OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Politics is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	56
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	40
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	38
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	21
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	21
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	20
Unlocking democracy: cultural dynamics in deliberation through the Venster99 case study	19
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion	18
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	18
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	14
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	12
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	12
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	12
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	11
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	9
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	9
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	9
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	9
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	7
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
When do oil autocracies formally commit to climate change mitigation?	7
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	7

A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6
Strengthening local democratic resilience through democratic innovations: the case of post-Euromaidan Ukraine	6
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	6
Right-wing populists and noisy politics for big business	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	5
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	5
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	4
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	4
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	4
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	4
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	4
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	4
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	4
Cartelisation, organisational legacies and radical left politics in government: a comparative study of AKEL in Cyprus and Syriza in Greece	4
Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement	4
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	4