OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	97
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	85
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	80
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	67
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	64
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	64
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	60
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	59
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	51
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	49
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 2021	49
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	47
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	44
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain	43
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	43
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	41
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	40
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	37
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	37
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	36
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	36
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	34
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	33
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	32
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	31

External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies	31
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	30
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	29
The differentiated politicization of free movement of people in the EU. A topic model analysis of press coverage in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK	27
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	27
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections	26
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections	26
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	26
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	26
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	26
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	24
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy	24
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity	23
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field	23
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues	23
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation	22
Polarized public agenda in times of crisis	22
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)	22
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit	21
International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates: A speaker-topic network analysis	21
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates	21
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors	20
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe	20
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions	20
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors	20
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament	20
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy	19
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy	19
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe	19
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine	19
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding	19
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings	19
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy	19
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?	19
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe	19
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance	18
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link	18
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad	18
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement	18
Simulating democratic reform in the EU: self-legitimation through participatory innovation	17
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry	17
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks	17
Puzzling, powering, profiting: the politics of sustainable finance in the European Union	17
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation	17
The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis	17
JEPP reviewer prize 2022	17
The gender gap in support for governments during the COVID crisis	16
Correction	16
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?	16
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries	16

What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries	16
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms	15
Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation	15
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement	15
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty	15
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?	15
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning	15
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?	15
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe	15
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*	15
Political trust and redistribution preferences	15
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?	15
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy	15
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament	14
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?	14
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas	14
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	14
Technological change and support for redistributive politics	14
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy	14
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach	14
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management	13
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises	13
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database	13
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking	13
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy	13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired	13
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises	13
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe	13
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies	13
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?	13
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	13
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism	12
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities	12
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences	12
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond	12
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	12
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine	12
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour	12
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union	12
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–2014	11
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.	11
‘Best Paper Prize’ 2022	11
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act	11
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies	11
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking	11
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine	11
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting	11
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges	11
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive	11
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity	11
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine	11
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	11
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union	10
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland	10
Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states	10
Who got what they wanted? Investigating the role of institutional agenda setting, costly policies, and status quo bias as explanations to income based unequal responsiveness	10
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation	10
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland	10
At the last minute: the use of the prime minister's power to amend the agenda during a crisis	10
JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024	10
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU	10
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 2022	10
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	10
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	10
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic	10
From policy access to lobbying influence: comparing exchange, insider and signalling models	10
Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform	10
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy: a process-tracing analysis of the executive state law in Greece	10
How terrorist attacks distort public debates: a comparative study of right-wing and Islamist extremism	10
Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?	10
JEPP Reviewer Prize 2023	10
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters	10
From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019)	10
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation	10
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?	10
Electoral competitiveness and responsiveness: rational anticipation in the EU Council	10
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism	10
Forced exit from the joint-decision trap: US power and the harmonisation of company taxation in the EU	10
‘Depoliticised’ regulators as a source of politicisation: rationing drugs in England and France	10