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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy	37
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	26
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	25
‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First	25
Exploring the populist ‘mind’: Anxiety, fantasy, and everyday populism	24
Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues	24
Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies	17
Alcohol policy, multi-level governance and corporate political strategy: The campaign for Scotland’s minimum unit pricing in Edinburgh, London and Brussels	17
Introduction to special issue: The study of populism in international relations	16
‘Guided by the science’: (De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis	15
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time	14
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	13
Anti-populism during the Yellow Vest protests: From combatting the Rassemblement National to dealing with street populists	12
Beyond the core: Do ethnic parties ‘reach out’ in power-sharing systems?	12
From the ancient Silk Road to the belt and road initiative: Narratives, signalling and trust-building	10
The value of ‘between-election’ political participation: Do parliamentary e-petitions matter to political elites?	10
Shaping institutional overlap: NATO’s responses to EU security and defence initiatives since 2014	10
Antisemitism in the global populist international	10
China’s foreign and security policy institutions and decision-making under Xi Jinping	9
Women’s voices in a deliberative assembly: An analysis of gender rates of participation in Ireland’s Convention on the Constitution 2012–2014	9
Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy	8
‘Breakthrough’ political science: Multi-level governance – Reconceptualising Europe’s modernised polity	8
Building an authoritarian regime: Strategies for autocratisation and resistance in Belarus and Slovakia	8
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	8
Personalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe	8

Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?	8
Emotional labour and occupational wellbeing in political office	7
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	7
‘To the surprise of absolutely no one’: Gendered political leadership change in Northern Ireland	7
Taking one for the team: Partisan alignment and planning outcomes in England	7
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	6
‘It’s about keeping children safe, not spying’: A governmentality approach to Prevent in primary education	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
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	6
How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum Brexit discourses	6
Network resilience and EU fisheries policy engagement in third countries: Lessons for post-Brexit governance	6
Mediating power? Delegation, pooling and leadership selection at international organisations	6
The West, Russia and European security: Still the long peace?	6
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	6
Introduction: A Xi change in policy?	6
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations	5
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	5
‘You’re a populist! No, you are a populist!’: The rhetorical analysis of a popular insult in the United Kingdom, 1970–2018	5
Public opinion, political partisanship and the Votes-at-16 debate in the United Kingdom	5
‘Where’s the money coming from?’ Manifesto costings and the politics of fiscal credibility in UK general elections, 1955–2019	5
Cross-segmental parties in consociational systems: Downplaying prowess to access power in Northern Ireland	5
Promoting international labour standards: The ILO and national labour regulations	5
The Prevent Duty in UK higher education: Insights from freedom of information requests	5
Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries	5
Editorial: British political studies and the politics of global challenges	5
Humorous parodies of popular culture as strategy in Boris Johnson’s populist communication	5
The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom	5
Modelling the fall and rise in the importance of the environment to the British public: 2006–2019	4
The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory	4
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	4
‘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	4
China’s human rights foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era: Normative revisionism shrouded in discursive moderation	4
An bhfuil ár lá tagtha? Sinn Féin, special status and the politics of Brexit	4
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations	4
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	4
‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	4
China and southeast Asia in the 2000s: Tension management in the maritime space	3
New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation	3
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	3
Post-truth politics as discursive violence: Online abuse, the public sphere and the figure of ‘the expert’	3
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	3
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty	3
Census politics in Northern Ireland from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit: Beyond the ‘sectarian headcount’?	3
Arming a few dictators but not others: The politics of UK arms sales to Chile (1973–1989) and Argentina (1976–1983)	3
Myth and meaning: ‘Corbynism’ and the interpretation of political leadership	3
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	3
Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers	3
‘Enter parliament but never become part of it’: How have the Greens in the United Kingdom approached opposition?	3
The gender gap in voter turnout: An artefact of men’s over-reporting in survey research?	3
Powellite nostalgia and racialised nationalist narratives: Connecting Global Britain and Little England	3

Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	3
Not ‘my economy’: A political ethnographic study of interest in the economy	2
The paradox of poor representation: How voter–party incongruence curbs affective polarisation	2
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	2
Votes and violence: Electoral vote share and international conflict in democratic states	2
Who’s in charge? The impact of delivery and perception of risk on the willingness to voting online	2
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	2
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	2
Managing differentiated disintegration: Insights from comparative federalism on post-Brexit EU–UK relations	2
A tale of two Europes: How conflating the European Court of Human Rights with the European Union exacerbates Euroscepticism	2
Pre-electoral coalitions and cabinet stability in presidential systems	2
Statecraft and incremental change: Explaining the success of pension reforms in the United Kingdom	2
Paradiplomacy as nation-building: The politics of Scotland’s international development policy (1999–2022)	2
Blame it on turnout? Citizens’ participation and polls’ accuracy	2
Humbug and outrage: A study of performance, gender and affective atmosphere in the mediation of a critical parliamentary moment	2
Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate	2
The EU’s truth by omission: Learning and accountability after the Eurozone crisis	2
‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community	2
Recognition through dialogue: How transatlantic relations anchor the EU’s identity	2
Beyond populism and into the state: The political economy of national-conservatism	2
Linguistic justice for non-resident citizens: Protecting language interests away from home	2
Multifaceted effects of globalisation on welfare attitudes: When winners and losers join forces	2
Do international rankings affect public opinion?	1
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	1
State failure, genocide and politicide reconsidered	1
Pop-socialism: A new radical left politics? Evaluating the rise and fall of the British and Italian left in the anti-austerity age	1
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	1
The politics of regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	1
Why, how and to whom is the European Union signalling in the Indo-Pacific? Understanding the European Union’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the epicentre of multipolar competition	1
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	1
New deals ‘The Second After Leaving?’ IO withdrawal and bilateral trade agreements	1
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	1
Race, capital and the British migration–development nexus	1
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	1
Social globalisation and quality of democracy: An analysis for old and young democracies	1
Labour, more or less? Policy reasoning in a fiscal register	1
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	1
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	1
Neoliberalism versus the market? Liz Truss, neoliberal resilience, and Lacan’s theory of the four discourses	1
Explaining the pre-election peace	1
Pride and prejudice: Chinese citizens’ evaluations of democracy in the United States, India and Taiwan	1
‘You are not my type’: The role of identity in evaluating democracy & human rights promotion	1
Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile	1
Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy	1
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	1
Democracy and public goods revisited: Local institutions, development, and access to water	1
The nature of a populist and radical-right foreign policy: Analysing the freedom party’s participation in the right-wing Austrian government	1
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	1
More than a memento mori? Assessing the participation of former Prime Ministers in the House of Commons	1
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	1
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	1
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	1
Electoral regimes and the politicisation of foreign trade in national elections	1
Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity	1
The misogynist incel in the news: Analysing representations of gender-based violence in Britain	1