OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Politics is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	26
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	24
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	23
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	21
Unlocking democracy: cultural dynamics in deliberation through the Venster99 case study	20
Safe over similar? A structural interpretation of changing patterns in U.S. democracy promotion	20
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	15
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	14
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	12
Lobbying and deliberation: interest groups as key agents of deliberative systems	11
To boast or to ideologize? A utility-based approach to understanding authoritarian legitimation strategies	10
Oppositional legacy parties during democratic transitions: the demise of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party	10
Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016	10
Middle power and power asymmetry: how South Korea’s free trade agreement strategy with ASEAN changed under the New Southern Policy	10
Iran’s soft power in the Middle East via the promotion of the Persian language	10
Embracing the concept of democracy in China: citizens’ democratic perceptions and support	9
When institutions ‘bite’: Malaysia’s flawed democratisation	8
Legitimising autocracy: re-framing the analysis of corporate relations to undemocratic regimes	8
Financial liberalization or state capitalism? The developmental state and the special purpose bond market in South Korea	8
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat	7
Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens’ assembly on populist attitudes	7
Conceptualising democratic resilience: a minimalist account	7
The nonlinear impact of women’s descriptive representation: an empirical study on the ratification of women rights treaties	7
When do oil autocracies formally commit to climate change mitigation?	7
Why can’t the drama stop? US–China rivalry and security triangulation on the Korean peninsula	6

Strengthening local democratic resilience through democratic innovations: the case of post-Euromaidan Ukraine	6
Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: the case of Mexican development policy	6
Right-wing populists and noisy politics for big business	6
Brazil’s foreign policy identity: a western player in the international arena of the twenty-first century?	6
A sea of difference? Australian and Italian approaches to irregular migration and seaborne asylum seekers	6
Understanding the dual glass ceiling of selecting and electing women candidates: evidence from Latin American mayoral elections	5
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	5
Norms as a status marker: social creativity and Indonesia’s recognition game in the indo-Pacific	5
It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes	5
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism	5
How regional organisation survives: ASEAN, hedging and international society	5
Cartelisation, organisational legacies and radical left politics in government: a comparative study of AKEL in Cyprus and Syriza in Greece	5
Measuring libertarian ideology with party manifesto data	5
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	4
Grooming the next generation: harmonisation of youth laws in post-soviet states	4
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding	4
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	4
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	4
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	4
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	4
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	4
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	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
Intimate polarisation: political divisions within everyday family relationships in Colombia	4