OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy is 8. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Lockdown policies and the dynamics of the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe	81
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis	70
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?	68
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration	59
The threat of social decline: income inequality and radical right support	50
Postfunctionalism reversed: solidarity and rebordering during the COVID-19 pandemic	50
Rebordering Europe: external boundaries and integration in the European Union	50
Not just money: unequal responsiveness in egalitarian democracies	45
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?	44
Work, family, Fatherland: the political economy of populism in central and Eastern Europe	40
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda	39
Is populism a challenge to European energy and climate policy? Empirical evidence across varieties of populism	38
Crisis pressures and European integration	37
Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms	37
Euroscepticism is here to stay: what cleavage theory can teach us about the 2019 European Parliament elections	35
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-19	33
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy	31
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?	31
‘I did it my way’: customisation and practical compliance with EU policies	26
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	26
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers	26
Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?	26
Fractionalized but ambitious? Voting on energy and climate policy in the European Parliament	25
Breaking the legal link but not the law? The externalization of EU migration control through orchestration in the Central Mediterranean	24
Europe and the transnational politics of emergency	24

European emergency politics and the question of legitimacy	23
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning	22
Necessary conditions for policy integration and administrative coordination reforms: an exploratory analysis	21
The European Commission and the COVID-19 pandemic: a pluri-institutional approach	21
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?	21
The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law	20
Failing forward in the EU's common security and defense policy: the integration of EU crisis management	20
Role of the state and responsibility in governing artificial intelligence: a comparative analysis of AI strategies	20
Debordering and re-bordering in the refugee crisis: a case of ‘defensive integration’	19
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-19	19
Trade-offs between redistribution and environmental protection: the role of information, ideology, and self-interest	19
Fence-sitters no more: Southern and Central Eastern European Member States’ role in the deadlock of the CEAS reform	19
Pandemic narratives and policy responses: west European governments and COVID-19	19
Voluntary business initiatives can reduce public pressure for regulating firm behaviour abroad	18
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy	18
Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology	18
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	18
The populist challenge to European defense	18
Economic ideas, party politics, or material interests? Explaining Germany’s support for the EU corona recovery plan	17
British economic regulators in an age of politicisation: from the responsible to the responsive regulatory state?	17
Crisis management performance and the European Union: the case of COVID-19	17
The asymmetric long-term electoral consequences of unpopular reforms: why retrenchment really is a losing game for left parties	17
Austerity and the path of least resistance: how fiscal consolidations crowd out long-term investments	17
A new dataset on legislative decision-making in the European Union: the DEU III dataset	16
From a liberal to a strategic actor: the evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance	16
Policy complexity in the European Union, 1993-today: introducing the EUPLEX dataset	16
Public support for differentiated integration: individual liberal values and concerns about member state discrimination	16
Policy narratives, localisation, and public justification: responses to COVID-19	16
Quick and dirty: how populist parties in government affect greenhouse gas emissions in EU member states	16
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority	16
How women in the executive influence government stability	15
Countering bias? The EU Commission’s consultation with interest groups	15
From emissions trading to the European Green Deal: the evolution of the climate policy mix and climate policy integration in the EU	15
Strategic silence or regulatory talk? Regulatory agency responses to public allegations amidst the glyphosate controversy	15
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain	15
The rhetoric of inaction: failing to fail forward in the EU’s rule of law crisis	15
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis	15
Brexit: simply an omnishambles or a major policy fiasco?	14
An unexpected climate activist: central banks and the politics of the climate-neutral economy	14
Politicization and rebordering in EU enlargement: membership discourses in European parliaments	14
EU agencies’ stakeholder bodies: vehicles of enhanced control, legitimacy or bias?	14
The use of pseudo-causal narratives in EU policies: the case of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa	14
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration	14
Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade	14
Europe as ideological resource: the case of the Rassemblement National	14
The institutional position of national parliaments in the European Union: developments, explanations, effects	14
Bounded rationality and the Brexit negotiations: why Britain failed to understand the EU	14
Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses	14
Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany	14
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	14

Rapid or long-term employment? A Scandinavian comparative study of refugee integration policies and employment outcomes	14
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	13
Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us	13
Does monitoring without enforcement make a difference? The European Union and anti-corruption policies in Bulgaria and Romania after accession	13
Caught between 1945 and 1989: collective memory and the rise of illiberal democracy in postcommunist Europe	13
Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue	13
The EU’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic: disintegration or ‘failing forward’?	13
Re-bordering Europe? Collective action barriers to ‘Fortress Europe’	12
How does income inequality affect the support for populist parties?	12
The regulatory security state in Europe	12
Seeing Europe like a state	12
The EU’s reaction in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic between centralisation and decentralisation, formality and informality	12
Internal network structures as opportunity structures: control and effectiveness in the European competition network	12
Preventing the eurozone budget: issue replacement and small state influence in EMU	12
The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance	12
The multidimensionality of public support for basic income: a vignette experiment in Belgium	11
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines	11
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence	11
Lessons and learnings from a decade of EU crises	11
The historical origins of wealth taxation	11
Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28	11
Failing outward: power politics, regime complexity, and failing forward under deadlock	10
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform	10
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty	10
Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019)	10
The securitization of the EU’s digital tech regulation	10
Political work in the stability and growth pact	10
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions	10
Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts	10
Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines	10
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income	10
The durability–flexibility dialectic: the evolution of decarbonisation policies in the European Union	10
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic	10
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	9
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies	9
Failing forward in the Common Commercial Policy? Deep trade and the perennial question of EU competence	9
EU Boundaries in the making: functionalist versus federalist	9
Does it pay to lobby? Examining the link between firm lobbying and firm profitability in the European Union	9
Engaging the disengaged? Explaining the participation of Eurosceptic MEPs in trilogue negotiations	9
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission	9
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market	9
External borders and internal freedoms: how the refugee crisis shaped the bordering preferences of European citizens	9
The evolution of behaviourally informed policy-making in the EU	9
Expanding without much ado. International bureaucratic expansion tactics in the case of bioethics	9
Congruent with whom? Parties’ issue emphases and voter preferences in welfare politics	9
Re-examining policy stability in climate adaptation through a lock-in perspective	9
Accelerating low carbon transitions via budgetary processes? EU climate governance in times of crisis	9
Algorithms, data, and platforms: the diverse challenges of governing AI	9
Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament	8
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom	8
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building: a comparison of ACER and the German Federal Network Agency	8
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	8
How policy entrepreneurship training affects policy entrepreneurship behavior among street-level bureaucrats – a randomized field experiment	8
The relationship between Europeanisation and policy styles: a study of agricultural and public health policymaking in three EU Member States	8
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	8
Inside the black box of trilogues: introduction to the special issue	8
Having banks ‘play along’ state-bank coordination and state-guaranteed credit programs during the COVID-19 crisis in France and Germany	8
Multidimensional issue preferences of the European lavender vote	8
Conflict among member states and the influence of the Commission in EMU politics	8
Taking emigration seriously: a new agenda for research on free movement and welfare	8
The anachronism of bellicist state-building	8
No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit	8
Frustrating Brexit? Ireland and the UK’s conflicting approaches to Brexit negotiations	8
Why is it so difficult to tax the rich? Evidence from German policy-makers	8
Experimenting European healthcare forward. Do institutional differences condition networked governance?	8
EU competition policy: an application of the failing forward framework	8
Delegation and stewardship in international organizations	8
The social democratic case against the EU	8
Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?	8
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state	8