OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary 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
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	44
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	29
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	23
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	15
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	14
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	13
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	12
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	11
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	11
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	11
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	10
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Failing to build a network as policy entrepreneurs: Greek politicians negotiating with the EU during the first quarter of SYRIZA in government	9
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	9
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	8
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	8
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	7
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	7
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
Brazil’s strategic diplomacy for maritime security and safety	6
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	6
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	6

Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey	6
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	6
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	5
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	5
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	5
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	5
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	4
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	4
Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement	4
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	4
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	4
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	4
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	4
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding	3
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	3
Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond	3
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	3
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	3
International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP	3
Intimate polarisation: political divisions within everyday family relationships in Colombia	3
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	3
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	3
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	3
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	3
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	3
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	2
The Islamic State, Shia religious clerics and the mobilisation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria	2
Foreign capital and US states’ contested strategies of internationalisation: a constructivist analysis	2
FTA Motives in South Korea: is an FTA a way to increase general welfare or to meet political interest?	2
Equally at risk? Perceived financial differences, risk assessment and containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct	2
Populism and democracy: a reassessment	2
Rising powers’ quest for increased legitimacy through IOs in an era of loose multilateralism	2
Trigger mechanism centralized but discursive frame fragmented: China as a case for studying populism at the grassroots level in the social media age	2
Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats	2
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	1
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	1
Do populists want direct democracy? Examining how thick and thin populist attitudes are associated with the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative	1
Packaging OECD policy advice: universal policy models and domestication of recommendations	1
Why do some populist presidents erode liberal democratic institutions more than others in Latin America?	1
Policy-making by tweets: discursive governance, populism, and Trump Presidency	1
Populism, culture and class: articulation and performance in contemporary British populism	1
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	1
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	1
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	1

Cities against democratic backsliding: democratic resilience through urban resistance in the Visegrád 4 capitals	1
European union crisis-induced institutional evolution. The effect of institutional entrepreneurship in the formation of EFSF	1
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management	1
No-campaigns in peace referendums	1
Exploring the edges of clientelism: ideology, ethnicity, and partisanship in Belize	1
Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns	1
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	1
Local democratic resistance to autocratisation: evidence from Budapest, Banja Luka, and Zagreb	1
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	1
Crisis as a catalyst for democratisation: how Russia’s escalation of the war in Ukraine facilitated democratic progress in Moldova	1
Neither Islamic, nor a republic and not Iranian: the legitimacy crisis of the clerical regime	1
Consequences of civilian victimisation: does pro-victimisation sponsorship affect the survival of intervening leaders?	1
The politics of civil society narratives in contestation between liberalism and nationalism in authoritarian Vietnam	1
First survive, then thrive: major urban centres and resistance against autocratisation	1
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	1