OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Politics is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	26
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	24
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	24
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion	21
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	20
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	20
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	16
Unlocking democracy: cultural dynamics in deliberation through the Venster99 case study	14
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	12
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	12
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	11
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	11
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	11
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	10
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	9
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	9
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	8
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	8
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
When do oil autocracies formally commit to climate change mitigation?	7
Negotiating middle-power politics: knowledge production and role contestation in Vietnam	7
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6

Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	6
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	6
Right-wing populists and noisy politics for big business	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
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	6
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
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
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	5
Cartelisation, organisational legacies and radical left politics in government: a comparative study of AKEL in Cyprus and Syriza in Greece	5
Brazil’s foreign policy identity: a western player in the international arena of the twenty-first century?	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