OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Science Review is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	42
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	39
The politics of authoritarian empowerment: Participatory pricing in China	22
Money matters: The impact of gender quotas on campaign spending for women candidates	22
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	21
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	19
The presence of a social context increases support for redistribution: Inequality aversion and risk aversion	18
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	16
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	16
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	13
‘Above all, it will boil down to money problems’: The impact of gender-targeted public financing on political parties and women candidates in South Korea	13
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	13
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	13
Femisocial capital: Homophily and bill sponsorship by South Korean female legislators	13
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	12
Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms	12
Media skepticism and reactions to political scandals: An analysis of the Trump–Ukraine case	11
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	11
Blind spots in the study of democratic representation: Masses and elites in old and new democracies	11
It’s a rich man’s world: How class and glass ceilings intersect for UK parliamentary candidates	10
Who reduces political trust after experiencing corruption? Introducing the role of personality traits	9
Ideology, financial circumstances, and attitudes toward public and private foreign aid	9
Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017	9
Don’t put a ring on it: Gender stereotypes in citizens’ preferences for executive positions	8
The domestic democratic peace: How democracy constrains political violence	8

Domestic legal traditions and international cooperation: Insights from domestic and international qualification systems	8
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	8
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	7
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	7
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	7
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	7
The pandemic politics of existential anxiety: Between steadfast resistance and flexible resilience	6
Independent commission design and inclusion in Northern Ireland: Agonistic versus traditional approaches	6
Brexit and party change: The Conservatives and Labour at Westminster	6
Class voting or economic voting? Electoral support for chavismo (1998–2015)	6
Time is of the essence: Explaining the duration of European Union lawmaking under the co-decision procedure	6
The structural power of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in multilateral development finance: A case study of the New Development Bank	5
Global policy diffusion as a socially constructed process: Insights from UNESCO Creative Cities Network’s shift towards the Global South	5
Attrition as a bottom-up pathway to subnational democratization	5
Who misses the bare necessities? Material deprivation as an indicator for egotropic economic voting	5
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	5
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	4
Why states inform: Compliance with self-reporting obligations in universal treaty regimes	4
How perceptions and information about women’s descriptive representation affect support for positive action measures	4
Behind the technocratic challenge: Old and new alternatives to party government in Italy	4
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	4
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	4
Thank you to Reviewers	4
Thank You to Reviewers	4
Reciprocating to the bottom: Is there negative diffuse reciprocity in social economic human rights	4
Industry comparative advantage and support for redistribution: A cross-country cross-industry analysis of the political economy of trade	4
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	3
Marginalized, but not demobilized: Ethnic minority protest activity when facing discrimination	3
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	3
The continuum of election violence: Gendered candidate experiences in the Maldives	3
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	3
‘It’s a total no-no’: The strategic silence about gender in the European Parliament’s economic governance policies	3
Politics on the stock market? Political investorism as a form of political participation	3
The internal and external institutionalization of the BRICS countries: The case of the New Development Bank	3
Changing responses to a frozen conflict: The Republic of Cyprus soft balancing vis-à-vis Turkey	2
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	2
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	2
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	2
Understanding ASEAN’s approach to sanctions against norm breakers	2
Women’s engagement with the Syrian opposition: Pathways, perspectives, and participation	2
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	2
Foreign policy decision-making within authoritarian contexts: Al-Sisi’s foreign policy (2014–2024)	2
Mapping the drivers of negative campaigning: Insights from a candidate survey	2
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	2
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	2
Making war and peace with emotion: Examining the Iraq and Iran cases via presidential speech and media coverage	2
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	2
Multi-bilateral aid for disease control	2
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1

Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
Politics and corona lockdown regulations in 35 highly advanced democracies: The first wave	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
Depleting democracy? The radical right’s impact on minority politics in Eastern Europe	1
Healthy citizens, healthy democracies? A review of the literature	1
The Multi-Stage Mixed Methods Framework: A new research design to combine hypothesis development and hypothesis testing and to embed machine learning and practitioner engagement in the social sciences	1
Are women more progressive than men? Attitudinal gender gaps in West European democracies	1
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	1
Conflict shapes in flux: Explaining spatial shift in conflict-related violence	1
Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: The case of a China–Taiwan war	1
State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina	1
Parliamentary rules, party norms, and legislative speech	1
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	1
How do political decision-making processes affect the acceptability of decisions? Results from a survey experiment	1
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	1
The COVID-19 pandemic and the electoral performance of governing parties in electoral democracies	1
When good news backfires: Feelings of disadvantage in the Corona crisis	1
Gendered patterns in candidates’ campaign fundraising: The case of Italy	1
Thank You to Reviewers	1