OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Politics & International Relations 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 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
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
Not ‘my economy’: A political ethnographic study of interest in the economy	9
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	8
‘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
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

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
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
‘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
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
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
‘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
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