OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Science Review 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms	43
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	25
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	20
The presence of a social context increases support for redistribution: Inequality aversion and risk aversion	20
Media skepticism and reactions to political scandals: An analysis of the Trump–Ukraine case	18
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	16
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	14
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	14
‘Above all, it will boil down to money problems’: The impact of gender-targeted public financing on political parties and women candidates in South Korea	14
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	13
Femisocial capital: Homophily and bill sponsorship by South Korean female legislators	13
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	12
Blind spots in the study of democratic representation: Masses and elites in old and new democracies	12
The personalistic challenge: The rise of Bukele and the collapse of an ideologically structured party system in El Salvador	11
Money matters: The impact of gender quotas on campaign spending for women candidates	11
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	11
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	11
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	11
Explaining changes in women’s representation in peace processes: The adoption of a gender quota in the Agreement Monitoring Committee in Mali	10
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	9
Time is of the essence: Explaining the duration of European Union lawmaking under the co-decision procedure	8
Ideology, financial circumstances, and attitudes toward public and private foreign aid	8
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	8
Brexit and party change: The Conservatives and Labour at Westminster	8
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	8

Independent commission design and inclusion in Northern Ireland: Agonistic versus traditional approaches	7
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	7
The pandemic politics of existential anxiety: Between steadfast resistance and flexible resilience	7
It’s a rich man’s world: How class and glass ceilings intersect for UK parliamentary candidates	6
The structural power of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in multilateral development finance: A case study of the New Development Bank	6
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	6
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	6
Who misses the bare necessities? Material deprivation as an indicator for egotropic economic voting	6
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	6
Don’t put a ring on it: Gender stereotypes in citizens’ preferences for executive positions	6
Thank You to Reviewers	5
Attrition as a bottom-up pathway to subnational democratization	5
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	5
Who reduces political trust after experiencing corruption? Introducing the role of personality traits	5
Global policy diffusion as a socially constructed process: Insights from UNESCO Creative Cities Network’s shift towards the Global South	5
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	4
Reciprocating to the bottom: Is there negative diffuse reciprocity in social economic human rights	4
The domestic democratic peace: How democracy constrains political violence	4
Domestic legal traditions and international cooperation: Insights from domestic and international qualification systems	4
Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017	4
Class voting or economic voting? Electoral support for chavismo (1998–2015)	4
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	3
Understanding ASEAN’s approach to sanctions against norm breakers	3
The internal and external institutionalization of the BRICS countries: The case of the New Development Bank	3
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	3
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	3
Politics on the stock market? Political investorism as a form of political participation	3
Multi-bilateral aid for disease control	3
The soft power cost of COVID-19 in OECD countries: a lose–lose outcome for China and the United States	3
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	2
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	2
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	2
Industry comparative advantage and support for redistribution: A cross-country cross-industry analysis of the political economy of trade	2
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	2
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	2
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	2
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	2
Women’s engagement with the Syrian opposition: Pathways, perspectives, and participation	2
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	2
How perceptions and information about women’s descriptive representation affect support for positive action measures	2
Foreign policy decision-making within authoritarian contexts: Al-Sisi’s foreign policy (2014–2024)	2
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	2
Thank you to Reviewers	2
How do political decision-making processes affect the acceptability of decisions? Results from a survey experiment	1
Marginalized, but not demobilized: Ethnic minority protest activity when facing discrimination	1
Conflict shapes in flux: Explaining spatial shift in conflict-related violence	1
Female leaders and gendered laws: A long-term global perspective	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1
Are women more progressive than men? Attitudinal gender gaps in West European democracies	1

Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy	1
When good news backfires: Feelings of disadvantage in the Corona crisis	1
Democracy as a cause of semi-presidential regimes: On reverse causality between democracy and semi-presidential establishment	1
Stabilising transitions from conflict: The importance of transitional decision-making procedures	1
Behind the technocratic challenge: Old and new alternatives to party government in Italy	1
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	1
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Changing responses to a frozen conflict: The Republic of Cyprus soft balancing vis-à-vis Turkey	1
The COVID-19 pandemic and the electoral performance of governing parties in electoral democracies	1
The Multi-Stage Mixed Methods Framework: A new research design to combine hypothesis development and hypothesis testing and to embed machine learning and practitioner engagement in the social sciences	1
Thank You to Reviewers	1
‘It’s a total no-no’: The strategic silence about gender in the European Parliament’s economic governance policies	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	1
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	1
Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: The case of a China–Taiwan war	1
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	1