OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	58
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	51
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	51
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	44
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	41
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	40
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	40
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	38
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	37
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	34
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	28
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	27
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems	27
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	27
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	26
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	23
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties	21
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	21
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	18
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	18
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities	18
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	17
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	17
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	16

Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	16
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	16
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	15
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	15
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	15
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	15
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	15
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament	15
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations	14
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?	14
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	14
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	14
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The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	13
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging	13
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	13
Age and support for public debt reduction	13
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Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	13
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	12
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes	12
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	12
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?	12
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	11
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	11
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?	11
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	11
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	10
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	10
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM	10
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions	10
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	10
Issue Information	10
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	10
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	10
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence	10
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	10
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media	10
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	9
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	9
Subjective losers of globalization	9
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	9
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	9
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	9
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	9
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations	9
Urban–rural policy disagreement	8
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap	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
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	8

COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	8
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	8
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	7
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	7
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	7
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	7
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	7
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	7
Are poor people poorly heard?	6
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	6
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	6
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	6
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–2023	6
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	6
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States	6
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	6
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	6
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain	6