OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of COVID‐19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?	318
Political trust during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Rally around the flag or lockdown effects?	148
How the coronavirus crisis affects citizen trust in institutions and in unknown others: Evidence from ‘the Swedish experiment’	144
Between governance‐driven democratisation and democracy‐driven governance: Explaining changes in participatory governance in the case of Barcelona	35
Regional inequality and institutional trust in Europe	32
Under pressure. Economic constraints, electoral politics and labour market reforms in Southern Europe in the decade of the Great Recession	28
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy	27
Multiple roots of the populist radical right: Support for the Dutch PVV in cities and the countryside	26
The more the better? Rule growth and policy impact from a macro perspective	26
The partisan nature of support for democratic backsliding: A comparative perspective	26
Elite‐public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign	24
Male and female politicians on Twitter: A machine learning approach	23
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions	22
Degrees of influence: Educational inequality in policy representation	21
From chasing populists to deconstructing populism: A new multidimensional approach to understanding and comparing populism	21
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	20
Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision‐making processes	19
Why are the affluent better represented around the world?	19
Do citizens care about government debt? Evidence from survey experiments on budgetary priorities	18
Does counter‐mobilization contain right‐wing populist movements? Evidence from Germany	18
Confident and cautious candidates: Explaining under‐representation of women in Danish municipal politics	17
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	17
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic	17
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction	16
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources	16

Social status, political priorities and unequal representation	15
Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space	15
Unpacking the politics of legislative debates	15
Explaining the immigration policy mix: Countries' relative openness to asylum and labour migration	14
Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right	14
Depression and attitudes to change in referendums: The case of Brexit	13
Institutionalising participatory and deliberative procedures: The origins of the first permanent citizens’ assembly	13
‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions	12
Legislating or rubber‐stamping? Assessing parliament's influence on law‐making with text reuse	12
The electoral roots of unequal representation. A spatial modelling approach to party systems and voting in Western Europe	12
The micro–macro interactive approach to political trust: Quality of representation and substantive representation across Europe	12
Welfare state reforms and mass media attention: Evidence from three European democracies	11
Organised interests in the media and policy congruence: The contingent impact of the status quo	11
Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences	11
Jurisdiction size and local government effectiveness: Assessing the effects of municipal amalgamations on performance	11
Political parties, globalization and labour strength: Assessing differences across welfare state programs	10
The importance of personal vote intentions for the responsiveness of legislators: A field experiment	10
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	10
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment	10
Having a say or getting your way? Political choice and satisfaction with democracy	10
The pandemic and the question of national belonging: Exposure to covid‐19 threat and conceptions of nationhood	10
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?	10
Voter expectations of government formation in coalition systems: The importance of the information context	9
Agenda‐setting under pressure: Does domestic politics influence the European Commission?	9
Redistribution attitudes and vote choice across the educational divide	9
Public support for state surveillance	9
How parties led by a woman redefine their positions: Empirical evidence for women's green, alternative and libertarian agenda	9
No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation	9
Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?	9
Testing the input‐process‐output model of public participation	8
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	8
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis	8
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	8
Policy responsiveness to all citizens or only to voters? A longitudinal analysis of policy responsiveness in OECD countries	8
The legitimacy‐conferring capacity of constitutional courts: Evidence from a comparative survey experiment1	8
Threat or corrective to democracy? The relationship between populism and different models of democracy	8
What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation	8
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund	7
Europe's migration crisis: Local contact and out‐group hostility	7
Climate politics in hard times: How local economic shocks influence MPs attention to climate change	7
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests	7
Don't air your dirty laundry: Party leadership contests and parliamentary election outcomes	7
Cabinet ministers and inequality	7
Do populist values or civic values drive support for referendums in Europe?	7
Appealing broadly while appearing unified: Resolving an electoral dilemma	7
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	7
Blame games and democratic responsiveness	6
Interest group networks in the European Union	6
The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms	6
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries	6

Immigration and the sociocultural divide in Central and Eastern Europe: Stasis or evolution?	6
Populism's rise in post‐communist countries: Breaking electoral promises and incumbent left parties’ vote losses	6
Birds of a feather flock together? The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1991–2015	6
Institutional constraints on cabinet formation: Veto points and party system dynamics	6
(Same)‐sex in the city: Urbanisation and LGBTI rights expansion	6
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis	6
Voter turnout in direct democracy: A joint analysis of individual, referendum and community factors	5
Parties’ attack behaviour in parliaments: Who attacks whom and when	5
Citizens and the state during crisis: Public authority, private behaviour and the Covid‐19 pandemic in France	5
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies	5
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	5
Parenthood and social policy preferences: A gender and time sensitive examination	5
What parties want from their leaders: How office achievement trumps electoral performance as a driver of party leader survival	5
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting	5
When democratic experience distorts democracy: Citizen reactions to undemocratic incumbent behaviour	5
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies	5
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members	5
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	5
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	5
Mind the gap: How party–voter incongruence fuels the entry and support of new parties	5
Do politicians anticipate voter control? A comparative study of representatives’ accountability beliefs	5
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	5
The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–2019	4
The gender divide in issue attention	4
Political challengers and norm erosion in advanced democracies	4
Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union	4
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy	4
The Berlin puzzle: Why European solidarity prevailed in the adoption of the Corona recovery fund	4
Portfolio allocation patterns and policy‐making effectiveness in minority coalition governments	4
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	4
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization	4
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies	4
Defending the European court of human rights: Experimental evidence from Britain	4
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital	4
Majority representation and legitimacy: Survey‐experimental evidence from the European Union	4
Reflective political reasoning: Political disagreement and empathy	4
Committee strength in parliamentary democracies: A new index	4
The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs	4
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	4
Understanding unequal representation	4
The European refugee crisis and public support for the externalisation of migration management	4
The leadership dilemma: Examining the impact of strong leaders on parties	4
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?	3
Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries	3
How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination	3
Subjective losers of globalization	3
Environmentalism as an independent dimension of political preferences	3
Redistribution in a political union: The case of the EU	3
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	3
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment	3
Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot	3
Collaboration or competition? Experimental evidence for coalition heuristics	3
Rule omission, rule migration and the limits of financial industry power	3
The power of the loser: Evidence on an agenda‐setting model of opposition policy influence	3
Does fiscal pressure constrain policy responsiveness? Evidence from Germany	3
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	3
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members	3
Political tolerance in Europe: The role of conspiratorial thinking and cosmopolitanism	3
International threats and support for European security and defence integration: Evidence from 25 countries	3
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	3
Q&A in legislative oversight: A framework for analysis	3
Corruption and support for decentralisation	3
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	3
Those were the what? Contents of nostalgia, relative deprivation and radical right support	2
How do parties react to defections? Electoral strategies after a valence loss	2
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	2
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems	2
Who cares about the public sphere?	2
Voter responses to refugee arrivals: Effects of settlement policy	2
Agents of past principals: The lasting effects of incumbents on the political ideology of bureaucrats	2
Is the left right? The creeping embourgeoisement of social democracy through homeownership	2
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics	2
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments	2
Still proud at the polls? LGBT+ rights don't dilute the sexuality turnout gap	2
Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?	2
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes	2
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic	2
Daring to fail: Input‐oriented voting under supranational policy constraints	2
Stagnating incomes and preferences for redistribution: The role of absolute and relative experiences	2