OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy is 9. 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.)

Article	Citations
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies	107
Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions	95
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration	83
Voting Green in European Parliament elections: issue voting in an electoral context	76
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. Haas	61
Who benefits from public sustainable finance in the EU?	58
The ICT revolution and preferences for taxing top earners	56
Religion policy and subnational identity construction in Alsace-Moselle, France, and Catalonia, Spain	50
How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland	50
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 selection	46
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 portfolios	46
Policy preferences, unity, and floor dissent in the European Parliament	44
Dynamics of protest mobilisation in the European poly-crisis	44
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: the dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood	43
JEPP Reviewer Prize 2020	42
Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit	37
Welfare states, media ownership and attitudes towards redistribution	36
Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies	35
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority	35
The polycrisis and EU security and defence competences	35
Brexit and UK policy-making: an overview	32
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 EU	31
External democracy promotion in times of internal rule-of-law crisis: the EU and its neighbourhood	30
Supranational security states for national security problems: governing by rules & capacities in tech-driven security spaces	30
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	30
NGOs as new Guardians of the Treaties? Analysing the effectiveness of NGOs as decentralised enforcers of EU law	29
Contesting patents on COVID-19 vaccines in the EU: the no profit on pandemic campaign	28
Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: an analysis of the in-person, online and pivoting styles	28
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic	27
The challenger advantage – how challenger parties disrupt mainstream party dominance in the European Parliament	26
Detecting anticipatory design strategies: the case of asylum policy in Italy	26
Referendums as resistance: international pressures and nationalist recoil in Iceland	26
Europe Re: the rise of the European reinsurance polity	26
Communitarians, cosmopolitans, and climate change: why identity matters for EU climate and energy policy	25
Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda	25
Leadership in EU policy-making: a deep dive into the extension of the EU emissions trading system	25
The trust deficit. EU bargaining for access and control over cloud infrastructures	25
Fight or flight? Explaining the role of the European Parliament in the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility	24
Crisis pressures and European integration	24
Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us	24
Trade-offs of government credibility institutions: market credibility vs. social credibility	22
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament	22
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines	22
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach	22
The roots of Dutch frugality: the role of public choice theory in Dutch budgetary policy	22
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy	21
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	21
The influence of expert groups: a citation analysis	20
Leadership in European crisis politics: France, Germany, and the difficult quest for regional stabilization and integration	20
Citizens’ agreement to share personal data for public policies: trust and issue importance	20
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 cuts	19
Entangled agencies and embedded preferences: National Regulatory Agencies in multi-level European governance	19
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic	18
How does fiscal austerity affect trust in the European Union? Analyzing the role of responsibility attribution	18
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	18
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies	17
Making space: citizens, parties and interest groups in two ideological dimensions	17
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	17
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement	17
Policy-taking styles: a typology and an empirical application to anti-Covid policies	17
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	16
A taxing issue: the constraining effects of historical state capacity on European property taxes today	16
Divergence and continuity after Brexit in agriculture	16
Spinning a global web of EU external relations: how the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most	16
Wartime super-spillover? The perils and limits of a neofunctionalist approach to Ukraine’s single market integration	16
Regional inequalities and political trust in a global context	16
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy	16
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-19	16
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Revisiting the asymmetry thesis: negative and positive integration in the EU	15

Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain	15
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis	15
Do Member States’ permanent representations matter for their bargaining success? Evidence from the EU Council of Ministers	14
How should the EU respond to democratic backsliding? A normative assessment of expulsion and suspension of voting rights from the perspective of multilateral democracy	14
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-19	14
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state	14
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?	14
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis	14
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	14
Respecting the subject in wellbeing public policy: beyond the social planner perspective	14
Do different parties respond to different problems? A comparative study of parliamentary questions across multiple countries	14
Timely climate proposals. Discourse networks and (dis)continuity in European policies	13
Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe	13
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission	13
Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks	13
‘Transposition’ of EU regulations: the politics of supplementing EU regulations with national rules	13
The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers	13
To play or not to play the ‘moral hazard card’: Germany and the European Union’s response to the Covid-19 crisis	13
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises	12
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired	12
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database	12
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions	12
Immigration as a thermostat? Public opinion and immigration policy across Western Europe (1980–2017)	12
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 2021	12
The activation of nationalist attitudes: how voters respond to far-right parties’ campaigns	12
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy	12
Single issue EU referendums: tying hands, domestic effects and the challenge of consentification	12
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences	11
Solidarity or self-reliance? German mainstream party ideology and the European integration of core state powers	11
Hybrid organisations and governance systems: the case of the European Space Agency	11
Higher education and research in the Brexit policy process	11
Informal procedures, institutional change, and EU decision-making: evaluating the effects of the 1974 Paris summit	11
The shape of the budget. European countries’ public expenditure through crises	11
The politics of IO authority transfers: explaining informal internationalisation and unilateral renationalisation	11
Towards an integrated approach to EU foreign policy? Horizontal spillover across the humanitarian–development and the security–migration interfaces	11
Follow the leader: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the EU's rule of law revolution	11
Parallel, divergent or drifting? Regulating healthcare products in a post-Brexit UK	10
Of devils, angels and brokers: how social network positions affect misperceptions of political influence	10
Digital practices for consumer e-participation in economic regulation and the role of organisational capacity	10
Unleashed dialogue or captured by politics? The impact of judicial independence on national higher courts’ cooperation with the CJEU	10
The domestic sources of sub-state foreign policymaking: determinants of subnational development cooperation across European regions	10
TV debates in EP election campaigns – the influence of the 2019 Eurovision debate on voting behaviour	10
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond	10
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty	10
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 legislation	10
The other side of agency: bricolage and institutional continuity	10
Responsive voters – how European integration empowers Eurosceptic parties	10
The making of landmark rulings in the European Union: the case of national judicial independence	10
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity	10
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	9
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking	9
Evaluating crisis response speed of international organisations: why it matters and how to achieve it	9
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive	9
The JEPP Story: a lot of ‘good reads’	9
The Commissioner vs the states: responsiveness and responsibility in European tax governance	9
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking	9
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 capabilities	9
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe	9
Diagnosing individual barriers to collective learning: how governance contexts shape cognitive biases	9
From accountability victim to accountability entrepreneur: testing reputation-informed explanations of voluntary accountability among European Union agencies	9
Issue salience and feedback effects: the case of pension reforms	9
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	9
The anachronism of bellicist state-building	9
The politics of taxing multinational firms in a digital age	9