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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Gender Gap in Attitudes Towards Monetary Policy? The Case of Satisfaction With the Bank of England	51
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies	50
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	36
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	33
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	31
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	22
Two Tales of Polarization? How Affective and Ideological Polarization Influence Political Corruption—A Panel Analysis of 153 Countries Between 2000 and 2021	21
Institutional Trust, Corruption, and Democracy: Relationships Based on People’s Perceptions Worldwide	21
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	21
Better Against Than in Favor: Environmental Issue Voting in the European Elections	19
Trust, Prosociality and Immigration Policy Views: Evidence From Swedish Twin Data During 2009–2010	17
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	16
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	16
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	16
When Weber Meets Habermas: The Effect of Weberian Bureaucracy on Habermasian Deliberative Quality in International Deliberations	15
Does Local Area Social Mobility Affect Political Alienation?	14
Personality and (Negative) Partisanship in Canadian Federal Politics	13
Why Are Graduates More Socially Liberal? Estimating the Effect of Higher Education on Political Values Through Variation in University Experience	12
Do Parties Matter for Environmental Policy Stringency? Exploring the Program-to-Policy Link for Environmental Issues in 28 Countries 1990–2015	12
Labour-Intensive Geographies and Support for Radical-Right Parties	12
Quotas Unhinged? How the Change to Preferential Voting Impacts Women’s Representation in Two German Länder	11
What Is Centrism?	11
Constituency Service and Valence Voting in Semi-Competitive Elections: Theory and Evidence From China	10
Well-Being, Harmony, and Deference: Toward a Confucian Case for Empowered Mini-Publics	10
Must Refugees Be Grateful?	10

Institutional Design Preferences Among German and US Citizens: Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment	10
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities	10
Decoding Legislative Dynamics: Empirics on Bill Modifications in China	10
The “Women’s Representation-Corruption Link” and Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study	10
(How) Is Meat Becoming Political? The Changing Ideological Correlates of Meat Consumption in The Netherlands	10
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers	9
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis	9
Regional Group Democracy and Election to the United Nations Security Council	9
Deliberating Like a State: Locating Public Administration Within the Deliberative System	8
Technical Legitimacy	8
Sortition Within Political Parties	8
Political Trust in Crisis: Can Social Protection Make a Difference?	8
‘No Participation Without Representation’: The Impact of Descriptive and Substantive Representation on the Age-Related Turnout Gap	8
Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means	8
From Productivism to Post-Productivism: Unpacking the Socio-Economic Conditions for Welfare Development in Six East Asian Economies	8
Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?	7
Education and Voter Response to Principled Trade-Offs in Muslim Democracies	7
Social Limits to Spending: Subjective Perceptions of Low Economic Status and Support for Taxes Meant to Finance Social Welfare	7
Preparing to Maximise Losers’ Consent in Contested Sovereignty Referendums: The Potential Case of Referendums on Irish Unification	7
Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany	7
Retraction Notice: ‘The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending’	7
Transcending Fast-Paced Politics? The Functions of Political Party Think Tanks	7
Why Voters Prefer Politicians With Particular Personal Attributes: The Role of Voter Demand for Populists	7
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: Evidence From Canada	7
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	7
Informal Workers as Outsiders: Political Participation and Voice Across MENA Countries	7
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	6
The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Class and Cultural Biases in Citizen Advisory Councils	6
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	6
Coalition Management and Governance Outcomes in Multiparty Presidential Regimes	6
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	6
Public Support for Voter ID Laws in the UK: How Citizens Weigh Electoral Integrity and Voter Access	6
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	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
Waiting for Asylum: Reduced Institutional and Interpersonal Trust	6
What Does the Non-Party Sector Think About Far-Right Political Parties? Understanding the Place of Parties in the Australian Far Right	6
Public Opinion and Leaders’ Crisis Behavior Against Domestic Armed Groups	5
One Size Does Not Fit All: Explaining Radical-Left Parties’ Engagement with Populism	5
Polarized Attitudes and Anti-Democratic Orientation: Robust Evidence for Paradoxical Relationships Among American Partisans	5
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	5
Taming Through Support? Youth Organisations and the Impact of Public Funding on Their Political Activities	5
No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli’s Realistic Justification of Democracy	5
Moral Judgments of Discrimination: The Effects of Expressive and Deliberative Disrespect	5
Unfunded Mandates and the Economic Impact of Decentralisation. When Finance Does Not Follow Function	5
Racial Inequality and Support for Democracy	5
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	5