OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Commissioned Book Review: Yanina Welp, The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America The Will of the People: Populism and C	37
Commissioned Book Review: David Judge and Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Reimagining Parliament Reimagining Parliament edited by David Judge and Cristina Lest	21
Corrigendum to “Radical Realism and the Motivated Reasoning Connection”	19
What Lies Beneath: Mediators of Public Support for International Economic Cooperation	19
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	18
Commissioned Book Review: Mayur S Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts	17
A Cure for ‘Populism’? Diagnostic and Prognostic Framing in Anti-Populist Political Punditry	16
Commissioned Book Review: Nick Whittaker, Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse. The Island Race	16
A Window of Opportunity for Feminist Claims? MPs’ Responsiveness to Gender Inequalities in French-Speaking Belgium During COVID-19	15
Presidential Activism and Success in Foreign and Defence Policy: A Study of Portugal’s Premier-Presidential Regime	14
Explaining Online Personalized Politics: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Social Media Consumption of Parties and Leaders	14
Commissioned Book Review: Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Nationalism and Hegemony: The Consolidation of the Nation in Social and Political Life	11
Unveiling Political (Dis)trust Building across Different Life Stages: A Focus Group Analysis on Trust and Distrust to COVID-Related Restrictions in Italy	11
The Populist Name Game: About Populism and Naming	11
Corrigendum	11
Why Normative Behaviourism Fails	10
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	10
Commissioned Book Review: Anuradha M Chenoy and A Upadhyay, Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution	10
Commissioned Book Review: Christer Pursiainen and Tuomas Forsberg, The Psychology of Foreign Policy	10
The Role of Insecurity in Left Populist Ideology: A Review of Podemos	9
Ideas, Policy Feedback and the American Political Economy	9
Time on Our Side: Is Scottish Independence More Likely in the Future?	9
Commissioned Book Review: Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire	9
Fostering Reasoning in the Politically Disengaged: The Role of Deliberative Minipublics	9
Commissioned Book Review: Matteo Bonotti and Zim Nwokora, Money, Parties, and Democracy: Political Finance between Cats and Big Government MatteoBonottiZ	8

Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis	8
Commissioned Book Review: Marija Aleksovska, Under Watchful Eyes: Experimental Studies on Accountability and Decision-Making Behaviour in the Public Sector	8
Education and Democratic Consolidation: A Report on Early Results	8
Social Choice and Citizen Participation: Bringing Democratic Theory to Public Administration	8
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland	8
The Multiverse of Taiwan’s Future: Reconsidering the Independence–Unification ( Tondu ) Attitudes	8
Conspiracy Everywhere	8
Electoral Competition and Strategic Intra-Coalition Oversight in Parliament: The Case of the Bipolar Belgian Polity	8
Commissioned Book Review: Gürcan EC and Donduran C, China on the Rise: The Transformation of Structural Power in the Era of Multipolarity China on the Ri	8
The Rhetoric of Innovation in Non-Tech Personal Branding: Utilizing Tech Buzzwords as a Strategy for Political Messaging	8
Youth and Populism: A Scoping Review	8
Economic Hardship and Welfare Policy Preferences: What Can the COVID-19 Pandemic Tell Us?	8
Party Preferences as a Polarizing Factor During the COVID-19 crisis? The Evidence From Panel Survey	7
Commissioned Book Review: Ken M. P. Setiawan and Dirk Tomsa, Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges, and Democratic Decline	7
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence in Policy Implementation	7
Commissioned Book Review: Théo Aiolfi, The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performa	7
Timeless Tactics or Modern Misfires: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Established Voter Engagement Methods in US Local Elections	7
Children, Voting, and the Meaning of Universal Suffrage	7
The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies	7
Sharing Prime Ministerial Power in Hung Parliamentary Systems: Deputy, Rotating and Alternating Prime Ministers	7
Commissioned Book Review: Tobias Cremer, The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West	7
Commissioned Book Review: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees	6
From the Ground Up: Investigating the Relationship between Political Trust and Citizen Participation in the Wake of the Turkey Earthquake	6
Future-Regarding Institutions Through a Legitimacy Lens	6
Patterns of Protest in Contemporary Africa: An Empirical Investigation of Regional Trends Employing Multiple Imputation	6
Who Runs in the End? New Evidence on the Effects of Gender, Ethnicity and Intersectionality on Candidate Selection	6
The Importance and Limitation of Epistemic Norms in Political Theory	6
Signs of Democratic Resilience Following Aotearoa New Zealand’s March 15th Mosque Attacks	6
Economic Insecurity and the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Role of Labor Market Risks and Welfare Deservingness Perception	6
Editor’s Note: Looking Ahead—Expanding the PSR Community and Broadening Political Conversations	6
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences: Country Presidents and Political Parties in Romania	6
Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America	5
Activist Biographies: Youth Activist Careers and Transformations in Political Engagement in Spain	5
Political Economy of Natural Resource Depletion	5
Sources of Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting: A Scoping Review	5
Commissioned Book Review: Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption	5
Commissioned Book Review: Lewis G, Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea LewisG (2026) Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Co	5
Commissioned Book Review: Tamara K. Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L. Flear and Matthew Wood, Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit Not	5
Conspiracism and Civility	5
Populism Analytical Tools to Unearth the Roots of Euroscepticism	5
Commissioned Book Review: Matthew McManus, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism by McManusMatthew. Abingdo	5
Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization	5
Commissioned Book Review: Robin Attfield, The Ethics of the Climate Crisis The Ethics of the Climate Crisis by AttfieldRobin. Cambridge: Polity Press, 20	5
Commissioned Book Review: Iain Dale, Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series by DaleIain. London, UK:	5
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	5
Perception versus practice: Using neoclassical realism to analyse states’ ‘dual perceptions’ of fossil fuel, and the dilemma of climate change mitigation in a world of uncertainty	4
Does Normative Behaviourism Offer an Alternative Methodology in Political Theory?	4
A Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe? An Answer from the Citizens’ Perspective	4
Economic Hardship and Support for Redistribution: Synthesising Five Themes in the Literature	4
Commissioned Book Review: Steven Griggs and David Howarth, Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticization, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures	4

Exploring the Interplay Between Democratic Innovations and Social Sustainability: A Scoping Review	4
Commissioned Book Review: John T. Chalcraft, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization From Subordination to Revolutio	4
Politics of Rational Decision-making: The Effect of Political Alignment on Revenue Forecasts	4
Commissioned Book Review: Rahul Ranjan, The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	4
Poverty Porn and Perceptions of Agency: An Experimental Assessment	4
Commissioned Book Review: Donatella Della Porta, Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency: The Protests Against Anti-Contagion Measures and Vaccination During the Covid-19 Pan	4
More Than a Theory: Conspiracy Theorising As a Practical Tradition	4
Stereotype Crossroads: Investigating the Interplay of Gender and Religious Symbols in Shaping Political Gender Stereotypes in Flanders (Belgium), Turkey and the UK	4
Commissioned Book Review: David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance	4
Navigating Gender and Sectarian Affiliation: An Analysis of Young Voters’ Bias Against Female Politicians in Lebanon	4
Empirical and Normative Without a Universal Human Nature	3
Commissioned book review: Carnegie A and Clark R, Global Governance under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave CarnegieAClarkR	3
Commissioned Book Review: Ercan S.A., Asenbaum H., Curato N. and Mendonça R.F, Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy Research Methods in Deliberativ	3
Does the election closeness message increase voter turnout? Evidence from a field experiment in Japan	3
Towards Conflict or Compromise? Intra-Executive Dynamics in Normal Times and COVID-19 Period in Semi-Presidential Democracies	3
Unleash Britain’s Potential (To Go Negative): Campaign Negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections on Facebook	3
On the Term “Environmental Refugee”: Normative Assumptions and Empirical Realities	3
Fair-Weather Voters: Personality and Vote Switching Intentions	3
Commissioned Book Review: Lars Tønder, Power in the Anthropocene Power in the Anthropocene by TønderLars. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 1-	3
Compromise in Political Theory	3
Commissioned Book Review: Paulo Alfonso B Durante, Francesco Jose BS Leandro and Enrique Martinez Galan, The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: The	3
Affect or Emotions? Disaggregating Affective Polarisation to Explain Support for Liberal Democracy in Belgium and the United Kingdom	3
Adolescents’ political interest: Associations with autonomous study motivation and perceived social conflict	3
Responding to Needs: Increased Attention to the Rights of Non-Citizens in Times of Migration Spikes	3