OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Politics & International Relations 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Humbug and outrage: A study of performance, gender and affective atmosphere in the mediation of a critical parliamentary moment	50
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	32
Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation	30
Petro-friends: Foreign ownership of oil and leadership survival	30
The erosion of democracy in an age of wealth inequality: Unravelling the impact of subjective socioeconomic stratification	30
Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate	29
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	24
Pop-socialism: A new radical left politics? Evaluating the rise and fall of the British and Italian left in the anti-austerity age	22
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	20
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	17
Democracy and public goods revisited: Local institutions, development, and access to water	17
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	15
Policing the police: Why it is so hard to reform police departments in the United States?	13
Powellite nostalgia and racialised nationalist narratives: Connecting Global Britain and Little England	11
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	11
Not ‘my economy’: A political ethnographic study of interest in the economy	11
An bhfuil ár lá tagtha? Sinn Féin, special status and the politics of Brexit	10
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	9
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	9
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	9
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	9
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	9
Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	8
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	8
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	8

Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1999-2023	8
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	8
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	8
Values and multilateralism in world politics	8
Quality not quantity: Lobbying institutions and the influence of asylum rights groups	8
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	8
Humorous parodies of popular culture as strategy in Boris Johnson’s populist communication	8
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	7
The nature of a populist and radical-right foreign policy: Analysing the freedom party’s participation in the right-wing Austrian government	7
Promoting international labour standards: The ILO and national labour regulations	7
Ignorance, resistance, and strategy: Intersectional absences in British environmentalism	7
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	6
‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	6
Labour, more or less? Policy reasoning in a fiscal register	6
Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy	6
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	5
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	5
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	5
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time	5
Recasting technocracy theory and analysis: Avenues for a critical-qualitative research framework	5
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy	5
The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory	5
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	4
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	4
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	4
South Korean foreign policy signalling: The rise and fall of unreciprocated costly signals between 2013 and 2023	4
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	4
The ‘electoral presidentialization’ of Silvio Berlusconi and Boris Johnson: Chaos, controversy, and lost chances	4
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	4
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	4
Interpreting parliaments, but how?: Centring parliamentary actors and settings in ethnographic design and practice	4
Reframing centre-left neoliberalism: New Keynesian theory, Third Way ideology, and the construction of an elite consensus in the US, Britain, and Australia	4
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	4
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Myth and meaning: ‘Corbynism’ and the interpretation of political leadership	4
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	3
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	3
‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	3
Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy	3
Mobilising for organising?: Momentum’s distributed centralization and Labour Left strategy under Corbyn (2015–2020)	3
Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies	3
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	3
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	3
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	3
The misogynist incel in the news: Analysing representations of gender-based violence in Britain	3
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	3
Do international rankings affect public opinion?	3
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	3
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	3
Rethinking challenges of a holographic world: Towards a quantum ontology for global governance	3

Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	3
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	2
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	2
‘You are not my type’: The role of identity in evaluating democracy & human rights promotion	2
Muslim charity in the United Kingdom: Between counter-terror and social integration	2
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	2
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations	2
The fall and rise of sovereignty	2
Moral foundations and political ideology in the UK	2
‘It’s about keeping children safe, not spying’: A governmentality approach to Prevent in primary education	2
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	2
Dog-whistling and democracy	2
Arming a few dictators but not others: The politics of UK arms sales to Chile (1973–1989) and Argentina (1976–1983)	2
Editorial: British political studies and the politics of global challenges	2
Explaining sender–receiver gaps in signalling: Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’ and Solomon Islands’ multi-alignment	2
Rebel diplomacy and negotiated settlement in civil wars	2
Enforcement of international human rights law: A comparative exploration of alternative public opinion channels	2
Does threat from COVID-19 stimulate attitudes amenable to public cooperation? Evidence from India	2
The language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	2
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	2
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	2
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	2
Forever wars: Divided government and the termination of interventions in support of civil war governments	2
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	2
One future to bind them all? Modern central banking and the limits of performative governability	2
Race, capital and the British migration–development nexus	2
Linguistic justice for non-resident citizens: Protecting language interests away from home	1
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	1
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	1
The gender gap in voter turnout: An artefact of men’s over-reporting in survey research?	1
Post-truth politics as discursive violence: Online abuse, the public sphere and the figure of ‘the expert’	1
Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity	1
Resisting Post-Truth Politics as Epistemicide: Learning from Trans*, Indigenous American and Palestinian Lived Experiences	1
The determinants of public gender egalitarianism at the national level: Empirical evidence from unbalanced panel regressions	1
Muddied waters: Freedom-of-navigation operations as signals in the South China Sea	1
The permanency of mass atrocities: The fallacy of ‘never again’?	1
Personalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe	1
Contesting focality in global health governance: The World Health Organization-World Bank relationship in historical perspective	1
Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile	1
Winds of change? Neoclassical realism, foreign policy change, and European responses to the Russia-Ukraine War	1
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	1
New deals ‘The Second After Leaving?’ IO withdrawal and bilateral trade agreements	1
Making words harmless: Why politicians survive character assassination attacks	1
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	1
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	1
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	1
Shaping institutional overlap: NATO’s responses to EU security and defence initiatives since 2014	1
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	1
Network resilience and EU fisheries policy engagement in third countries: Lessons for post-Brexit governance	1
The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom	1