OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	132
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	29
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	28
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	28
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	25
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	24
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	21
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	21
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	20
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	17
Historical Injustice in Immigration Policy	16
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	16
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	15
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	15
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	13
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust: The 2016 UK EU Membership Referendum	13
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	11
Leaving the Discursive Definition of Populist Social Movements: The Case of the Yellow Vest Movement	10
Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	9
Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	8
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	8
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	8

Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	8
Perceived Deprivation and Voter Turnout in Austria: Do Views on Social Inequality Moderate the Deprivation—Abstention Nexus?	8
The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing	8
Why Change a Winning Team? Explaining Post-Election Cabinet Reshuffles in Four Westminster Democracies	8
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	7
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	7
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	6
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	6
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	6
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	6
Citizen Responses to Ethnic Representation	6
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	6
Communicating the Elephant in the Room: The Evolution of British Conservative Leaders’ ‘Strategic Narratives’ About Europe in Their Annual Conference Speeches (2006–2023)	5
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the US Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus	5
Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection-Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	5
Political Gold: The Australian Sports Grants Scandal	5
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	5
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	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
Comradely Critique	4
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values	4
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	4
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America	4
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	4
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises	4
Europhoria! Explaining Britain’s Pro-European Moment, 1988–1992	4
Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction With Democracy in the US	4
From Brexit to COVID-19: The Johnson Government, Executive Centralisation and Authoritarian Populism	4
The Elusive Effect of Political Trust on Participation: Participatory Resource or (Dis)incentive?	4
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	4
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	4
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	4
Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No-Confidence	4
The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success	4
Intergenerational Exploitation	4
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	4
Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design	4
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just?	4
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	4