OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Political Science Review is 5. 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
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 various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	7
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	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