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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Partisanship and the Politics of COVID Vaccine Hesitancy	21
Democracy, Interpretation, and the “Problem” of Conceptual Ambiguity: Reflections on the V-Dem Project’s Struggles with Operationalizing Deliberative Democracy	13
For a Complex Concept of Populism	10
Hobbes Meets the Modern Business Corporation	8
Keeping Score: The Congressional Budget Office and the Politics of Institutional Durability	8
The Authoritarian Personality 2.0	7
The Dynamics of Issue Salience: Immigration and Public Opinion	7
Taking Account of the Visual Politics of Populism	7
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border	7
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism	7
The Two Row Wampum: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Democratic Autonomy	6
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism	6
The Radical Right and Anti-Immigrant Politics in Liberal Democracies since World War II: Evolution of a Political and Research Field	6
The Concept of Pseudo-Conservatism as a Link Between The Authoritarian Personality and Early Critical Theory	6
Further Reflections onSeeing Like a State	6
A Segmented Theory of Immigration Regime Development	5
Populists, Clients, and US Immigration Wars	5
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections	5
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach	5
West Virginia v. EPA: Whither the New Deal Order?	4
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior	4
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment	4
Psychological Perspectives on Perceptions of Black Victimhood in the United States	4
“Prior to its Wounding”: On the Emancipatory Possibilities of Identity Politics	4
Blinded by the White (Nationalism): Separatist Ideology and Discounting the Threat of COVID-19 to Society	4

Introduction: Constructing and Contesting Victimhood in Global Politics	4
Looking Forward: Interest Group Legal Strategy and Federalist Society Affiliation in the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal	4
Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion	4
Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas	4
Citizenship in Times of Crisis: A Comment on Danielle Allen’s Democratic Theory	4
Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification	3
An American Political Theorist between History and Utopia	3
On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought	3
Building Communities of Peace: Arendtian Realism and Peacebuilding	3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton	3
The Intersection of Direct Democracy and Representative Government: State Legislators’ Response to Ballot Measures	3
Iron Cages and Ballot Boxes: Prosecutors, Elections, and Subnational Statebuilding	3
Sensitive Places?: How Gender Unmasks the Myth of Originalism inDistrict of Columbiav.Heller	3
States of Freedom	3
Do We Live in a Society?	3
Seeing Too Much Like a State?	3
Reflecting Upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State	3
The Politics of Law: Capricious Originalism and the Future of the Supreme Court	3
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making	3
Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy	3
Wounded Attachments, Democratic Desires	3
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History	3
Constructing the Supreme Court: How Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Have Affected Presidential Selection and Senate Confirmation Hearings	3
Dobbs and the Jurisprudence of Exclusion	3
States of Injury Today	3
Why Allen Ran	3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition	3
The Supreme Court and the Limits of Descriptive Representation	3
In Different Voices: Pitkin and Cavell on Wittgenstein’s Political Relevance	2
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein	2
The End of History as Science Fiction	2
The Darkness at the End of History	2
The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science	2
Does Size Matter in the Context of the Global South? Theorizing the Smallest States	2
A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy	2
Claiming Victimhood Within the Sex Industry—How the Trafficking Agenda Interacts with Sex Worker Rights	2
Privatization without Capitalism: The Social Relations of Property in Post-Communist Transitions	2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension	2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit	2
Seen Like a State	2
Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining	2
Workers’ Councils and Radical Democracy: Toward a Conceptual History of Council Democracy from Marx to Occupy	2
Separation of Powers: Legitimacy, Not Liberty	2
After Seeing Like a State: The Imperialism of Epistemic Claims	2
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors	2
Claire Jean Kim: A Classic Revisited	2
A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering	2
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade	2
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics	2
Hanna Pitkin on Conceptual Puzzlement	2

The Environmental Justice Movement as a Model Politics of Risk	2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Michael S. Lewis-Beck about Vote Choice, Election Forecasting, and the 2022 Midterms	2
Shelter Abolition and Housing First: Rethinking Dominant Discourses on Homeless Management	2
Quantitative Populism: Of Shapes and Shades	2
Is The End of History a Great Book?	2
No Democracy Without Comprehension: Political Unintelligibility as A Democratic Problem	2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding	2
A Taste for Freedom: Cannery Workers, AIDS Activists, and States of Possibility	2
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism	2
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered	2
Gendered Governance: Examining the Relationship between Women Legislators and Effective Public Goods Provision from a Global Sample	2
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel	2
Reading Rawls Rightly:A Theory of Justiceat 50	2
World Without End	2
The Authoritarian Personalityand the Problematic Pathologization of Politics	2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe about Gender and Global Politics	2
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism	2
Theorizing Powers: Response to Critics	2
Does the Second Amendment Make Gun Politics Obsolete?	2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method	2