OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Politics 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Venezuelan migrants in delivery platform work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Between exploitability, precariousness, and daily resistance	32
Transition television: Teaching peace, conflict, and contemporary Northern Ireland using Derry Girls and Blue Lights	30
Mind the ethics gap: Embedding research ethics into student fieldtrips to conflict and development settings	29
Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism	26
Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement in a school of politics and international relations	21
Hegemonic struggles and the role of contemporary ‘organic intellectuals’: A different perspective for the analysis of discourses	19
Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism	17
‘Fix the system!’ Variations of anti-establishment normalisation strategies in comparative perspective	17
The effect of employment on attendance: A response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’	13
The perception of insecurity and vote choice in national referendums: The case of Chile in 2022	13
Ideology, organisation, and path dependency: The use of violence among Egyptian Islamist movements	12
The mobile and carceral logics of Haifa Port	11
Writing and sustaining the ‘Ummah’: Reification, alterity, and strategic framing in the official discourse of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation	11
Deliberative forums in fragile contexts: Challenges from the field	11
What (if anything) makes political parties indispensable?	10
The ‘going out’ of Chinese businesses and China’s economic statecraft: Beijing’s dilemma between domestic concerns and global ambitions	10
Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom	8
Ecofascism in the shadow of ‘patriotic ecology’: Nativism, economic greenwashing, and the evolution of far-right political ecology in France	8
The European Union, immigration and the Left–Right divide: Explaining voting preferences for Western European radical right parties	7
Bringing the state back in: Ruling parties and regime collapse during the Arab Uprisings	7
Making campaigns more personalised: Explaining the personalisation of election campaigns in comparative perspective	6
Understanding unlikely alliances in Europe: Why ethno-religious minorities support populist radical right parties	6
Time for a rebrand? Examining the efforts of college departments in the California State University system to reimagine, reinvent, reposition, and rebrand themselves in response to a changing higher e	6
The South of Ireland during the interregnum: A Gramscian analysis of continuity and change	6
Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility	5

With or without you? The strategic inclusion of Latin American immigrants in VOX electoral speeches	5
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime	5
Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt	5
Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure	5
Do people in authoritarian countries have lower standards when evaluating their governments? An anchoring vignettes approach	4
Right-wing populist parties and their appeal to pro-redistribution voters	4
The declining Kingdom? Emotional ascription, emotional expectations, and humour in the international framing of the UK in crisis	4
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality	4
What explains equity-enhancing reforms under centre-right governments? Evidence from Brazil	4
The political theory of technological change: Lessons from the liberalism-ecologism debate	4
Migration and the racialised politics of desire	4
Security professionals and public opinion: Legitimacy, publicity and brand identity	4
Equipping students to study the politics of global challenges: Embedding skills, belonging, employability and ‘making a difference’ in a first-year module	4
Introducing the RefCFRI: A continuous indicator comparing referendum campaign finance regulation in 143 countries	4
Arts-based approaches to democracy: Reinvigorating the public sphere	3
How populist are ethnic minorities? Populist attitudes and voting for populist parties in the Netherlands	3
Ill-gotten gains: Partisan alignment, politicised grant transfers and English local election outcomes	3
Too little, too vague: How populist parties talk about deliberation in Europe	3
From mechanics to meaning: Designing writing assignments in political science education	3
Cosmopolitanism, law, and narrative: An interpretation of the right to narrate	3
Comparative evidence on cultural variability in authoritarianism: An ethical and relational perspective	3
China’s passport power and belt-and-road initiative: An investigation of passport relations	3
The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies	3
Rejuvenating international relations: Rethinking the social interpretation of youth to advance the global governance agenda	3
Navigating pandemic waves: Consensus, polarisation and pluralism in the Finnish parliament during COVID-19	3
Presidential approval and power concentration as leverage of political support: Evidence from Latin America	3
Governed bodies, discarded bodies: Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19	3
The crown in crisis? Britain’s royal ontological (in)security in the post-Brexit age	3
Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers	3
Legacies of States and Social Revolutions	3
Working with politics ‘students as partners’ to engender student community: Opportunities and challenges	2
Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies	2
Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members	2
‘Importing’ the personal vote to maximise the party vote? ‘Parachute personalization’ in an intraparty preference electoral system	2
Hybrid democratic innovation as assemblage: Probing and extending an emerging concept for democratic-innovations research	2
Does experience of democracy reduce ethnic economic inequality?	2
The ‘incomplete’ failure of political Islam: The Justice and Development Party and the Freedom and Justice Party as case studies	2
African agency and soft disempowerment in the Chinese and American sports diplomacy	2
Direct democracy, personality, and political interest in comparative perspective	2
From classroom to post-conflict zones: Transforming learning through the Africa Study Visit	2
Democratic innovation for change: A participatory corrective to deliberative hegemony	2
Spacious learning: A critical reflection on active learning in political science	2
The nexus between the Baltic governments and think tanks as instruments of foreign and security policy	2
The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit	2
Climate refugees: A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement	2
The policy profile of populist parties in Europe: Policy purposeful with the competitive advantage of crises	2
Reflections on an anniversary	2