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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation53
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts51
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class49
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Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity32
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens32
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Does fiscal pressure constrain policy responsiveness? Evidence from Germany30
Why is immigration important to you? A revisit to public issue salience and elite cues30
Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences29
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited28
Reassessing the relationship between homophobia and political participation26
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies25
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When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions20
The politics of distributing blame and credit: Evidence from a survey experiment with Norwegian local politicians20
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?20
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Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?17
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment16
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies14
Do voters differentially punish transnational corruption?13
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries13
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Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources12
A compromising mindset? How citizens evaluate the trade‐offs in coalition politics12
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A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization12
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning11
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Political challengers and norm erosion in advanced democracies11
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership11
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies11
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202111
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Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion11
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis10
Social status, political priorities and unequal representation10
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The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union10
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing10
Bureaucratic entrepreneurship and morality politics: Dividing lines within the state10
The substantive representation of men: Intersectionality, masculinities, and men's interests10
How parties led by a woman redefine their positions: Empirical evidence for women's green, alternative and libertarian agenda9
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes9
Opening the door to anti‐system leaders? Anti‐corruption campaigns and the global rise of populism9
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Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process9
Still proud at the polls? LGBT+ rights don't dilute the sexuality turnout gap9
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries8
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic8
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule8
Intergenerational social mobility and the Brexit vote: How social origins and destinations divide Britain8
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology8
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?8
Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision‐making processes8
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine8
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states8
Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union8
Those were the what? Contents of nostalgia, relative deprivation and radical right support8
Environmentalism as an independent dimension of political preferences8
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences8
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems7
A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness7
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets7
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness7
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability7
Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists7
Are politicians democratic realists?7
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse6
Emotions in the aisles: Unpacking the use of emotive language in the UK House of Commons6
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences6
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy6
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective6
Stagnating incomes and preferences for redistribution: The role of absolute and relative experiences6
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan6
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections6
Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy6
Public opinion towards interest groups: The differential impact of ties to cause and business groups6
Follow the media? News environment and public concern about immigration6
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety6
The power of the loser: Evidence on an agenda‐setting model of opposition policy influence6
Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two‐stage conjoint experiment with party elites5
Cabinet ministers and inequality5
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice5
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes5
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?5
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation5
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?5
Voter responses to refugee arrivals: Effects of settlement policy5
Subjective losers of globalization5
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling5
Why do people like technocrats?5
The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs5
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions5
Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment5
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship5
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy4
Urban–rural policy disagreement4
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments4
The perceived problem‐solving potential of deliberative minipublics: Evidence from a survey of Belgian citizens4
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences4
Do politicians anticipate voter control? A comparative study of representatives’ accountability beliefs4
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark4
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests4
How much does issue salience matter? A model with applications to the UK elections4
Institutionalising participatory and deliberative procedures: The origins of the first permanent citizens’ assembly4
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits4
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent3
Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?3
When democratic experience distorts democracy: Citizen reactions to undemocratic incumbent behaviour3
Russian aggression and Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU – Evidence from the 2014 annexation of Crimea3
Public responses to engineering equality: Gender quotas and satisfaction with democracy3
How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination3
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run3
‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs3
Are poor people poorly heard?3
Populism's rise in post‐communist countries: Breaking electoral promises and incumbent left parties’ vote losses3
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns2
It's trade, stupid! How changes in trade competitiveness affect incumbents' electoral success2
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID‐19 waves2
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support2
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties2
Closing a gap or creating a new one? Comparing support for participatory instruments among different stakeholders2
The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms2
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries2
Mainstreaming democratic backsliding: The role of gender stereotypes2
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International threats and support for European security and defence integration: Evidence from 25 countries2
Threat or corrective to democracy? The relationship between populism and different models of democracy2
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models2
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making2
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member‐states in the UN General Assembly2
Urban identity versus national identity in the global city: Evidence from six European cities2
Europe's migration crisis: Local contact and out‐group hostility2
Inequalities in place‐based representation: Looking inside electoral districts2
Unpacking the politics of legislative debates2
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union2
Rising inequality and public support for redistribution1
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A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization1
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?1
Who cares about the public sphere?1
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Political tolerance in Europe: The role of conspiratorial thinking and cosmopolitanism1
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe1
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Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention1
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany1
Increased pressure lowered trust among unvaccinated during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Effects of the announcement of reintroducing vaccination passports in Denmark1
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany1
The electoral risks of austerity1
Nostalgic deprivation and populism: Evidence from 19 European countries1
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe1
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts1
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Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape1
Comparing political participation profiles in four Western European countries1
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union1
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic1
Citizens and the state during crisis: Public authority, private behaviour and the Covid‐19 pandemic in France1
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe1
Mobilising support when the stakes are high: Mass emails affect constituent‐to‐legislator lobbying1
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change1
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States1
When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences? Evidence from individual‐level ballot data1
Daring to fail: Input‐oriented voting under supranational policy constraints1
Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany1
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis1
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit1
Interest group networks in the European Union1
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments1
Mistakenly misinformed or intentionally deceived? Mis‐ and Disinformation perceptions on the Russian War in Ukraine among citizens in 19 countries1
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Populism and intra‐party democracy1
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming1
Political narratives in representation: Maiden speeches of ethnic minority members of parliament1
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective1
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies1
Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries1
Strategic postponement of coalition policymaking in European Parliamentary democracies1
Auction politics: Party competition and expansionary election promises1
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device1
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension1
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