OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Union Politics is 3. 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
Influence, affluence and media salience: Economic resources and lobbying influence in the European Union	24
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises	24
National identity profiles and support for the European Union	22
A new divide? Assessing the transnational-nationalist dimension among political parties and the public across the EU	20
What asylum and refugee policies do Europeans want? Evidence from a cross-national conjoint experiment	20
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements	20
The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism	19
One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016	16
Economic determinants of public support for European integration, 1995–2018	16
Voting for a social Europe? European solidarity and voting behaviour in the 2019 European elections	15
Populist and nativist attitudes: Does ingroup-outgroup thinking spill over across domains?	14
Issues that mobilize Europe. The role of key policy issues for voter turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election	13
Do Spitzenkandidaten really make a difference? An experiment on the effectiveness of personalized European Parliament election campaigns	13
Electoral responses to the increased contestation over European integration. The European Elections of 2019 and beyond	13
The Brexit deterrent? How member state exit shapes public support for the European Union	12
Till austerity do us part? A survey experiment on support for the euro in Italy	12
Keeping the euro at any cost? Explaining attitudes toward the euro-austerity trade-off in Greece	12
Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament election: A winning combination	12
Tracing the development of nationalist attitudes in the EU	12
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration	11
Differentiation through flexibility in implementation: Strategic and substantive uses of discretion in EU directives	11
Pandemic threat and authoritarian attitudes in Europe: An empirical analysis of the exposure to COVID-19	11
One union, different futures? Public preferences for the EU's future and their explanations in 10 EU countries	10
The Early Warning System and policymaking in the European Union	10
Does differentiated integration strengthen the democratic legitimacy of the EU? Evidence from the 2015 Danish opt-out referendum	10

A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration	10
From causes to consequences: Investigating the effects of differentiated integration on citizens’ EU support	10
Do European elections enhance satisfaction with European Union democracy?	9
National/European identities and political alignments	9
‘This time I’m (not) voting’: A comprehensive overview of campaign factors influencing turnout at European Parliament elections	9
Common currency, common identity? The impact of the Euro introduction on European identity	9
Joint bodies in the European Union's international agreements: Delegating powers to the European Commission in EU external relations	9
From staunch supporters to critical observers: Explaining the turn towards Euroscepticism among regionalist parties	9
Avoidance, ambiguity, alternation: Position blurring strategies in multidimensional party competition	9
At loggerheads over state aid: Why the Commission rejects aid and governments comply	9
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	8
The far-right and asylum outcomes: Assessing the impact of far-right politics on asylum decisions in Europe	8
In varietate concordia?! Political parties’ digital political marketing in the 2019 European Parliament election campaign	8
Swaying citizen support for EU membership: Evidence from a survey experiment of German voters	7
Introducing the EU exit index measuring each member state’s propensity to leave the European Union	7
Fiscal solidarity: The conditional role of political knowledge	7
Beyond the U-curve: Citizen preferences on European integration in multidimensional political space	7
Party group collapse and strategic switching in the European Parliament	6
When does the European Commission Pursue Noncompliance?	6
Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	6
Why vote when you cannot choose? EU intervention and political participation in times of constraint	6
The cultural origins of institutional trust: The case of the European Central Bank	6
Unemployment risk-sharing in the EU: How policy design influences citizen support for European unemployment policy	6
United or divided in diversity? The heterogeneous effects of ethnic diversity on European and national identities	6
How candidate characteristics affect favorability in European Parliament elections: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Finland	6
A (supra)nationalist personality? The Big Five’s effects on political-territorial identification	6
Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates	6
Economic downturns and the Greek referendum of 2015: Evidence using night-time light data	6
Supranationalism, constrained? Locating the Court of Justice on the EU integration dimension	6
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared	5
Support for European Union membership comes in various guises: Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis of novel Dutch survey data	5
Analysing how crises shape mass and elite preferences and behaviour in the European Union	5
Top-down or bottom-up? The selection of shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament	5
Understanding leader evaluations in European Parliament elections	4
Does EU funding improve local state capacity? Evidence from Polish municipalities	4
Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters	4
The impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European identity: A comparative analysis of EU regions	4
From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence	4
The impact of EU institutional advertising on public support for European integration	4
Learning about the unknown Spitzenkandidaten: The role of media exposure during the 2019 European Parliament elections	4
Ever more soft law? A dataset to compare binding and non-binding EU law across policy areas and over time (2004–2019)	4
The rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU – Still an agenda-setter?	4
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	4
Bargaining power in informal trilogues: Intra-institutional preference cohesion and inter-institutional bargaining success	3
Collective memories on the 2010 European debt crisis	3
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	3
Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation	3
Two sides of the same coin? The effect of differentiation on noncompliance with European Union law	3
Can we do what we say we will do? Issue salience, government effectiveness, and the legislative efficiency of Council Presidencies	3

Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	3
The influence of foreign elite rhetoric: National identity, emotions, and attitudes toward austerity	3
Foreign economic policy in the European Parliament and economic interdependence with foreign powers	3
Cascading opt-outs? The effect of the Euro and migration crises on differentiated integration in the European Union	3
What guides citizen support for redistributive EU measures as a response to COVID-19: Justice attitudes, self-interest or support for European integration?	3
Measuring actual discretion of the European Commission: Using the discretion index to guide empirical research	3