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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	89
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	86
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	74
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	72
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	61
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	58
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	57
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	55
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	55
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 2021	47
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	46
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain	45
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	43
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	40
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	40
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	38
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	37
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	36
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	36
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	33
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	33
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	32
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy	31
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	30
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	30

Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	28
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections	27
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
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	26
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies	26
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	25
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections	25
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	25
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	25
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	24
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	24
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues	23
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity	22
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field	22
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe	21
International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates: A speaker-topic network analysis	21
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit	21
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions	21
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy	20
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates	20
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation	20
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine	20
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)	20
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament	20
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy	19
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors	19
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding	19
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe	18
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks	18
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?	18
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe	18
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors	18
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy	18
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement	17
How does the composition of the European Parliament shape its role in EU decision-making?	17
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry	17
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings	16
Correction	16
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link	16
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance	16
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation	16
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad	16
JEPP reviewer prize 2022	16
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy	15
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries	15
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement	15
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?	15
The gender gap in support for governments during the COVID crisis	15
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*	15
Political trust and redistribution preferences	15

Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?	15
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries	15
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?	15
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty	15
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning	15
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms	15
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy	14
Patterns of coordination in the European Commission: an analysis of interservice consultations around climate change adaptation policy (2007–2018)	14
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach	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
Technological change and support for redistributive politics	14
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe	14
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?	14
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament	14
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?	14
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises	14
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired	13
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine	13
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?	13
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive	13
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.	13
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	13
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database	13
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour	12
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	12
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good	12
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond	12
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management	12
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies	12
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking	12
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking	12
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism	12
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises	12
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences	12
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union	11
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation	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
‘Best Paper Prize’ 2022	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
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe	11
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–2014	11
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	11
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies	11
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities	11
Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?	10
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	10
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine	10
Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states	10
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU	10
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters	10
For want of a champion: why the EU won’t be ready for the next public health crisis	10
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	10
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	10
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic	10
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland	10
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism	10
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 2022	10
JEPP Reviewer Prize 2023	10
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act	10
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?	10
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation	10
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity	10
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union	10
Electoral competitiveness and responsiveness: rational anticipation in the EU Council	10
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland	10
From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019)	10