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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Democracy and the Unconscious	18
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?	16
Unruly Theories	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	10
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy	9
Feeling Seen	8
Front Cover	7
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–9	7
Front Matter	7
Hyperpolarization, Distrust, and Civil Religions in America Today	6
Front Matter	6
John Rawls and Liberal Guilt	6
Front Matter	6
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border	5
Response to thePolityCollection	5
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics	5
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond	5
Front Cover	5
Front Matter	5
Revisiting Luker’s Classic	5
Fukuyama’s Universal History	5
Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms	4
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and the Discipline of Political Science	4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel	4

What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism	4
Dancing with the Stars	4
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein	4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism	4
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors	4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity	4
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity	4
Front Matter	4
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson	3
Triplicates	3
“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction	3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections	3
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion	3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election	3
The Spectacle of Death in the Fight Over Reproductive Rights	3
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade	3
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline	3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition	3
Front Cover	3
How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality	3
Front Matter	3
Front Cover	3
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader	3
Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force	3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment	3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton	3
Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized	3
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought	3
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States	2
Thank You to Our Reviewers	2
A Genealogy of Fraternal Alliance and Medicalized Abortion: The Hippocratic Oath in Roe v. Wade	2
Front Matter	2
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski	2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding	2
A Conversation with Joan Tronto about Making Good Care a Central Concern of Political Life	2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty	2
Front Matter	2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making	2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics	2
Blue Moon	2
Shame	2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction	2
Front Cover	2
Front Cover	2
The Class Constraints on Social Democracy	2
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations	2
Front Matter	2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election	2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South	2
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy	2

Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit	2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement	2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans	2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories	2
Ruled by Women: Gynocratic Disorder in Aristotle’s Sparta	2
Front Cover	2
On The Edge	2
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited	2
Taking Account	2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference	2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory	2
Representing Ecological Grief	2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians	2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method	2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension	2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity	2
Front Cover	2
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”	2
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia	2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective	2
Forty Years Later	2