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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Democracy and the Unconscious	41
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?	20
Unruly Theories	18
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	17
Front Cover	15
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy	12
Feeling Seen	11
Front Matter	10
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–9	10
Front Cover	9
John Rawls and Liberal Guilt	7
Hyperpolarization, Distrust, and Civil Religions in America Today	7
Front Matter	7
Front Matter	7
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond	6
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics	6
Revisiting Luker’s Classic	6
Response to thePolityCollection	6
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border	6
Fukuyama’s Universal History	6
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein	5
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors	5
Front Matter	5
Dancing with the Stars	5
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism	5

Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms	5
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity	4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism	4
“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction	4
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and the Discipline of Political Science	4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader	4
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson	4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity	4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel	4
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade	4
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline	4
For a Complex Concept of Populism	3
Front Cover	3
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism	3
Front Matter	3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election	3
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion	3
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited	3
How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality	3
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia	3
Triplicates	3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition	3
The Spectacle of Death in the Fight Over Reproductive Rights	3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment	3
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States	3
Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized	3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton	3
Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force	3
Front Cover	3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections	3
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought	3
Front Cover	3
Front Matter	2
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations	2
Front Matter	2
Taking Account	2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty	2
Front Cover	2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity	2
Forty Years Later	2
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach	2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making	2
On The Edge	2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South	2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans	2
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History	2
The Class Constraints on Social Democracy	2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements	2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method	2
Representing Ecological Grief	2

The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski	2
Front Matter	2
A Genealogy of Fraternal Alliance and Medicalized Abortion: The Hippocratic Oath in Roe v. Wade	2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit	2
Blue Moon	2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective	2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories	2
Front Cover	2
Ruled by Women: Gynocratic Disorder in Aristotle’s Sparta	2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics	2
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”	2
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence	2
On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought	2
Thank You to Our Reviewers	2
Trajectories	2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians	2
A Conversation with Joan Tronto about Making Good Care a Central Concern of Political Life	2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election	2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension	2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State	2
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods	2
Front Cover	2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement	2
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy	2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction	2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory	2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding	2
How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession	2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference	2
Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences	2
Shame	2