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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers	40
Who can talk about abortion? Information, offence, freedom of speech, and the advertising ban in Germany	25
Reflections on an anniversary	24
The impact of intolerance on young people’s online political participation	22
Looking for Ariadne’s thread: A systematic review on party-group relations in the last 20 years	22
Ecofascism in the shadow of ‘patriotic ecology’: Nativism, economic greenwashing, and the evolution of far-right political ecology in France	22
Disruptive protest, civil disobedience & direct action	20
‘There Is No Alternative’? The role of depoliticisation in the emergence of populism	19
A world in reverse: The political ecology of racial capitalism	16
COVID capitalism: The contested logistics of migrant labour supply chains in the double crisis	15
Venezuelan migrants in delivery platform work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Between exploitability, precariousness, and daily resistance	15
Conspiratorial medievalism: History and hyperagency in the far-right Knights Templar security imaginary	14
Too little, too vague: How populist parties talk about deliberation in Europe	14
Support for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the face of safety concerns and political affiliations: An Australian study	14
Institutional listening in deliberative democracy: Towards a deliberative logic of transmission	14
Introduction to the special issue: No longer second-order? Explaining the European Parliament elections of 2019	13
Collectivizing political mandates: A discursive approach to the Brazilian Bancada Ativista’s campaign in the 2018 elections	13
Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom	12
Governed bodies, discarded bodies: Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19	12
Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism	11
Illiberal democratic attitudes and support for the EU	11
An inquiry into populism’s relation to science	10
Bringing the state back in: Ruling parties and regime collapse during the Arab Uprisings	10
Too much to choose from? The long-term effects of political fragmentation on electoral turnout	10
The morality of substitution intervention: The case of Yemen	10

More than carrots and sticks: Economic statecraft and coercion in China–Taiwan relations from 2000 to 2019	10
Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies	9
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname	9
Do Spitzenkandidaten debates matter? Effects on voters’ cognitions and evaluations of candidates and issues	8
The European Union, immigration and the Left–Right divide: Explaining voting preferences for Western European radical right parties	8
Self-sustainment dynamics in armed groups systems: Understanding the post–Havana Agreement conflict in Colombia.	8
Beyond polarization and selective trust: A Citizens’ Jury as a trusted source of information	8
Still second-order? European elections in the era of populism, extremism, and Euroscepticism	7
Legacies of States and Social Revolutions	7
Differential and resonant solidarities: A materialist approach to the early career experience	7
Navigating pandemic waves: Consensus, polarisation and pluralism in the Finnish parliament during COVID-19	7
Election commissions and non-democratic outcomes: Thailand’s contentious 2019 election	6
Nostalgia and political analysis: A perspective from the Israeli case	6
Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement in a school of politics and international relations	6
Rhetoric and audience reception: An analysis of Theresa May’s vision of Britain and Britishness after Brexit	6
Explaining youth radicalism as a positioning of the self at opposite extremes	5
Oppressive pines: Uprooting Israeli green colonialism and implanting Palestinian A’wna	5
Comparative evidence on cultural variability in authoritarianism: An ethical and relational perspective	5
Populism and nativism in contemporary regionalist and nationalist politics: A minimalist framework for ideologically opposed parties	5
Seasonal workers wanted! Germany’s seasonal labour migration regime and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’	5
Learning by doing: The impact of experiencing democracy in education on political trust and participation	4
The missing link: Studying political leadership from the followers’ perspective	4
The international significance of the Northern Ireland peace process: Revisiting the lessons 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement	4
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime	4
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality	4
Some further reflections on the effect of employment on attendance	3
Unpacking the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA): Internationalisation of capital, imperial rivalry and cooperation, and regional power agency	3
Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt	3
Decolonising quantitative research methods pedagogy: Teaching contemporary politics to challenge hierarchies from data	3
What explains equity-enhancing reforms under centre-right governments? Evidence from Brazil	3
The capitalist virus	3
The promiscuous public? Exploring public opinion and why it matters to political actors	3
Productivity-based retrospective voting: Legislative productivity and voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections	3
Direct democracy, personality, and political interest in comparative perspective	3
The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit	3
Left or centre? Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions from the French Revolution to today	3
Must Good Samaritans vote?	3
Democracy, populism, and the rule of law: A reconsideration of their interconnectedness	3
The nexus between the Baltic governments and think tanks as instruments of foreign and security policy	2
Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies	2
Meaningful, but effective? A critical evaluation of Ireland’s citizens’ dialogues on the future of Europe	2
The transgressive aesthetics of populism	2
Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure	2
Decolonising politics curricula: Exploring the experiences and views of racially minoritised students	2
Hegemonic struggles and the role of contemporary ‘organic intellectuals’: A different perspective for the analysis of discourses	2
IR, imperialism, and the Global South: From Libya to Venezuela	2
Working with politics ‘students as partners’ to engender student community: Opportunities and challenges	2
Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members	2
Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility	2

Ethnicity, gender, and intersectionality: How context factors shape the intersectional (dis)advantage under proportional representation rules	2
Staging a dialogue between Autonomist Marxists and Post-Marxists: The case of the alt-right multitude	2