OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Political Science Review is 4. 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
Claiming the right to rule: regime legitimation strategies from 1900 to 2019	32
Ideological extremism, perceived party system polarization, and support for democracy	28
A tough trade-off? The asymmetrical impact of populist radical right inclusion on satisfaction with democracy and government	24
Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending	21
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	19
Are governments paying a price for austerity? Fiscal consolidations reduce government approval	19
Why does the European Right accommodate backsliding states? An analysis of 24 European People’s Party votes (2011–2019)	19
Going in circles? The influence of the electoral cycle on the party behaviour in parliament	18
National identity between democracy and autocracy: a comparative analysis of 24 countries	17
When trust is not enough. A longitudinal analysis of political trust and political competence during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland	17
Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis	16
Perceived risk crowds out trust? Trust and public compliance with coronavirus restrictions over the course of the pandemic	16
Power-sharing and the quality of democracy	15
The discursive construction of digitalization: a comparative analysis of national discourses on the digital future of work	15
Gender quotas and public demand for increasing women’s representation in politics: an analysis of 28 European countries	13
Sympathy for the devil? Voter support for illiberal politicians	13
The partisan politics of employment protection legislation: Social democrats, Christian democrats, and the conditioning effect of unemployment	11
Preferences for consensus and majoritarian democracy: long- and short-term influences	9
What drives support for social distancing? Pandemic politics, securitization, and crisis management in Britain	9
Plebiscites: a tool for dictatorship	8
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: how do experience and expectation of status decline shape electoral behaviour?	8
Individual- and party-level determinants of far-right support among women in Western Europe	8
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	8
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	7
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	7

Civic engagement in times of economic crisis: a cross-national comparative study of voluntary association membership	7
Transnational solidarity among political elites: what determines support for financial redistribution within the EU in times of crisis?	7
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	7
Process matters: the variegated effects of municipal amalgamation features on voter turnout revealed in a 10-country comparative investigation	6
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	6
The makers get it all? The coalitional welfare politics of Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. The case studies of Austria and Italy	6
Prime ministerial autonomy and intra-executive conflict under semi-presidentialism	6
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration	6
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	6
The varying logics for supporting populist right-wing welfare politics in West European welfare regimes	6
Internal democracy in populist right parties: the process of party policy development in the Alternative for Germany	5
Centrifugal forces in a hegemonic environment: the rise of small-state coalitions in the Economic and Monetary Union	5
Affective polarization in Europe	5
Parliamentary questions as an intra-coalition control mechanism in mixed regimes	5
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	5
Space invaders and norm-politicians: how the media represent the intersectional identities of Members of Parliament	4
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	4
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	4
Electoral systems and ideological voting	4
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	4
Social influence and political participation around the world	4
Participatory processes and their outcomes: comparing assembly and popular vote decisions	4
Party competition over EU integration: asymmetrical impacts of external shocks across regions?	4