Journal of European Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of European Public Policy is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies107
Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions95
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration83
Voting Green in European Parliament elections: issue voting in an electoral context76
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?71
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas61
Who benefits from public sustainable finance in the EU?58
The ICT revolution and preferences for taxing top earners56
Religion policy and subnational identity construction in Alsace-Moselle, France, and Catalonia, Spain50
How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland50
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?48
Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection46
Combating climate change through the welfare state: can social insurance boost support for carbon taxes in Europe?46
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios46
Dynamics of protest mobilisation in the European poly-crisis44
Policy preferences, unity, and floor dissent in the European Parliament44
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: the dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood43
JEPP Reviewer Prize 202042
Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit37
Welfare states, media ownership and attitudes towards redistribution36
Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies35
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority35
The polycrisis and EU security and defence competences35
Brexit and UK policy-making: an overview32
Geographies of EU dissatisfaction: Does spatial segregation between natives and migrants erode the EU project?32
Euroscepticism as a syndrome of stagnation? Regional inequality and trust in the EU31
External democracy promotion in times of internal rule-of-law crisis: the EU and its neighbourhood30
Supranational security states for national security problems: governing by rules & capacities in tech-driven security spaces30
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–202230
NGOs as new Guardians of the Treaties? Analysing the effectiveness of NGOs as decentralised enforcers of EU law29
Contesting patents on COVID-19 vaccines in the EU: the no profit on pandemic campaign28
Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: an analysis of the in-person, online and pivoting styles28
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic27
The challenger advantage – how challenger parties disrupt mainstream party dominance in the European Parliament26
Detecting anticipatory design strategies: the case of asylum policy in Italy26
Referendums as resistance: international pressures and nationalist recoil in Iceland26
Europe Re: the rise of the European reinsurance polity26
Communitarians, cosmopolitans, and climate change: why identity matters for EU climate and energy policy25
Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda25
Leadership in EU policy-making: a deep dive into the extension of the EU emissions trading system25
The trust deficit. EU bargaining for access and control over cloud infrastructures25
Fight or flight? Explaining the role of the European Parliament in the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility24
Crisis pressures and European integration24
Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us24
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament22
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines22
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach22
The roots of Dutch frugality: the role of public choice theory in Dutch budgetary policy22
Trade-offs of government credibility institutions: market credibility vs. social credibility22
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions21
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy21
The influence of expert groups: a citation analysis20
Leadership in European crisis politics: France, Germany, and the difficult quest for regional stabilization and integration20
Citizens’ agreement to share personal data for public policies: trust and issue importance20
Enforcing EU policies: why do EU legislators prefer new networks of national authorities and not existing EU agencies?19
Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts19
Entangled agencies and embedded preferences: National Regulatory Agencies in multi-level European governance19
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic18
How does fiscal austerity affect trust in the European Union? Analyzing the role of responsibility attribution18
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union18
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies17
Making space: citizens, parties and interest groups in two ideological dimensions17
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups17
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement17
Policy-taking styles: a typology and an empirical application to anti-Covid policies17
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine16
A taxing issue: the constraining effects of historical state capacity on European property taxes today16
Divergence and continuity after Brexit in agriculture16
Spinning a global web of EU external relations: how the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most16
Wartime super-spillover? The perils and limits of a neofunctionalist approach to Ukraine’s single market integration16
Regional inequalities and political trust in a global context16
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy16
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-1916
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic15
Revisiting the asymmetry thesis: negative and positive integration in the EU15
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain15
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis15
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-1914
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state14
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?14
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis14
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war14
Respecting the subject in wellbeing public policy: beyond the social planner perspective14
Do different parties respond to different problems? A comparative study of parliamentary questions across multiple countries14
Do Member States’ permanent representations matter for their bargaining success? Evidence from the EU Council of Ministers14
How should the EU respond to democratic backsliding? A normative assessment of expulsion and suspension of voting rights from the perspective of multilateral democracy14
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission13
Timely climate proposals. Discourse networks and (dis)continuity in European policies13
Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe13
‘Transposition’ of EU regulations: the politics of supplementing EU regulations with national rules13
Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks13
The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers13
To play or not to play the ‘moral hazard card’: Germany and the European Union’s response to the Covid-19 crisis13
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises12
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired12
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database12
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions12
Immigration as a thermostat? Public opinion and immigration policy across Western Europe (1980–2017)12
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 202112
The activation of nationalist attitudes: how voters respond to far-right parties’ campaigns12
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy12
Single issue EU referendums: tying hands, domestic effects and the challenge of consentification12
Follow the leader: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the EU's rule of law revolution11
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences11
Solidarity or self-reliance? German mainstream party ideology and the European integration of core state powers11
Hybrid organisations and governance systems: the case of the European Space Agency11
Higher education and research in the Brexit policy process11
Informal procedures, institutional change, and EU decision-making: evaluating the effects of the 1974 Paris summit11
The shape of the budget. European countries’ public expenditure through crises11
The politics of IO authority transfers: explaining informal internationalisation and unilateral renationalisation11
Towards an integrated approach to EU foreign policy? Horizontal spillover across the humanitarian–development and the security–migration interfaces11
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity10
Parallel, divergent or drifting? Regulating healthcare products in a post-Brexit UK10
Of devils, angels and brokers: how social network positions affect misperceptions of political influence10
Digital practices for consumer e-participation in economic regulation and the role of organisational capacity10
Unleashed dialogue or captured by politics? The impact of judicial independence on national higher courts’ cooperation with the CJEU10
The domestic sources of sub-state foreign policymaking: determinants of subnational development cooperation across European regions10
TV debates in EP election campaigns – the influence of the 2019 Eurovision debate on voting behaviour10
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond10
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty10
EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?10
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation10
The other side of agency: bricolage and institutional continuity10
Responsive voters – how European integration empowers Eurosceptic parties10
The making of landmark rulings in the European Union: the case of national judicial independence10
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change9
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking9
Evaluating crisis response speed of international organisations: why it matters and how to achieve it9
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive9
The JEPP Story: a lot of ‘good reads’9
The Commissioner vs the states: responsiveness and responsibility in European tax governance9
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking9
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?9
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities9
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe9
Diagnosing individual barriers to collective learning: how governance contexts shape cognitive biases9
From accountability victim to accountability entrepreneur: testing reputation-informed explanations of voluntary accountability among European Union agencies9
Issue salience and feedback effects: the case of pension reforms9
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters9
The anachronism of bellicist state-building9
The politics of taxing multinational firms in a digital age9
The EU’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic: disintegration or ‘failing forward’?8
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?8
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift8
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain8
Post-Brexit financial services in the EU8
Pandemic narratives and policy responses: west European governments and COVID-198
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap8
Avoiding or engaging problems? Issue ownership, problem indicators, and party issue competition8
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform8
How policy growth affects policy implementation: bureaucratic overload and policy triage8
Perceptions of (unequal) responsiveness and their consequences for electoral participation8
From Realpolitik to Gefühlspolitik : strategically narrating the European Union at the national level8
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies8
Did pandemic responses trigger corruption in public procurement? Comparing Italy and Germany8
Beyond ‘economic nationalism’? The (limited) influence of populist parties on public procurement in France and Germany8
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.8
Pandemic bordering: domestic politicisation, European coordination, and national border closures in the COVID-19 crisis8
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity8
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management8
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism8
A different logic of polity building? The Russian invasion of Ukraine and EU citizens’ demand for social security8
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy8
Helping citizens to lobby themselves. Experimental evidence on the effects of citizen lobby engagement on internal efficacy and political support8
The EU and Internet standards – Beyond the spin, a strategic turn?8
Independent agencies, credible policies? The role of prior beliefs in shaping stakeholder perceptions of credibility in a contested environment8
Crisis situation and crisis policymaking: a comparison of Germany and Hungary in two refugee crises8
Europe and the transnational politics of emergency8
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda8
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy8
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation7
Balancing reputational strategies in the European administrative space: how private actors and agencies talk about regulation7
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?7
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?7
Legitimising green monetary policies: market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability7
Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?7
Administrative traditions and the effectiveness of regulation7
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers7
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state7
Editorial announcement7
War, solidarity and welfare attitudes: Survey evidence from the war in Ukraine7
The durability–flexibility dialectic: the evolution of decarbonisation policies in the European Union7
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union7
Party ideologies and European foreign policy. Examining the transnational foreign policy space7
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises7
Locality as a safe haven: place-based resentment and political trust in local and national institutions7
Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues?7
Editorial announcement - ‘Best paper prize’ 20207
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe7
Editorial announcement - ‘Best Paper Prize’ 20217
What drives engagement in the Clean Energy Ministerial? An assessment of domestic-level factors7
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine7
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions7
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation7
The knowledge economy and taxes on the rich7
JEPP Best Paper Prize 20237
What makes paradigms last? A study of defense policy change in Germany and Italy (1989–2022)7
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?6
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections6
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building6
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income6
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)6
Who influences whom? Inequality in the mutual responsiveness between voters and elites6
The core of organisational reputation: taking multidimensionality, audience multiplicity, and agency subunits seriously6
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation6
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections6
Is there an East–West divide on democracy in the European Union? Evidence from democratic backsliding and attitudes towards rule of law interventions6
How differentiated integration shapes the constraining dissensus6
Core-periphery divisions in the EU? East-west and north-south tensions compared6
How policy entrepreneurship training affects policy entrepreneurship behavior among street-level bureaucrats – a randomized field experiment6
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding6
A solidarity bias? Assessing the effects of individual transnationalism on redistributive solidarity in the EU6
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–20146
Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue6
The impact of ‘populism’ on European Public Policy6
The transformation of the European Parliament's voting dimensions: agenda-driven or secular change?6
‘Best Paper Prize’ 20226
Democracy challenged: how parties politicize different democratic principles6
New interventionism: the re-politicisation of electricity governance with renewable energy policies in the UK, Mexico and Morocco6
The differentiated politicization of free movement of people in the EU. A topic model analysis of press coverage in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK6
The regulatory security state in Europe6
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises6
Compassion towards clients: a scale and test on frontline workers’ burnout6
Manipulation as theft5
Gender cleavage and political parties in 19 welfare states, 1900–19755
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing5
The UK government’s Northern Ireland policy after Brexit: a retreat to unilateralism and muscular unionism5
Who got what they wanted? Investigating the role of institutional agenda setting, costly policies, and status quo bias as explanations to income based unequal responsiveness5
Migration levels and welfare support: evidence from the local level5
The ECB and the inflation monsters: strategic framing and the responsibility imperative (1998–2023)5
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic5
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’5
Introduction: escaping the politics trap? EU integration pathways beyond the polycrisis5
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis5
Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space5
Multilevel governance and political leadership: crisis communication in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic5
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis5
Making regulation flexible for the governance of disruptive innovation: A comparative study of AVs regulation in the United Kingdom and South Korea5
Supranational responses to democratic backsliding: norm contestation and discursive polarisation in the European Parliament5
The future might be female: how does the public perceive experts?5
New Nordic pathways? Explaining Nordic countries’ defence policy choices in the wake of the Ukrainian war5
To consent, or not to consent? The publicness effect on citizens’ willingness to grant access to personal data in the face of a health crisis5
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence5
Construal Level Theory and The Rule of Law: The Erosion of Biases by Abstract Rules4
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe4
The power of ‘weak’ institutions: assessing the EU’s emerging institutional architecture for improving the implementation and enforcement of joint policies4
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy4
Foregone and predicted futures: challenges of opportunity cost neglect and impact bias for public participation in policymaking4
Public preferences for governing AI technology: Comparative evidence4
EU competition policy: an application of the failing forward framework4
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