OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polity 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Democracy and the Unconscious	38
“To Make Men Believe Their Rebellion Just”: Thomas Hobbes and the Study of Civil War	16
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?	15
Unruly Theories	13
The Authoritarian Personality	12
Ask a Political Scientist: An Interview with Robert Meister on Debt, Finance Capitalism, and the US-Israeli Alliance in the Post Cold War Politics of Human Rights	11
Front Cover	9
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy	9
Feeling Seen	8
Front Cover	8
Front Matter	8
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–9	8
Front Matter	7
Front Matter	7
Fukuyama’s Universal History	6
Response to thePolityCollection	6
Front Cover	6
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics	5
Gendered Governance: Examining the Relationship between Women Legislators and Effective Public Goods Provision from a Global Sample	5
Front Matter	5
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border	5
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond	5
Liberalism and Mass Psychology: The American Experience	5
Front Matter	5
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism	4

Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors	4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity	4
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein	4
Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms	4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism	4
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity	4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel	4
Dancing with the Stars	4
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections	3
Front Cover	3
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline	3
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics	3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition	3
Front Matter	3
For a Complex Concept of Populism	3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton	3
Front Cover	3
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade	3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election	3
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson	3
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism	3
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion	3
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought	3
“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction	3
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader	3
Dreaming Differently	3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment	3
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy	2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit	2
Realism and Utopia in The Authoritarian Personality	2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding	2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity	2
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski	2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective	2
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism	2
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations	2
Shame	2
On The Edge	2
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence	2
Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized	2
How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality	2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction	2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference	2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension	2
Front Cover	2
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods	2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians	2
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach	2
Forty Years Later	2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans	2

Ruled by Women: Gynocratic Disorder in Aristotle’s Sparta	2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories	2
The Class Constraints on Social Democracy	2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory	2
Front Cover	2
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States	2
Thank You to Our Reviewers	2
Taking Account	2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty	2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South	2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement	2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election	2
Front Cover	2
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”	2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics	2
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited	2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making	2
Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts	2
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia	2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method	2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State	2