OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	110
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	81
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	76
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	75
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 sources	62
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	60
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	56
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	52
The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey	52
Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization	51
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	51
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	49
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	49
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems	46
Excluded but affected? The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy among non-citizens	43
To what extent do political elites influence public opinion about immigration?	40
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology	37
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties	37
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	36
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	35
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 pandemic	33
Changing the relationship status: how coalition history affects voter perceptions of parties	32

Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities	29
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	27
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	27
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Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	26
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	26
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament	26
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	24
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	24
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	23
Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe	23
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	23
The state and its schooled elite across 84 countries: Educational differences in political trust depend on the schooled society and sector of employment	23
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	21
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation	20
Chains in episodes of democratization	20
Long-term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	19
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	19
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	19
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations	19
The impact of unelected representatives on citizens’ satisfaction with democracy: A cross-national survey experiment	19
The paradox of representation: How identity fragmentation complicates voter-party congruence	18
How the coalition formation process and coalition preferences shape satisfaction with democracy	18
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	18
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 messaging	18
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research: How to do it and why it matters	18
Age and support for public debt reduction	18
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	17
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	17
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
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	16
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	16
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	16
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	16
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 t	16
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies	16
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	16
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	16
EJR volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	15
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	15
Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments	15
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues	15
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	15
Compensating the losers: The (limited) elite–public gap in trade politics	15
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM	15
Political constraints, public party funding, and the regulation of political finance: A global study	15
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	14

The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	14
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	14
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media	13
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	13
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations	13
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions	13
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	13
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	13
Subjective losers of globalization	13
When deliberative mini-publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	13
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence	13
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	13
Urban–rural policy disagreement	12
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	12
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	12
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	12
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	12
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	12
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 conflict	11
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right	11
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	11
Party systems and executive accountability: The politics of investigative committees in Central and Eastern Europe	11
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	11
Women talking: Bringing the environment into UK parliamentary speeches	11
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	11
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap	11
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	10
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	10
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	10
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	10
‘Left behind’ and an undemocratic mind? The link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations	9
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	9
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	9
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	9
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–2023	9
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	9
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	9
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	9
Are poor people poorly heard?	9
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust	8
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	8
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union	8
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems	8
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 States	8
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain	8
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK	8
Democratizing the genomic revolution? Comparing democratic innovations in France and the UK	8
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	8
The democratic ideal under stress: Citizen commitment to democratic rights and procedures in challenging times	8
Assessing the presidentialisation thesis: Prime ministerial authority in an era of rising centralisation and personalisation	8
Improving hate speech detection with large language models	8