Journal of European Public Policy

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach171
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame109
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions107
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union105
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups103
Puzzling or powering? How fiscal communication reflects the politicisation of the European Central Bank90
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–202278
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union71
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios69
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-202369
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy64
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states60
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off60
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity59
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity59
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats57
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation55
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change52
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy52
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift49
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap49
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe47
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?46
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters45
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation45
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’42
Policy information and opinion change: panel studies from European Union referendums39
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis39
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis39
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections38
Bonding through crises: how the EU social dimension fuels and counteracts Euroscepticism37
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies35
Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements35
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)34
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises32
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state32
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation31
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe30
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing30
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy30
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU29
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn29
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections29
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues28
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions28
Polarized public agenda in times of crisis27
Change against the odds: crisis policy feedback in a politicised EU27
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates26
Do gender quotas increase legislative voting attendance? The case of the European Parliament26
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe26
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit26
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)26
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy26
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity25
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament24
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe24
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field24
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine23
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors23
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation23
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy23
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings22
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad22
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy22
Crisis governance and protest during the covid-19 pandemic in Europe: a conditional grievance theory22
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?22
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link22
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors22
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe21
The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis21
Punctuated politics: the rise and fall of politicization in the EU's refugee crisis21
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry20
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement20
Simulating democratic reform in the EU: self-legitimation through participatory innovation20
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance20
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation20
The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy: from rejection to accommodation20
Puzzling, powering, profiting: the politics of sustainable finance in the European Union20
Correction19
JEPP reviewer prize 202219
Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program19
Political trust and redistribution preferences19
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 202319
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries19
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?18
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?18
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?17
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?17
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*17
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning17
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms17
Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation17
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach17
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement17
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?17
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas17
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe17
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries17
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty17
Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility17
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine17
Technological change and support for redistributive politics16
Same pressures, different paths: external economic competition, intra-commission politics, and the institutionalisation of IPCEIs in EU industrial policy16
Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation16
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?16
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy15
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism15
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy15
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises15
When democracy erodes at home, the EU loses clout abroad? The EU’s ability to promote democracy externally while backsliding internally15
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war15
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union15
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management15
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament15
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking14
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine14
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences14
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired14
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine14
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe14
Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames14
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond14
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.14
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities13
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises13
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions13
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act13
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity13
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine13
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive13
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good13
‘Best Paper Prize’ 202213
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation13
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation13
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting13
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies13
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour13
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies13
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking13
Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer: how agencies use stakeholders to bolster their authority13
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database13
From policy access to lobbying influence: comparing exchange, insider and signalling models13
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–201412
Who got what they wanted? Investigating the role of institutional agenda setting, costly policies, and status quo bias as explanations to income based unequal responsiveness12
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building12
Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states12
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland12
Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups12
Credible resistance or political ploy? How government status and consistency shape citizen perceptions of parliamentarians’ democratic defence12
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic12
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters12
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland12
Systemic Pensions: The Epistemic Politics of Liability-Driven Investment Strategies12
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?12
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding12
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges12
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism12
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU12
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