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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian consolidation dynamics in Turkey	51
Special issue introduction: what is the new state capitalism?	29
Conspiracy theories as a political instrument: utilization of anti-Soros narratives in Central Europe	20
Beyond culture and economy: Israel’s security-driven populism	19
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	16
Geoeconomics, easy money, and political opportunism: the Perils under China and Japan’s high-Speed rail competition	14
The resilience of the US–Turkey alliance: divergent threat perceptions and worldviews	13
Enmeshing the mundane and the political: Twitter, LGBTI+ outing and macro-political polarisation in Turkey	13
Poland in a time of geopolitical flux	11
Worldviews on the United States, alliances, and the changing international order: an introduction	10
Japan’s quest for a rules-based international order: the Japan-US alliance and the decline of US liberal hegemony	9
Illusion of control: how internet use generates anti-regime sentiment in authoritarian regimes	9
Explaining voter turnout in local elections: a global comparative perspective	9
Chaos as opportunity: the United States and world order in India’s grand strategy	8
Reuniting strategy and diplomacy for 21^stcentury statecraft	8
Strategies of rising Brazil: postmortem review, looking forward	8
A psychological predisposition towards populism? Evidence from Canada	8
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	8
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	7
The interplay of regional and domestic politics in Egypt: the case of Salafism	7
Policy-making by tweets: discursive governance, populism, and Trump Presidency	7
Digital ID capitalism: how emerging economies are re-inventing digital capitalism	7
Brazilian climate policy (1992–2019): an exercise in strategic diplomatic failure	7
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	7
The three pillars of neoliberalism: Chile’s economic policy trajectory in comparative perspective	6

Emancipation cannot be programmed: blind spots of algorithmic facilitation in online deliberation	6
When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium	6
Locating new ‘state capitalism’ in advanced economies: an international comparison of government ownership in economic entities	6
The strengths and limits of neoliberal populism: the statism and mass organisation of contemporary rightwing regimes	5
Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media	5
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	5
Constitutional monarchies and semi-constitutional monarchies: a global historical study, 1800–2017	5
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	4
Populism, culture and class: articulation and performance in contemporary British populism	4
Learning mechanisms within an Islamist party: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement between domestic and regional balances	4
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	4
Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey	4
‘We are at war’: securitisation, legitimation and COVID-19 pandemic politics in France	4
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	4
Kleptocracy, strategic corruption, and defence policymaking: the impact of Najib Razak’s 1MDB scandal on Malaysia’s defence relationship with China (2015–2017)	4
Illiberal capitalist development: Chinese state-owned capital investment in Serbia	4
Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats	4
What drives political support? Evidence from a survey experiment at the onset of the corona crisis	3
Development banks as instruments of Brazilian strategic diplomacy	3
Social norms and (de-)financialization: Japan’s and China’s divergent paths in consumer credit	3
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	3
Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: a comparative perspective from India and Myanmar	3
What does the PJD learn from the outside? International factors and Islamist politics in Morocco	3
Indonesia’s sense of self, the West, and democracy: an ontological (in)security perspective	3
Servants of the state or masters of capital? Thinking through the class implications of state-owned capital	3
Re-examining thresholds of continuous democracy measures	3
The failed construction of fake news as a security threat in Malaysia	3
Adapt or atrophy? The Australia-U.S. alliance in an age of power transition	3
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	3
How much opposition? Political fragmentation and changes in democracy	2
The oppressive boss and workers’ authoritarianism: effect of voice suppression by supervisors on employees’ authoritarian political attitudes	2
Brazil’s strategic diplomacy for maritime security and safety	2
Cross-national comparisons in epistemic governance: analysis of parliamentary debates from eight countries	2
Precautionary authoritarianism and the contested governance of Chinese food safety	2
Out of order? The US alliance in Germany’s foreign and security policy	2
How population size affects power-sharing: a comparison of Nigeria and Suriname	2
Gender-affinity voting in legislative elections under open-list proportional representation rules: the legislative elections in Chile in 2017	2
Re-democratising Nepal: transitional justice and the erosion of judicial independence	2
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	2
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	2
Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?	2
Party institutionalization, authoritarian regime types and women’s political equality	2
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	2
Towards an intersectional approach to populism: comparative perspectives from Finland and India	2
Rethinking Islamist politics in North Africa: a multi-level analysis of domestic, regional and international dynamics	2
Rising powers’ quest for increased legitimacy through IOs in an era of loose multilateralism	2
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	2
Between national and international interests: Morocco’s Al-Adl wa-l-Ihsane from an international perspective	2