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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	52
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	46
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	40
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	35
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	34
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	33
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	32
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	31
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	30
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	29
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	29
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	27
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems	26
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	26
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	24
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	23
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	22
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	20
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	20
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	19
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	17
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	16
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	16
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	16
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	15

Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	15
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Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	14
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	14
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	14
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	13
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	13
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	13
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	13
Age and support for public debt reduction	12
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	12
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?	12
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	12
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?	12
Issue Information	11
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	11
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	11
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	11
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	11
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	11
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	11
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	11
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes	11
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	10
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	10
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	10
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	10
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	10
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	10
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	9
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	9
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?	9
Urban–rural policy disagreement	9
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	9
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	9
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	9
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	8
Are poor people poorly heard?	8
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	8
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	8
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	8
Subjective losers of globalization	8
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	8
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	8
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	8
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	8
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	7

Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment	7
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States	7
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	7
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	7
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	7
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	7
The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–2019	6
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Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union	6
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Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings	6
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	6
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK	6
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems	6
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?	6
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust	6