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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	142
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	32
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	29
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	28
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	22
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	22
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	21
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	19
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	18
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	17
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	16
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	15
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	14
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	13
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	11
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy	11
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	10
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	9
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	9
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	9
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	8
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	8

Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	8
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	8
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	8
Perceived Deprivation and Voter Turnout in Austria: Do Views on Social Inequality Moderate the Deprivation—Abstention Nexus?	8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	8
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	8
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	7
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	7
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
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
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	6
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	6
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	5
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus	5
Intergenerational Exploitation	5
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)	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
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	5
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	5
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	5
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	5
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	5