OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Politics is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	40
Party institutionalization, authoritarian regime types and women’s political equality	23
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	13
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	10
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	10
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	9
BRICS countries’ annual intergovernmental declaration: why does it matter for world politics?	9
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	9
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management	8
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	8
The strengths and limits of neoliberal populism: the statism and mass organisation of contemporary rightwing regimes	8
Packaging OECD policy advice: universal policy models and domestication of recommendations	8
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	7
Servants of the state or masters of capital? Thinking through the class implications of state-owned capital	7
The European Union in the annual United Nations General Assembly Debates	6
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	6
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	6
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	6
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	5
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	5
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	5
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	5
Locating new ‘state capitalism’ in advanced economies: an international comparison of government ownership in economic entities	5
The influence of interest groups on the EU’s foreign policy: assessing and explaining the influence of human rights NGOs on the EU’s human rights promotion in the post-Soviet space	5
The politics of listening at the World Humanitarian Summit – localisation as resistance	4

The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	4
Reuniting strategy and diplomacy for 21^stcentury statecraft	4
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	4
International organisations as policy bricoleurs: An analysis of the World Bank's healthcare financing recommendations for Argentina and Croatia	4
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	4
The psychosocial foundation of China’s state-led nationalism	4
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	3
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	3
Behind the screens: Russian emotional manipulation strategies against black Americans on social media	3
Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?	3
Illiberal capitalist development: Chinese state-owned capital investment in Serbia	3
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	3
Devil on the doorstep v. bandits in the backyard: Iranian and American theory-laden perceptions and judgements during three US-led Middle East operations	3
Power struggle on subjectivity and foreign policy: a post-structuralist analysis of JDP’s policies towards the United States (2002–2016)	3
Justifications of repression in autocracies: an empirical analysis of Morocco and Tunisia, 2000–2010	3
Social norms and (de-)financialization: Japan’s and China’s divergent paths in consumer credit	3
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	3
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	3