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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	48
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	35
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	32
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	19
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	19
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	19
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	18
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	16
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	15
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	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
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	11
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	11
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	10
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	9
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	8
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	8
When do oil autocracies formally commit to climate change mitigation?	7
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	7
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	7

Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	7
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	7
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	6
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	6
Strengthening local democratic resilience through democratic innovations: the case of post-Euromaidan Ukraine	6
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	6
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	5
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	5
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	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
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5