OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Organizations 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The economics of the democratic deficit: The effect of IMF programs on inequality	52
The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance	35
Hybrid institutional complexes in global governance	32
Clubs of autocrats: Regional organizations and authoritarian survival	24
Measuring institutional overlap in global governance	23
The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world	23
Behind the screen: Understanding national support for a foreign investment screening mechanism in the European Union	22
Ordering global governance complexes: The evolution of the governance complex for international civil aviation	18
Decision-making in international organizations: institutional design and performance	17
Undermining conditionality? The effect of Chinese development assistance on compliance with World Bank project agreements	15
Managing performance and winning trust: how World Bank staff shape recipient performance	13
Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get	13
Power, ideas, and World Bank conditionality	12
China visits: a dataset of Chinese leaders’ foreign visits	12
Public responses to foreign protectionism: Evidence from the US-China trade war	11
Constraints and incentives in the investment regime: How bargaining power shapes BIT reform	11
Chinese or western finance? Transparency, official credit flows, and the international political economy of development	11
Bargaining strategies for governance complex games	10
The comparative constitutional compliance database	10
At what cost? Power, payments, and public support of international organizations	9
Investment agreements and the fragmentation of firms across countries	9
Crisis affectedness, elite cues and IO public legitimacy	9
Incentivizing embedded investment: Evidence from patterns of foreign direct investment in Latin America	8
Expanding or defending legitimacy? Why international organizations intensify self-legitimation	8
Delegation of implementation in project aid	8

Greening global governance: INGO secretariats and environmental mainstreaming of IOs, 1950 to 2017	7
Optimal decision rules in multilateral aid funds	7
Trade Wars and Election Interference	7
Nationalism and withdrawals from intergovernmental organizations: Connecting theory and data	7
Enduring the great recession: Economic integration in the European Union	7
China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Chinese Influence Over Membership Shares?	6
The power of the “weak” and international organizations	6
How to sanction international wrongdoing? The design of EU restrictive measures	6
The performance of international organizations: a new measure and dataset based on computational text analysis of evaluation reports	6
Labor clauses in trade agreements: Hidden protectionism?	6
Foreign aid and judicial autonomy	5
Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding	5
The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state	5
How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations	5
Foreign aid, oil revenues, and political accountability: Evidence from six experiments in Ghana and Uganda	5
Economic crises and the survival of international organizations	5
International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash?	5
Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US	5
Settle or litigate? Consequences of institutional design in the Inter-American system of human rights protection	5
Trading favors? UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients	5
Foreign aid, human capital accumulation and the potential implications for growth	5
Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law	4
Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa	4
Why hide? Africa’s unreported debt to China	4
Bureaucratic capacity and preference attainment in international economic negotiations	4
Re-contracting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations	4
To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations	4
Institutional Overlap in Global Governance and the Design of Intergovernmental Organizations	4
The impact of unilateral BIT terminations on FDI: Quasi-experimental evidence from India	4
Statistical capacity and corrupt bureaucracies	4
The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020	4
The World Bank COVID-19 response: Politics as usual?	4
Global banking and the spillovers from political shocks at the core of the world economy	4
The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy: Replaceability and intergovernmental networks in international organizations	4
Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint	3
Leaders in the United Nations General Assembly: Revitalization or politicization?	3
Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations	3
Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision	3
WHO approves? Relative trust, the WHO, and China’s COVID-19 vaccines	3
Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding	3
The life cycle of international cooperation: Introduction to the special issue	3
Introducing the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD)	3
Can IOs influence attitudes about regulating “Big Tech”?	3
Discovering cooperation: Endogenous change in international organizations	3
The state does not live by warfare alone: War and revenue in the long nineteenth century	3
Social ties and the political participation of firms	3
Public preferences for international law compliance: Respecting legal obligations or conforming to common practices?	3
Trojan horses in liberal international organizations? How democratic backsliders undermine the UNHRC	3
The politics of international testing	2
Good governance in autocratic international organizations	2

Competing judgments: Multiple election observers and post-election contention	2
Lisa Dellmuth, Jan Aart Scholte, Jonas Tallberg and Soetkin Verhaegen. 2022. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)	2
Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring	2
Empowering your victims: Why repressive regimes allow individual petitions in international organizations	2
Soft governance against superbugs: How effective is the international regime on antimicrobial resistance?	2
The political power of internet business: A comprehensive dataset of Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO)	2
Institutional roots of international alliances: Party groupings and position similarity at global climate negotiations	2
Your silence speaks volumes: Weak states and strategic absence in the UN General Assembly	2
Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset	2
Governments as borrowers and regulators	2
Environmental agreements as clubs: Evidence from a new dataset of trade provisions	2
Closing time: Reputational constraints on capital account policy in emerging markets	2