OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Politics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How to be an expert in confusing times: lessons from the Office of Budget Responsibility	25
Who Dares Wins: learning to be entrepreneurial as a conservative social justice discourse	18
Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland	16
Fat scrounger, lean times: a tale of two bodies in austerity Britain	14
From green crap to net zero: Conservative climate policy 2015–2022	11
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report	11
Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules	6
The Labour party under Keir Starmer and the limits of the politics of performative competence	5
Mapping domestic climate authority: insights from the UK’s multi-scale institutional architecture	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	4
Brexit and the NHS: voting behaviour and views on the impact of leaving the EU	4
Post-modern asset or misfiring problem? The UK Conservative Party’s constituency election campaign, 1997–2024	3
Correction to: Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	3
The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance	3
Correction to: Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	3
Correction to: Does Brexit overcome the globalisation trilemma? How British business assess the trade relationship with the EU	3
Prime ministerial political leadership and the domestic politics of Brexit: Theresa May and Boris Johnson compared	3
Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era	3
Huawei 5G in the UK: (de)politicisation, geopolitics and expertise	3
Understanding drivers of support for English city-region devolution: a case study of the Liverpool City Region	2
Scaring for the greater good? Discursive construction of fear appeals in the brexit referendum campaign	2
The Johnson factor: British national identity and Boris Johnson	2
Politics without society: explaining the rise of the Scottish National Party	2
Radical departure or opportunity not taken? The Johnson government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission	2

Britain, Britishness, and exceptionalism within the rhetoric of David Cameron	2
UKIP support in local elections: which factors play a role in determining electoral fortunes?	2
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	2
Territorial variation in territorial representation: the local base of Westminster MPs	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
Correction to: Two cheers for Holyrood: devolution and dimensions of fiscal accountability	2
A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment	2
Government decision-making and the site of power in New Labour’s ‘levelling up’: reconsidering economic regionalism	2
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq	2
Starmer’s election victory: from the politics of support to the politics of power	2
The Bank of England and conservative sound money politics: economic ideas in a contested political sphere	2
Narrative fusion and layering: statecraft and the shaping of Boris Johnson’s pandemic narrative, 2020–2021	2
Breaking blame: uncovering third-party strategies for contesting political blame in the Brexit referendum campaign	2
Theresa May and Brexit: leadership style and performance	2