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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	49
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	45
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	39
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	34
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies	32
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	30
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	21
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	19
A Gender Gap in Attitudes Towards Monetary Policy? The Case of Satisfaction With the Bank of England	19
Better Against Than in Favor: Environmental Issue Voting in the European Elections	18
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	18
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	17
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	15
Trust, Prosociality and Immigration Policy Views: Evidence From Swedish Twin Data During 2009–2010	15
Labour-Intensive Geographies and Support for Radical-Right Parties	15
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	14
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	13
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	13
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	13
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	12
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	11
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	11
Decoding Legislative Dynamics: Empirics on Bill Modifications in China	11
What Is Centrism?	10
(How) Is Meat Becoming Political? The Changing Ideological Correlates of Meat Consumption in The Netherlands	10

Technical Legitimacy	10
Quotas Unhinged? How the Change to Preferential Voting Impacts Women’s Representation in Two German Länder	10
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	10
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	9
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	9
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	9
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	9
Sortition Within Political Parties	8
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	8
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	8
Political Trust in Crisis: Can Social Protection Make a Difference?	8
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
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	7
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Social Limits to Spending: Subjective Perceptions of Low Economic Status and Support for Taxes Meant to Finance Social Welfare	7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	7
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
Coalition Management and Governance Outcomes in Multiparty Presidential Regimes	6
Public Support for Voter ID Laws in the UK: How Citizens Weigh Electoral Integrity and Voter Access	6
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	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
The Many Whispers From Yesteryear: How Has China’s History of Centrally Planned Socialism Shaped People’s Divergent Views of Justice Today?	6
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	6
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans	6
Moral Judgments of Discrimination: The Effects of Expressive and Deliberative Disrespect	5
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	5
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	5
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right	5
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	5
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	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
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	5
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	5
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	5
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	5

The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US	4
Partisanship and Tolerance for Clientelism: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Romania	4
‘Muscular Unionism’: The British Political Tradition Strikes Back?	4
Explaining the (In)Stability of Voters’ Issue Ownership Perceptions: Evidence from the 2019 Swiss Election	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
JF Bray’s Economic Republicanism	4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values	4
Group Norms, Social Pressure, and Ethnic Voting	4
Economic Sanctions and Informal Economies in North Korea	3
Structural Change Through ‘Collective Action as Democratic Practice’: Linking Grassroots Democracy With Social Justice	3
Gendering Discretion: Why Street-Level Bureaucracy Needs a Gendered Lens	3
A Naturally-Occurring Experiment on the Electoral Impact of President Biden’s Decision to Exit the 2024 Presidential Race	3
The Politics of Lament	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
Workplace Democracy as the Liberal Republican Default	3
Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown	3
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	3
Do Populists Listen to Expertise? A Five-Country Study of Authority, Arguments, and Expert Sources	3
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions	3
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach	3
Institutions Are Not Rules: Realigning the Ontology Behind Theories of Change	3
Identity Through Distinction: Contextualizing Populist In- and Outgroup References	3
Keeping Up With the Joneses? Neighbourhood Effects on the Vote	3
Sexual Corruption and Political (Dis)trust	3
Does Digital Campaigning Make a Difference for Individual Candidates in an Open List Proportional Representation System? The Case of the 2019 Election in Belgium	2
Subjective General Health and Non-institutional Political Participation: Do Age and Education Matter?	2
Apocalyptic Democracy	2
Partners and Patients: A Revised Grammar of Social Power	2
Citizen-Led Democratic Change: How Australia’s Community Independents Movement Is Reshaping Representative Democracy	2
Children or Migrants as Public Goods?	2
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	2
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion	2
How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment?	2
Measuring Changes in Corruption Over Time	2
A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right’s Emergence: The Case of VOX in Spain	2
Transition or Interregnum? Two Ways of Understanding Politics in the Anthropocene	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
Bilateral Reciprocity and Attitudes Toward Immigration	2
Nexit, Frexit or Grexit? A Comparison of Party and Citizen Positions Towards European Union Exit Referendums	2
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations	2
The Logic of Brokerage: Why Interest Organizations Network with Their Opponents	2
Narrative Counterspeech	2
Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power	2
Left-Wing Populism and Environmental Issues: An Analysis of La France Insoumise’s ‘Popular Environmentalism’	2
The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China	2
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice	2
Editor’s Introduction	2
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence	2
Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study	2
The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration and the Case of “Woke”	2
Attacking the Things that Consume Our Planet: Civil Disobedience, Direct Action and Climate Change	2
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature	2
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	2
Social Policy and Political Trust: Long-Term Effects of Welfare Generosity in Europe	2
To Praise or Pressure? Patterns of Social Media Advocacy in Times of COVID-19	2
Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media	2
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality	2