OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Union Politics is 4. 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
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union	82
The responsive public: How European Union decisions shape public opinion on salient policies	46
European integration and political party logos: A ‘visual Europeanization’?	25
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
Corrigendum to “Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic”	18
From polarization of the public to polarization of the electorate: European Parliament elections as the preferred race for ideologues	17
Support for European Union membership comes in various guises: Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis of novel Dutch survey data	16
Understanding lobbying dynamics through survey research: An introduction to the InterCov dataset	16
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times	15
Two sides of the same coin? The effect of differentiation on noncompliance with European Union law	15
The divided public: Dynamics of heterogeneity of European public opinion towards European integration	13
From fringe to front? Assessing the voting influence of the radical right in the European Parliament	12
The political effects of intra-EU migration: Evidence from national and European elections in seven countries	11
The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing	11
The nuclear option: Voting for the pan-European party Volt	11
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration	11
The electoral consequences of compensation for globalization	10
Managing networks: Cohesion and fluidity in EU climate cooperation with European neighbours	10
Peoples’ perspectives on the ‘Future of Europe’ – A comparative study from within and beyond the European Union	10
How supranational institutions benefit from crises: Member states’ solidarity and the EU's image during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Solidarity on a divided continent: Perceptions of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ determine European citizens’ willingness to help other EU countries	9
How occupation shapes awareness and preferences for European funding	9
From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance	9
The Eurodisappointed: On the disenchantment with the EU's limited response to democratic backsliding	9

Far-right cooperation: Gender, political networks, and the cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament	9
EU executives on social media: Assessing the potential and trajectories of legitimation via public communication on Twitter	9
The effect of European integration on economic redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe	9
Conclusion – external threat and internal divisions: How the war in Ukraine shapes mass politics in the EU	8
International fiscal rules and domestic support for austerity	8
Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	8
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice	8
More equal than different? Gender and legislative turnover in the European Parliament and west European legislatures	8
EUP Referees 1 January 2020– 31 March 2022	8
The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece	8
New threat of culture wars? The religious roots of public opinion polarization on morality issues in Europe	8
The European Court of Justice and legal European integration	7
As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined? The role of parental versus own education for openness towards globalisation	7
Russian invasion as a European issue: Vertical Europeanisation of national political debates and the war in Ukraine	7
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	7
Studying party-voter congruence in the European elections 2024: Introducing a new dataset on German voter positions from the VAA ‘Europartycheck’	7
EU-sentiment predicts the 2016 Dutch referendum vote on the EU’s association with Ukraine better than concerns about Russia or national discontent	7
Two functionalist logics of European Union polity formation under external threat: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	7
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	7
European Union, transnational terrorism and the strategic choice of counterterrorism policies in democratic countries	7
Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament	7
The reverberations of British Brexit politics abroad	7
Are voters under Euroskeptic leaders turning Euroskeptic: Leadership cues and anti-EU views in Italy	6
Economic voting in European elections: Explaining abstention and support for Eurosceptic parties	6
The EU Commission: Supplying enforcement and demanding compliance	6
Legislating softly: The effect of preference heterogeneity on the share of EU soft-law instruments over time	6
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics , Volume 25	6
The politicization of European integration and support for restrictive migration policies	6
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration	6
Presidents, commissioners, and time pressure: A mixed-methods analysis of migration communication by the European Commission	5
Reforming supranational institutions: Insights from a conjoint experiment in 16 countries	5
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements	5
The effect of trilogues on the European Commission's success in legislative negotiations: A reappraisal	5
Social benefits for European Union immigrants? A survey experiment on misperceptions	5
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	5
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared	5
The predictors of party group bargaining success in the European Parliament	4
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust	4
Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation	4
EUPROPS: A new dataset on policymaking in the European Union from 1958 to 2021	4
What you see is not what you get: The incorporation of women in radical right parties	4
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	4
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states?	4
What is special about women in EU institutions?	4
The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany	4
Appeasement or solidarity? Uncovering the drivers of European public opinion on the EU’s foreign policy	4
Free to move, reluctant to share: Unequal opposition to transnational rights under the EU's free movement principle	4
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission	4
Intra-executive competition as a way to build political trust: Evidence from European semi-presidential countries	4
Lingering bias: The effects of legislated gender quotas on representation quality in the European Parliament	4

What drives European solidarity? Evidence on identity-based, value-based, and utilitarian explanations