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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	48
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	35
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	32
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	19
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	19
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	19
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	18
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	16
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	15
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	12
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	12
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	11
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	11
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	11
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	10
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	9
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	8
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	8
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	7
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
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7

Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	7
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	7
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	6
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	6
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	6
Strengthening local democratic resilience through democratic innovations: the case of post-Euromaidan Ukraine	6
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	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	5
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	5
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	4
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	4
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding	4
Intimate polarisation: political divisions within everyday family relationships in Colombia	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
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	4
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	4
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	4
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	4
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	4
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
The Islamic State, Shia religious clerics and the mobilisation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria	3
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	3
What is urban populism?	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
Rising powers’ quest for increased legitimacy through IOs in an era of loose multilateralism	3
Urban jungle, radical roar: sprawl, economic decline and the success of populist radical right in metropolitan Spain	3
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	3
Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct	3
Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond	3
The politics of civil society narratives in contestation between liberalism and nationalism in authoritarian Vietnam	2
Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns	2
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	2
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	2
Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats	2
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	2
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	2
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	2
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	2
Democratisation against all odds? Armenia in the shadow of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict	2
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	2
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	2
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	2

Foreign capital and US states’ contested strategies of internationalisation: a constructivist analysis	2
Populism and democracy: a reassessment	2