OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Organizations is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The economics of the democratic deficit: The effect of IMF programs on inequality	41
Informal governance in world politics	37
The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance	29
Emulate or differentiate?	26
Hybrid institutional complexes in global governance	26
Legitimacy challenges to the liberal world order: Evidence from United Nations speeches, 1970–2018	19
Measuring institutional overlap in global governance	19
Ordering global governance complexes: The evolution of the governance complex for international civil aviation	17
The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world	17
Behind the screen: Understanding national support for a foreign investment screening mechanism in the European Union	16
Clubs of autocrats: Regional organizations and authoritarian survival	16
The political economy of differentiated integration: The case of common agricultural policy	14
Intervention by international organizations in regime complexes	14
We’d rather pay than change the politics of German non-adjustment in the Eurozone crisis	13
Managing performance and winning trust: how World Bank staff shape recipient performance	12
Decision-making in international organizations: institutional design and performance	12
Power, ideas, and World Bank conditionality	11
Undermining conditionality? The effect of Chinese development assistance on compliance with World Bank project agreements	11
Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get	10
The effects of rejecting aid on recipients’ reputations: Evidence from natural disaster responses	9
Bargaining strategies for governance complex games	9
China visits: a dataset of Chinese leaders’ foreign visits	9
Public responses to foreign protectionism: Evidence from the US-China trade war	8
Cooperation Failure or Secret Collusion? Absolute Monarchs and Informal Cooperation	8
The political economy of multilateral lending to European regions	7

Investment agreements and the fragmentation of firms across countries	7
Chinese or western finance? Transparency, official credit flows, and the international political economy of development	7
Smoke with fire: Financial crises and the demand for parliamentary oversight in the European Union	7
Contested multilateralism as credible signaling: how strategic inconsistency can induce cooperation among states	7
Enduring the great recession: Economic integration in the European Union	6
Labor clauses in trade agreements: Hidden protectionism?	6
Trade Wars and Election Interference	6
Delegation of implementation in project aid	6
The forces of attraction: How security interests shape membership in economic institutions	6
Crisis affectedness, elite cues and IO public legitimacy	6
Optimal decision rules in multilateral aid funds	6
How to sanction international wrongdoing? The design of EU restrictive measures	6
Does foreign aid volatility increase international migration?	5
Do expected downturns kill political budget cycles?	5
The political economy of the European Union	5
Foreign aid and judicial autonomy	5
The comparative constitutional compliance database	5
Foreign aid, human capital accumulation and the potential implications for growth	5
Incentivizing embedded investment: Evidence from patterns of foreign direct investment in Latin America	5
China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Chinese Influence Over Membership Shares?	5
Nationalism and withdrawals from intergovernmental organizations: Connecting theory and data	5
Constraints and incentives in the investment regime: How bargaining power shapes BIT reform	4
Issue attention on international courts: Evidence from the European Court of Justice	4
Official sector lending during the euro area crisis	4
Greening global governance: INGO secretariats and environmental mainstreaming of IOs, 1950 to 2017	4
The World Bank COVID-19 response: Politics as usual?	4
The performance of international organizations: a new measure and dataset based on computational text analysis of evaluation reports	4
Settle or litigate? Consequences of institutional design in the Inter-American system of human rights protection	4
Intrinsic vs. extrinsic incentives for reform: An informational mechanism of E(M)U conditionality	4
Global banking and the spillovers from political shocks at the core of the world economy	3
Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision	3
Foreign aid, oil revenues, and political accountability: Evidence from six experiments in Ghana and Uganda	3
The impact of unilateral BIT terminations on FDI: Quasi-experimental evidence from India	3
Trading favors? UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients	3
Social ties and the political participation of firms	3
Satisfied or not? Exploring the interplay of individual, country and international organization characteristics for negotiation success	2
Institutional Overlap in Global Governance and the Design of Intergovernmental Organizations	2
International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash?	2
The state does not live by warfare alone: War and revenue in the long nineteenth century	2
The politics of international testing	2
Expanding or defending legitimacy? Why international organizations intensify self-legitimation	2
The political power of internet business: A comprehensive dataset of Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO)	2
Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa	2
Lisa Dellmuth, Jan Aart Scholte, Jonas Tallberg and Soetkin Verhaegen. 2022. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	2
Closing time: Reputational constraints on capital account policy in emerging markets	2
Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset	2
Discovering cooperation: Endogenous change in international organizations	2
Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint	2
Charles B. Roger. 2020. The Origins of Informality: Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and Why It Matters (New York: Oxford University Press)	2
Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding	2

Why hide? Africa’s unreported debt to China	2
At what cost? Power, payments, and public support of international organizations	2