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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: the dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood113
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states94
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions80
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups67
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–202263
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios60
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union53
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis52
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union52
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic49
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 202148
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap48
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation47
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity47
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe46
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy43
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?42
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift41
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation39
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters39
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain35
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy34
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state34
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change34
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’33
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises33
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation31
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)31
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis30
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections30
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe29
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections29
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing29
The differentiated politicization of free movement of people in the EU. A topic model analysis of press coverage in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK27
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn27
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis27
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy26
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues26
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit26
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field25
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity24
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors24
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy23
International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates: A speaker-topic network analysis23
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors22
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine21
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding21
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation21
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament21
Implementing market mechanisms in the Paris era: the importance of bureaucratic capacity building for international climate policy20
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates20
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe20
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe20
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy19
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks18
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation18
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link18
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions18
Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses18
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad18
How does the composition of the European Parliament shape its role in EU decision-making?18
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)18
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance18
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings18
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?18
JEPP reviewer prize 202217
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries17
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry17
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?17
Political trust and redistribution preferences17
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe17
Correction17
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*17
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?15
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?15
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries15
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?15
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?14
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?14
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms14
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy14
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe14
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament14
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises14
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement14
The gender gap in support for governments during the COVID crisis14
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty14
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas14
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain14
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy14
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning14
Patterns of coordination in the European Commission: an analysis of interservice consultations around climate change adaptation policy (2007–2018)14
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine13
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach13
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive13
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour13
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.13
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war13
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism13
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda13
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond13
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired13
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking13
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine13
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities13
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe12
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences12
‘Best Paper Prize’ 202212
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management12
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies12
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy12
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database12
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions12
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–201412
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine12
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking12
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy12
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union12
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation12
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting11
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic11
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine11
Electoral competitiveness and responsiveness: rational anticipation in the EU Council11
Who got what they wanted? Investigating the role of institutional agenda setting, costly policies, and status quo bias as explanations to income based unequal responsiveness11
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity11
Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?11
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building11
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges11
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?11
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding11
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland11
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters10
For want of a champion: why the EU won’t be ready for the next public health crisis10
Belief system alignment and cross-sectoral advocacy efforts in policy debates10
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland10
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism10
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU10
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union10
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 202210
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union10
From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019)10
‘Depoliticised’ regulators as a source of politicisation: rationing drugs in England and France9
JEPP Best Paper Prize 20249
How terrorist attacks distort public debates: a comparative study of right-wing and Islamist extremism9
The traveller's guide to policy learning9
Social identities and deadlocked debates on nuclear energy policy9
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies9
Beyond the regulatory state? The European Defence Fund and national military capacities9
Ownership of national recovery plans: next generation EU and democratic legitimacy9
Theorising European integration: the four phases since Ernst Haas’ original contribution9
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning9
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration9
Stakeholder consultations in the EU Commission: instruments of involvement or legitimacy?9
Forced exit from the joint-decision trap: US power and the harmonisation of company taxation in the EU9
Bureaucratic politics, risk management, and agency strategy: a study of agency management in a gale9
Mainstream party agenda-responsiveness and the electoral success of right-wing populist parties in Europe9
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies9
Occupy the semantic space! Opening up the language of better regulation9
Populist agenda-setting9
Governing AI through ethical standards: learning from the experiences of other private governance initiatives9
Introduction: Regional inequality and political discontent in Europe9
Shielding free movement? Reciprocity in welfare institutions and opposition to EU labour immigration9
JEPP Reviewer Prize 20239
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy: a process-tracing analysis of the executive state law in Greece9
How the impossible became possible: evolving frames and narratives on responsibility and responsiveness from the Eurocrisis to NextGenerationEU9
Unravelling national governments’ positions on EU rule of law enforcement: structural, semi-structural and ideological factors9
The politics of policy analysis: theoretical insights on real world problems9
EU sectoral integration in the Eastern Neighbourhood: the case of Frontex-Moldova relations in border management9
Seeing Europe like a state9
Responsible judges or judging responsibilities? EU Court of Justice, Bundesverfassungsgericht and EU economic governance9
Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies8
The roots of Dutch frugality: the role of public choice theory in Dutch budgetary policy8
Crisis pressures and European integration8
Spinning a global web of EU external relations: how the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most8
Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda8
Independent agencies, credible policies? The role of prior beliefs in shaping stakeholder perceptions of credibility in a contested environment8
Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection8
Policy-taking styles: a typology and an empirical application to anti-Covid policies8
Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit8
The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers8
Fight or flight? Explaining the role of the European Parliament in the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility8
Towards an integrated approach to EU foreign policy? Horizontal spillover across the humanitarian–development and the security–migration interfaces8
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement8
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic8
Do Member States’ permanent representations matter for their bargaining success? Evidence from the EU Council of Ministers8
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic8
Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe8
Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions8
The EU and Internet standards – Beyond the spin, a strategic turn?7
The making of landmark rulings in the European Union: the case of national judicial independence7
Unleashed dialogue or captured by politics? The impact of judicial independence on national higher courts’ cooperation with the CJEU7
Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare7
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?7
Gender cleavage and political parties in 19 welfare states, 1900–19757
Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions7
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform7
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity7
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers7
EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?7
Legitimising green monetary policies: market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability7
Immigration as a thermostat? Public opinion and immigration policy across Western Europe (1980–2017)7
Public perceptions of defence policy in times of crisis: evidence from France during the Ukraine war7
What drives engagement in the Clean Energy Ministerial? An assessment of domestic-level factors7
TV debates in EP election campaigns – the influence of the 2019 Eurovision debate on voting behaviour7
Administrative traditions and the effectiveness of regulation7
From accountability victim to accountability entrepreneur: testing reputation-informed explanations of voluntary accountability among European Union agencies7
The other side of agency: bricolage and institutional continuity7
Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space6
Public preferences for governing AI technology: Comparative evidence6
Drivers of parliamentary opposition in European Union politics: institutional factors or party characteristics?6
European Union versus core state powers: the customisation of EU fiscal policy6
The implementation of decentralisation reforms in multi-level systems6
The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance6
Democracy challenged: how parties politicize different democratic principles6
Construal Level Theory and The Rule of Law: The Erosion of Biases by Abstract Rules6
Is academic research useful to EU officials? The logic of institutional openness in the Commission6
Opting out of an EU identity? The effects of differentiated integration on European identity6
Complexity meets flexibility: unintended differentiation in EU public procurement6
Process and position power: a social relational research agenda about state power in negotiations6
Digital sovereignty - Rhetoric and reality6
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence6
Undermining lobbying coalitions: the interest group politics of EU copyright reform6
Is there an East–West divide on democracy in the European Union? Evidence from democratic backsliding and attitudes towards rule of law interventions6
The distributive politics of the green transition: a conjoint experiment on EU climate change mitigation policy6
Bread or roses? Trade unions, female employment and the expansion of work-family policies6
Beyond neo-corporatism: state employers and the special-interest politics of public sector wage-setting*6
Free riding is not the problem: how agency, heterogeneity and authority challenge collective action against antimicrobial resistance in the European Union6
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income6
New interventionism: the re-politicisation of electricity governance with renewable energy policies in the UK, Mexico and Morocco6
JEPP Best Paper Prize 20236
More than medicine: antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a social and political challenge that can be overcome5
A missing link? Maintaining support for the European polity after the Russian invasion of Ukraine5
Algorithms, data, and platforms: the diverse challenges of governing AI5
Learning from precedent: how the British Brexit experience shapes nationalist rhetoric outside the UK5
The rift between executive contraction and executive detraction: the case of European Commission battery policy-making5
Escaping the politics trap: exercising collective power5
Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament5
What kind of EU do citizens want? Reform preferences and the conflict over Europe5
2025: a transition update5
Does war exposure increase support for state penetration? Evidence from a natural experiment5
Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms5
Why the European Parliament lost the Spitzenkandidaten-process5
Closer during crises? European identity during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine5
Will the European Union escape its autocracy trap?5
Telling ‘more complex stories’ of European integration: how a sociotechnical perspective can help explain administrative continuity in the Common European Asylum System5
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market5
The timely administration of justice: using computational simulations to evaluate institutional reforms at the CJEU5
Jobs and fiction: identifying the effect of corporate tax avoidance inflating export measures in Ireland5
Responding to whom? An experimental study of the dynamics of responsiveness to interest groups and the public5
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