European Journal of Political Research

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Research is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The political effects of communicative interventions during crises110
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies81
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202176
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning75
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?72
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?66
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources62
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process60
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization56
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences52
The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey52
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries51
Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization51
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship49
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions49
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems46
Excluded but affected? The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy among non-citizens43
To what extent do political elites influence public opinion about immigration?40
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology37
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties37
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets36
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support35
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?35
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic33
Changing the relationship status: how coalition history affects voter perceptions of parties32
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities29
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective27
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany27
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis26
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament26
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Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis26
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?24
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction24
The state and its schooled elite across 84 countries: Educational differences in political trust depend on the schooled society and sector of employment23
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe23
Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe23
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe23
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public21
Chains in episodes of democratization20
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation20
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes19
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe19
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations19
The impact of unelected representatives on citizens’ satisfaction with democracy: A cross-national survey experiment19
Long-term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes19
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?18
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging18
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research: How to do it and why it matters18
Age and support for public debt reduction18
The paradox of representation: How identity fragmentation complicates voter-party congruence18
How the coalition formation process and coalition preferences shape satisfaction with democracy18
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany18
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities17
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?17
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?17
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway17
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?16
The people as ‘ Volk ’ or ‘ Bürger ’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for t16
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies16
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases16
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications16
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations16
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics16
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives16
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?16
Compensating the losers: The (limited) elite–public gap in trade politics15
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM15
Political constraints, public party funding, and the regulation of political finance: A global study15
EJR volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter15
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership15
Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments15
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues15
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment15
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes14
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule14
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union14
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions13
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens13
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability13
Subjective losers of globalization13
When deliberative mini-publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions13
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence13
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety13
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media13
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states13
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations13
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling12
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine12
Urban–rural policy disagreement12
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences12
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse12
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?12
Women talking: Bringing the environment into UK parliamentary speeches11
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness11
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap11
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?11
Conflicting perceptions: Misalignment between citizens’ and politicians’ evaluations of political conflict11
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right11
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy11
Party systems and executive accountability: The politics of investigative committees in Central and Eastern Europe11
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes11
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits10
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making10
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union10
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models10
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?9
Are poor people poorly heard?9
‘Left behind’ and an undemocratic mind? The link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations9
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape9
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent9
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device9
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–20239
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts9
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective9
Democratizing the genomic revolution? Comparing democratic innovations in France and the UK8
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic8
The democratic ideal under stress: Citizen commitment to democratic rights and procedures in challenging times8
Assessing the presidentialisation thesis: Prime ministerial authority in an era of rising centralisation and personalisation8
Improving hate speech detection with large language models8
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust8
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention8
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union8
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems8
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?8
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States8
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain8
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK8
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries7
In the shadow of the European Council: When and how do national leaders influence everyday law-making?7
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?7
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment7
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings7
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members7
Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe7
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)7
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain7
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction7
Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?7
The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective7
Political power and the global expansion of the value-added tax7
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Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries7
Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions7
An emotional climate: Legislators’ emotional engagement with climate issues across age, party and time7
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream7
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources7
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy7
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation7
Beyond skills: How occupational essentiality and social value relate to attitudes toward immigrant labor7
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The electoral benefits of environmental position-taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20197
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment7
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Making the case for democracy: A field-experiment on democratic persuasion6
Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations6
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan6
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences6
Voting against or against voting?6
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EJR volume 64 issue 4 Cover and Front matter6
Financing the state: Government tax revenue from 1800 to 20126
United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners6
Why do people like technocrats?6
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation6
Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?6
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What's left after right-wing extremism? The effects on political orientation6
A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness6
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Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils6
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies6
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member-states in the UN General Assembly5
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests5
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run5
Political socialisation before and after migration: How origin-country political culture shapes immigrant voting in Europe5
Keep positive and defend democracy: Framing democratic messages under authoritarianism5
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments5
Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation5
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns5
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties5
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments5
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment – ADDENDUM5
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID-19 waves5
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark5
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization5
Climate policy strategies and corporate mobilisation in the European Union5
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries5
Power and ideology – A comparison of citizens’ and politicians’ satisfaction with democracy4
EJR volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany4
From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization4
Globalisation, government partisanship, and labour strike intensity4
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics4
Understanding (gendered) public tolerance of violent threats against politicians4
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit4
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?4
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The stars down to the ballot box: Heterodoxy and comparative electoral behaviour4
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe4
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany4
Beyond the ideal type: Investigating ‘mixed preferences’ for who should govern in nine European countries4
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension4
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change4
Risky appeals: The electoral consequences of group-targeted campaign pledges4
Strategies of agenda denial: Anti-gender opposition to LGBTQ+ policies in Italy4
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming4
Following voters in the chain of representation: The important role of pre-election pledge awareness3
EJR volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects3
MAGA & MAGYAR: The strategic use of common sense by Trump and Orbán during their state addresses3
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters3
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support3
Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal3
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund3
Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom3
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes3
Reference groups and electoral behavior3
Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization3
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital3
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain3
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment3
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions3
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members3
What kind of energy transition? Public opinion trade-offs between economic growth, ecological sustainability, and equity3
One-dimensional, multidimensional, or non-dimensional? Ideological structure in mass and elite opinion3
Gender differences in donating to political parties – Evidence from reporting data3
‘Get the shot, or else!’ Policy coercion and institutional trust are compensatory for vaccine uptake3
A meta-analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities3
How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description3
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success3
Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens3
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Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic3
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants3
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
Satisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without elections3
Why show up? Understanding why politicians attend public meetings3
The honest, the efficient, and the trustworthy: National stereotypes and public support for EU redistribution3
The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'3
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