OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Union Politics is 2. 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
Introducing the PFxEU tracker dataset: Tracking political financing in the European Union	44
The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece	32
Mission partly accomplished: European Union Politics at 25	29
The Greek crisis as a “morality tale”? An empirical assessment	27
Economic perceptions and attitudes towards the European Union: A survey experiment	20
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament	19
The responsive public: How European Union decisions shape public opinion on salient policies	19
Civil society – Politically engaged or member-serving? A governance perspective	18
Loving globalization: High-growth enterprises and public opinion on globalization in Europe	18
Conclusion – external threat and internal divisions: How the war in Ukraine shapes mass politics in the EU	18
Noncompliance risk, asymmetric power and the design of enforcement of the European economic governance	17
Corrigendum to “Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic”	17
Shadows as leaders? The amendment success of shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament	16
More equal than different? Gender and legislative turnover in the European Parliament and west European legislatures	15
Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	15
EUP Referees 1 January 2020– 31 March 2022	15
European integration and political party logos: A ‘visual Europeanization’?	15
International fiscal rules and domestic support for austerity	13
From polarization of the public to polarization of the electorate: European Parliament elections as the preferred race for ideologues	13
Explaining public opinion on the enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact during the European sovereign debt crisis	13
The effect of trilogues on the European Commission's success in legislative negotiations: A reappraisal	12
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	12
Party contestation and news visibility abroad: The 2019 European Parliament election from a pan-European perspective	11
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union	10
New threat of culture wars? The religious roots of public opinion polarization on morality issues in Europe	10

All on board? The role of institutional design for public support for differentiated integration	10
What guides citizen support for redistributive EU measures as a response to COVID-19: Justice attitudes, self-interest or support for European integration?	10
Till austerity do us part? A survey experiment on support for the euro in Italy	10
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	9
Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament	9
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust	9
Big politics, small money: Euroscepticism's diminishing return in EU budget allocations	7
Measuring public support for European integration using a Bayesian item response theory model	7
Temporal dynamics of interactions in European Administrative Networks: The case of SOLVIT	7
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	7
Categorical and spatial interlinkages within the European migration policy mix	7
As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined? The role of parental versus own education for openness towards globalisation	6
A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration	6
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 21	6
Does immigration boost public Euroscepticism in European Union member states?	6
Why does gender inequality in academic publishing persist? Lessons and recommendations	6
Working up the six-pack: Bargaining success in the European Council's task force on strengthening economic governance	6
Collective memories on the 2010 European debt crisis	5
Support for European Union membership comes in various guises: Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis of novel Dutch survey data	5
Beyond the U-curve: Citizen preferences on European integration in multidimensional political space	5
Issues that mobilize Europe. The role of key policy issues for voter turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election	5
European Union, transnational terrorism and the strategic choice of counterterrorism policies in democratic countries	5
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states?	5
EU-sentiment predicts the 2016 Dutch referendum vote on the EU’s association with Ukraine better than concerns about Russia or national discontent	5
The imbalanced effect of politicization: How EU politicization favours Eurosceptic parties	5
Joint bodies in the European Union's international agreements: Delegating powers to the European Commission in EU external relations	4
Russian invasion as a European issue: Vertical Europeanisation of national political debates and the war in Ukraine	4
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	4
What happened to Putin’s friends? The radical right’s reaction to the Russian invasion on social media	4
Avoidance, ambiguity, alternation: Position blurring strategies in multidimensional party competition	4
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission	4
Division and unity: Voter and party perspectives on EU integration under external threat	4
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises	4
Voting for trade protectionist parties: Evidence from nine waves of the European Social Survey	3
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times	3
Do public attitudes on gender equality affect candidate selection in proportional representation systems? Evidence from European Parliament elections	3
Differentiation through flexibility in implementation: Strategic and substantive uses of discretion in EU directives	3
Two sides of the same coin? The effect of differentiation on noncompliance with European Union law	3
Free to move, reluctant to share: Unequal opposition to transnational rights under the EU's free movement principle	3
Cascading opt-outs? The effect of the Euro and migration crises on differentiated integration in the European Union	3
Understanding lobbying dynamics through survey research: An introduction to the InterCov dataset	3
Lingering bias: The effects of legislated gender quotas on representation quality in the European Parliament	3
The reverberations of British Brexit politics abroad	3
Bargaining power in informal trilogues: Intra-institutional preference cohesion and inter-institutional bargaining success	3
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 22	3
The divided public: Dynamics of heterogeneity of European public opinion towards European integration	3
The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany	3
Appeasement or solidarity? Uncovering the drivers of European public opinion on the EU’s foreign policy	3
Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation	3
EUPROPS: A new dataset on policymaking in the European Union from 1958 to 2021	3

Foreign economic policy in the European Parliament and economic interdependence with foreign powers	2
From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence	2
The political effects of intra-EU migration: Evidence from national and European elections in seven countries	2
Voting for a social Europe? European solidarity and voting behaviour in the 2019 European elections	2
Do (too many) elections depress participation? How the position, frequency and nature of domestic ballots affect turnout in European Parliament elections	2
Two functionalist logics of European Union polity formation under external threat: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	2
Do political duos diminish discriminatory voter preferences? Evidence from a combined conjoint experiment	2
Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament election: A winning combination	2
The politicization of European integration and support for restrictive migration policies	2
The nuclear option: Voting for the pan-European party Volt	2
An open window into politics: A structured database of plenary sessions of the European Parliament	2
United or divided in diversity? The heterogeneous effects of ethnic diversity on European and national identities	2
From fringe to front? Assessing the voting influence of the radical right in the European Parliament	2