OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy is 12. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	159
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach	105
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	103
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	102
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	96
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	88
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	77
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-2023	70
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	67
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	63
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	60
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity	59
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	59
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	58
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats	57
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	55
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	53
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	52
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	49
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	48
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	47
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	45
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	45
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	45
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	44

Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements	40
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	39
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies	39
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	38
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	38
Bonding through crises: how the EU social dimension fuels and counteracts Euroscepticism	36
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	35
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	33
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	32
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	32
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections	31
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	30
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	29
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy	29
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU	29
Policy information and opinion change: panel studies from European Union referendums	29
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues	29
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections	29
Change against the odds: crisis policy feedback in a politicised EU	28
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy	27
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy	27
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions	26
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors	26
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation	25
Do gender quotas increase legislative voting attendance? The case of the European Parliament	25
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)	25
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit	25
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity	24
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates	24
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe	24
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field	23
Polarized public agenda in times of crisis	23
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy	23
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors	22
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe	22
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine	22
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?	22
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament	22
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks	22
The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis	21
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings	21
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe	21
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation	21
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry	21
Crisis governance and protest during the covid-19 pandemic in Europe: a conditional grievance theory	21
The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy: from rejection to accommodation	20
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance	20
Punctuated politics: the rise and fall of politicization in the EU's refugee crisis	20
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad	20
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link	20

Puzzling, powering, profiting: the politics of sustainable finance in the European Union	20
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries	19
Simulating democratic reform in the EU: self-legitimation through participatory innovation	19
Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program	19
JEPP reviewer prize 2022	19
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*	19
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement	19
Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation	18
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?	18
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning	18
Political trust and redistribution preferences	17
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 2023	17
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries	17
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement	17
Correction	17
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty	17
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?	17
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?	17
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas	16
Technological change and support for redistributive politics	16
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy	16
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms	16
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach	16
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?	16
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy	16
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	16
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe	16
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament	15
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?	15
Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility	15
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?	15
Same pressures, different paths: external economic competition, intra-commission politics, and the institutionalisation of IPCEIs in EU industrial policy	15
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises	15
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive	14
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises	14
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database	14
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management	14
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union	14
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy	14
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking	14
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism	14
Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation	14
When democracy erodes at home, the EU loses clout abroad? The EU’s ability to promote democracy externally while backsliding internally	14
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	14
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies	14
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities	13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired	13
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.	13
‘Best Paper Prize’ 2022	13
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking	13
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine	13
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good	13
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	13
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation	13
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences	13
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	13
Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames	13
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe	13
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour	13
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond	13
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	12
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act	12
Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer: how agencies use stakeholders to bolster their authority	12
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges	12
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–2014	12
Credible resistance or political ploy? How government status and consistency shape citizen perceptions of parliamentarians’ democratic defence	12
From policy access to lobbying influence: comparing exchange, insider and signalling models	12
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting	12
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies	12
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	12
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	12
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity	12
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation	12
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine	12
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic	12
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?	12
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland	12