OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	26
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	24
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	24
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion	21
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	20
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	20
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	16
Unlocking democracy: cultural dynamics in deliberation through the Venster99 case study	14
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	12
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	12
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	11
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	11
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	11
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	10
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	9
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	9
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	8
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	8
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	7
When do oil autocracies formally commit to climate change mitigation?	7
Negotiating middle-power politics: knowledge production and role contestation in Vietnam	7
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6

Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	6
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	6
Right-wing populists and noisy politics for big business	6
Strengthening local democratic resilience through democratic innovations: the case of post-Euromaidan Ukraine	6
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	6
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	6
Cartelisation, organisational legacies and radical left politics in government: a comparative study of AKEL in Cyprus and Syriza in Greece	5
Brazil’s foreign policy identity: a western player in the international arena of the twenty-first century?	5
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	5
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	5
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	5
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding	4
Intimate polarisation: political divisions within everyday family relationships in Colombia	4
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	4
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	4
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	4
Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement	4
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	4
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	4
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	4
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	4
The politics of emerging middle powers	3
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	3
International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP	3
Urban jungle, radical roar: sprawl, economic decline and the success of populist radical right in metropolitan Spain	3
What is urban populism?	3
Opposition parties and hybrid regime change: evidence from Mexico, Russia, Taiwan, and Turkey	3
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	3
Democratisation against all odds? Armenia in the shadow of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict	2
Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct	2
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	2
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	2
Friends and enemies: external threats and the delegitimization of foreign media in China	2
European union crisis-induced institutional evolution. The effect of institutional entrepreneurship in the formation of EFSF	2
Cities against democratic backsliding: democratic resilience through urban resistance in the Visegrád 4 capitals	2
Populism and democracy: a reassessment	2
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	2
The Islamic State, Shia religious clerics and the mobilisation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria	2
Trigger mechanism centralized but discursive frame fragmented: China as a case for studying populism at the grassroots level in the social media age	2
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	2
Calibrated participation: youth expressions of dissent in a strongman’s heartland	2
Do populists want direct democracy? Examining how thick and thin populist attitudes are associated with the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative	2
The politics of civil society narratives in contestation between liberalism and nationalism in authoritarian Vietnam	2
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	2
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	2

Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond	2
Certification as strategy: human rights, regulatory gaps, and foreign policy in Indonesia’s fight against IUU fishing	2
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	2
Beyond liberal peace? Qatar’s ’hybrid’ mediation and the politics of peacemaking in Afghanistan	2
The multiple fronts of democratic backsliding: evidence from Israel, Hungary, and India	2
Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns	2
Local democratic resistance to autocratisation: evidence from Budapest, Banja Luka, and Zagreb	2
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	2