OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Political Economy 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	204
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	83
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	62
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	57
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	49
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	41
Statistical Conventions and the Forms of the State: A Story of South African Statistics	39
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	33
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	30
The financialisation of car consumption	29
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	24
Technovation futures and state activism: configuring the United Kingdom’s economic statecraft	20
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	20
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	20
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom	18
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	18
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	16
A progressive framework for green industrial policy	16
Modern finance theory and practice and the Anthropocene	16
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	16
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	16
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	15
Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage: a comparative study	15
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Parliamentary oversight of the European Central Bank and the Fed*	14
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	14

Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America	14
Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	14
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	14
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	13
Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968	13
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	13
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	12
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	12
South-South monetary regionalism: a case of productive incoherence?	12
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	12
Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda	12
‘Making financial sense of the future’: actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk	11
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	10
Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change	10
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	9
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	9
Correction	9
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	9
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	8
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	8
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	8
Decarbonising states as owners	8
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	8
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	8
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	8
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	8
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	8
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	7
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	7
Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance	7
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	7
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	6
Tensions between individual and system change in the climate movement: an analysis of Extinction Rebellion	6
The social and political bases of political economy: interpreting and periodising Italian developments since WWII	6
The importance of the English language for the early Engels–a comparison between Engels’ and Marx’s research on English political economic literature before their collaboration	6
UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance	6
Building the weak hand of the state: tracing the market boundaries of high pharmaceutical prices in France	6
Towards a reparative welfare state	5
Is China financialised? The significance of two historic transformations of Chinese finance	5
Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India	5
A time of reproductive unrest: the articulation of capital accumulation, social reproduction, and the Irish state	5
External enablers of Eurozone austerity: exploring the link between the ease of suppressing domestic spending and trading partners’ demand	5
‘What is exploitation and workplace abuse?’ A classification schema to understand exploitative workplace behaviour towards migrant workers	5
The last subsidy: regulating devaluation in the German coal phase-out	5
Polanyi in rural China: beyond the double movement	5
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance	5
Decoupling climate change: winter tourism and the maintenance of regional growth	5
The political economy of post-reproduction society	5
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	5

Imaginary capital migration and the competitive politics of corporate taxation	4
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	4
Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement	4
States of transition: a political economy approach	4
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds	4
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	4
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	4
Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets	4
Social reproduction theory and the capitalist ‘form’ of social reproduction	4
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	4
Low interest rates, low productivity, low growth? A multi-sector case study of UK-based firms’ funding and investment strategies in the context of loose monetary policy	4
Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework	4
Resilience, discipline and financialisation in the UK’s liberal welfare state	4
Exploitation, colonial capitalism, and the deep roots of climate vulnerability in West Africa	4
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	4
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	4
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero	4
The distribution of the cost of Cuban social reproduction in 2016: the relative contributions of domestic and diasporic households, the private sector and the state	4
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia	4
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	4
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	3
Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra	3
Unravelling connections: energy, economic growth, and decoupling through a historical lens	3
From NAFTA to USMCA: revisiting the market access – policy space trade-off	3
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	3
Culture & European attitudes on public debt	3
Europeanisation as a driver of dependent financialisation in East-Central Europe: insights from the Baltic states	3
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite	3
The transformation of resource-rich countries in the International Division of Labour: ‘backward' industrialisation and relative surplus population in Uzbekistan	3
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	3
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	3
Adapting to the market: leftist ideological justifications of liberal economic policies, 1977–1986	3
Are foreign stock investors politically responsive? Evidence from the 2012 South Korean presidential election	3
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday	3
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	3
Feminism, innovative finance and the Equality Fund: doing well while doing good?	3
Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition	2
Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach	2
Beyond the North–South divide: transnational coalitions in EU reforms	2
Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation	2
Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance	2
Why federalism matters: policy feedback, institutional variation and the politics of trade policy-making in Canada and Germany	2
The economics of human development, the new (old) ‘witches’, and the government of social reproduction	2
‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation	2
Addendum	2
When do business associations want a hard trade-sustainability nexus? A framework of analysis and the EU case	2
How can public policies facilitate local cooperation? insights from the EU’s wine policy	2
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation	2
Special section introduction: epistemic politics in international and comparative political economy	2
Rethinking predation under financialisation through the history of subprime mortgages: a case of raiding finance	2
Algorithmic governance or extortion? Everyday experiences of fintech for loans in Nigeria	2
Conceptualising private fintech platforms as financial statecraft and recentralisation in China	2