OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies is 5. 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
Motivated Reasoning in Identity Politics: Group Status as a Moderator of Political Motivations	16
Digital Domination: Social Media and Contestatory Democracy	16
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
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
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

The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	11
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust	10
Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance	10
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
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
Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level	8
State-Led Gentrification and Self-Respect	8
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
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
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
Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies	6
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
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