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

Article	Citations
Venezuelan migrants in delivery platform work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Between exploitability, precariousness, and daily resistance	53
Mind the ethics gap: Embedding research ethics into student fieldtrips to conflict and development settings	43
Transition television: Teaching peace, conflict, and contemporary Northern Ireland using Derry Girls and Blue Lights	33
Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism	21
Peace is brat: NATO, digital militarism, and the absurd	21
Global governance of emerging technologies and the advocacy coalition framework: An introduction to the symposium	19
Hegemonic struggles and the role of contemporary ‘organic intellectuals’: A different perspective for the analysis of discourses	18
Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism	17
The perception of insecurity and vote choice in national referendums: The case of Chile in 2022	16
Making students visible: Transparency and the politics of digital assessment	15
The effect of employment on attendance: A response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’	12
Ideology, organisation, and path dependency: The use of violence among Egyptian Islamist movements	11
Writing and sustaining the ‘Ummah’: Reification, alterity, and strategic framing in the official discourse of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation	10
Fixing the foundations? A critical fantasy study of the UK Labour Party’s ‘working people’ discourse in the first 6 months of the Starmer government	9
Deliberative forums in fragile contexts: Challenges from the field	9
The ‘going out’ of Chinese businesses and China’s economic statecraft: Beijing’s dilemma between domestic concerns and global ambitions	9
Ecofascism in the shadow of ‘patriotic ecology’: Nativism, economic greenwashing, and the evolution of far-right political ecology in France	8
What (if anything) makes political parties indispensable?	8
The South of Ireland during the interregnum: A Gramscian analysis of continuity and change	7
Bringing the state back in: Ruling parties and regime collapse during the Arab Uprisings	7
Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom	7
Making campaigns more personalised: Explaining the personalisation of election campaigns in comparative perspective	6
Time for a rebrand? Examining the efforts of college departments in the California State University system to reimagine, reinvent, reposition, and rebrand themselves in response to a changing higher e	6
With or without you? The strategic inclusion of Latin American immigrants in VOX electoral speeches	6
The European Union, immigration and the Left–Right divide: Explaining voting preferences for Western European radical right parties	6

Understanding unlikely alliances in Europe: Why ethno-religious minorities support populist radical right parties	6
Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt	5
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime	5
Skilful symbiosis: Optionality and employability in Political Studies assessment	5
Security professionals and public opinion: Legitimacy, publicity and brand identity	5
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality	5
Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure	5
Do people in authoritarian countries have lower standards when evaluating their governments? An anchoring vignettes approach	5
Meeting the support needs of commuter students through the Political Studies curriculum	5
Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility	5
What explains equity-enhancing reforms under centre-right governments? Evidence from Brazil	5
Right-wing populist parties and their appeal to pro-redistribution voters	5
Introducing the RefCFRI: A continuous indicator comparing referendum campaign finance regulation in 143 countries	4
Ill-gotten gains: Partisan alignment, politicised grant transfers and English local election outcomes	4
The declining Kingdom? Emotional ascription, emotional expectations, and humour in the international framing of the UK in crisis	4
The crown in crisis? Britain’s royal ontological (in)security in the post-Brexit age	4
How populist are ethnic minorities? Populist attitudes and voting for populist parties in the Netherlands	4
Governed bodies, discarded bodies: Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19	4
The political theory of technological change: Lessons from the liberalism-ecologism debate	4
Migration and the racialised politics of desire	4
China’s passport power and belt-and-road initiative: An investigation of passport relations	4
Presidential approval and power concentration as leverage of political support: Evidence from Latin America	4
Too little, too vague: How populist parties talk about deliberation in Europe	4
Global Britain: Imaginaries, identities, and ontological security	4
Equipping students to study the politics of global challenges: Embedding skills, belonging, employability and ‘making a difference’ in a first-year module	4
Make Britain Great Again: The morphology of Restorationist Re-politics	4
Cosmopolitanism, law, and narrative: An interpretation of the right to narrate	4
From mechanics to meaning: Designing writing assignments in political science education	4
The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies	4
Comparative evidence on cultural variability in authoritarianism: An ethical and relational perspective	4
African agency and soft disempowerment in the Chinese and American sports diplomacy	3
Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members	3
Legacies of States and Social Revolutions	3
Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies	3
Understanding military AI governance through the Advocacy Coalition Framework	3
Arts-based approaches to democracy: Reinvigorating the public sphere	3
The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit	3
Working with politics ‘students as partners’ to engender student community: Opportunities and challenges	3
Navigating pandemic waves: Consensus, polarisation and pluralism in the Finnish parliament during COVID-19	3
Rejuvenating international relations: Rethinking the social interpretation of youth to advance the global governance agenda	3
Populism, reform, and failure: Constrained constitutional ambition in Italy	2
‘Importing’ the personal vote to maximise the party vote? ‘Parachute personalization’ in an intraparty preference electoral system	2
The policy profile of populist parties in Europe: Policy purposeful with the competitive advantage of crises	2
Politics is very grateful to our reviewers in 2025	2
Policy proximity and candidate repositioning: The value of consistency	2
Self-sustainment dynamics in armed groups systems: Understanding the post–Havana Agreement conflict in Colombia.	2
The people, the elite, and the environment: Constructing populist and anti-populist frontiers in environmental politics	2
From classroom to post-conflict zones: Transforming learning through the Africa Study Visit	2
Reflections on an anniversary	2
Does experience of democracy reduce ethnic economic inequality?	2

Disruptive protest, civil disobedience & direct action	2
Understanding the regulation of 5G equipment suppliers through the advocacy coalition framework	2
Spacious learning: A critical reflection on active learning in political science	2
Teaching class in politics in an elite British university for ‘student support through the curriculum’	2
Hybrid democratic innovation as assemblage: Probing and extending an emerging concept for democratic-innovations research	2
Democratic innovation for change: A participatory corrective to deliberative hegemony	2
Global governance of human germline genome editing: An advocacy coalition framework analysis	2
A multiperspectival approach to democratic theory: Five lessons for democratic innovations	2