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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Minority Affirmations and the Boundaries of the Nation: Evidence From Québec	110
Addressing the Will Theory Challenge to Animal Rights	36
Are Populists Politically Intolerant? Citizens’ Populist Attitudes and Tolerance of Various Political Antagonists	31
Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene	24
The Government Financial Advantage of Early Elections: Evidence from UK MP Candidate Spending	24
Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics	24
Localizing Human Rights: Modeling Human Rights Cities	20
The Voter Next Door: Stigma Effects on Advance Voting for Radical Right Parties	19
Explaining Public-Private Partnership Projects through Political Factors: An Assessment of Developing Countries	19
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe	19
Why Parties Gain Votes When the Public Perceives Them Shifting to the Right	18
The Justice Argument Against Catholic Integralism	16
Does Europe Need an Emergency Constitution?	15
Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum	15
Authoritarianism and Immigration Attitudes in the UK	15
Radiating Truthiness: Authenticity Performances in Politics in Brazil and the United States	15
Consent, Background Justice and Patterned Privacy Principles	14
Affirmative Action in the Political Domain	14
The Role of Novel Citizenship Norms in Signing and Sharing Online Petitions	14
Should Deliberative Democrats Eschew Modernist Social Science?	13
Narrating Against Uncertainty: Newspaper Documentation in the Syrian Revolutionary Movement	13
Rights in the Liberal Tradition	12
What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teach	10
Party–Interest Group Ties and Patterns of Political Influence	9
Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: Evidence From German Coalitions	9

Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation	9
Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of Covid-19	9
Discursive Strategies and Sequenced Institutional Change: The Case of Marriage Equality in the United States	9
Reassessing the Role and the Benefits of Junior Ministers in Coalition Governments	8
Objective Conditions Count, Political Beliefs Decide: The Conditional Effects of Self-Interest and Ideology on Redistribution Preferences	8
Varieties of Populist Attitudes in Brexit Britain: Socio-Political and Psychological Correlates of a New Multi-dimensional Scale	8
De-centring Populism: An Empirical Analysis of the Contingent Nature of Populist Discourses	8
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic	7
Foundational Moments, Representative Claims and the Ecology of Social Ignorance	7
Civil Society in Hybrid Regimes: Trade Union Activism in Post-2003 Iraq	7
Theorizing Far-Right Foreign Policy: Insights From Germany	7
Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages	7
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier	7
Self-Determination and the Limits on the Right to Include	7
Citizen Responses to Ethnic Representation	7
Take Five? Testing the Cultural and Experiential Theories of Generalised Trust Against Five Criteria	7
Compromise and Consensus: Toward a Two-Track Model of Deliberation	7
How Attitudes on Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Core Populist Radical Right Values Combine in Diverging Ideological Constellations Among Populist Radical Right-Inclined Voters	7
Civility and Environmental Politics	6
Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups	6
National Attachments and Good Citizenship: A Double-Edged Sword	6
David Hume and the Politics of Slavery	6
Understanding the Conflict of Conflicts: Is Left-Right Conflict a Necessary Condition for the Development of New Politics?	6
Climate Sceptics or Climate Nationalists? Understanding and Explaining Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions towards Climate Change (1990–2022)	5
Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections: Evidence from the German Local Level	5
When life happens: the impact of life events on turnout	5
Losing the Discursive Battle but Winning the Ideological War: Who Holds Thatcherite Values Now?	5
Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections	5
How We Fail to Know: Group-Based Ignorance and Collective Epistemic Obligations	5
Group Appeals of Parties in Times of Economic and Identity Conflicts and Realignment	5
Dimensions of Participation and Populism in Times of Discontent: A Theory- and Data-Driven Approach	5
Globalization, Automation, and the Welfare State: Evidence from the OECD and South Korea	5
A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: The Limited but Real Effects of Election Pledges on Citizens’ Vote Choice	5
Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey	5
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality	5
Presidential Speeches in Chile (1832–2021): A Methodological Approach	5
Where Do the Less Affluent Vote? The Effect of Neighbourhood Social Context on Individual Voting Intentions in England	4
Intra-Executive Dynamics and Presidential Popularity in Semi-Presidential Regimes	4
Power and Truth in Science-Related Populism: Rethinking the Role of Knowledge and Expertise in Climate Politics	4
Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation	4
Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes	4
Solving the (False) Dilemma: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Opinion Constraint	4
Towards a Concept of Political Robustness	4
Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies	4
Unpacking Technological Risks: Different Sources of Concern and Policy Preferences	4
Evoking Equality: The Gender Sensitivity of Parliaments through their Symbolic Function	4
The Politics of Blame-Seeking: Strategic Antagonism, Effective Alignment and Benefitting From Backlash	4
Macroeconomic Sovereignty in the European Economic and Monetary Union: A Republican Approach	4
Does Digital Campaigning Make a Difference for Individual Candidates in an Open List Proportional Representation System? The Case of the 2019 Election in Belgium	4
Educational Attainment Has a Causal Effect on Economic, But Not Social Ideology: Evidence from Discordant Twins	4

The COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain: A Competence Shock and Its Electoral Consequences	4
The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion	4
Enactors of the State: The Everyday Coproduction of Security in the Prevention of Radicalisation	4