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 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
A psychological predisposition towards populism? Evidence from Canada	12
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	12
When migrants become ‘the people’: unpacking homeland populism	10
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
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
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
Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution	8
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
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	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
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
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