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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	45
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	32
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	28
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	17
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	14
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	14
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	14
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	13
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	13
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	11
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	10
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	9
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	9
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	9
Failing to build a network as policy entrepreneurs: Greek politicians negotiating with the EU during the first quarter of SYRIZA in government	9
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	9
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	9
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	8
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	8
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	7
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	7
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	7
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	7
Brazil’s strategic diplomacy for maritime security and safety	7

Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	7
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	6
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	6
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	6
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6
Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey	6
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	5
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	5
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	5
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	5
Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement	5
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	4
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	4
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding	4
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	4
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	4
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	4
Intimate polarisation: political divisions within everyday family relationships in Colombia	3
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	3
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	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
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	3
Opposition parties and hybrid regime change: evidence from Mexico, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey	3
Equally at risk? Perceived financial differences, risk assessment and containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP	3
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	3
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	3
Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond	3
Rising powers’ quest for increased legitimacy through IOs in an era of loose multilateralism	3
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	2
FTA Motives in South Korea: is an FTA a way to increase general welfare or to meet political interest?	2
Foreign capital and US states’ contested strategies of internationalisation: a constructivist analysis	2
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	2
The Islamic State, Shia religious clerics and the mobilisation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria	2
Populism and democracy: a reassessment	2
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	2
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	2
Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats	2
Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct	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
Crisis as a catalyst for democratisation: how Russia’s escalation of the war in Ukraine facilitated democratic progress in Moldova	1
European union crisis-induced institutional evolution. The effect of institutional entrepreneurship in the formation of EFSF	1
No-campaigns in peace referendums	1

Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	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
Local democratic resistance to autocratisation: evidence from Budapest, Banja Luka, and Zagreb	1
From capacity to performance: pathways of democratic resilience in Asia	1
Do populists want direct democracy? Examining how thick and thin populist attitudes are associated with the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative	1
Why do some populist presidents erode liberal democratic institutions more than others in Latin America?	1
Packaging OECD policy advice: universal policy models and domestication of recommendations	1
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	1
The European Union in the annual United Nations General Assembly Debates	1
Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns	1
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	1
Neither Islamic, nor a republic and not Iranian: the legitimacy crisis of the clerical regime	1
Cities against democratic backsliding: democratic resilience through urban resistance in the Visegrád 4 capitals	1
Welfare and democratisation: how electoral politics shape Indonesian social policy and citizen’s social rights	1
Beyond culture: economic strains and the transactional turn in Ghanaian vote-buying practices	1
Authoritarianism’s reemergence in North Africa and the Middle East: the cases of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia	1
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management	1
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	1
First survive, then thrive: major urban centres and resistance against autocratisation	1
Internarrativity beyond acceptance: strategic narrative reproduction and Taiwan's ‘Taiwan Can Help’ campaign in the U.S.	1
Exploring the edges of clientelism: ideology, ethnicity, and partisanship in Belize	1
Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?	1