A Societal-Level Test of the Modernization Theory	4
On the Surprising Implications of Coercion Theory	3
De-centring Populism: An Empirical Analysis of the Contingent Nature of Populist Discourses	3
The Myth of Power-Sharing and Polarisation: Evidence from Northern Ireland	3
Educating Democrats or Autocrats? The Regime-Conditional Effect of Education on Support for Democracy	3
Young Citizens’ Party Support: The “When” and “Who” of Political Influence within Families	3
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	3
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	3
Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation	3
RETRACTED: Three Responses to Democracy Problems of Energy Transitions	3
Towards a Democratic Theory of Silence	3
Mobilization, Repression and Policy Concessions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Cases of Egypt and Jordan	3
Media Freedom and the Escalation of State Violence	3
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	3
Authority and Immigration	3
Where Help Is Needed Most? Explaining Reporting Strategies of the International Trade Union Confederation	3
Explaining Public-Private Partnership Projects through Political Factors: An Assessment of Developing Countries	3
What Kind of Electoral Outcome do People Think is Good for Democracy?	3
Constraining Denaturalization	3
A Strike against the Left: General Strikes and Public Opinion of Incumbent Governments in Spain	3
Societal Accountability and Grand Corruption: How Institutions Shape Citizens’ Efforts to Shape Institutions	3
Foreign-Born Population Growth, Negative Outgroup Contact, and Americans’ Attitudes Towards Legal and Unauthorized Immigration	3
Reinterpreting Authoritarian Populisms: The Elitist Plebeian Vision of State	2
Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level	2
Procedures Matter: Strong Voice, Evaluations of Policy Performance, and Regime Support	2
Foundational Moments, Representative Claims and the Ecology of Social Ignorance	2
Civil Society in Hybrid Regimes: Trade Union Activism in Post-2003 Iraq	2
Partisan Dealignment and Personal Vote-Seeking in Parliamentary Behaviour	2
Bread or Roses: How Economic Inequality Affects Regime Support in China?	2
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	2
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	2
The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017	2
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	2
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust: The 2016 UK EU Membership Referendum	2
Understanding the Conflict of Conflicts: Is Left-Right Conflict a Necessary Condition for the Development of New Politics?	2
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	2
State Support for Religion and Social Trust	2
Neoliberal Populism: The Case of Pim Fortuyn	2
Who Are the People? Defining theDemosin the Measurement of Democracy	2
Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion	2
Input from Whom? Public Reactions to Consultation Measures	2
The Online Market’s Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism	2
Losing the Discursive Battle but Winning the Ideological War: Who Holds Thatcherite Values Now?	2
Where Do the Less Affluent Vote? The Effect of Neighbourhood Social Context on Individual Voting Intentions in England	2
Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance	2
Performing Crisis Management: National Repertoires of Symbolic Action and Their Usage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe	2
Comradely Critique	2