OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation	53
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts	51
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	49
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Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity	32
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	32
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Does fiscal pressure constrain policy responsiveness? Evidence from Germany	30
Why is immigration important to you? A revisit to public issue salience and elite cues	30
Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences	29
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited	28
Reassessing the relationship between homophobia and political participation	26
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	25
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When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	20
The politics of distributing blame and credit: Evidence from a survey experiment with Norwegian local politicians	20
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 experiment	16
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies	14
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Do voters differentially punish transnational corruption?	13
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries	13

A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	12
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	12
A compromising mindset? How citizens evaluate the trade‐offs in coalition politics	12
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Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion	11
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	11
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Political challengers and norm erosion in advanced democracies	11
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	11
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies	11
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	11
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The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis	10
Social status, political priorities and unequal representation	10
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The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	10
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing	10
Bureaucratic entrepreneurship and morality politics: Dividing lines within the state	10
The substantive representation of men: Intersectionality, masculinities, and men's interests	10
How parties led by a woman redefine their positions: Empirical evidence for women's green, alternative and libertarian agenda	9
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	9
Opening the door to anti‐system leaders? Anti‐corruption campaigns and the global rise of populism	9
Erratum	9
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	9
Still proud at the polls? LGBT+ rights don't dilute the sexuality turnout gap	9
Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union	8
Those were the what? Contents of nostalgia, relative deprivation and radical right support	8
Environmentalism as an independent dimension of political preferences	8
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	8
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	8
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic	8
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	8
Intergenerational social mobility and the Brexit vote: How social origins and destinations divide Britain	8
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	8
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	8
Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision‐making processes	8
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	8
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	8
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems	7
A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness	7
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	7
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	7
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	7
Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists	7
Are politicians democratic realists?	7
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	6
Emotions in the aisles: Unpacking the use of emotive language in the UK House of Commons	6
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences	6
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	6
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective	6

Stagnating incomes and preferences for redistribution: The role of absolute and relative experiences	6
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan	6
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections	6
Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy	6
Public opinion towards interest groups: The differential impact of ties to cause and business groups	6
Follow the media? News environment and public concern about immigration	6
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	6
The power of the loser: Evidence on an agenda‐setting model of opposition policy influence	6
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	5
Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two‐stage conjoint experiment with party elites	5
Cabinet ministers and inequality	5
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice	5
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	5
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?	5
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation	5
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	5
Voter responses to refugee arrivals: Effects of settlement policy	5
Subjective losers of globalization	5
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	5
Why do people like technocrats?	5
The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs	5
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	5
Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment	5