European Journal of Political Research

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning52
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?46
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization40
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources35
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?34
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process33
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies32
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202131
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class30
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises29
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries29
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences27
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions26
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems26
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship24
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets23
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology22
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany20
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support20
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?19
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction17
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis16
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective16
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe16
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes15
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public15
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe14
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe14
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Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis14
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany13
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?13
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway13
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes13
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities12
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?12
Age and support for public debt reduction12
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives12
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?12
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership11
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases11
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes11
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The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?11
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications11
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union11
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations11
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics11
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule10
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens10
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences10
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment10
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes10
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions10
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse9
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety9
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability9
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes9
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states9
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?9
Urban–rural policy disagreement9
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy9
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union8
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?8
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making8
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness8
Are poor people poorly heard?8
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models8
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape8
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?8
Subjective losers of globalization8
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits8
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent7
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective7
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic7
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment7
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States7
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts7
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention7
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems6
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union6
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust6
The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20196
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Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device6
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Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings6
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?6
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK6
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries5
Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe5
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources5
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation5
The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective5
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy5
Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?5
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment5
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?5
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members5
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain5
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)5
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction5
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment5
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Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies4
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences4
What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation4
Issue Information4
Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?4
Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences4
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils4
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries4
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Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion4
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation4
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Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan3
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member‐states in the UN General Assembly3
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns3
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries3
United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners3
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments3
Why do people like technocrats?3
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests3
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark3
A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness3
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run3
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization3
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties3
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID‐19 waves3
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe2
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change2
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Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany2
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension2
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants2
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain2
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Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal2
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?2
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies2
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics2
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming2
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments2
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters2
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic2
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital2
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Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom2
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions2
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany2
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit2
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?2
Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic2
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund2
The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'2
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment2
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes2
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members2
Sweet victory, bitter defeat: The amplifying effects of affective and perceived ideological polarization on the winner–loser gap in political support1
The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms1
The gendered long‐term consequences of automation risk on electoral behaviour: Evidence from Norway1
Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy1
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice1
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries1
A compromising mindset? How citizens evaluate the trade‐offs in coalition politics1
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing1
Immigration and the sociocultural divide in Central and Eastern Europe: Stasis or evolution?1
Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization1
It's trade, stupid! How changes in trade competitiveness affect incumbents' electoral success1
The electoral risks of austerity1
Mainstreaming democratic backsliding: The role of gender stereotypes1
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When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences? Evidence from individual‐level ballot data1
Russian aggression and Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU – Evidence from the 2014 annexation of Crimea1
Rising inequality and public support for redistribution1
Moving beyond the political trust crisis debate: Residual analyses to understand trends in political trust1
Comparing political participation profiles in four Western European countries1
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Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment1
Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists1
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic1
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis1
The pandemic and the question of national belonging: Exposure to covid‐19 threat and conceptions of nationhood1
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success1
Populism and intra‐party democracy1
How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination1
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How do masses react to party polarization? Limited effect of party polarization on mass polarization1
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Citizens and the state during crisis: Public authority, private behaviour and the Covid‐19 pandemic in France1
The political space in the European parliament: Measuring MEPs' preferences amid the rise of Euroscepticism1
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective1
Is the left right? The creeping embourgeoisement of social democracy through homeownership1
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections1
Public opinion towards interest groups: The differential impact of ties to cause and business groups1
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts1
Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity1
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited1
The Berlin puzzle: Why European solidarity prevailed in the adoption of the Corona recovery fund1
A meta‐analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities1
‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs1
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies1
Political tolerance in Europe: The role of conspiratorial thinking and cosmopolitanism1
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis1
Distrusting democrats: A panel study into the effects of structurally low and declining political trust on citizens’ support for democratic reform1
Do citizens care about government debt? Evidence from survey experiments on budgetary priorities1
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