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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	44
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	29
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	23
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	15
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	14
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	13
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	12
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	11
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	11
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	11
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	10
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	9
Failing to build a network as policy entrepreneurs: Greek politicians negotiating with the EU during the first quarter of SYRIZA in government	9
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	8
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	8
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	7
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	7
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	6
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	6
Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey	6
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6

Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	6
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
Brazil’s strategic diplomacy for maritime security and safety	6
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	5
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	5
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	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	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
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	4
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	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