OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Politics 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right:The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study	38
Populism and President Trump’s approach to foreign policy: An analysis of tweets and rally speeches	38
Support for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the face of safety concerns and political affiliations: An Australian study	37
In search of enemies: Donald Trump’s populist foreign policy rhetoric	30
Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro	22
Still second-order? European elections in the era of populism, extremism, and Euroscepticism	18
The discursive hegemony of Trump’s Jacksonian populism: Race, class, and gender in constructions and contestations of US national identity, 2016–2018	15
Introduction to the special issue: Elections, rhetoric and American foreign policy in the age of Donald Trump	15
Learning by doing: The impact of experiencing democracy in education on political trust and participation	15
The Europeanness of the 2019 European Parliament elections and the mobilising power of European issues	13
Populism and new radical-right parties: The case of VOX	13
How candidate characteristics matter: Candidate profiles, political sophistication, and vote choice	12
Ambiguous specificity: The production of foreign policy bullshit in electoral contexts	12
Competing propagandas: How the United States and Russia represent mutual propaganda activities	11
Intra-generational inequalities in young people’s political participation in Europe: The impact of social class on youth political engagement	11
Who wants COVID-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism	11
Gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people in Europe: Are young women less politically engaged than young men?	10
A world in reverse: The political ecology of racial capitalism	10
Friends or foes? Europe and ‘the people’ in the representations of populist parties	10
Rhetoric and audience reception: An analysis of Theresa May’s vision of Britain and Britishness after Brexit	10
When do parties put Europe in the centre? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament election campaign	9
Decolonising the political theory curriculum	9
Populism and nativism in contemporary regionalist and nationalist politics: A minimalist framework for ideologically opposed parties	8
Broadening political participation: The impact of socialising practices on young people’s action repertoires	8
Crossing the left-right party divide? Understanding the electoral success of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2017 parliamentary elections	8

Revisiting norms of citizenship in times of democratic change	7
Beyond polarization and selective trust: A Citizens’ Jury as a trusted source of information	7
The impact of intolerance on young people’s online political participation	7
Trump talk: Rethinking elections, rhetoric, and American foreign policy	7
Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’	7
Explaining youth radicalism as a positioning of the self at opposite extremes	7
Introduction to the special issue: No longer second-order? Explaining the European Parliament elections of 2019	7
‘We need to talk’: Trump’s electoral rhetoric and the role of transatlantic dialogues	6
Ideologically consistent, but for whom? An empirical assessment of the populism-elitism-pluralism set of attitudes and the moderating role of political sophistication	6
Climate refugees: A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement	6
Illiberal democratic attitudes and support for the EU	6
News reception and authoritarian control in a hybrid media system: Russian TV viewers and the Russia-Ukraine conflict	5
Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: Towards equal exchange and the end of population	5
Productivity-based retrospective voting: Legislative productivity and voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections	5
An inquiry into populism’s relation to science	5
‘Let us blow them down!’: Corruption as the subject of (non-)populist communication of the Czech Pirate Party	5
Avatars of Eurocentrism in international political economy textbooks: The case of the Middle East and North Africa	5
When do coalitions form under presidentialism, and why does it matter? A configurational analysis from Latin America	5
Bringing the boys back home: Campaign promises and US decision-making in Iraq and Vietnam	5
Domestic contestation over foreign policy, role-based and otherwise: Three cautionary cases	5
Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt	5
‘There Is No Alternative’? The role of depoliticisation in the emergence of populism	5
Looking forward and looking backward: Economic evaluations and regime support in China	4
Left politics and popular culture in Britain: From left-wing populism to ‘popular leftism’	4
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname	4
(Un)Just transitions and Black dispossession: The disposability of Caribbean ‘refugees’ and the political economy of climate justice	4
Populism and the (Italian) crisis: The voters and the context	4
Decolonising quantitative research methods pedagogy: Teaching contemporary politics to challenge hierarchies from data	4
More than carrots and sticks: Economic statecraft and coercion in China–Taiwan relations from 2000 to 2019	4
Speaking to algorithms? Rhetorical political analysis as technological analysis	4
Youth doing politics in times of increasing inequalities	4
Signals, strongholds, and support: Political party protests in South Africa	4
Political opportunity structures and the parliamentary entry of splinter, merger, and genuinely new parties	3
The mobile and carceral logics of Haifa Port	3
Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates	3
Studying political disputes: A rhetorical perspective and a case study	3
Indifferent and Eurosceptic: The motivations of EU-only abstainers in the 2019 European Parliament election	3
#ShamimaBegum: An analysis of social media narratives relating to female terrorist actors	3
EU peacebuilding’s new khaki: Exceptionalist militarism in the trading of good governed for military-capable states	3
Bringing the problem home: The anti-slavery and anti-trafficking rhetoric of UK non-government organisations	3
The effect of employment on attendance: A response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’	3
Do voters punish noncompliance with high courts? A cross-national analysis	3
Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies	3
Taking stock of the field of populism research: Are ideational approaches ‘moralistic’ and post-foundational discursive approaches ‘normative’?	2
Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism	2
Direct democracy, personality, and political interest in comparative perspective	2
Grand strategy, grand rhetoric: The forgotten covenant of campaign 1992	2
Oppressive pines: Uprooting Israeli green colonialism and implanting Palestinian A’wna	2
Do Spitzenkandidaten debates matter? Effects on voters’ cognitions and evaluations of candidates and issues	2
Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers	2

The disruption of an institutionalised and polarised party system: Discontent with democracy and the rise of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador	2
Rhetoric, discourse and the hermeneutics of public speech	2
The problem of asymmetric representation: The marginalisation, racialisation, and deservedness of Roma in Slovenia	2
Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility	2
Party think tanks as adaptation to the challenge of party linkage: Lessons from Australia	2
The role of ethnicity in the perception of pork barrel politics: Evidence from a survey experiment in Slovakia	2
Disruptive protest, civil disobedience & direct action	2
The 2021 federal German election: A gender and intersectional analysis	2
Unpacking the politics of ‘sportswashing’: It takes two to tango	2
Changes in support for Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front during democratic backsliding	2
The capitalist virus	2
Ethnicity, gender, and intersectionality: How context factors shape the intersectional (dis)advantage under proportional representation rules	2
The missing link: Studying political leadership from the followers’ perspective	2
Satisfaction with democracy in Turkey: Findings from a national survey	2
Conspiratorial medievalism: History and hyperagency in the far-right Knights Templar security imaginary	2