Politikon

Papers
(The TQCC of Politikon 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emerging trends in social policy from the south13
Democracy, development and the ecological crisis in Africa10
Accountability in Global Governance: Pluralist Accountability in Global Governance9
DIY urbanism in Africa: politics and practice8
Between Samir Amin and Claude Ake: towards a roadmap for Africa’s development8
Decolonizing grand theories: postcolonial ontology, historical sociology and mid-level theories in international relations7
South Africa’s protest tactics: evolution and expansion7
South African local government at crossroads7
The disruption of the white spatial imaginary in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow7
EU sanctions on Zimbabwe: rethinking Africa’s economic and political security in the global age6
Reading Mahmood Mamdani in a Decolonizing World. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today4
A Subjective Approach to International Relations: The Battle for Meaning4
Egoism of the national bourgeoisie: exploring political party formation, ego politics and the challenge of governance in South Africa4
The emerging BRICS financial architecture: a catalyst for global governance reform?4
Correction3
How Electoral Integrity Matters in an Era of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Experience from Ghana’s Eighth General Election3
ECOWAS Socio-cultural exchange protocol and French language development: implications on intra-regional integration in West Africa3
Remembering Lumumba's dismembered body-polity through Amin2
Which way ECOWAS? China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional economic integration in West Africa2
Post-apartheid state business relations in Johannesburg: a sub-national perspective on the 21st Century developmental state2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria2
‘Judicialization of corruption’ in Ghana: an analysis of how Ghanaians view the Office of the Special Prosecutor2
The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa2
Allocation of public goods, ethnic favouritism and the risk of local ethnic wars in sub-Saharan Africa2
The brick in the ballot box: the relative influence of democratic discontent and identity politics in the 2024 elections in South Africa2
ECOWAS – WAEMU dichotomy: challenges for regional integration and intra-regional trade in West Africa2
An exercise in electoral integrity: reviewing the role of the IEC in the 2024 national and provincial elections1
Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa1
Autocratic resurgence, ECOWAS interventions and geopolitical entanglements in West Africa1
Maxi Schoeman – An Appreciation1
Rawlsian ubuntucracy and the prospect for a political philosophy for failed African states1
Situating Afghanistan in China's GDI-BRI matrix: Taliban rule, Chinese ambitions, and the regeography of development1
South Africa’s dwindling developmental local government: a dying dream?1
Internal under-development in Africa and Amin’s delinking theory: Dangote, Dos Santos and Motsepe1
An old wine in a new bottle? Towards an alternative theoretical approach to AfCFTA's institutional autonomy and private-sector-driven cross-border business integration1
Fake news and Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election1
The African Three (A3) at the UN Security Council: Translating Agency into Influence?1
Laundering racial capitalism in post-apartheid South Africa1
African possibilities: a matriarchitarian perspective for social justice1
‘Biafra is made in heaven’: exploring the religious framing of the neo-Biafra secessionist movement in Nigeria1
50 Years of ECOWAS existence without food sovereignty: a route not taken1
Great powers in Africa: the US and China’s rival interests in Ethiopia1
Hesitancy to participate in South African local government elections – rural voter’s perspective1
AI-driven border surveillance in ECOWAS: implications for migrants’ rights and data privacy in the age of cyber sovereignty1
Protests as a form of electioneering? A comparative study of the 2016 and 2021 local government elections protests in Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal1
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