OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies Review is 1. 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
Radicalizing Rights: Basic Liberties and Direct Action	17
Urban Youth and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis (Are Youth Bulges Relevant Anymore?)	15
What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation	15
The Myth of Academics’ Non-interference in Legislatures	14
Commissioned Book Review: Daniel Lee, The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations	11
Party Fragmentation, the Proportional System and Democracy in Slovenia	10
The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question	10
Using Qualitative Inquiries to Analyse the Dynamism of Factionalism	10
Commissioned Book Review: Jan Zielonka, Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat	10
Commissioned Book Review: Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC	10
Formal Education and Contentious Politics: The Case of Violent and Non-Violent Protest	9
Efficacy and Action: How Targeted Messages Influence Support of Social Advocacy Organizations	8
Commissioned Book Review: Yanina Welp, The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America	8
Ethics Audits in Cross-National Research: Experiences from Correspondence Study Field Experiments with National Politicians in Four European Democracies	8
Commissioned Book Review: Robinson Woodward-Burns, Hidden Laws	8
Commissioned Book Review: Srdjan Vucetic, Greatness and Decline: National Identity and British Foreign Policy	8
Commissioned Book Review: Marianna Griffini, The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right. From Mare Nostrum to Mare Vostrum	8
Commissioned Book Review: Robin Attfield, The Ethics of the Climate Crisis	8
Democracy and the Corruption of Speech	7
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	7
The Use of Machine Learning Methods in Political Science: An In-Depth Literature Review	6
Presidential Activism: Causes, Patterns and Consequences	6
Commissioned Book Review: Fred Paxton, Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	6
Factions and the Redistributive Effects of Reform in Japan	6
Beyond Cultural Narratives: A Data-Driven Analysis of How Citizens Define Successful Integration	6

Populism Analytical Tools to Unearth the Roots of Euroscepticism	6
Commissioned Book Review: Jack Holland, Selling War and Peace. Syria and the Anglosphere	6
Are People More Satisfied with Democracy When They Feel They Won the Election? No	5
Introduction to Symposium: Experiments with Politicians: Ethics, Power, and the Boundaries of Political Science	5
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	5
Sources of Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting: A Scoping Review	5
Culture and Policy Transfer: From Insight to Impact	5
Stability or Stagnation: Non-Monotonic Association Between Party System Closure and Satisfaction With Democracy	5
Commissioned Book Review: Nick Whittaker, Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse. The Island Race	4
Commissioned Book Review: Aslı Vatansever, At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity	4
Commissioned Book Review: Dan Greenwood, Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination	4
Commissioned Book Review: András Körösényi, Gábor Illés and Attila Gyulai, The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making	4
Commissioned Book Review: Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, Digital Inequalities in the Global South	4
Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents	4
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	4
Commissioned Book Review: C Vaccari and A Valeriani, Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies	4
Commissioned Book Review: Daniel Stockemer and Aksel Sundström, Youth Without Representation: The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments, Cabinets, and Candidacies	3
Commissioned Book Review: Christer Pursiainen and Tuomas Forsberg, The Psychology of Foreign Policy	3
Commissioned Book Review: Clare Birchall and Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19	3
Populist Visual Communication: A State-of-the-Art Review	3
Partisanship Versus Democracy: Voting in Turkey’s Competitive Authoritarian Elections	3
Commissioned Book Review: Simon Weschle, Money in Politics: Self-Enrichment, Campaign Spending, and Golden Parachutes	3
A Response to Gonzalez Ginocchio, Hindmoor and Stanley	3
Commissioned Book Review: David Coen, Alexander Katsaitis, and Matia Vannoni, Business Lobbying in the European Union	3
Commissioned Book Review: Tamara K. Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L. Flear and Matthew Wood, Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit	3
Commissioned Book Review: Neil Mitchell, Why Delegate	3
Ideas, Policy Feedback and the American Political Economy	3
The Populist Name Game: About Populism and Naming	3
Commissioned Book Review: Scott Radnitz, Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region	3
Commissioned Book Review: René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens and Imar de Vries, The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture	3
Commissioned Book Review: Mayur S Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts	3
Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America	3
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	3
Three’s (Not Necessarily) A Crowd: State-of-the-Art Review of the Strategic Triangle	3
Does Cross-Regime Contact Change the Evaluation of Democracy? Evidence From Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China	3
Commissioned Book Review: Edward Ashbee, Countering China: US Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative	3
Conspiracism and Civility	3
Commissioned Book Review: David Schultz and Jurij Toplak (eds), Routledge Handbook of Election Law	3
Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy	3
Commissioned Book Review: Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Nationalism and Hegemony: The Consolidation of the Nation in Social and Political Life	3
Explaining Online Personalized Politics: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Social Media Consumption of Parties and Leaders	3
Commissioned Book Review: The Ethics of Researching the Far Right	3
Getting Realistic About Action-Guidance: Moralism, Radical Realism and Divisions of Labour	3
Do Free Food and Beverages Bring People to the Political Meeting? The Survey Experiment of Attendance-Buying	3
The Elephant in the Room in Presidential Politics: Informal Powers in Western Europe	3
Commissioned Book Review: Giorgos Venizelos, Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump	3
Commissioned Book Review: Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption	2
Commissioned Book Review: Rahul Ranjan, The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	2
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	2
What Now for British Politics? Reflections on Gonzalez Ginocchio, Hindmoor and Stanley	2

Why Do Politicians Not Act Upon Citizens’ Deliberations? Evidence From Iceland	2
Gambling Economy and Social Protests in Macao: A Happy Problem?	2
Economic Hardship and Support for Redistribution: Synthesising Five Themes in the Literature	2
Commissioned Book Review: Robert B. Zoellick, America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	2
Political Transnationalism: Factors Associated With Immigrants’ Voting in Their Home Country Elections	2
Navigating Gender and Sectarian Affiliation: An Analysis of Young Voters’ Bias Against Female Politicians in Lebanon	2
The Politics of Path-Creation: Theory-Building of Social Policy Reform in Post-Economic Crisis Indonesia	2
When “Don’t Know” Indicates Nonignorable Missingness: Using the Estimation of Political Knowledge as an Example	2
Commissioned Book Review: Philip Fehling, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Taxation and Inequality in Latin America: New Perspectives on Political Economy and Tax Regimes	2
Commissioned Book Review: Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire	2
More Electoral Competition Without More Voter Participation: Quasi-Experimental Test of a Term Limit Reform in Ecuador	2
Behavioural Evidence, Yes; Normative Behaviourism, No	2
Climate Justice and Political Feasibility	2
Commissioned Book Review: François Burgat, Understanding Political Islam	2
The Rhetoric of Innovation in Non-Tech Personal Branding: Utilizing Tech Buzzwords as a Strategy for Political Messaging	1
Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political Theory?	1
Commissioned Book Review: David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance	1
Measuring Epistemic Deliberation on Polarized Issues: The Case of Abortion Provision in Ireland	1
The Moderating Effect of Ideological Identification on How Economic News and Economic Growth Impact Individual Economic Perceptions: Evidence From Chile	1
AUR – The Electoral Geography of Romanian Conservative Nationalism	1
Commissioned Book Review: Michael Ryan, The Genetics of Political Behavior: How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology	1
Toward a Rational Civil Society: Deliberative Thinking, Civic Participation, and Self-Efficacy among Taiwanese Young Adults	1
Commissioned Book Review: Manfred B. Steger and Paul James, Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times	1
Sexual Predators in Contest for Public Office: How the American Electorate Responds to News of Allegations of Candidates Committing Sexual Assault and Harassment	1
Commissioned Book Review: Ajay Gudavarthy, Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’	1
The European Union-Intersectionality Framework: Unpacking Intersectionality in the ‘Union of Equality’ Agenda	1
Political Parties and Forms of Citizens’ Involvement in Decision-Making: A Special Section	1
Commissioned Book Review: Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers, Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective	1
From Objectivist Bias to Positivist Bias: A Constructivist Critique of the Attitudes Approach to Populism	1
Commissioned Book Review: Kudret Bülbül, Md. Nazmul Islam and Md. Sajid Khan (eds), Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution	1
Poverty Porn and Perceptions of Agency: An Experimental Assessment	1
Introduction to Symposium: The Substantive Representation of Disadvantaged Groups – Taking Stock and Moving Forward	1
Testing Causal Inference Between Social Media News Reliance and (Dis)trust of EU Institutions with an Instrumental Variable Approach: Lessons From a Null-Hypothesis Case	1
Commissioned Book Review: Patrick A. Mello, Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application	1
Polarization, Media Professionalism, and Support for Press Freedoms in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Report on Early Results	1
Presidential Activism and Success in Foreign and Defence Policy: A Study of Portugal’s Premier-Presidential Regime	1
Why Normative Behaviourism Fails	1
Auditing Ethics: A Cost–Benefit Framework for Audit Studies	1
Unveiling Political (Dis)trust Building across Different Life Stages: A Focus Group Analysis on Trust and Distrust to COVID-Related Restrictions in Italy	1
The Electoral Connection Revisited: Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Communicative Democracy and Voter Choice: Evidence From a Conjoint Analysis in Taiwan	1
Why Do Political Candidates Use Social Media in Election Campaigning? An Explanation Offered by a Cost-Benefit Calculation Using Survey Data	1
Presidential Approval, Tolerant Attitudes, and Economic Performance: The Case of Latin America	1
Young Non-Voters and Ethnic Tribune Politics in Northern Ireland: Beyond Apathy and Engaged Scepticism	1
Introduction to the Symposium Conspiracism and Democracy: New Perspectives and Challenges	1
Commissioned Book Review: Patrick A Mello and Falk Ostermann, Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods	1
Commissioned Book Review: Constantine Michalopoulos, Aid, Trade and Development: The Future of Globalization	1
Commissioned Book Review: Hans Agné, Democratism: Explaining International Politics With Democracy Beyond the State	1
Commissioned Book Review: Patrick Diamond, The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power, 1979–2019: Forward March Halted?	1
Commissioned Book Review: Steven Griggs and David Howarth, Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticization, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures	1
Runoff Comebacks in Comparative Perspective: Two-Round Presidential Election Systems	1
Commissioned Book Review: Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty	1
What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate It?	1
Commissioned Book Review: Anuradha M Chenoy and A Upadhyay, Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution	1
Democratic Decline and the Politics of the Upswing: How the United States May Have Come Together a Century Ago but Can It Do It Again?	1
Commissioned Book Review: Filip Ejdus, Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession	1
Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society: Findings from France and Italy	1
Commissioned Book Review: Ramona Coman, The Politics of the Rule of Law in the EU Polity, Actors, Tools and Challenges	1