OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian consolidation dynamics in Turkey	67
Special issue introduction: what is the new state capitalism?	35
Beyond culture and economy: Israel’s security-driven populism	24
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	23
Explaining voter turnout in local elections: a global comparative perspective	14
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	12
A psychological predisposition towards populism? Evidence from Canada	12
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	10
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	9
Strategies of rising Brazil: postmortem review, looking forward	9
Policy-making by tweets: discursive governance, populism, and Trump Presidency	9
Illusion of control: how internet use generates anti-regime sentiment in authoritarian regimes	9
Brazilian climate policy (1992–2019): an exercise in strategic diplomatic failure	9
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	8
Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media	8
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	8
Reuniting strategy and diplomacy for 21^stcentury statecraft	8
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	7
The strengths and limits of neoliberal populism: the statism and mass organisation of contemporary rightwing regimes	7
The interplay of regional and domestic politics in Egypt: the case of Salafism	7
Kleptocracy, strategic corruption, and defence policymaking: the impact of Najib Razak’s 1MDB scandal on Malaysia’s defence relationship with China (2015–2017)	6
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	6
Constitutional monarchies and semi-constitutional monarchies: a global historical study, 1800–2017	6
Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: a comparative perspective from India and Myanmar	6
Illiberal capitalist development: Chinese state-owned capital investment in Serbia	6

Illiberal conservatism, civilisationalist ethnocentrism, and paternalist populism in Orbán's Hungary	5
‘We are at war’: securitisation, legitimation and COVID-19 pandemic politics in France	5
Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey	5
Servants of the state or masters of capital? Thinking through the class implications of state-owned capital	5
Re-examining thresholds of continuous democracy measures	5
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	5
Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats	4
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	4
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	4
Brazil’s strategic diplomacy for maritime security and safety	4
What drives political support? Evidence from a survey experiment at the onset of the corona crisis	4
Learning mechanisms within an Islamist party: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement between domestic and regional balances	4
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	4
Populism, culture and class: articulation and performance in contemporary British populism	4
Rising powers’ quest for increased legitimacy through IOs in an era of loose multilateralism	3
Failing to build a network as policy entrepreneurs: Greek politicians negotiating with the EU during the first quarter of SYRIZA in government	3
What does the PJD learn from the outside? International factors and Islamist politics in Morocco	3
Gender-affinity voting in legislative elections under open-list proportional representation rules: the legislative elections in Chile in 2017	3
COVID-19 and ‘the public’: U.K. government, discourse and the British Political Tradition	3
The failed construction of fake news as a security threat in Malaysia	3
Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?	3
Re-democratising Nepal: transitional justice and the erosion of judicial independence	3
Double trouble? Effects of social conflict and foreign investment on consultative authoritarianism in China	3
Development banks as instruments of Brazilian strategic diplomacy	3
Social norms and (de-)financialization: Japan’s and China’s divergent paths in consumer credit	3
Party institutionalization, authoritarian regime types and women’s political equality	2
Rethinking Islamist politics in North Africa: a multi-level analysis of domestic, regional and international dynamics	2
Towards an intersectional approach to populism: comparative perspectives from Finland and India	2
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	2
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	2
Between national and international interests: Morocco’s Al-Adl wa-l-Ihsane from an international perspective	2
How much opposition? Political fragmentation and changes in democracy	2
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	2
The politics of civil society narratives in contestation between liberalism and nationalism in authoritarian Vietnam	2
Precautionary authoritarianism and the contested governance of Chinese food safety	2
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	2
How population size affects power-sharing: a comparison of Nigeria and Suriname	2
Defeating Autocrats from below: Insights from the 2019 Algerian uprising	2
Does partisan polarisation predict economic growth? Evidence from 27 European countries	2
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	2
FTA Motives in South Korea: is an FTA a way to increase general welfare or to meet political interest?	1
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	1
Anti-democratic youth? The influence of youth cohort size and quality of democracy on young people’s support for democracy	1
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	1
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	1
Behind the screens: Russian emotional manipulation strategies against black Americans on social media	1
Neither Islamic, nor a republic and not Iranian: the legitimacy crisis of the clerical regime	1
Informal networks and influential politicians in China: SNA-study of full CC CCP members	1
Crafting consensus: Indonesia’s discursive strategies in legitimising free trade policy	1
The populist ambivalence. Presidents and democracy in Latin America	1

Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	1
Leadership and performance in informal institutions: the internal dynamics of BRICS	1
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	1
Cue-taking, populist attitudes, and support for holding a referendum: evidence from survey experiments	1
How does party organisation develop beyond clientelism in new democracies? Evidence from South Korea, 1992–2016	1
Equally at risk? Perceived financial differences, risk assessment and containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	1
(Not) democratising through strength: core beliefs and the institutions of Singapore’s People’s Action Party	1
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	1
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	1
Foreign capital and US states’ contested strategies of internationalisation: a constructivist analysis	1