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Papers

(The median citation count of British Politics 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The UK government’s COVID-19 policy: assessing evidence-informed policy analysis in real time	59
The COVID-19 exams fiasco across the UK: four nations and two windows of opportunity	19
Constructing the coronavirus crisis: narratives of time in British political discourse on COVID-19	15
Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules	8
From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022	8
Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income	6
The Johnson factor: British national identity and Boris Johnson	6
Brexit and the Myth of British National Identity	6
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	6
Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	5
Scotland and England’s colliding nationalisms: neoliberalism and the fracturing of the United Kingdom	5
America and the special relationship: the impact of the Trump administration on relations with the UK	5
The futility of participation: austerity and public reluctance to oppose it	5
Intra-party dissent over Brexit in the British Conservative Party	5
“Enemies of the people”? Diverging discourses on sovereignty in media coverage of Brexit	5
‘Building back better’ or sustaining the unsustainable? The climate impacts of Bank of England QE in the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Who are the victims of electoral fraud in Great Britain? Evidence from survey research	4
MPs’ expenses: the legacy of a scandal 10 years on	4
The present is a foreign country: Brexit and the performance of victimhood	3
Using non-legislative tools when legislation is hard: a comparison of the Canadian, UK, and Israeli parliaments	3
Understanding drivers of support for English city-region devolution: a case study of the Liverpool City Region	3
The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer	3
Prime Ministerial powers of patronage: Ideology and Cabinet selection under Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990	3
Five decades of small business policy in England: policy as a value proposition or window dressing?	3
Boris Johnson: the moral case for government resignations in July 2022	3

COVID-19 and the second exams fiasco across the UK: four nations trying to avoid immediate policy failure	3
Who and what is their ‘people’? How British political leaders appealed to the people during the 2019 election	3
Britain’s ‘favoured response’ to crises: a critical review of existing literature on public inquiries	3
Brexit and the Labour Party: Europe, cosmopolitanism and the narrowing of traditions	2
Leadership election reform in the British Labour party: democratisation or power struggle?	2
The dilemma of Brexit: hard choices in the narrow context of British foreign policy traditions	2
Unmasking the Brexit negotiations: the behavioural psychology of two-level games	2
Debating the value of twinning in the United Kingdom: the need for a broader perspective	2
The space between leave and remain: archetypal positions of British parliamentarians on Brexit	2
The lessons of 1969: policy learning, policy memory and voting age reform	2
Managing democracy in Corbyn’s Labour Party: faction-fighting or movement-building?	2
Political community and the new parochialism: Brexit and the reimagination of British liberalism and conservatism	2
Elements of neoliberal Euroscepticism: how neoliberal intellectuals came to support Brexit	2
A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment	1
Between everyday politics and political elites: transmission and coupling within Westminster’s parliamentary e-petitions system	1
Weakness not crisis: Brexit and the UK constitution	1
A policy framework of convenience: on Covid-19 and the strategic use of resilience in the UK	1
Not now! Construction of the “now-is-not-the-time” discourse of Theresa May and Boris Johnson vis-à-vis the second Scottish independence referendum	1
Theresa May and Brexit: leadership style and performance	1
Privileging privatisation: accounting practices and state transformation in the UK	1
British politics symposium on Ben Clift (2022) the OBR and the politics of technocratic economic governance (Oxford University Press)	1
The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence	1
Ironic inversions and stable purposes: reimagining political traditions in Ireland after the EU Referendum 2016	1
Workington Man, Brexit and populism: discussions of politics, identity and class among rugby league fans online	1
Britain, Britishness, and exceptionalism within the rhetoric of David Cameron	1
Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	1
Radical departure or opportunity not taken? The Johnson government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission	1
Power-sharing and memory-sharing in Northern Ireland: a case study of Healing Through Remembering during consociational volatility	1
Do Peers respond? Attendance and critical events	1
The impact of local identities on voting behaviour: a Scouse case study	1
How to be an expert in confusing times: lessons from the Office of Budget Responsibility	1
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	1
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour	1
Working-class conservative voters in 2019: voices from a valley in northern England	1
What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics	1
The OBR and the neo-liberal paradox	1
‘The Wind of Change’: a rhetorical political analysis of Harold Macmillan’s 1960 ‘decolonization’ speech	1
‘Mr Rules’: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics	1
Negotiating secession: Brexit lessons for Scottish independence	1
Corbyn’s Momentum: social movement or something else?	1
The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance	1
Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland	1
The ontological failure of David Cameron’s ‘modernisation’ of the Conservative Party	1