OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Political Economy 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	174
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	63
Business elites and populism: understanding business responses	58
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	52
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	40
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	38
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	36
Statistical Conventions and the Forms of the State: A Story of South African Statistics	35
The financialisation of car consumption	30
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	27
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	25
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	24
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	23
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	20
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	17
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom	17
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	16
Technovation futures and state activism: configuring the United Kingdom’s economic statecraft	16
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	16
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	15
Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage: a comparative study	15
Modern finance theory and practice and the Anthropocene	15
Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America	14
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	14
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	14

Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968	13
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	13
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	13
The Structure–Agency Relation of Growth Imperative Hypotheses in a Credit Economy	12
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	12
Grand Development Strategy or Simply Grandiose? China's Diffusion of Its Belt & Road Initiative into Central Europe	12
Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda	11
Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change	11
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	11
South-South monetary regionalism: a case of productive incoherence?	11
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	11
Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	11
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	10
‘Making financial sense of the future’: actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk	10
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	10
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	10
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	10
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	9
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	8
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	8
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	8
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	8
A Critical Node: The Role of China in the Transnational Circulation of Developmentalist Ideas, Policies and Practices	8
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	8
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	7
Studying the relationship between social policy promotion and neoliberalism: the case of social investment	7
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	7
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	7
Decarbonising states as owners	7
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	7
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	7
Collaboration, Adaptation, or Disruption? Wall Street, Fintech and Corporate Bond Trading	7
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	7
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	6
Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance	6
Disrupting the Welfare State? Digitalisation and the Retrenchment of Public Sector Capacity	6
The social and political bases of political economy: interpreting and periodising Italian developments since WWII	5
External enablers of Eurozone austerity: exploring the link between the ease of suppressing domestic spending and trading partners’ demand	5
Decoupling climate change: winter tourism and the maintenance of regional growth	5
Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India	5
A time of reproductive unrest: the articulation of capital accumulation, social reproduction, and the Irish state	5
‘What is exploitation and workplace abuse?’ A classification schema to understand exploitative workplace behaviour towards migrant workers	5
The importance of the English language for the early Engels–a comparison between Engels’ and Marx’s research on English political economic literature before their collaboration	5
Towards a reparative welfare state	5
Polanyi in rural China: beyond the double movement	5
The last subsidy: regulating devaluation in the German coal phase-out	5
UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance	5
Building the weak hand of the state: tracing the market boundaries of high pharmaceutical prices in France	5
Tensions between individual and system change in the climate movement: an analysis of Extinction Rebellion	5

The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance	5
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	5
The Politics of Fiscal Legitimacy in Developmental States: Emergency Taxes in Argentina Under Kirchnerism	5
Is China financialised? The significance of two historic transformations of Chinese finance	5
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	4
Social reproduction theory and the capitalist ‘form’ of social reproduction	4
Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework	4
Low interest rates, low productivity, low growth? A multi-sector case study of UK-based firms’ funding and investment strategies in the context of loose monetary policy	4
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	4
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	4
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	4
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	4
Resilience, discipline and financialisation in the UK’s liberal welfare state	4
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero	4
The distribution of the cost of Cuban social reproduction in 2016: the relative contributions of domestic and diasporic households, the private sector and the state	4
Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets*	4
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds	4
Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement	4
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	3
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	3
Culture & European attitudes on public debt	3
Adapting to the market: leftist ideological justifications of liberal economic policies, 1977–1986	3
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite	3
The transformation of resource-rich countries in the International Division of Labour: ‘backward' industrialisation and relative surplus population in Uzbekistan	3
The Political Economy of Climate Change Litigation: Is There a Point to Suing Fossil Fuel Companies?	3
Imaginary capital migration and the competitive politics of corporate taxation	3
Feminism, innovative finance and the Equality Fund: doing well while doing good?	3
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	3
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday	3
Europeanisation as a driver of dependent financialisation in East-Central Europe: insights from the Baltic states	3
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	3
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	3
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	3
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra	3
Conceptualising private fintech platforms as financial statecraft and recentralisation in China	2
Special section introduction: epistemic politics in international and comparative political economy	2
Diffusion of Practice: The Curious Case of the Sino-German Technical Standardisation Partnership	2
The Impacts of Subordinated Financialisation on Workers in Peripheral Countries: an Analytical Framework and the Cases of Brazil and Colombia	2
From NAFTA to USMCA: revisiting the market access – policy space trade-off	2
‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation	2
Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach	2
Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?	2
Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation	2
Rethinking predation under financialisation through the history of subprime mortgages: a case of raiding finance	2
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation	2
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	2
Unravelling connections: energy, economic growth, and decoupling through a historical lens	2
How can public policies facilitate local cooperation? insights from the EU’s wine policy	2
Algorithmic governance or extortion? Everyday experiences of fintech for loans in Nigeria	2
Addendum	2
Beyond the North–South divide: transnational coalitions in EU reforms	2
Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition	2
Are foreign stock investors politically responsive? Evidence from the 2012 South Korean presidential election	2
The End of Austerity as Common Sense? An Experimental Analysis of Public Opinion Shifts and Class Dynamics During the Covid-19 Crisis	2
Why federalism matters: policy feedback, institutional variation and the politics of trade policy-making in Canada and Germany	2
Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance	2