OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New Political Economy is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	166
Business elites and populism: understanding business responses	80
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	61
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	54
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	52
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	38
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	38
Statistical Conventions and the Forms of the State: A Story of South African Statistics	34
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	30
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	27
The financialisation of car consumption	26
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	26
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	24
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	23
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	23
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	17
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	17
Fossilised Capital: Price and Profit in the Energy Transition	16
Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage: a comparative study	15
Modern finance theory and practice and the Anthropocene	15
Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968	14
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	14
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	14
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	14
Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America	13

Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	13
Grand Development Strategy or Simply Grandiose? China's Diffusion of Its Belt & Road Initiative into Central Europe	13
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	12
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	12
The Structure–Agency Relation of Growth Imperative Hypotheses in a Credit Economy	12
South-South monetary regionalism: a case of productive incoherence?	11
The World Bank, Agricultural Credit, and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Global Development	11
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	11
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	11
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	10
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	10
‘Making financial sense of the future’: actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk	10
Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda	10
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	9
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	9
Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change	9
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	9
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	8
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	8
A Critical Node: The Role of China in the Transnational Circulation of Developmentalist Ideas, Policies and Practices	8
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	8
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	8
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	8
Decarbonising states as owners	7
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	7
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	7
Collaboration, Adaptation, or Disruption? Wall Street, Fintech and Corporate Bond Trading	7
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	7
Socialism and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate	7
Studying the relationship between social policy promotion and neoliberalism: the case of social investment	7
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	7
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	7