OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Politics & International Relations is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Public attitudes towards climate change: A cross-country analysis	32
Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison	29
Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy	24
Populist parties and foreign policy: The case of Italy’s Five Star Movement	23
The personal is global political: The antifeminist backlash in the United Nations	23
A postfunctionalist theory of multilevel governance	22
‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First	22
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	19
What’s in a name? Contestation and backlash against international norms and institutions	18
Narrative, persona and performance: The case of Theresa May 2016–2017	17
Exploring the populist ‘mind’: Anxiety, fantasy, and everyday populism	16
Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues	16
Backlash politics against European integration	15
Backlash against naming and shaming: The politics of status and emotion	15
Theorising backlash politics: Conclusion to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison	15
Alcohol policy, multi-level governance and corporate political strategy: The campaign for Scotland’s minimum unit pricing in Edinburgh, London and Brussels	14
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	14
Social protectionist bias: The domestic politics of North–South trade agreements	14
Unravelling multi-level governance systems	13
By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election	13
Looking inward: How does Chinese public diplomacy work at home?	13
The multi-level governance imperative	13
Electoral integrity – The winner takes it all? Evidence from three British general elections	12
From ‘de jure’ to ‘de facto’ decentralised public policies: The multi-level governance approach	11
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time	11

Introduction to special issue: The study of populism in international relations	11
Conceptualising party-driven movements	11
The positive side of negative identity: Stigma and deviance in backlash movements	10
Anti-populism during the Yellow Vest protests: From combatting the Rassemblement National to dealing with street populists	10
Winner–loser effects in contentious constitutional referenda: Perceptions of procedural fairness and the Brexit referendum	10
Shaping institutional overlap: NATO’s responses to EU security and defence initiatives since 2014	10
Multi-level governance in a ‘Europe with the regions’	10
‘Guided by the science’: (De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis	9
Profiling foreign policy leaders in their own language: New insights into the stability and formation of leadership traits	9
The value of ‘between-election’ political participation: Do parliamentary e-petitions matter to political elites?	9
Beyond the core: Do ethnic parties ‘reach out’ in power-sharing systems?	9
Multilevel governance: Identity, political contestation, and policy	9
From the ancient Silk Road to the belt and road initiative: Narratives, signalling and trust-building	9
China’s foreign and security policy institutions and decision-making under Xi Jinping	8
Women’s voices in a deliberative assembly: An analysis of gender rates of participation in Ireland’s Convention on the Constitution 2012–2014	8
Foreign direct investment screening and congressional backlash politics in the United States	8
Back of the queue: Brexit, status loss, and the politics of backlash	8
Antisemitism in the global populist international	8
Multilevel governance or multilevel government?	8
Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies	8
Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy	7
Building an authoritarian regime: Strategies for autocratisation and resistance in Belarus and Slovakia	7
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	7
Conceptualising backlash movements: A (patch-worked) perspective from social movement studies	7
‘Breakthrough’ political science: Multi-level governance – Reconceptualising Europe’s modernised polity	7
Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?	7
From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair	7
The gay rights backlash: Contrasting views from the United States and Latin America	7
Introduction: A Xi change in policy?	6
Leadership succession in politics: The democracy/autocracy divide revisited	6
Reading Kindleberger in Beijing: Xi Jinping’s China as a provider of global public goods	6
Taking one for the team: Partisan alignment and planning outcomes in England	6
‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	6
Interest through necessity? The impact of personal health on the stability of political interest in the United Kingdom	6
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	6
Mediating power? Delegation, pooling and leadership selection at international organisations	6
The West, Russia and European security: Still the long peace?	5
Emotional labour and occupational wellbeing in political office	5
Network resilience and EU fisheries policy engagement in third countries: Lessons for post-Brexit governance	5
The Prevent Duty in UK higher education: Insights from freedom of information requests	5
How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum Brexit discourses	5
The Railroad Economic Belt: Grand strategy, economic statecraft, and a new type of international relations	5
‘To the surprise of absolutely no one’: Gendered political leadership change in Northern Ireland	5
From multi-speed to multi-stream? Recognising the motivations, processes and triggers behind party membership	5
Framing #Brexit on Twitter: The EU 27’s lesson in message discipline?	5
Two-level politics and the backlash against international courts: Evidence from the politicisation of the European court of human rights	5
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	4
Sport and UK soft power: The case of Mount Everest	4
‘It’s about keeping children safe, not spying’: A governmentality approach to Prevent in primary education	4
Backlash against the procedural consensus	4

China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era: Where do Japan, Russia and the USA fit?	4
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations	4
The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory	4
‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	4
Public opinion, political partisanship and the Votes-at-16 debate in the United Kingdom	4
The ‘internationalisation agenda’ and the rise of the Chinese university: Towards the inevitable erosion of academic freedom?	4
Third-party knowledge and success in civil war mediation	4
‘You’re a populist! No, you are a populist!’: The rhetorical analysis of a popular insult in the United Kingdom, 1970–2018	4
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations	3
Why are some parliamentarians’ bills more likely to progress? Sponsorship as a signal	3
Why regional parties succeed at the sub-national level in India	3
New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation	3
‘Where’s the money coming from?’ Manifesto costings and the politics of fiscal credibility in UK general elections, 1955–2019	3
Personalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe	3
An bhfuil ár lá tagtha? Sinn Féin, special status and the politics of Brexit	3
China and southeast Asia in the 2000s: Tension management in the maritime space	3
The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom	3
Party members and leadership styles in new European democracies	3
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	3
Cross-segmental parties in consociational systems: Downplaying prowess to access power in Northern Ireland	3
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	3
China’s human rights foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era: Normative revisionism shrouded in discursive moderation	2
One moment, please: Can the speed and quality of political contact affect democratic health?	2
Promoting international labour standards: The ILO and national labour regulations	2
Modelling the fall and rise in the importance of the environment to the British public: 2006–2019	2
The EU’s truth by omission: Learning and accountability after the Eurozone crisis	2
Pre-electoral coalitions and cabinet stability in presidential systems	2
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
Blame it on turnout? Citizens’ participation and polls’ accuracy	2
Localising ‘radicalisation’: Risk assessment practices in Greece and the United Kingdom	2
Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate	2
Humbug and outrage: A study of performance, gender and affective atmosphere in the mediation of a critical parliamentary moment	2
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty	2
Demographic change and backlash: Identity politics in historical perspective	2
Census politics in Northern Ireland from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit: Beyond the ‘sectarian headcount’?	2
Arming a few dictators but not others: The politics of UK arms sales to Chile (1973–1989) and Argentina (1976–1983)	2
Myth and meaning: ‘Corbynism’ and the interpretation of political leadership	2
Emotions and backlash in US society and politics	2
Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	2
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	2
A tale of two Europes: How conflating the European Court of Human Rights with the European Union exacerbates Euroscepticism	2
‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community	2
‘Facilitating the transition to net zero’ and institutional change in the Bank of England: Perceptions of the environmental mandate and its policy implications within the British state	2
Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries	2
Editorial: British political studies and the politics of global challenges	2