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Papers

(The TQCC of ICON-International Journal of Constitutional Law 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The constitutional impact of rule-of-law spending conditionality	21
Elements for FIFA’s feminist transformation: The case for indicators on football and women’s rights	19
Indirect elections as a constitutional device of epistocracy	16
Constitutional review of negotiated international investment agreements: Strengths and shortcomings of the Colombian Constitutional Court’s approach	9
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica	9
Repensando los préstamos constitucionales: un análisis crítico del uso de materiales foráneos desde la experiencia argentina	8
Dos ejes para pensar la tensión entre el sistema interamericano de derechos humanos y los sistemas constitucionales de la regiónTwo axes to consider the tension between the Inter-American System of Hu	8
Gender, democracy, and the legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy	7
Shifting meanings of fazhi and China’s journey toward socialist rule of law	6
Traditional values, family, homeschooling: The role of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in transnational moral conservative networks and their efforts at reshaping human rights	6
The non-constitutionalization and avoidant constitutionalization of gender in Czechia and Slovakia	6
Paridad de género y representación. El caso mexicanoGender parity and representation. The Mexican case	5
The switch: The Israel High Court of Justice’s transition from occupation law to human rights law	5
¿Por qué I•CON publica un número en español?; Editorial invitada: Un matrimonio de conveniencia; Editorial invitada: La paz posible; En este númeroWhy is I•CON publishing an issue in Spanish?; Guest e	5
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications	4
Constitutional amendment and public will formation: Deliberative mini-publics as a tool for consensus democracy	4
¿Por qué era urgente que los jefes de Estado condenaran la elección fraudulenta que tuvo lugar en Venezuela en el año 2024?Why was it urgent that heads of state condemned the 2024 Venezuelan fraudulen	4
Control and paralysis? A context-sensitive analysis of objections to supermajorities in constitutional adjudication	4
Nationalism versus “identity pluralism”? Preserving and valorizing archeological heritage	4
The myth of populist constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland: Populist or authoritarian constitutionalism?	4
Jonathan Hafetz, Review of Lawrence Repeta. Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	3
Editorial: I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español; Brexit, the Irish Protocol, and the “Versailles Effect”; Cancelling Carl Schmitt?; Changes in the masthead; In this issue	3
Constitucionalismo transformador y derecho internacional de inversionesTransformative constitutionalism and international investment law	3
A constitutional court’s survival (by any name)	3
Correction to: Tres desafíos de legitimidad del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos	3

Taking global administrative law one step ahead: Online giants and the digital democratic sphere	3
Law, film, and trans identity in Hong Kong	3
Angelo Jr Golia, Review of Mariano Croce and Marco Goldoni, The Legacy of Pluralism: The Continental Jurisprudence of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati	3
Silvia Romboli, Review of Luigi Ferrajoli, Per una Costituzione della Terra. L’umanità al bivio	3
Constraining constituent conventions: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the limits of pouvoir constituant	3
Measurement and causal identification in constitutional law: A reply to Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou	3
Sanford Levinson, Review of Yasuo Hasebe, Towards a Normal Constitutional State: The Trajectory of Japanese Constitutionalism	3
Oran Doyle, Review of David S. Law (ed.). Constitutionalism in Context	3
Empirical research in comparative constitutional law: The cool kid on the block or all smoke and mirrors?	3
La judicialización de la política y el control constitucional en modelos híbridos restringidos: el activismo judicial por “defecto” de ParaguayThe judicialization of politics and judicial review in re	3
Mariana Canales Subercaseaux, Review of Aileen Kavanagh. The Collaborative Constitution.	3
Chief justices and democratic resilience: Judicial leadership in times of constitutional crisis	3
No higher law: The Uruguayan plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment	3
Tímea Drinóczi & Agnieszka Bień-Kacała. Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law.	3
Para-constitutional engineering and federalism: Informal constitutional change through intergovernmental agreements	2
The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism	2
Los terceros interesados ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: una inclusión necesaria	2
Revolutionary amnesia and the nature of prerogative power	2
Constitutional parasitism, camouflage, and pretense: Shaping citizenship through subterfuge	2
Appropriation and the rewriting of rights	2
Constitutional identity, expressivism, and constitutional change through judicial interpretation: The Indonesian LGBT case as a case study	2
Brian Christopher Jones, Review of Jack Beatson, Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers	2
Invitamos a Francisca Pou Giménez, Investigadora del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, a escribir una editorial.We invited Francisca Pou Giménez, Researcher at Instituto de Investigac	2
Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power? A rejoinder	2
Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Islands and ocean: Public law and international legal ordering in Oceania; Ten good reads	2
La permanente necesidad de un mecanismo transparente de elección de miembros de la CIDH y la Corte IDHThe permanent need for a transparent mechanism for the election of the members of the IACHR and th	2
Social and political dynamics in the feminization of judiciary	2
The fatigue of multilateralism: A new hope for international law—Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	2
The concept of coup d’état under stifling stress: Legal theory’s political-science–based response	2
Constitucionalismo fuerte y democracia deliberativa: Inconsistencias en Rawls, Dworkin, y AlexyStrong constitutionalism and deliberative democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy	2
Maris Köpcke, Review of Leah Trueblood. Referendums as Representative Democracy	2
Monitoring and compliance mechanisms as a diagnostic and prognostic tool of international anti-corruption cooperation: A data-driven study	2
Avances y retos del plurilingüismo en los poderes públicos del estado españolProgress and challenges of multilingualism in the public powers of the Spanish state	2
Martin Belov (ed.). Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law: Judicialization of Politics and Politicization of the Judiciary	2
Agustín Grijalva y José Luis Castro. Reelección presidencial y Democracia	2
Institutions that define the policymaking role of courts: A comparative analysis of the supreme courts of Scandinavia	2
Oratorical leadership of chief justices in post-handover Hong Kong	2
Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems	2
The normative development of laws on asset preservation and confiscation: An examination of emerging best practices	2
Vicente Aylwin Fernández, Review of Joshua Braver. We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making in Contemporary South America	2
Richard Johnson & Yuan Yi Zhu, eds., Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom	1
Gender and the legal academy	1
Margaret K. Lewis, Review of Weitseng Chen & Hualing Fu (eds)., Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition	1
Learning from the euro crisis: A new method of government for the European Union’s economic policy coordination after the pandemic	1
Ching-Fu Lin, Review of Hans-W. Micklitz, Oreste Pollicino, Amnon Reichman, Andrea Simoncini, Giovanni Sartor, and Giovanni De Gregorio, eds. Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society	1
Too soon to know: Exploring the conditions of existence of the constituent power—Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
A view from the top: An examination of postfeminist sensibilities in women leaders’ constructions of success and responses to gender inequality in English football	1
La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y la “conversación entre iguales”The Inter-American Human Rights Court and the “conversation among equals”	1
Las categorías sexo y género ante la paridad constitucional. Respuesta a Micaela AlterioThe categories sex and gender before electoral parity. A reply to Micaela Alterio	1
The “constitutional court of China”? Setting the record straight	1

Han Zhu, Review of Neil J. Diamant. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	1
Constitutional design preferences: An experimental approach	1
What is constitutional ideology?	1
The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization: Unpacking jurisprudential responses	1
Is it time to abandon the theory of Democracy? The problem with the people: Afterword to the Foreword by Sergio Verdugo	1
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina	1
Raeesa Vakil, Review of Philipp Dann and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds). Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the Law of Democracy in Continental Polities	1
Reinforcing the binary and disciplining the subject: The constitutional right to gender recognition in the Italian case law	1
“Rule of law” with Chinese characteristics: Evolution and manipulation	1
Honoring our peer reviewers	1
El proceso constituyente español de 1873: origen y fracaso de la República FederalThe Spanish constituent process of 1873: origin and failure of the Federal Republic	1
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Review of Eugenie Merieau. Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law	1
Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession	1
Theorizing about the executive in the modern state	1
State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court”	1
Regions and the European Union in times of crisis: A decline of the regional interest?	1
A dialogical model of human rights adjudication	1
Tom Gerald Daly, Review of Mark Tushnet, The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy	1
Europe’s “independence wars”: A constitutional perspective—A reply to Antoine Vauchez	1
Matej Avbelj, Review of Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh. New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory	1
The interaction of human rights and religion in Africa’s sexuality politics	1
Julie C. Suk. After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	1
Constitutional scholars and scholactivism	1
Assessing the filters to tame the populist beast	1
Maria Moscati, Review of Alice Margaria, The Construction of Fatherhood. The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	1
Fuentes normativas y desarrollo jurisprudencial del derecho humano al agua en América LatinaNormative sources and jurisprudential development of the human right to water in Latin America	1
¿Límites de tratados internacionales al poder constituyente? Análisis del caso chilenoLimits of international treaties to the constituent power? Analysis of the Chilean case	1
Introduction to the Symposium: Academic stories of Covid-19 and its unequal impacts	1
Crown-Presidentialism	1
Rotating chief justices in a democracy under stress: The Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal under Bolsonaro	1
The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn	1
Constitutional democracy as fixed point? On interpretation and judicial representation-reinforcement	1
Dismantling democratic change in Asia: Modalities and weapons of choice	1
In the Möbius strip of global economic law: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	1
Yasuo Hasebe, Review of Linda Colley, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World	1
Davide Paris, Review of Giacomo Delledonne, Costituzione e legge elettorale: Un percorso comparatistico nello Stato costituzionale europeo [Constitution and Electoral Law: A Comparative Journey in the	1
Luisa Gabriela Morales-Vega, Review of Elisa Ortega-Velázquez, El asilo como derecho en disputa en México: La raza y la clase como dispositivo de exclusión	1
Joelle Grogan, Review of Miguel Poiares Maduro and Paul W. Kahn, eds., Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined	1
Between two worlds: Personal reflections from Slovenia and Spain on the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Human rights and corruption: Problems and potential of individualizing a systemic problem	1
Robert Poll, Review of Zaid Al-Ali, Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution	1
Guest editorial: Liberal constitutionalism and postcolonialism in the South and beyond: On liberalism as an open source and the insights of decolonial critiques	1
Moeen Cheema. Courting Constitutionalism: The Politics of Public Law and Judicial Review in Pakistan	1
Deborah Daich y Cecilia Varela (coords). Los Feminismos en la Encrucijada del Punitivismo	1
Capitalism, international law, race, and China’s rise: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter	1