OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Swiss Political Science Review is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Emotional Foundations of Political Support: How Fear and Anger Affect Trust in the Government in Times of the Covid‐19 Pandemic	47
The Welfare Agenda of the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe: Combining Welfare Chauvinism, Producerism and Populism*	41
Civic and Political Engagement during the Multifaceted COVID‐19 Crisis	26
The Localist Turn in Populism Studies	26
Police Drones and the Air: Towards a Volumetric Geopolitics of Security	24
Countering Democratic Backsliding by EU Member States: Constitutional Pluralism and ‘Value’ Differentiated Integration	21
Conceptualizing and Measuring Autocratization Episodes	18
Meaning‐Making in Peace‐Making: The Inclusion Norm at the Interplay between the United Nations and Civil Society in the Syrian Peace Process	18
Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Switzerland	17
Explaining Conspiracy Beliefs and Scepticism around the COVID‐19 Pandemic	14
Wind Turbines, Public Acceptance, and Electoral Outcomes	13
The electoral importance and evolution of climate‐related energy policy: evidence from Switzerland	12
Artificial Intelligence, Forward‐Looking Governance and the Future of Security	12
The Democratic Ambivalence of EU Disintegration: A Mapping of Costs and Benefits	12
Populist Citizens in four European Countries: Widespread Dissatisfaction goes with Contradictory but Pro‐democratic Regime Preferences	12
Autonomy or Domination? Two Faces of Differentiated Integration	12
Refugees and Covid‐19: Beyond Health Risks to Insecurity	12
Contagious Policies? Studying National Responses to a Global Pandemic in Europe	12
Competence Issue Ownership, Issue Positions and the Vote for the Greens and the Social Democrats	10
Right‐Wing Populist Parties' Bordering Narratives in Times of Crisis: Anti‐Immigration Discourse in the Genevan Borderland during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	9
The Normative Agency of Regional Organizations and Non‐governmental Organizations in International Peace Mediation*	9
Decentralisation in Times of Crisis: Asset Or Liability? The Case of Germany and Italy During Covid‐19	9
Pandemic and Partisan Polarisation: Voter Evaluation of UK Government Handling During Covid‐19	9
Issue Ownership and Agenda Setting in the 2019 Swiss National Elections	9
Populist Attitudes and Direct Democracy: A Questionable Relationship	9

How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction	9
Wilful Non‐Compliance and the Threat of Disintegration in the EU’s Legal Order	8
Epilogue: A Note of Caution on Differentiated Integration	8
The surge in women's representation in the 2019 Swiss federal elections	8
The Impact of Social Media Use for Elected Parliamentarians: Evidence from Politicians' Use of Twitter During the Last Two Swiss Legislatures	8
Unpacking Populism: Using Correlational Class Analysis to Understand How People Interrelate Populist, Pluralist, and Elitist Attitudes	7
Popular Attitudes Toward the Distribution of Vaccines Against COVID‐19: The Swiss Case	7
Boosting the Understanding and Approval of Anti‐Corona Measures–Reducing Exponential Growth Bias and its Effects through Educational Nudges	7
Approaches to Qualitative Comparative Analysis and good practices: A systematic review	7
Moderation of Radical Right‐wing Populist Parties in Western European Governments – A Comparative Analysis	7
Explaining the Reversed Gender Gap in Political Consumerism: Personality Traits as Significant Mediators	6
Women’s Inclusion in the Malian Peace Negotiations: Norms and Practices	6
The Mediation Dilemma of (Not) Talking to Terrorists	6
Do Citizens use Sociodemographic Characteristics as Cues to Infer Candidate Issue Positions?	6
Clarifying and Defining the Concept of Liquid Democracy	6
Security as Socio‐Technical Practice: Predictive Policing and (Non‐)Automation	6
Framing Effects on the COVID‐19 See‐Saw	6
Not Merely Ideological: The Political Economy of Populism in Government	5
Differentiated Fiscal Surveillance and the Democratic Promise of Independent Fiscal Institutions in the Economic and Monetary Union	5
Does Direct Democracy Enhance Politicians’ Perceptions of Constituents’ Opinions? Evidence from Switzerland	5
Parsing Pegasus: An Infrastructural Approach to the Relationship between Technology and Swiss Security Politics	5
Measuring Partisan Media Bias Cross‐Nationally	5
The Democratic Dilemmas of Differentiated Integration: The Views of Political Party Actors	5
Communicating Mobility Restrictions During the COVID‐19 Crisis on Twitter: The Legitimacy Challenge	5
Hyper‐Securitization, Everyday Security Practice and Technification: Cyber‐Security Logics in Switzerland	5
The Politics of Security and Technology in Switzerland	4
From Dayton to Bernese Jura: The Election of the Croat Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Assessing and Explaining the Diverging Trajectories of Territorial Parties and Politics in Italy and Spain (2008‐2018)	4
The Role of Regulatory Agencies in Agenda‐Setting Processes: Insights from the Italian Response to the COVID‐19 Infodemic	4
Studying European Radical Left Parties since the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1990–2019): A Scoping Review	4
Torn Between International Cooperation and National Sovereignty: Voter Attitudes in Trade‐off Situations in Switzerland	4
Are European Elections Second‐Order Elections for Everyone?	3
Leveraging Regional Differences and Cross‐Border Collective Institutions: The Case of Skill Formation and Employment in the Border Region of France, Germany, and Switzerland	3
The Accessibility and Electoral Consequences of Issue Competence Perceptions: Evidence from the Swiss 2019 Election	3
The Valence Side of the EU: EU Issue Voting in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis	3
Circumventing Sovereignty: Extraterritorial Sanctions Leveraging the Technologies of the Financial System	3
Democracy Beyond Secrecy: Assessing the Promises and Pitfalls of Collective Voting	3
The Added Value of Configurational Meta‐analyses	3
The electoral behaviour of voters with migration backgrounds and natives at the 2015 and 2019 Swiss National Elections. Two completely different stories?	3
Place and Policy Preferences – Spatial Divides in Attitudes towards Social Policies in Germany	3
On the Way to Limited Competitiveness: Political Consequences of the 2011 Electoral Reform in Hungary	3
The Indirect Effect of Electoral Rules on Citizens’ Satisfaction with Democracy: A Comparative Study	3
Fundamental Rights as Constraints to and Triggers for Differentiated Integration	3
Hit the right target! The Role of Issue Saliency among a Party's Potential Voters as a Determinant of the Party's Issue Emphasis in Switzerland	3