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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fat scrounger, lean times: a tale of two bodies in austerity Britain	32
How to be an expert in confusing times: lessons from the Office of Budget Responsibility	22
Brexit and the changing geography of conservative party support in England, 2015–2019	21
Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	11
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report	11
From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022	10
The Starmer government and constitutional reform	10
Mapping domestic climate authority: insights from the UK’s multi-scale institutional architecture	6
The Labour party under Keir Starmer and the limits of the politics of performative competence	5
Remind you of anyone? Comparing the gendered heroic leadership of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May	5
Taking back control of foreign aid? National interest and the conservative reframings of UK development policy	5
Brexit and the NHS: voting behaviour and views on the impact of leaving the EU	5
Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era	4
Correction to: Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	4
The ‘Toolmakers Son’: Keir Starmer and the emergence of techno neo-statism	4
Correction to: Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	4
Post-modern asset or misfiring problem? The UK Conservative Party’s constituency election campaign, 1997–2024	4
Correction to: Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	3
The Johnson factor: British national identity and Boris Johnson	3
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	3
The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance	3
Prime ministerial political leadership and the domestic politics of Brexit: Theresa May and Boris Johnson compared	3
Scaring for the greater good? Discursive construction of fear appeals in the brexit referendum campaign	3
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	3
Keir Starmer’s approach to the European question	3

Labour’s choices: the political economy of Keir Starmer’s party	3
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq	2
Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron's 'Big Society'	2
Correction to: Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	2
Labour’s economic narrative in turbulent times: the limits of growth	2
Theresa May and Brexit: leadership style and performance	2
Breaking blame: uncovering third-party strategies for contesting political blame in the Brexit referendum campaign	2
Transparency in action or political fiction? The pre-inquiry phase of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry	2
Feminist politics and gender equality in Britain	2
The Bank of England and conservative sound money politics: economic ideas in a contested political sphere	2
Government decision-making and the site of power in New Labour’s ‘levelling up’: reconsidering economic regionalism	2
Politics without society: explaining the rise of the Scottish National Party	2
Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	2
A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment	2
Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK	2
Labour’s ‘Ming Vase Strategy’: the operational code of the Starmer leadership	2
Starmer’s election victory: from the politics of support to the politics of power	2
Correction to: Two cheers for Holyrood: devolution and dimensions of fiscal accountability	2
Negotiating secession: Brexit lessons for Scottish independence	1
Divining the UK’s national interest: MPs’ parliamentary discourse and the Brexit withdrawal process	1
Common sense and the common people: a queer typology of radical right populist discourse in the UK	1
The ‘datafication’ of campaigning in British party politics	1
What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics	1
Governance and the Westminster model: what exactly is the dominant story of UK policymaking?	1
Corbyn’s Momentum: social movement or something else?	1
How political parties matter in political-administrative relationships: children’s services policy in England 1997–2019	1
‘Mr Rules’: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics	1
Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain	1
An unpredictable pendulum: UK electoral dynamics in the twenty-first century	1
Correction to: Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	1
Power-sharing and memory-sharing in Northern Ireland: a case study of Healing Through Remembering during consociational volatility	1