OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating Human Rights, Feminism, and History: Egyptian Feminist Activists’ Demands for Constitutional Equality, 2012–2014	54
Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Gendered Relational Reading of Settler Colonial Containment inShubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada	20
Explaining the Role and Impact of Gender within Online Political Discourse: Insights from Explainable Machine Learning	18
Complexities and Nuances in Radical Right Voters’ (Anti)Feminism	18
Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics	15
Long-Term Trends in the Gender Income Gap within Couples: West Germany, 1978–2011	14
Education as a Field of Contention: Feminist and Anti-gender Struggles over Democracy	14
Working from Home and Parental Childcare Division: Evidence from Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Explaining the Adoption of Care Policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay: A Multiple Streams Approach	13
The Hierarchy of Care Work: How Immigrants Influence the Gender-Segregated Labor Market	12
Empowered Homeowners, Responsible Mothers: Promises and Pitfalls of Maternalist Housing Provision in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida Program	12
The Care Subsidy to the Labor Market: Rethinking the Care Diamond	12
Symbolic and Transformative: Alignments Toward Feminicídio Legal Reform inside the Brazilian Police	11
Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Hungary: Progress in Recognition and Backlash in Policies	10
Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion: Promoting Gender Projects, Re-establishing the Gender Order, and Forging Gendered Subjectivities on Online US Spousal Reunification Forums	10
Doctors’ Rights vs. Patients’ Rights: Analyzing the Implementation of Italian Abortion Policy in Puglia	9
Whose Rights? Domestic Workers Organizing in Massachusetts	9
Between Activism and Academy: Lobby and Advocacy About Care in Latin America	8
Motherhood Penalty—Beyond Bias? From Stereotypes to Substitutability Structures	8
The Social and Political Lives of Women in an Egalitarian Matricultural Society: The Case of Western Sahara	8
The Scandal of Women’s Emancipation. Femonationalism, Right-Wing Sexual Politics, and Anti-Feminism	8
Mainstreaming Gender in Policy Narratives: Childcare Policies during Latin America’s Left Turn	8
Framing Care in Global and Regional Policy Spaces	7
The Problematization of Migrant Maternity: Implications of the “Passport Baby” Narrative in the Canadian Context	7
Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)	7

Thinking Intersectionally about State Power and Resistance in the Breddon Women’s Center in England	6
Populist Radical Right Frames of Gender and Sexuality in France and Italy: Targeting Feminists and Other Enemies of the People	6
Impact of the Multifactorial Crisis on Food Security, Care, and Quality of Life of Older People in Cuba	6
Gender Sensitivity in the National Roma Integration Strategies of Member States of the European Union	6
Gender Dynamics During the Colombian Armed Conflict	6
Paradox or Mitigation? Childless and Parent Gender Gaps across British, Finnish, and German Wage Distributions	6
Structured Exclusions: The Making of Female Citizenship in Türkiye and Israel	6
Doing Family Before the State. Does Recognition of De Facto Families Lead to More Inclusive Migration Law Practices?	6
Gendered Perceptions of Personality Traits, Policy Stereotypes, and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties: Lessons from Turkey	6
Perceived Corruption and Women’s Representation in the Executive Branch	5
Challenging the Gender Regime through Small-scale Activism: Alternative Citizen-Led Projects in Kurdistan/Türkiye	5
What About Fertility? The Unintentional Pro-natalism of a Nordic Country	5
Paternal Leave Duration and the Closure of the Gendered Family Work Gap	5
Staying Power: Unpacking Seniority as a Gendered Informal Institution in Parliament	5
Gender Equality Policies “Confined”: Adopted Frames in the Prison System in Spain	5
Parental Leave Reforms in South Korea, 1995–2021: Policy Translation and Institutional Legacies	4
Authoritarian Othering Back and Feminist Subversion: Rethinking Transnational Feminism in Russia and Serbia	4
Autocratization and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Rights in Brazil: Contextualizing Attacks and Resistances under Bolsonaro’s Government	4
A Critical Feminist Perspective on Climate Change Adaptation Plans: Mapping Municipal Recognition, Dialog, and Budgeting	4
Trapped by Tradition: Gender and Occupational Segregation in Peru	4
Between Coping, Co-optation, and Resistance: Strategies of (En)Countering Anti-gender Challenges in Local Governance in the Context of Democratic Backsliding	4
Intersectional Repertoires of Coping with Political Violence	4
Integrating Gender-Based Analysis Plus into Policy Responses to COVID-19: Lived Experiences of Lockdown in British Columbia, Canada	3
A Multi-scalar Feminist Project for a Care Right: Angles for a Deepening Understanding	3
Depletion through Social Reproduction and Contingent Coping in the Lived Experience of Parents on Universal Credit in England	3
Marketization, Regulation, and Equality: Towards an Analytical Framework for Understanding the Equality Impact of Public Procurement	3
The Woman Question in the “Stupid Box”: An Analysis of the Politics of Women’s Representation in Pakistani Popular Media	3
“Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”: State Violence and Ambivalent Moments of Enforced Emancipation of Refugee Women	3
Between Peripherality and Privilege: “Women Wage Peace” as a Case Study of Intersectionality Practices in Women’s Movements	3
Austerity Policies and the Strategic Silencing of Their Gendered Effects: Evidence from Spain	3
Violence against Women—The Case of Divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel	3
Gendered Violence, Genderless Frames: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Russia and Ukraine on the Eve of Full-scale War	3
Bridging the Gender Gap in Ghanaian Local Governance: Key Enablers and Pathways	3
Care Policy Determinants and Effects: Convergences and Divergences Across the Americas	3
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work	3
Unpaid Work in Uruguay: Between the Commitment of a Care System and the Setbacks of the Pandemic	3
Legal Mobilization and Framing Transformation: The Feminist Turn to the Law in Mexico	3
How Do Welfare States Support Reproductive Equity? A Comparative Analysis across Countries and over Time	3
Gender Balance on State Boards in Ireland: To the Forefront of Progress or Concealing the Status Quo?	3
Double-edged Swords? Party Ideology, Activism, and Visibility in the Careers of Italian LGBT+ Politicians	3
Ecologies of depletion	2
Political Representation and Intersectionality: Perspectives of Ethnically/Racially Minoritized Citizens	2
Governance by Gaslight: The Reproductive Politics of the Two-Child Limit	2
Working with Depletion	2
Gender Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers	2
From Criticism to Collaboration: Politics of Naturalist Mothering in Turkey	2
Housewives and Entrepreneurs: Local Coalitions of Power and the Political Construction of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Turkey	2
“This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”: Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	2
From Equality to Economic Development: Culture, Intersectionality, and Justifications for Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy in the United States, 1973–1988	2
The Paradox of the AKP’s Gender Regime: Gender Identity of Religious Women in Türkiye	2

Feminism at the Crossroads of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Restructuring Women’s Labor in the Context of Family Leave Reform in Finland	2
Locations of Depletion	2
Beyond Clueless Mothers: Israeli “Women Wage Peace” Activists’ Perceptions of Why Women Are Key to Peacemaking	2
Beyond Electoral Rules: Women Political Rights in Mexico and Brazil since Democratic Transitions	2
Special Section: Contemporary Forms of Illiberal and Anti-feminist Mobilizations of Gender	2
(In)Stability of Gender Attitudes in Times of Family Policy Change—A Latent Class Analysis of Germany, Austria, and Sweden	2
Strong Gender Contract, Weak Institutions: Gender Pay Gap in Slovenia and Czechia	2
Familialization, De-familialization, and Family Policy Change in High-Income Countries	2
Trans* Women’s Experiences of Epistemic Misrecognition in Swedish Law and Society	2
School Meals, Policy Protagonism, and the Politics of Care in the Americas	2
Being a Woman Politician on the Isle of Man: How Smallness Explains Political Culture	2
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Feminist Policy Reform, and the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada	1
Fragments of a Unique and Bold Trajectory	1
Women’s Voting Preferences in Europe: A Replication of the Gender Gap Analysis on the National Level	1
The state of/and depletion	1
In Memoriam: Júlia Szalai (1948–2022)	1
Not So Soft Side of Femininity: Interpretating the Validity of Inclusive Femininity	1
Constructions of Care in EU Economic, Social, and Gender Equality Policy: Care Providers and Care Recipients versus the Needs of the Economy?	1
National Care Experts and Public Daughters: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in South Korea and the United States	1
Unequal Priorities: How Intra-household Resource Allocation and Means-tested Benefits Affect Capabilities in poor Families	1
Gender Parity Reform as Autocratic Genderwashing? Analyzing Ethiopia’s Post-Protest Experiment	1
Risk, Reward, and Resistance: Navigating Work and Family under Hungary’s New Pronatalism	1
Multiple Dimensions of Gender Ideologies: How They Relate to Normative Judgments of the Gender Division of Parental Leave	1
“Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice	1
Transitional Moments, Conflicts over Gender, and the Meanings of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and South America: A Comparative Agenda	1
State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada	1
Persistence of Abortion Stigma Inscribed in the Legal Framework: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in Poland	1
Women’s Empowerment via Women’s Cooperatives: An Ethnographic Account from Turkey	1
Making Parenting Leave Accessible to Fathers: Political Actors and New Social Rights, 1965–2016	1
Do Men Care about Childcare? Women’s Relative Resources and Men’s Preferences for Work–Family Reconciliation Policies	1
Authoritarian Populism and Patriarchal Logics: Nicaragua’s Engendered Politics	1
Toward a Caring Society? A Framework for Analyzing the Impact of Early Childhood Policies Based on Chile and Uruguay	1
Traveling Through Different Transitions in Latin America and Post-Socialist Europe	1
From Human Rights to Emancipation: Four Decades of Feminist Movement Configurations in Latin America	1
A Comparison of the Socioeconomic and Gendered Organization of Social Reproduction in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1973–2013	1
Occupational Transitions among Direct Care Workers in the United States	1
Actions for Care: A Canadian Approach	1
Has a Phenomenon Been Born? Causes, Consequences, and Strategies of Gendering De-democratization in Turkey	1