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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Conspiratorial medievalism: History and hyperagency in the far-right Knights Templar security imaginary	40
Introduction to the special issue: No longer second-order? Explaining the European Parliament elections of 2019	24
An inquiry into populism’s relation to science	24
COVID capitalism: The contested logistics of migrant labour supply chains in the double crisis	23
Governed bodies, discarded bodies: Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19	22
Looking for Ariadne’s thread: A systematic review on party-group relations in the last 20 years	16
Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers	16
Children’s literature and/as political critique: Storying the violences of exclusionary politics	15
Venezuelan migrants in delivery platform work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Between exploitability, precariousness, and daily resistance	15
Ecofascism in the shadow of ‘patriotic ecology’: Nativism, economic greenwashing, and the evolution of far-right political ecology in France	14
Support for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the face of safety concerns and political affiliations: An Australian study	14
Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism	14
Reflections on an anniversary	13
Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom	13
Too little, too vague: How populist parties talk about deliberation in Europe	12
The impact of intolerance on young people’s online political participation	12
Who can talk about abortion? Information, offence, freedom of speech, and the advertising ban in Germany	11
Institutional listening in deliberative democracy: Towards a deliberative logic of transmission	11
Does experience of democracy reduce ethnic economic inequality?	10
A multiperspectival approach to democratic theory: Five lessons for democratic innovations	10
Disruptive protest, civil disobedience & direct action	9
The missing link: Studying political leadership from the followers’ perspective	9
Legacies of States and Social Revolutions	9
The European Union, immigration and the Left–Right divide: Explaining voting preferences for Western European radical right parties	8
Differential and resonant solidarities: A materialist approach to the early career experience	8

Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies	8
Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’	8
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname	8
Election commissions and non-democratic outcomes: Thailand’s contentious 2019 election	7
Seasonal workers wanted! Germany’s seasonal labour migration regime and the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Beyond polarization and selective trust: A Citizens’ Jury as a trusted source of information	7
Comparative evidence on cultural variability in authoritarianism: An ethical and relational perspective	6
The morality of substitution intervention: The case of Yemen	6
Do Spitzenkandidaten debates matter? Effects on voters’ cognitions and evaluations of candidates and issues	6
Nostalgia and political analysis: A perspective from the Israeli case	6
Oppressive pines: Uprooting Israeli green colonialism and implanting Palestinian A’wna	5
Bringing the state back in: Ruling parties and regime collapse during the Arab Uprisings	5
Navigating pandemic waves: Consensus, polarisation and pluralism in the Finnish parliament during COVID-19	5
Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement in a school of politics and international relations	5
The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit	4
Some further reflections on the effect of employment on attendance	4
Participation as assemblage: Looking at developments in democratic innovations through an assemblage perspective	4
Arts-based approaches to democracy: Reinvigorating the public sphere	4
Left or centre? Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions from the French Revolution to today	4
Self-sustainment dynamics in armed groups systems: Understanding the post–Havana Agreement conflict in Colombia.	4
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime	4
What explains equity-enhancing reforms under centre-right governments? Evidence from Brazil	3
The promiscuous public? Exploring public opinion and why it matters to political actors	3
Must Good Samaritans vote?	3
Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility	3
The transgressive aesthetics of populism	3
IR, imperialism, and the Global South: From Libya to Venezuela	3
Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt	3
Decolonising quantitative research methods pedagogy: Teaching contemporary politics to challenge hierarchies from data	3
The capitalist virus	3
Decolonising politics curricula: Exploring the experiences and views of racially minoritised students	3
Divided by morality? Moral foundations of affective polarisation during hard times	3
Hegemonic struggles and the role of contemporary ‘organic intellectuals’: A different perspective for the analysis of discourses	3
Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure	3
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality	3
The international significance of the Northern Ireland peace process: Revisiting the lessons 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement	2
Differentiated integration in the EU: What does Croatia want?	2
Direct democracy, personality, and political interest in comparative perspective	2
African agency and soft disempowerment in the Chinese and American sports diplomacy	2
Democracy, populism, and the rule of law: A reconsideration of their interconnectedness	2
The nexus between the Baltic governments and think tanks as instruments of foreign and security policy	2
Unpacking the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA): Internationalisation of capital, imperial rivalry and cooperation, and regional power agency	2
Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies	2
The perception of insecurity and vote choice in national referendums: The case of Chile in 2022	2
The political theory of technological change: Lessons from the liberalism-ecologism debate	1
Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle	1
Avatars of Eurocentrism in international political economy textbooks: The case of the Middle East and North Africa	1
Broadening political participation: The impact of socialising practices on young people’s action repertoires	1
Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members	1
Security professionals and public opinion: Legitimacy, publicity and brand identity	1

Working with politics ‘students as partners’ to engender student community: Opportunities and challenges	1
Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates	1
Who wants COVID-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism	1
The methodological legacies of Theda Skocpol’s State and Social Revolutions: Locating the three pillars of comparative historical analysis	1
Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro	1
The democratic personality? The big five, authoritarianism and regime preference in consolidated democracies	1
The problem of asymmetric representation: The marginalisation, racialisation, and deservedness of Roma in Slovenia	1
Youth doing politics in times of increasing inequalities	1
The myth of the reforming monarch: Orientalism, racial capitalism, and UK support for the Arab Gulf monarchies	1
Polarisation over the meaning of democracy: The case of political parties in Turkey	1
‘Fix the system!’ Variations of anti-establishment normalisation strategies in comparative perspective	1
Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism	1
Economic and mobility repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chile–Bolivia border	1
Regulatory regionalism and the limits of ASEAN banking integration: The case of Indonesia	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
Right-wing populist parties and their appeal to pro-redistribution voters	1
Martial politics, MOVE and the racial violence of policing	1
Writing a constitution without parties? The programmatic weakness of party-voter linkages in the Chilean political change	1
The ‘incomplete’ failure of political Islam: The Justice and Development Party and the Freedom and Justice Party as case studies	1
Populism and new radical-right parties: The case of VOX	1
Staging a dialogue between Autonomist Marxists and Post-Marxists: The case of the alt-right multitude	1
Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words	1
#ShamimaBegum: An analysis of social media narratives relating to female terrorist actors	1