European Journal of Political Research

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Research 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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The political effects of communicative interventions during crises69
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning55
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process50
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies46
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources40
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?39
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202139
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class39
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization37
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?37
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship36
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets36
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences36
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions35
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems32
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries31
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology28
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic24
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities23
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support22
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public21
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis21
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe21
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction20
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe19
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes18
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?18
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis17
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany16
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament15
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe15
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective15
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Age and support for public debt reduction14
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes14
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?13
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?13
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications13
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway13
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?13
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases13
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities13
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany13
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics13
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations13
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes12
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership12
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives12
Issue Information12
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?12
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions12
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions11
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment11
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union11
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens11
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences11
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes11
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse10
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states10
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine10
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety10
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness10
Subjective losers of globalization10
Urban–rural policy disagreement10
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability10
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape9
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap9
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling9
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models9
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes9
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?9
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy9
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making8
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts8
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States8
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent8
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?8
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device8
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union8
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union8
Are poor people poorly heard?8
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic7
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment7
The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20197
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust7
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention7
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries7
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings7
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?7
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Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK7
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective7
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems6
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?6
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members6
Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?6
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation6
The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective6
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy6
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain5
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries5
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Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion5
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)5
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources5
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Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies5
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream5
Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe5
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment5
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction5
Issue Information5
Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?5
Why do people like technocrats?4
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run4
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences4
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation4
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United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners4
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What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation4
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils4
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan4
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments4
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A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness4
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID‐19 waves3
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns3
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments3
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Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany3
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?3
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic3
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies3
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit3
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming3
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization3
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark3
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension3
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Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions3
Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom3
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants3
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund3
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Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany3
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties3
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member‐states in the UN General Assembly3
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?3
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries3
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support3
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members3
Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal3
Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic3
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters3
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe3
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics3
The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'2
A compromising mindset? How citizens evaluate the trade‐offs in coalition politics2
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice2
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects2
Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment2
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital2
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies2
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes2
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited2
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts2
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective2
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success2
Public opinion towards interest groups: The differential impact of ties to cause and business groups2
Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens2
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections2
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Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity2
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment2
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain2
Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists2
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Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy2
A meta‐analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities2
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic2
Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization2
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing2
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries2
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