OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Science Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Political consumerism: A meta-analysis	61
Strategies of right populists in opposing gender equality in a polarized European Parliament	41
A whole-of-nation approach to COVID-19: Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team	35
Political institutions, state capacity, and crisis management: A comparison of China and South Korea	27
Right-wing populism and feminist politics: The case of Law and Justice in Poland	26
Sortition, its advocates and its critics: An empirical analysis of citizens’ and MPs’ support for random selection as a democratic reform proposal	23
Public opinion in policy contexts. A comparative analysis of domestic energy policies and individual policy preferences in Europe	23
Institutional logics and the EU’s limited sanctioning capacity under Article 7 TEU	22
Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis	18
Mapping the drivers of negative campaigning: Insights from a candidate survey	17
The politics of climate change in a neo-developmental state: The case of South Korea	17
State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina	16
Party competition on climate policy: The roles of interest groups, ideology and challenger parties in the UK and Ireland	16
Attack politics from Albania to Zimbabwe: A large-scale comparative study on the drivers of negative campaigning	12
The Clean Energy Ministerial: Motivation for and policy consequences of membership	12
Politics and corona lockdown regulations in 35 highly advanced democracies: The first wave	11
Disability and political representation: Analysing the obstacles to elected office in the UK	11
Brexit and the union: Territorial voice, exit and re-entry strategies in Scotland and Northern Ireland after EU exit	11
The politics of climate change: Domestic and international responses to a global challenge	11
From poverty to trust: Political implications of the anti-poverty campaign in China	11
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	11
Gender gaps in political participation in Asia	11
Pulled in and pushed out of politics: The impact of neoliberalism on young people’s differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece	10
Brexit and party change: The Conservatives and Labour at Westminster	10
Psychological roots of political consumerism: Personality traits and participation in boycott and buycott	10

Does process matter? Experimental evidence on the effect of procedural fairness on citizens’ evaluations of policy outcomes	10
‘It’s a total no-no’: The strategic silence about gender in the European Parliament’s economic governance policies	10
National interests and coalition positions on climate change: A text-based analysis	9
Introduction: ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation in a Post-Western World’	9
Policy implications of climate change denial: Content analysis of Russian national and regional news media	9
Policy styles, opportunity structures and proportionality: Comparing renewable electricity policies in the UK	8
The internal and external institutionalization of the BRICS countries: The case of the New Development Bank	8
(Un)Democratic change and use of social sanctions for domestic politics: Council of Europe monitoring in Turkey	8
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	8
Life satisfaction and the conventionality of political participation: The moderation effect of post-materialist value orientation	8
Regional sanctions as peer review: The African Union against Egypt (2013) and Sudan (2019)	8
Tensions between populist and feminist politics: The case of the Spanish left populist party Podemos	8
Capacity building for proportionate climate policy: Lessons from India and South Africa	7
Legitimation, regime survival, and shifting alliances in the Arab League: Explaining sanction politics during the Arab Spring	7
Natural resource wealth and the informal economy	7
The continuum of election violence: Gendered candidate experiences in the Maldives	7
Institutional foundations of global well-being: Democracy, state capacity and social protection	7
Riding the tiger of performance legitimacy? Chinese villagers' satisfaction with state healthcare provision	7
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	7
When politics trumps strategy: UK–EU security collaboration after Brexit	6
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	6
It’s a rich man’s world: How class and glass ceilings intersect for UK parliamentary candidates	6
Different types of deficient democracies: Reassessing the relevance of diminished subtypes	6
Conflict shapes in flux: Explaining spatial shift in conflict-related violence	6
Back to the Westminster model? The Brexit process and the UK political system	6
Reputation versus office: Why populist radical right governmental participation has differed between Sweden and Denmark	6
Regional sanctions and the struggle for democracy: Introduction to the special issue	6
Is there a partisan bias in the perception of the state of the economy? A comparative investigation of European countries, 2002–2016	6
Introduction: Populism and feminist politics	6
Can women dynasty politicians disrupt social norms of political leadership? A proposed typology of normative change	6
Should we conduct correspondence study field experiments with political elites?	5
Regional organizations and democratic conditionality: Family resemblances and shaming	5
The pandemic politics of existential anxiety: Between steadfast resistance and flexible resilience	5
Money matters: The impact of gender quotas on campaign spending for women candidates	5
Regional organizations and the politics of sanctions against undemocratic behaviour in the Americas	5
How perceptions and information about women’s descriptive representation affect support for positive action measures	5
The politics of authoritarian empowerment: Participatory pricing in China	5
Religious and secular value divides in Western Europe: A cross-national comparison (1981–2008)	5
Looking for truth in absurdity: Humour as community-building and dissidence against authoritarianism	5
Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017	5
How can we trust a political leader? Ethics, institutions, and relational theory	5
Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy	4
Are smart sanctions smart enough? An inquiry into when leaders oppress civilians under UN targeted sanctions	4
Psychological foundations and behavioral consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs: The Turkish case	4
Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: The case of a China–Taiwan war	4
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	4
Direct democracy and equality: A global perspective	4
Making war and peace with emotion: Examining the Iraq and Iran cases via presidential speech and media coverage	4
Healthy citizens, healthy democracies? A review of the literature	3
Parliamentary rules, party norms, and legislative speech	3

Changing responses to a frozen conflict: The Republic of Cyprus soft balancing vis-à-vis Turkey	3
‘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	3
The rise of research on independence referendums	3
How do political decision-making processes affect the acceptability of decisions? Results from a survey experiment	3
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	3
Why states inform: Compliance with self-reporting obligations in universal treaty regimes	3
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	3
Coalition-making under conditions of ideological mismatch: The populist solution	3
Depleting democracy? The radical right’s impact on minority politics in Eastern Europe	3
Off balance: Systematizing deformations of liberal democracy	3
Economy or austerity? Drivers of retrospective voting before and during the Great Recession	3
Funding demands and gender in political recruitment: What parties do in Cabo Verde and Ghana	3
The patch as method: The arts’ contribution towards understandings of conflict	2
Young voters, older candidates and policy preferences: Evidence from two experiments	2
Italy’s quiet pivot to the Indo-Pacific: Towards an Italian Indo-Pacific strategy	2
When good news backfires: Feelings of disadvantage in the Corona crisis	2
Agenda dynamics and policy priorities in military regimes	2
Dynastic rule in Syria and North Korea: Nepotism, succession, and sibling rivalry	2
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	2
Breaking up is hard to do: The Neil Sedaka theory of independence referendums	2
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	2
The Brexit effect: Political implications of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union	2
Education, democratic governance, and satisfaction with democracy: Multilevel evidence from Latin America	2
Conservatism, social isolation and political context: Why East Europeans would leave the EU in Exit referendums	2
The democratic potential of political consumerism: The effect of visibility bias and social stratification	2
Nationalism and the strength of secessionism in Western Europe: Static and dynamic autonomy	2