OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of a STEM background on MPs’ legislative behaviour	20
Fat scrounger, lean times: a tale of two bodies in austerity Britain	12
Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	12
How to be an expert in confusing times: lessons from the Office of Budget Responsibility	12
The space between leave and remain: archetypal positions of British parliamentarians on Brexit	11
Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	9
Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland	9
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report	6
Friend or foe? British receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885	6
From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022	6
The Labour party under Keir Starmer and the limits of the politics of performative competence	5
Brexit and the NHS: voting behaviour and views on the impact of leaving the EU	5
Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules	5
Remind you of anyone? Comparing the gendered heroic leadership of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May	5
Mapping domestic climate authority: insights from the UK’s multi-scale institutional architecture	5
The lessons of 1969: policy learning, policy memory and voting age reform	4
Correction to: The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer	4
Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era	3
Correction to: Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	3
Correction to: Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	3
The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance	3
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	3
Correction to: Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	3
The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence	3
Prime ministerial political leadership and the domestic politics of Brexit: Theresa May and Boris Johnson compared	2

Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	2
Five decades of small business policy in England: policy as a value proposition or window dressing?	2
MPs’ expenses: the legacy of a scandal 10 years on	2
Scaring for the greater good? Discursive construction of fear appeals in the brexit referendum campaign	2
Garnett, M. (2021) The British Prime Minister in an age of upheaval. Cambridge: Polity Press	2
Territorial variation in territorial representation: the local base of Westminster MPs	1
Government decision-making and the site of power in New Labour’s ‘levelling up’: reconsidering economic regionalism	1
Using non-legislative tools when legislation is hard: a comparison of the Canadian, UK, and Israeli parliaments	1
Workington Man, Brexit and populism: discussions of politics, identity and class among rugby league fans online	1
UKIP support in local elections: which factors play a role in determining electoral fortunes?	1
Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	1
Feminist politics and gender equality in Britain	1
Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron's 'Big Society'	1
Britain, Britishness, and exceptionalism within the rhetoric of David Cameron	1
Understanding drivers of support for English city-region devolution: a case study of the Liverpool City Region	1
Starmer’s election victory: from the politics of support to the politics of power	1
The Bank of England and conservative sound money politics: economic ideas in a contested political sphere	1
The Johnson factor: British national identity and Boris Johnson	1
Politics without society: explaining the rise of the Scottish National Party	1
Radical departure or opportunity not taken? The Johnson government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission	1
Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	1
A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment	1
Correction to: Civic education as an antidote to inequalities in political participation? New evidence from English secondary education	1
Theresa May and Brexit: leadership style and performance	1
The dilemma of Brexit: hard choices in the narrow context of British foreign policy traditions	1
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq	1
Correction to: Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	1
Masculinity and femininity in media representations of party leadership candidates: men ‘play the gender card’ too	1
Governance and the Westminster model: what exactly is the dominant story of UK policymaking?	1
Dimitri Batrouni: ‘The Battle of Ideas in the Labour Party: from Attlee to Corbyn and Brexit’	1
Transparency in action or political fiction? The pre-inquiry phase of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry	1
Breaking blame: uncovering third-party strategies for contesting political blame in the Brexit referendum campaign	1