OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Politics 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism	30
Venezuelan migrants in delivery platform work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Between exploitability, precariousness, and daily resistance	27
Mind the ethics gap: Embedding research ethics into student fieldtrips to conflict and development settings	25
Conspiratorial medievalism: History and hyperagency in the far-right Knights Templar security imaginary	22
Institutional listening in deliberative democracy: Towards a deliberative logic of transmission	22
The missing link: Studying political leadership from the followers’ perspective	18
Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement in a school of politics and international relations	18
Beyond polarization and selective trust: A Citizens’ Jury as a trusted source of information	17
Hegemonic struggles and the role of contemporary ‘organic intellectuals’: A different perspective for the analysis of discourses	17
Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism	16
The perception of insecurity and vote choice in national referendums: The case of Chile in 2022	16
Martial politics, MOVE and the racial violence of policing	15
Avatars of Eurocentrism in international political economy textbooks: The case of the Middle East and North Africa	14
‘Fix the system!’ Variations of anti-establishment normalisation strategies in comparative perspective	14
Ideology, organisation, and path dependency: The use of violence among Egyptian Islamist movements	14
Regulatory regionalism and the limits of ASEAN banking integration: The case of Indonesia	13
The effect of employment on attendance: A response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’	12
Writing and sustaining the ‘Ummah’: Reification, alterity, and strategic framing in the official discourse of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation	11
News reception and authoritarian control in a hybrid media system: Russian TV viewers and the Russia-Ukraine conflict	11
The mobile and carceral logics of Haifa Port	11
Transitions and non-transitions from neoliberalism in Latin America and Southern Europe	11
The ‘going out’ of Chinese businesses and China’s economic statecraft: Beijing’s dilemma between domestic concerns and global ambitions	10
Deliberative forums in fragile contexts: Challenges from the field	9
Ecofascism in the shadow of ‘patriotic ecology’: Nativism, economic greenwashing, and the evolution of far-right political ecology in France	9
What (if anything) makes political parties indispensable?	8

Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname	8
Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom	8
The European Union, immigration and the Left–Right divide: Explaining voting preferences for Western European radical right parties	8
Do Spitzenkandidaten debates matter? Effects on voters’ cognitions and evaluations of candidates and issues	7
What explains equity-enhancing reforms under centre-right governments? Evidence from Brazil	7
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime	7
Bringing the state back in: Ruling parties and regime collapse during the Arab Uprisings	7
IR, imperialism, and the Global South: From Libya to Venezuela	6
Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility	6
Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure	6
Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt	5
Security professionals and public opinion: Legitimacy, publicity and brand identity	5
Right-wing populist parties and their appeal to pro-redistribution voters	5
Youth doing politics in times of increasing inequalities	5
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality	5
Migration and the racialised politics of desire	5
Cosmopolitanism, law, and narrative: An interpretation of the right to narrate	4
Do people in authoritarian countries have lower standards when evaluating their governments? An anchoring vignettes approach	4
Introducing the RefCFRI: A continuous indicator comparing referendum campaign finance regulation in 143 countries	4
Ill-gotten gains: Partisan alignment, politicised grant transfers and English local election outcomes	4
The political theory of technological change: Lessons from the liberalism-ecologism debate	4
China’s passport power and belt-and-road initiative: An investigation of passport relations	4
Gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people in Europe: Are young women less politically engaged than young men?	4
Governed bodies, discarded bodies: Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19	3
The impact of intolerance on young people’s online political participation	3
The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies	3
Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers	3
Introduction to the special issue: No longer second-order? Explaining the European Parliament elections of 2019	3
Too little, too vague: How populist parties talk about deliberation in Europe	3
Comparative evidence on cultural variability in authoritarianism: An ethical and relational perspective	3
Direct democracy, personality, and political interest in comparative perspective	2
Arts-based approaches to democracy: Reinvigorating the public sphere	2
The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit	2
The ‘incomplete’ failure of political Islam: The Justice and Development Party and the Freedom and Justice Party as case studies	2
Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies	2
Navigating pandemic waves: Consensus, polarisation and pluralism in the Finnish parliament during COVID-19	2
Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members	2
Working with politics ‘students as partners’ to engender student community: Opportunities and challenges	2
Legacies of States and Social Revolutions	2
African agency and soft disempowerment in the Chinese and American sports diplomacy	2
The nexus between the Baltic governments and think tanks as instruments of foreign and security policy	2
Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies	2
The policy profile of populist parties in Europe: Policy purposeful with the competitive advantage of crises	1
Self-sustainment dynamics in armed groups systems: Understanding the post–Havana Agreement conflict in Colombia.	1
Divided by morality? Moral foundations of affective polarisation during hard times	1
A multiperspectival approach to democratic theory: Five lessons for democratic innovations	1
‘Importing’ the personal vote to maximise the party vote? ‘Parachute personalization’ in an intraparty preference electoral system	1
How does crisis affect the conflict between technocracy and populism? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Rage against the Port City: Southern theologies mobilising for climate justice	1
Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates	1

Differentiated integration in the EU: What does Croatia want?	1
Unpacking the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA): Internationalisation of capital, imperial rivalry and cooperation, and regional power agency	1
Climate refugees: A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement	1
The morality of substitution intervention: The case of Yemen	1
Does experience of democracy reduce ethnic economic inequality?	1
Disruptive protest, civil disobedience & direct action	1
Decolonising quantitative research methods pedagogy: Teaching contemporary politics to challenge hierarchies from data	1
Left or centre? Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions from the French Revolution to today	1
Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words	1
Staging a dialogue between Autonomist Marxists and Post-Marxists: The case of the alt-right multitude	1
Who wants COVID-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism	1
Reflections on an anniversary	1
The myth of the reforming monarch: Orientalism, racial capitalism, and UK support for the Arab Gulf monarchies	1
Seasonal workers wanted! Germany’s seasonal labour migration regime and the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The transgressive aesthetics of populism	1
An inquiry into populism’s relation to science	1
The methodological legacies of Theda Skocpol’s State and Social Revolutions: Locating the three pillars of comparative historical analysis	1
Ideologically consistent, but for whom? An empirical assessment of the populism-elitism-pluralism set of attitudes and the moderating role of political sophistication	1
Young blood: Needed or discarded? Untangling party strategies for the selection of young candidates	1
Polarisation over the meaning of democracy: The case of political parties in Turkey	1