OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Politics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	28
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	27
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	26
Unlocking democracy: cultural dynamics in deliberation through the Venster99 case study	21
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion	21
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	16
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	16
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	14
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	14
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	12
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	11
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	11
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	11
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	10
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	10
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	10
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	8
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	8
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	8
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	7
When do oil autocracies formally commit to climate change mitigation?	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
Negotiating middle-power politics: knowledge production and role contestation in Vietnam	7
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	6

Strengthening local democratic resilience through democratic innovations: the case of post-Euromaidan Ukraine	6
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	6
Right-wing populists and noisy politics for big business	6
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	6
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	5
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	5
Cartelisation, organisational legacies and radical left politics in government: a comparative study of AKEL in Cyprus and Syriza in Greece	5
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	5
Correction	5
Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement	5
Brazil’s foreign policy identity: a western player in the international arena of the twenty-first century?	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	5
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	5
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	5
The politics of emerging middle powers	4
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding	4
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	4
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	4
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	4
Intimate polarisation: political divisions within everyday family relationships in Colombia	4
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	4
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	3
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	3
Certification as strategy: human rights, regulatory gaps, and foreign policy in Indonesia’s fight against IUU fishing	3
Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct	3
Urban jungle, radical roar: sprawl, economic decline and the success of populist radical right in metropolitan Spain	3
What is urban populism?	3
Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond	3
International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP	3
Opposition parties and hybrid regime change: evidence from Mexico, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey	3
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	3
The Islamic State, Shia religious clerics and the mobilisation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria	3
Trigger mechanism centralized but discursive frame fragmented: China as a case for studying populism at the grassroots level in the social media age	3
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	2
Calibrated participation: youth expressions of dissent in a strongman’s heartland	2
Local democratic resistance to autocratisation: evidence from Budapest, Banja Luka, and Zagreb	2
Friends and enemies: external threats and the delegitimization of foreign media in China	2
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	2
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	2
Democratisation against all odds? Armenia in the shadow of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict	2
Beyond liberal peace? Qatar’s ’hybrid’ mediation and the politics of peacemaking in Afghanistan	2
Authoritarianism’s reemergence in North Africa and the Middle East: the cases of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia	2
European union crisis-induced institutional evolution. The effect of institutional entrepreneurship in the formation of EFSF	2
The multiple fronts of democratic backsliding: evidence from Israel, Hungary, and India	2
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	2
The evolving Moroccan-European community of practice in green energy transition: energy coloniality vis-à-vis energy democracy	2
Russia’s cogmotional warfare	2

Cities against democratic backsliding: democratic resilience through urban resistance in the Visegrád 4 capitals	2
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	2
Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns	2
Do populists want direct democracy? Examining how thick and thin populist attitudes are associated with the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative	2
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	2
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	2
Populism and democracy: a reassessment	2