Journal of European Public Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy is 10. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups114
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states93
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach86
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy76
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–202271
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions70
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios68
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union63
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union54
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame53
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-202352
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 202151
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation46
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity46
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?44
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe44
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off43
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change43
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap42
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy39
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats37
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift37
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity37
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters36
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation34
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state32
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis31
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe31
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation31
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises30
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing30
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU30
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections29
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’27
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections26
Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements26
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies25
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy25
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn24
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)24
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity23
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field23
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues23
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates23
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis23
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit22
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors22
Polarized public agenda in times of crisis22
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors22
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe21
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy21
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
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions21
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)20
Do gender quotas increase legislative voting attendance? The case of the European Parliament20
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe20
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy20
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy20
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?19
The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis19
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine19
Crisis governance and protest during the covid-19 pandemic in Europe: a conditional grievance theory19
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings19
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe19
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link18
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry18
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad18
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation18
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement18
Simulating democratic reform in the EU: self-legitimation through participatory innovation18
JEPP reviewer prize 202217
Puzzling, powering, profiting: the politics of sustainable finance in the European Union17
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks17
Correction17
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance17
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*16
Political trust and redistribution preferences16
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning16
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries16
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?16
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?16
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy15
Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation15
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?15
The gender gap in support for governments during the COVID crisis15
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries15
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement15
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?14
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe14
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?14
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine14
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms14
Technological change and support for redistributive politics14
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy14
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas14
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty14
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe13
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?13
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach13
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war13
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good13
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies13
Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation13
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises13
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired13
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament13
Same pressures, different paths: external economic competition, intra-commission politics, and the institutionalisation of IPCEIs in EU industrial policy13
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond13
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine12
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database12
Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames12
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities12
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking12
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism12
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive12
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking12
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.12
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour12
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union12
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
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences12
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises12
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions12
When democracy erodes at home, the EU loses clout abroad? The EU’s ability to promote democracy externally while backsliding internally12
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management12
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?11
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity11
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
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–201411
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting11
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation11
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic11
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding11
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies11
From policy access to lobbying influence: comparing exchange, insider and signalling models11
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act11
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building11
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters11
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation11
‘Best Paper Prize’ 202211
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges11
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine11
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU10
From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019)10
Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?10
At the last minute: the use of the prime minister's power to amend the agenda during a crisis10
Introduction: Regional inequality and political discontent in Europe10
JEPP Best Paper Prize 202410
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland10
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland10
Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states10
Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform10
The traveller's guide to policy learning10
How terrorist attacks distort public debates: a comparative study of right-wing and Islamist extremism10
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism10
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 202210
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union10
JEPP Reviewer Prize 202310
Stakeholder consultations in the EU Commission: instruments of involvement or legitimacy?10
How the impossible became possible: evolving frames and narratives on responsibility and responsiveness from the Eurocrisis to NextGenerationEU10
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