OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Politics & International Relations 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	47
Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy	29
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	29
Pop-socialism: A new radical left politics? Evaluating the rise and fall of the British and Italian left in the anti-austerity age	28
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	27
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	26
Powellite nostalgia and racialised nationalist narratives: Connecting Global Britain and Little England	21
Humorous parodies of popular culture as strategy in Boris Johnson’s populist communication	19
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	16
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	15
Policing the police: Why it is so hard to reform police departments in the United States?	13
Promoting international labour standards: The ILO and national labour regulations	13
Mediating power? Delegation, pooling and leadership selection at international organisations	12
Humbug and outrage: A study of performance, gender and affective atmosphere in the mediation of a critical parliamentary moment	11
An bhfuil ár lá tagtha? Sinn Féin, special status and the politics of Brexit	11
Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation	10
Not ‘my economy’: A political ethnographic study of interest in the economy	9
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	9
Petro-friends: Foreign ownership of oil and leadership survival	9
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	8
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	8
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	8
Labour, more or less? Policy reasoning in a fiscal register	7
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1999-2023	7
The nature of a populist and radical-right foreign policy: Analysing the freedom party’s participation in the right-wing Austrian government	7

Social globalisation and quality of democracy: An analysis for old and young democracies	7
‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	7
The erosion of democracy in an age of wealth inequality: Unravelling the impact of subjective socioeconomic stratification	7
Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	6
Quality not quantity: Lobbying institutions and the influence of asylum rights groups	6
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	6
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	6
From the ancient Silk Road to the belt and road initiative: Narratives, signalling and trust-building	6
Democracy and public goods revisited: Local institutions, development, and access to water	6
Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate	6
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	5
The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory	5
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	5
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	5
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	5
Interpreting parliaments, but how?: Centring parliamentary actors and settings in ethnographic design and practice	5
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	5
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	5
‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	5
Recasting technocracy theory and analysis: Avenues for a critical-qualitative research framework	4
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	4
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	4
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	4
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	4
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	4
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	4
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	4
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	4
South Korean foreign policy signalling: The rise and fall of unreciprocated costly signals between 2013 and 2023	4
Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies	4
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	3
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	3
The misogynist incel in the news: Analysing representations of gender-based violence in Britain	3
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	3
Do international rankings affect public opinion?	3
Myth and meaning: ‘Corbynism’ and the interpretation of political leadership	3
Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy	3
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	3
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	3
The ‘electoral presidentialization’ of Silvio Berlusconi and Boris Johnson: Chaos, controversy, and lost chances	3
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy	3
Reframing centre-left neoliberalism: New Keynesian theory, Third Way ideology, and the construction of an elite consensus in the US, Britain, and Australia	3
Explaining sender–receiver gaps in signalling: Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’ and Solomon Islands’ multi-alignment	2
Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile	2
Dog-whistling and democracy	2
Moral foundations and political ideology in the UK	2
Forever wars: Divided government and the termination of interventions in support of civil war governments	2

The fall and rise of sovereignty	2
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time	2
Network resilience and EU fisheries policy engagement in third countries: Lessons for post-Brexit governance	2
Mobilising for organising?: Momentum’s distributed centralization and Labour Left strategy under Corbyn (2015–2020)	2
Post-truth politics as discursive violence: Online abuse, the public sphere and the figure of ‘the expert’	2
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	2
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	2
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	2
‘You are not my type’: The role of identity in evaluating democracy & human rights promotion	2
Contesting focality in global health governance: The World Health Organization-World Bank relationship in historical perspective	2
Does threat from COVID-19 stimulate attitudes amenable to public cooperation? Evidence from India	2
Editorial: British political studies and the politics of global challenges	2
Rethinking challenges of a holographic world: Towards a quantum ontology for global governance	2
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	2
Personalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe	2
Introduction: A Xi change in policy?	2
Race, capital and the British migration–development nexus	2
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	2
The language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	2
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	2
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	2
Winds of change? Neoclassical realism, foreign policy change, and European responses to the Russia-Ukraine War	1
The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom	1
New deals ‘The Second After Leaving?’ IO withdrawal and bilateral trade agreements	1
Arming a few dictators but not others: The politics of UK arms sales to Chile (1973–1989) and Argentina (1976–1983)	1
Taking one for the team: Partisan alignment and planning outcomes in England	1
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	1
Muslim charity in the United Kingdom: Between counter-terror and social integration	1
One future to bind them all? Modern central banking and the limits of performative governability	1
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	1
Pride and prejudice: Chinese citizens’ evaluations of democracy in the United States, India and Taiwan	1
Linguistic justice for non-resident citizens: Protecting language interests away from home	1
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	1
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	1
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	1
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	1
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations	1
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	1
Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity	1
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations	1
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	1
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	1
‘It’s about keeping children safe, not spying’: A governmentality approach to Prevent in primary education	1
Rebel diplomacy and negotiated settlement in civil wars	1
The gender gap in voter turnout: An artefact of men’s over-reporting in survey research?	1
Enforcement of international human rights law: A comparative exploration of alternative public opinion channels	1
Shaping institutional overlap: NATO’s responses to EU security and defence initiatives since 2014	1