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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	43
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	27
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	21
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	14
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	14
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	13
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	11
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	10
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	10
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	10
Combatting violence against women in Turkey: structural obstacles	9
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	9
Failing to build a network as policy entrepreneurs: Greek politicians negotiating with the EU during the first quarter of SYRIZA in government	9
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	8
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	8
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	7
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	7
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	7
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	6
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	6
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	6
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	6
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	6
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	5

From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	5
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	5
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	5
Brazil’s strategic diplomacy for maritime security and safety	5
Re-democratising Nepal: transitional justice and the erosion of judicial independence	5
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	5
Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey	5
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	4
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	4
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	4
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	4
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	4
Varieties of democratic understanding and political participation: multi-level evidence from the world	4
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	3
Japan's smart power strategy and securing the US-led order	3
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	3
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	3
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	3
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	3
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	3
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	3
Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections	3
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	3
Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement	3
The Islamic State, Shia religious clerics and the mobilisation of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria	2
‘The cure cannot be worse than the problem’: securitising the securitisation of COVID-19 in the USA	2
Equally at risk? Perceived financial differences, risk assessment and containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Rising powers’ quest for increased legitimacy through IOs in an era of loose multilateralism	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
Incumbent and opposition popular support and boycotts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond	2
Electoral contests in the aftermath of military coups: how domestic constraints motivate praetorian conduct	2
FTA Motives in South Korea: is an FTA a way to increase general welfare or to meet political interest?	1
Populism and democracy: a reassessment	1
The politics of civil society narratives in contestation between liberalism and nationalism in authoritarian Vietnam	1
Local democratic resistance to autocratisation: evidence from Budapest, Banja Luka, and Zagreb	1
Exploring the edges of clientelism: ideology, ethnicity, and partisanship in Belize	1
European union crisis-induced institutional evolution. The effect of institutional entrepreneurship in the formation of EFSF	1
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	1
From democracy to hybrid regime. Democratic backsliding and populism in Hungary and Tunisia	1
Foreign capital and US states’ contested strategies of internationalisation: a constructivist analysis	1
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis	1
Do populists want direct democracy? Examining how thick and thin populist attitudes are associated with the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative	1
Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: a comparative perspective from India and Myanmar	1
Neither Islamic, nor a republic and not Iranian: the legitimacy crisis of the clerical regime	1
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	1
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	1
Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats	1
Populism, culture and class: articulation and performance in contemporary British populism	1
Making ‘the people’ behave: the economic policies of the Israeli anti-populist ‘change’ coalition	1

Cities against democratic backsliding: democratic resilience through urban resistance in the Visegrád 4 capitals	1
Policy-making by tweets: discursive governance, populism, and Trump Presidency	1
Consequences of civilian victimisation: does pro-victimisation sponsorship affect the survival of intervening leaders?	1
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	1
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	1