OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Politics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics	59
Explaining the Role and Impact of Gender within Online Political Discourse: Insights from Explainable Machine Learning	19
Working from Home and Parental Childcare Division: Evidence from Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Complexities and Nuances in Radical Right Voters’ (Anti)Feminism	17
Education as a Field of Contention: Feminist and Anti-gender Struggles over Democracy	15
The Care Subsidy to the Labor Market: Rethinking the Care Diamond	15
Empowered Homeowners, Responsible Mothers: Promises and Pitfalls of Maternalist Housing Provision in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida Program	15
The Hierarchy of Care Work: How Immigrants Influence the Gender-Segregated Labor Market	13
Motherhood Penalty—Beyond Bias? From Stereotypes to Substitutability Structures	12
Explaining the Adoption of Care Policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay: A Multiple Streams Approach	12
Doctors’ Rights vs. Patients’ Rights: Analyzing the Implementation of Italian Abortion Policy in Puglia	11
Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Hungary: Progress in Recognition and Backlash in Policies	11
Symbolic and Transformative: Alignments Toward Feminicídio Legal Reform inside the Brazilian Police	11
Whose Rights? Domestic Workers Organizing in Massachusetts	10
Framing Care in Global and Regional Policy Spaces	8
The Social and Political Lives of Women in an Egalitarian Matricultural Society: The Case of Western Sahara	8
Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)	8
Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion: Promoting Gender Projects, Re-establishing the Gender Order, and Forging Gendered Subjectivities on Online US Spousal Reunification Forums	8
Between Activism and Academy: Lobby and Advocacy About Care in Latin America	7
The Problematization of Migrant Maternity: Implications of the “Passport Baby” Narrative in the Canadian Context	7
Structured Exclusions: The Making of Female Citizenship in Türkiye and Israel	7
Staying Power: Unpacking Seniority as a Gendered Informal Institution in Parliament	6
Thinking Intersectionally about State Power and Resistance in the Breddon Women’s Center in England	6
Paternal Leave Duration and the Closure of the Gendered Family Work Gap	6
Impact of the Multifactorial Crisis on Food Security, Care, and Quality of Life of Older People in Cuba	6

Doing Family Before the State. Does Recognition of De Facto Families Lead to More Inclusive Migration Law Practices?	6
Challenging the Gender Regime through Small-scale Activism: Alternative Citizen-Led Projects in Kurdistan/Türkiye	6
Gender Dynamics During the Colombian Armed Conflict	6
Populist Radical Right Frames of Gender and Sexuality in France and Italy: Targeting Feminists and Other Enemies of the People	6
Perceived Corruption and Women’s Representation in the Executive Branch	5
Authoritarian Othering Back and Feminist Subversion: Rethinking Transnational Feminism in Russia and Serbia	5
Parental Leave Reforms in South Korea, 1995–2021: Policy Translation and Institutional Legacies	5
Violence against Women—The Case of Divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel	5
What About Fertility? The Unintentional Pro-natalism of a Nordic Country	5
Between Coping, Co-optation, and Resistance: Strategies of (En)Countering Anti-gender Challenges in Local Governance in the Context of Democratic Backsliding	5
A Critical Feminist Perspective on Climate Change Adaptation Plans: Mapping Municipal Recognition, Dialog, and Budgeting	5
Intersectional Repertoires of Coping with Political Violence	5
Gender Equality Policies “Confined”: Adopted Frames in the Prison System in Spain	5
Trapped by Tradition: Gender and Occupational Segregation in Peru	5
Autocratization and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Rights in Brazil: Contextualizing Attacks and Resistances under Bolsonaro’s Government	5
Gendered Violence, Genderless Frames: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Russia and Ukraine on the Eve of Full-scale War	5
Unpaid Work in Uruguay: Between the Commitment of a Care System and the Setbacks of the Pandemic	4
Legal Mobilization and Framing Transformation: The Feminist Turn to the Law in Mexico	4
How Do Welfare States Support Reproductive Equity? A Comparative Analysis across Countries and over Time	4
Depletion through Social Reproduction and Contingent Coping in the Lived Experience of Parents on Universal Credit in England	4
Austerity Policies and the Strategic Silencing of Their Gendered Effects: Evidence from Spain	4
Bridging the Gender Gap in Ghanaian Local Governance: Key Enablers and Pathways	4
Between Peripherality and Privilege: “Women Wage Peace” as a Case Study of Intersectionality Practices in Women’s Movements	4
(In)Stability of Gender Attitudes in Times of Family Policy Change—A Latent Class Analysis of Germany, Austria, and Sweden	3
Strong Gender Contract, Weak Institutions: Gender Pay Gap in Slovenia and Czechia	3
Beyond Electoral Rules: Women Political Rights in Mexico and Brazil since Democratic Transitions	3
Gender Balance on State Boards in Ireland: To the Forefront of Progress or Concealing the Status Quo?	3
“Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”: State Violence and Ambivalent Moments of Enforced Emancipation of Refugee Women	3
Integrating Gender-Based Analysis Plus into Policy Responses to COVID-19: Lived Experiences of Lockdown in British Columbia, Canada	3
Ecologies of depletion	3
Political Representation and Intersectionality: Perspectives of Ethnically/Racially Minoritized Citizens	3
Working with Depletion	3
Being a Woman Politician on the Isle of Man: How Smallness Explains Political Culture	3
The Woman Question in the “Stupid Box”: An Analysis of the Politics of Women’s Representation in Pakistani Popular Media	3
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work	3
Special Section: Contemporary Forms of Illiberal and Anti-feminist Mobilizations of Gender	3
From Equality to Economic Development: Culture, Intersectionality, and Justifications for Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy in the United States, 1973–1988	3
The Paradox of the AKP’s Gender Regime: Gender Identity of Religious Women in Türkiye	3
Locations of Depletion	3
Marketization, Regulation, and Equality: Towards an Analytical Framework for Understanding the Equality Impact of Public Procurement	3
Double-edged Swords? Party Ideology, Activism, and Visibility in the Careers of Italian LGBT+ Politicians	3
Care Policy Determinants and Effects: Convergences and Divergences Across the Americas	3
A Multi-scalar Feminist Project for a Care Right: Angles for a Deepening Understanding	3
Trans* Women’s Experiences of Epistemic Misrecognition in Swedish Law and Society	2
From Criticism to Collaboration: Politics of Naturalist Mothering in Turkey	2
In Memoriam: Júlia Szalai (1948–2022)	2
A Comparison of the Socioeconomic and Gendered Organization of Social Reproduction in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1973–2013	2
From Human Rights to Emancipation: Four Decades of Feminist Movement Configurations in Latin America	2
Familialization, De-familialization, and Family Policy Change in High-Income Countries	2
Gender Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers	2

Transitional Moments, Conflicts over Gender, and the Meanings of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and South America: A Comparative Agenda	2
Traveling Through Different Transitions in Latin America and Post-Socialist Europe	2
School Meals, Policy Protagonism, and the Politics of Care in the Americas	2
Governance by Gaslight: The Reproductive Politics of the Two-Child Limit	2
Not So Soft Side of Femininity: Interpretating the Validity of Inclusive Femininity	2
Beyond Clueless Mothers: Israeli “Women Wage Peace” Activists’ Perceptions of Why Women Are Key to Peacemaking	2
Multiple Dimensions of Gender Ideologies: How They Relate to Normative Judgments of the Gender Division of Parental Leave	2
Gender Representation and Policy Implementation: Is it Women or the Left Wing that Increases the Childcare Supply?	1
Does Local Political Representation Affect the Childcare Coverage Rate in Austrian Municipalities?	1
Do Men Care about Childcare? Women’s Relative Resources and Men’s Preferences for Work–Family Reconciliation Policies	1
Unequal Priorities: How Intra-household Resource Allocation and Means-tested Benefits Affect Capabilities in poor Families	1
“Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice	1
Women’s Empowerment via Women’s Cooperatives: An Ethnographic Account from Turkey	1
Women’s Voting Preferences in Europe: A Replication of the Gender Gap Analysis on the National Level	1
National Care Experts and Public Daughters: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in South Korea and the United States	1
The Biopolitics of Parental Access: Cross-Readings of Transnational Adoption and Surrogacy in Denmark and Norway	1
Gender (In)Equality in the Voluntary Carbon Market	1
Gendering Parliamentary Diplomacy: The case of EU27-UK Relations	1
Social Reproduction Gone Wrong? The Citizenship Revocation and Rehabilitation of Young European Women Who Joined ISIS	1
Ambiguous Policy Paradigms in the Dutch Welfare State: A Gender-Blind Mix of Social Investment and Conservative Care	1
Has a Phenomenon Been Born? Causes, Consequences, and Strategies of Gendering De-democratization in Turkey	1
Solidarity and Depletion	1
Making Parenting Leave Accessible to Fathers: Political Actors and New Social Rights, 1965–2016	1
Occupational Transitions among Direct Care Workers in the United States	1
Actions for Care: A Canadian Approach	1
The state of/and depletion	1
Authoritarian Populism and Patriarchal Logics: Nicaragua’s Engendered Politics	1
State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada	1
Bringing Women Back into the (Collective) Kitchen: The Case of the Ley de comedores sociales in Mexico City	1
Advocating for Survival: Domestic Workers in the Necropolitical Regime of the Pandemic	1
Care Workers in English Care Homes: Managing Commodification, Motivations, and Caring Ideals	1
Populist Female MPs and the Discourse around Gender and Gender-based Violence in the Italian Twittersphere during the Pandemic	1
Turkish Gender Studies’ Scholars: Balancing Academic and Emotional Turbulence	1
Fragments of a Unique and Bold Trajectory	1
Gender Parity Reform as Autocratic Genderwashing? Analyzing Ethiopia’s Post-Protest Experiment	1
Persistence of Abortion Stigma Inscribed in the Legal Framework: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in Poland	1
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Feminist Policy Reform, and the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada	1
Toward a Caring Society? A Framework for Analyzing the Impact of Early Childhood Policies Based on Chile and Uruguay	1
Risk, Reward, and Resistance: Navigating Work and Family under Hungary’s New Pronatalism	1
The Challenge of Hijābi Aqeedah عقيدة الحِجاب of Palestinian Religious Muslim Women in Israel	1
The EU as a Global Gender Actor: Tracing Intersectionality in the European Gender Action Plans for External Relations 2010–2025	1
Correction to: Who Should Scale Back? Experimental Evidence on Employer Support for Part-Time Employment and Working Hours Norms for Couples with Young Children	1
Who Should Scale Back? Experimental Evidence on Employer Support for Part-Time Employment and Working Hours Norms for Couples with Young Children	1