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 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
A Gender Gap in Attitudes Towards Monetary Policy? The Case of Satisfaction With the Bank of England	19
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	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
Labour-Intensive Geographies and Support for Radical-Right Parties	15
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
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	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?	13
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	13
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	12
Decoding Legislative Dynamics: Empirics on Bill Modifications in China	11
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	11
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	11
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
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
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	9
‘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
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
Sortition Within Political Parties	8
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	8
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
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
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
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
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
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