OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	62
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	50
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	49
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	42
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	39
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	37
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	36
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	35
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	35
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	35
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	34
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	34
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	33
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	30
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems	29
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	29
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	28
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	22
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	21
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	21
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	19
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	18
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	18
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	18
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	17

Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	17
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	16
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	15
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	15
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Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	15
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	14
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	14
Age and support for public debt reduction	14
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	14
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?	13
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	13
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?	13
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	13
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	13
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	12
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	12
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	12
Issue Information	12
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	12
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes	12
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	11
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	11
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	11
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	11
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	11
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	11
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	11
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	11
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	11
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	10
Subjective losers of globalization	10
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	10
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	10
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	10
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	9
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	9
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	9
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	9
Urban–rural policy disagreement	9
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	9
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	9
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	9
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	9
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	9
Are poor people poorly heard?	9
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	8
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union	8
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	8

Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	8
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	8
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?	7
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment	7
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries	7
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members	7
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Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States	7
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	7
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation	7
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust	7
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	7
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK	7
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems	7