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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic: What are the Consequences of and for Trust? An Early Review of the Literature	249
The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Global Armed Conflict: Early Evidence	29
Introduction: Democratic Deliberation and Under-Represented Groups	14
Dilemmas of an Academic Feminist as Manager in the Neoliberal Academy: Negotiating Institutional Authority, Oppositional Knowledge and Change	13
Are People More Satisfied with Democracy When They Feel They Won the Election? No	12
Deliberation against Participation? Yellow Vests and Grand Débat: A Perspective from Deliberative Theory	10
The Elephant in the Room in Presidential Politics: Informal Powers in Western Europe	10
When Would a State Crack Down on Fake News? Explaining Variation in the Governance of Fake News in Asia-Pacific	10
Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations	10
Public Office as a Stepping-Stone? Investigating the Careers of Ministerial Advisors	10
Depoliticising Gender Equality in Turbulent Times: The Case of the European Gender Action Plan for External Relations	10
Corruption Perceptions and Contentious Politics in Africa: How Different Types of Corruption Have Shaped Africa’s Third Wave of Protest	10
Career Development and Progression of Early Career Academics in Political Science: A Gendered Perspective	9
Normativity in Realist Legitimacy	8
Rethinking Democratic Innovations: A Look through the Kaleidoscope of Democratic Theory	8
Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK	8
The Institutionalisation of Social Movements: Co-Optation and Democratic Policy-Making	7
Technocratic Ministers in Office in European Countries (2000–2020): What’s New?	7
Support for Liberal Democracy and Populist Attitudes: A Pilot Survey for Young Educated Citizens	7
Urban Youth and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis (Are Youth Bulges Relevant Anymore?)	7
Does Federalism Prevent Democratic Accountability? Assigning Responsibility for Rates of COVID-19 Testing	7
Determinants of Political Trust during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting Policy Performance into Evidence	7
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
Critical Dogmatism: Academic Freedom Confronts Moral and Epistemological Certainty	7

Understanding the European Union as a Global Gender Actor: The Holistic Intersectional and Inclusive Study of Gender+ in External Actions	7
Foreign Policy Change: From Policy Adjustments to Fundamental Reorientations	6
Kayfabe, Smartdom and Marking Out: Can Pro-Wrestling Help Us Understand Donald Trump?	6
‘It’s a Long Way from Kuusamo to Kuhmo’: Mapping Candidates’ Electoral Constituencies in the Finnish Open-List Single Preference Voting System	6
Measuring Epistemic Deliberation on Polarized Issues: The Case of Abortion Provision in Ireland	6
Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and Early Career Researcher Survey	6
Two and a Half Crises: Serbian Institutional Design as the Cause of Democratic Declines	5
Activist Parties and Hybrid Party Behaviours: A Typological Reassessment of Partisan Mobilisation	5
Auditing Ethics: A Cost–Benefit Framework for Audit Studies	5
Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents	5
Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies	5
Accounting for Culture in Policy Transfer: A Blueprint for Research and Practice	5
Slipping Off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union’s External Relations in Times of Crisis	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
Radicalizing Rights: Basic Liberties and Direct Action	5
Moving Away From Partisanship: Diversifying the Motives Behind Political Polarization	5
Does the Election Winner–Loser Gap Extend to Subjective Health and Well-Being?	5
Intra-Party Deliberation, Under-Represented Groups, and Candidate Selection: The Case of Demos in Romania	5
The Sociology of Diplomats and Foreign Policy Sector: The Role of Cliques on the Policy-Making Process	5
How to Get Information Out of Members of Parliament (Without Being Told Off by the Speaker)	4
Should We or Should We Not Include Confidence Intervals in COVID-19 Death Forecasting? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
Rethinking Identity in Political Science	4
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity	4
Covid-19 Policy Convergence in Response to Knightian Uncertainty	4
COVID-19 and the Democracy–Autocracy Freedom Divide: Reflections on Post-Pandemic Regime Change Scenarios	4
Going Local: Parliamentary Questions as a Means of Territorial Representation in the Italian Parliament	4
Twenty-five Years of Securitization Theory: A Corpus-based Review	4
Measuring MPs’ Responsiveness: How to Do it and Stay Out of Trouble	4
Policy Diffusion Speed: A Replication Study Using the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion Database	3
It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Interest-Group Influence in Policy Implementation	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
It Is Not Only the Environment That Matters: A Short Introduction to Research on the Heritability of Political Attitudes	3
Diplomacy Versus Politics: Two Mutually (In)Dependent Systems	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
Preferences, Preference Formation and Position Taking in a Eurozone Out: Lessons from the United Kingdom	3
Distinctions With a Difference: Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in Scholarly Study	3
Rejoinder: Women in the Profession? Assuming Gender in the Analysis of the Composition of UK Politics Departments	3
What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate It?	3
Getting Realistic About Action-Guidance: Moralism, Radical Realism and Divisions of Labour	3
Houston, We Have a Problem: Enhancing Academic Freedom and Transparency in Publishing Through Post-Publication Debate	2
Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications	2
Nightly News or Nightly Jokes? News Parody as a Form of Political Communication: A Review of the Literature	2
Climate Change and the Politics of Apocalyptic Redirection	2
Members of the European Parliament’s Political Careers across Different Levels: Presenting a New Dataset of Members of the European Parliament	2
Party Fragmentation, the Proportional System and Democracy in Slovenia	2
Value-added and Transparent Experiments	2
Institutional Consequences of the Black Lives Matter Movement: Towards Diversity in Elite Education	2
Tactical Voting and Electoral Pacts in the 2019 UK General Election	2

Linkage to the West and Electoral Manipulation	2
International Politics and the Subnational Allocation of World Bank Development Projects	2
Challenges for Political Science Research Ethics in Autocracies: A Case Study of Central Asia	2
Defense Budget Growth and Inflation: A Wavelet-Based Study of the U.S. and Britain	2
Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies	2
Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation	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
Perceptions of Inequality and Political Participation: The Moderating Role of Ideology	2
The Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy: Postindustrial Dilemmas or Neoliberal Contamination?	2
Does Issue Alignment Matter? The Electoral Cost and Reward of Agricultural Representation in Urban and Rural Areas	2
Participatory Institutions and Political Ideologies: How and Why They Matter?	2
Political Transnationalism: Factors Associated With Immigrants’ Voting in Their Home Country Elections	2
The Quality of Political Information	2
The Evolution of New Party Systems: Voter Learning and Electoral Systems	1
Defensive Citizenship in Europe: Definition and Measurement	1
Direct Democracy and Party Membership: Testing the Role of Political Efficacy	1
Underrepresented Groups and Constitution-Making: The Mexico City Case	1
COMUNIX WhatsAppers: The Community School in Portugal and Spain	1
Runoff Comebacks in Comparative Perspective: Two-Round Presidential Election Systems	1
Academic Career Advances and Gender Gap	1
Culture and Policy Transfer: From Insight to Impact	1
The Substantive Representation of Future Generations in Bicameral Parliaments: A Comparison of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and the Senate (2010–2014)	1
The Influence of the President and Government Coalition on Roll-Call Voting in Brazil, 2003–2006	1
Perceiving Freedom: Civil Liberties and COVID-19 Vaccinations	1
Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?	1
Euroscepticism and Local Far-Right Mobilization via Telegram in Light of the Fundamental Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Commissioned Book Review: Benjamin Biard, Laurent Bernhard and Hans-Georg Betz (eds), Do They Make a Difference? The Policy Influence of Radical Right Populist Parties in Western Europe	1
Does Electoral Reform Change MPs’ Behavior? Evidence from Romania	1
Give Me Your Least Educated: Immigration, Education and Support for Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe	1
Europeans’ Attitudes Toward the Goals of Agricultural Policy: A Case of Rural–Urban Divide?	1
Patterns of Party Positioning in Referendums in Switzerland	1
Commissioned Book Review: Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	1
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralisation in Argentina	1
Public Impacts from Elite Audit Experiments: Aggregate and Response Delay Harms	1
Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy	1
The Effects of Political Attitudes on Affective Polarization: Survey Evidence from 165 Elections	1
A Bayesian Measurement of Political Connection and Entrepreneur Preference on Trade and Competition	1
The Strange Silence of Latin American Political Theory	1
Do Free Food and Beverages Bring People to the Political Meeting? The Survey Experiment of Attendance-Buying	1
Electoral Reform or Not: Party Interests Defeated Principled Arguments in the Late Nineteenth Century and Have Characterised the UK’s Electoral System Since	1
Ron Johnston	1
Democratization in Political Communication	1
Members of the European Parliament on Social Media: Why Do They Use Facebook and Twitter?	1
Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally: Towards a Composite Index	1
No, Face Masks Aren’t Dehumanizing	1
What’s Wrong With Extreme Wealth?	1
Democratic Consolidation and Electoral System Change in Croatia: What Is Wrong with the Proportional Representation?	1
Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK: A Pilot Study into Who Gets What in the Discipline	1
The Effect of Mayoral Gender on Gendered Budget: Evidence from South Korea	1
Personalised Representation in a Weak and Party-Controlled Legislature: Policy Responsiveness in the French Parliament	1
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences: Country Presidents and Political Parties in Romania	1
The Proper Scope of the All-Subjected Principle	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
Behavioural Evidence, Yes; Normative Behaviourism, No	1
Confrontational or ‘Statespersonlike’ Style? Examining Finnish and French Presidents’ Public Speeches and Messages, 2000–2020	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
Politics and International Relations: A Gendered Discipline	1
Solar Panels and Political Attitudes	1
The Fragmented Inclusion of Gender Equality in AU-EU Relations in Times of Crises	1
The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question	1
Unleash Britain’s Potential (To Go Negative): Campaign Negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections on Facebook	1
Partisanship Versus Democracy: Voting in Turkey’s Competitive Authoritarian Elections	1
Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	1
Communicating Political Positions on European Issues: A Comparison of Parties and Newspapers in Seven Countries	1
Gender Gaps in Electoral Turnout: Surveys versus Administrative Censuses	1
Who Runs in the End? New Evidence on the Effects of Gender, Ethnicity and Intersectionality on Candidate Selection	1
In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value	1