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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey	101
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	73
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	72
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	70
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	69
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	66
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	63
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	63
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	54
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	51
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	50
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	48
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	47
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	47
Excluded but affected? The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy among non-citizens	47
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems	44
Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization	43
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties	41
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	39
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?	38
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology	37
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	35
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities	33
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Long-term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	31

Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	31
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	30
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament	28
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	25
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Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	23
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	23
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	22
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	22
The state and its schooled elite across 84 countries: Educational differences in political trust depend on the schooled society and sector of employment	22
Chains in episodes of democratization	21
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	21
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	21
The impact of unelected representatives on citizens’ satisfaction with democracy: A cross-national survey experiment	21
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	20
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation	20
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	20
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations	19
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research: How to do it and why it matters	18
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?	18
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	18
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	17
Age and support for public debt reduction	17
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	17
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	17
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	17
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	17
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging	17
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	16
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	16
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues	16
Compensating the losers: The (limited) elite–public gap in trade politics	16
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	15
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?	15
EJR volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	15
The people as ‘ Volk ’ or ‘ Bürger ’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for t	15
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	15
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?	15
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	15
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	15
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	15
When deliberative mini-publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	15
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	14
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media	14
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	14
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions	14
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM	14
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	14
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	14
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence	14

Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap	14
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	13
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?	13
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	13
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	13
Urban–rural policy disagreement	13
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations	13
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	13
Women talking: Bringing the environment into UK parliamentary speeches	12
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	12
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	12
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	12
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	12
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	12
Conflicting perceptions: Misalignment between citizens’ and politicians’ evaluations of political conflict	12
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy	12
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	12
Subjective losers of globalization	12
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	12
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right	12
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	11
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–2023	11
Are poor people poorly heard?	11
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	11
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	11
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	11
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	11
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	11
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	11
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	10
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union	10
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment	10
Democratizing the genomic revolution? Comparing democratic innovations in France and the UK	10
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting	10
Improving hate speech detection with large language models	10
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	9
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	9
Assessing the presidentialisation thesis: Prime ministerial authority in an era of rising centralisation and personalisation	9
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
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust	8
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	8
The electoral benefits of environmental position-taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–2019	8
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain	8
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	8
Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions	8
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States	8