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

Article	Citations
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	42
Party institutionalization, authoritarian regime types and women’s political equality	26
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	20
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	14
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	13
The European Union in the annual United Nations General Assembly Debates	13
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	10
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	10
BRICS countries’ annual intergovernmental declaration: why does it matter for world politics?	10
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	9
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	9
Packaging OECD policy advice: universal policy models and domestication of recommendations	9
The strengths and limits of neoliberal populism: the statism and mass organisation of contemporary rightwing regimes	8
Servants of the state or masters of capital? Thinking through the class implications of state-owned capital	7
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	7
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management	7
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	7
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	6
Locating new ‘state capitalism’ in advanced economies: an international comparison of government ownership in economic entities	6
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	6
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	6
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	6
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	5
The politics of listening at the World Humanitarian Summit – localisation as resistance	5
Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?	5

Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	5
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	5
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	5
Reuniting strategy and diplomacy for 21^stcentury statecraft	5
Illiberal capitalist development: Chinese state-owned capital investment in Serbia	5
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	5
Behind the screens: Russian emotional manipulation strategies against black Americans on social media	4
Devil on the doorstep v. bandits in the backyard: Iranian and American theory-laden perceptions and judgements during three US-led Middle East operations	4
The Arab spring: why did the uprisings miss the monarchies?	4
Power struggle on subjectivity and foreign policy: a post-structuralist analysis of JDP’s policies towards the United States (2002–2016)	4
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	3
International organisations as policy bricoleurs: An analysis of the World Bank's healthcare financing recommendations for Argentina and Croatia	3
Uncooperative leadership: US public opinion and limited commitments to region building	3
The psychosocial foundation of China’s state-led nationalism	3
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	3
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	3
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	3
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	3
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	2
Justifications of repression in autocracies: an empirical analysis of Morocco and Tunisia, 2000–2010	2
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	2
Development banks as instruments of Brazilian strategic diplomacy	2
Leadership and performance in informal institutions: the internal dynamics of BRICS	2
From capacity to performance: pathways of democratic resilience in Asia	2
Does partisan polarisation predict economic growth? Evidence from 27 European countries	2
Populism, culture and class: articulation and performance in contemporary British populism	2
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	2
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	2
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	2
Conceptions of a rogue state in a comparative perspective: the United States and European Union vis-à-vis North Korea	1
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	1
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	1
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	1
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	1
Populism and alternative models to representative democracy	1
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	1
Kleptocracy, strategic corruption, and defence policymaking: the impact of Najib Razak’s 1MDB scandal on Malaysia’s defence relationship with China (2015–2017)	1
‘We are at war’: securitisation, legitimation and COVID-19 pandemic politics in France	1
Failing to build a network as policy entrepreneurs: Greek politicians negotiating with the EU during the first quarter of SYRIZA in government	1
Strategies of rising Brazil: postmortem review, looking forward	1
Do populists want direct democracy? Examining how thick and thin populist attitudes are associated with the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative	1
European union crisis-induced institutional evolution. The effect of institutional entrepreneurship in the formation of EFSF	1
Identity-policy discrepancy: crisis perception, third-order change and the shifting foreign policy trajectories of China and Japan toward Northeast Asia	1
Friendly advice: socializing shaming in the committee against torture	1
When securitisation fails and succeeds at the same time: the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and functional actors in the US	1
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	1
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	1
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	1
The populist ambivalence. Presidents and democracy in Latin America	1
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	1

Paradox of choices: inclusiveness of mainstream party systems, cultural grievance about immigration and populist support among European countries	1
Local democratic resistance to autocratisation: evidence from Budapest, Banja Luka, and Zagreb	1
The politics of civil society narratives in contestation between liberalism and nationalism in authoritarian Vietnam	1