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 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
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?	6
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
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
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
MPs’ expenses: the legacy of a scandal 10 years on	4
‘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
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
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
Elements of neoliberal Euroscepticism: how neoliberal intellectuals came to support Brexit	2
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