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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic: What are the Consequences of and for Trust? An Early Review of the Literature	267
The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Global Armed Conflict: Early Evidence	29
Introduction: Democratic Deliberation and Under-Represented Groups	17
Dilemmas of an Academic Feminist as Manager in the Neoliberal Academy: Negotiating Institutional Authority, Oppositional Knowledge and Change	15
Are People More Satisfied with Democracy When They Feel They Won the Election? No	13
When Would a State Crack Down on Fake News? Explaining Variation in the Governance of Fake News in Asia-Pacific	11
The Elephant in the Room in Presidential Politics: Informal Powers in Western Europe	11
Urban Youth and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis (Are Youth Bulges Relevant Anymore?)	10
Deliberation against Participation? Yellow Vests and Grand Débat: A Perspective from Deliberative Theory	10
Rethinking Democratic Innovations: A Look through the Kaleidoscope of Democratic Theory	9
Technocratic Ministers in Office in European Countries (2000–2020): What’s New?	9
Twenty-five Years of Securitization Theory: A Corpus-based Review	8
Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence	8
Does Federalism Prevent Democratic Accountability? Assigning Responsibility for Rates of COVID-19 Testing	8
Measuring Epistemic Deliberation on Polarized Issues: The Case of Abortion Provision in Ireland	8
Auditing Ethics: A Cost–Benefit Framework for Audit Studies	8
Critical Dogmatism: Academic Freedom Confronts Moral and Epistemological Certainty	8
Support for Liberal Democracy and Populist Attitudes: A Pilot Survey for Young Educated Citizens	8
Something New on the Western Front: Twenty Years of Interest Group Research (1999–2018)	7
Formal Education and Contentious Politics: The Case of Violent and Non-Violent Protest	7
Does the Election Winner–Loser Gap Extend to Subjective Health and Well-Being?	7
Kayfabe, Smartdom and Marking Out: Can Pro-Wrestling Help Us Understand Donald Trump?	7
Activist Parties and Hybrid Party Behaviours: A Typological Reassessment of Partisan Mobilisation	7
Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents	7
Two and a Half Crises: Serbian Institutional Design as the Cause of Democratic Declines	6

Radicalizing Rights: Basic Liberties and Direct Action	6
Measuring MPs’ Responsiveness: How to Do it and Stay Out of Trouble	6
Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies	6
‘It’s a Long Way from Kuusamo to Kuhmo’: Mapping Candidates’ Electoral Constituencies in the Finnish Open-List Single Preference Voting System	6
Going Local: Parliamentary Questions as a Means of Territorial Representation in the Italian Parliament	5
Sexual Predators in Contest for Public Office: How the American Electorate Responds to News of Allegations of Candidates Committing Sexual Assault and Harassment	5
Accounting for Culture in Policy Transfer: A Blueprint for Research and Practice	5
Intra-Party Deliberation, Under-Represented Groups, and Candidate Selection: The Case of Demos in Romania	5
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity	5
Should We or Should We Not Include Confidence Intervals in COVID-19 Death Forecasting? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	5
Distinctions With a Difference: Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in Scholarly Study	4
COVID-19 and the Democracy–Autocracy Freedom Divide: Reflections on Post-Pandemic Regime Change Scenarios	4
Policy Diffusion Speed: A Replication Study Using the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion Database	4
Covid-19 Policy Convergence in Response to Knightian Uncertainty	4
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	4
How to Get Information Out of Members of Parliament (Without Being Told Off by the Speaker)	4
Diplomacy Versus Politics: Two Mutually (In)Dependent Systems	4
Getting Realistic About Action-Guidance: Moralism, Radical Realism and Divisions of Labour	3
Perceptions of Inequality and Political Participation: The Moderating Role of Ideology	3
Does Electoral Reform Change MPs’ Behavior? Evidence from Romania	3
The Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy: Postindustrial Dilemmas or Neoliberal Contamination?	3
Out-of-Control COVID-19 Pandemic Hampers the Nationalism	3
Polls and the Pandemic: Estimating the Electoral Effects of a SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak	3
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences: Country Presidents and Political Parties in Romania	3
Academic Career Advances and Gender Gap	3
Challenges for Political Science Research Ethics in Autocracies: A Case Study of Central Asia	3
Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies	3
Toward a Rational Civil Society: Deliberative Thinking, Civic Participation, and Self-Efficacy among Taiwanese Young Adults	3
Blurring Lines of Responsibility: How Institutional Context Affects Citizen Biases Regarding Policy Problems	3
It Is Not Only the Environment That Matters: A Short Introduction to Research on the Heritability of Political Attitudes	3
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence in Policy Implementation	3
Nightly News or Nightly Jokes? News Parody as a Form of Political Communication: A Review of the Literature	3
Give Me Your Least Educated: Immigration, Education and Support for Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe	3
What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate It?	3
Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications	2
Does Issue Alignment Matter? The Electoral Cost and Reward of Agricultural Representation in Urban and Rural Areas	2
International Politics and the Subnational Allocation of World Bank Development Projects	2
Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy	2
Partisanship Versus Democracy: Voting in Turkey’s Competitive Authoritarian Elections	2
Party Fragmentation, the Proportional System and Democracy in Slovenia	2
Public Impacts from Elite Audit Experiments: Aggregate and Response Delay Harms	2
Fact-Centric Political Theory, Three Ways: Normative Behaviourism, Grounded Normative Theory, and Radical Realism	2
An Economic Understanding of Populism: A Conceptual Framework of the Demand and the Supply Side of Populism	2
Gender Gaps in Electoral Turnout: Surveys versus Administrative Censuses	2
Climate Change and the Politics of Apocalyptic Redirection	2
Participatory Institutions and Political Ideologies: How and Why They Matter?	2
A Bayesian Measurement of Political Connection and Entrepreneur Preference on Trade and Competition	2
Culture and Policy Transfer: From Insight to Impact	2
Value-added and Transparent Experiments	2
Tactical Voting and Electoral Pacts in the 2019 UK General Election	2

The Effects of Political Attitudes on Affective Polarization: Survey Evidence from 165 Elections	2
Unleash Britain’s Potential (To Go Negative): Campaign Negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections on Facebook	2
Defense Budget Growth and Inflation: A Wavelet-Based Study of the U.S. and Britain	2
Members of the European Parliament’s Political Careers across Different Levels: Presenting a New Dataset of Members of the European Parliament	2
Political Transnationalism: Factors Associated With Immigrants’ Voting in Their Home Country Elections	2
The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question	2
Who Runs in the End? New Evidence on the Effects of Gender, Ethnicity and Intersectionality on Candidate Selection	2
Introducing a Conceptual Map of Political Elites’ Responses to Different Types of Uncertain Phenomena	2
Institutional Consequences of the Black Lives Matter Movement: Towards Diversity in Elite Education	2
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
Democratic Consolidation and Electoral System Change in Croatia: What Is Wrong with the Proportional Representation?	1
When “Don’t Know” Indicates Nonignorable Missingness: Using the Estimation of Political Knowledge as an Example	1
The Evolution of New Party Systems: Voter Learning and Electoral Systems	1
Ethics Audits in Cross-National Research: Experiences from Correspondence Study Field Experiments with National Politicians in Four European Democracies	1
Commissioned Book Review: Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses, Knowledges Born in the Struggle: Constructing the Epistemologies of the Global South	1
Politics and International Relations: A Gendered Discipline	1
Perceiving Freedom: Civil Liberties and COVID-19 Vaccinations	1
Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally: Towards a Composite Index	1
Euroscepticism and Local Far-Right Mobilization via Telegram in Light of the Fundamental Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
The Rhetoric of Innovation in Non-Tech Personal Branding: Utilizing Tech Buzzwords as a Strategy for Political Messaging	1
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	1
Presidential Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Explaining Variation Among Semi-Presidential Countries	1
Personalised Representation in a Weak and Party-Controlled Legislature: Policy Responsiveness in the French Parliament	1
Runoff Comebacks in Comparative Perspective: Two-Round Presidential Election Systems	1
Underrepresented Groups and Constitution-Making: The Mexico City Case	1
The Effect of Mayoral Gender on Gendered Budget: Evidence from South Korea	1
Ideas, Policy Feedback and the American Political Economy	1
Commissioned Book Review: Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	1
COMUNIX WhatsAppers: The Community School in Portugal and Spain	1
The Strange Silence of Latin American Political Theory	1
Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	1
No, Face Masks Aren’t Dehumanizing	1
Routine Presidential Activism by Going Public under Semi-Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes	1
Ron Johnston	1
Ignore, Rebut or Embrace: Political Elite Responses to Conspiracy Theories	1
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	1
In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value	1
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	1
Behavioural Evidence, Yes; Normative Behaviourism, No	1
The Concept of Political Sophistication: Labeling the Unlabeled	1
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralisation in Argentina	1
Europeans’ Attitudes Toward the Goals of Agricultural Policy: A Case of Rural–Urban Divide?	1
Do Free Food and Beverages Bring People to the Political Meeting? The Survey Experiment of Attendance-Buying	1
Direct Democracy and Party Membership: Testing the Role of Political Efficacy	1
Confrontational or ‘Statespersonlike’ Style? Examining Finnish and French Presidents’ Public Speeches and Messages, 2000–2020	1
The Substantive Representation of Future Generations in Bicameral Parliaments: A Comparison of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and the Senate (2010–2014)	1
What’s Wrong With Extreme Wealth?	1
Communicating Political Positions on European Issues: A Comparison of Parties and Newspapers in Seven Countries	1
“Not To Be Taken Personally”: Tracing Six Decades of Scholarship on Personal, Personalist, and Personalized Political Parties (1960–2021)	1
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	1
Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK: A Pilot Study into Who Gets What in the Discipline	1
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland	1
Presidential Activism and Success in Foreign and Defence Policy: A Study of Portugal’s Premier-Presidential Regime	1