OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative European 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
Coordinative Europeanization as a response to crisis: what lessons from the RRF for future EU cohesion policy?	67
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	47
The Eastern Partnership and its strategic objectives: a Polish–German compromise?	44
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	27
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs: a historical institutionalist analysis of policy trajectories	22
Radicality and moderation in the language of Europe’s extreme right	21
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	20
Why and when democracies ban political parties: a classification of democratic state orientations to party bans	17
Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudi	17
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	16
Improved soft law implementation with national ownership: evidence from the European Semester	16
Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020	16
Citizens’ response to a non-responsive government: the case of the Swiss Initiative on Mass Immigration	15
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	15
Party views on differentiated integration	13
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	13
Correction to: Immigration attitudes among western and eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	12
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	11
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	11
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	11
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture	10
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	10
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	10
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	10
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	9

Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	9
The discursive framing of European integration in EU-wide media: actors, narratives and policies following the Russian invasion of Ukraine	9
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: the EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme	9
Authoritarian liberalism between market capitalism and democracy: critical and neoliberal perspectives	8
(De)regulating automation: the rise of credit scoring and market-led banking in the UK and Germany	8
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies	8
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	6
EU resilience in times of COVID? Polity maintenance, public support, and solidarity	6
Austerity and its alternatives in the European parliament: from the Eurozone crisis to the COVID-19 crisis	6
Implementing the will of the people: sovereignty and policy conflicts in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership	6
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	6
Borders and identities in NI after Brexit: remaking Irish–UK relations	6
Housing coalition dynamics: a comparative perspective	5
Greece’s accession in the EEC: toward dependency and differentiation	5
Congruence of national and Europarty manifestoes in the EU elections 2019	5
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	5
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	5
Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain	5
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	4
The middle-income trap in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2010s: institutions and divergent growth models	4
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	4
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	4
Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective	4
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	4
The dog that barked but did not bite: Greek foreign policy under the populist coalition of SYRIZA-Independent Greeks, 2015–2019	4
Fixing the boundary of a nation: how the European Union influences nationalism in contemporary Europe	4
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	4
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)	4
Growth models and the comparative political economy of Europe	4
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	4
Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	4
The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study	4
The strange bedfellows of populism and liberalism: the effect of populist attitudes on the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and policies to contain it	4
Access, capacity and influence	3
Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South	3
When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	3
From toleration to recognition: explaining change and stability in party responses to the Danish People’s Party	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19	3
Organizational responses to scandals: how effective is the European Commission?	3
Linking electoral realignment to welfare politics: an assessment of partisan effects on active labour market policy in post-industrial democracies	3
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	3
Tolerant and intolerant responses to populist parties: who does what, when and why?	3
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	3
Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland	2
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	2
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	2
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	2
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	2

The political foundations of party organizational variance	2
A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the “Yellow–Green” government	2
Numerical rules or political government, that is the (European) question	2
Sovereignty of what and for whom? The political mobilisation of sovereignty claims by the Italian Lega and Fratelli d’Italia	2
Correction to: Referendums: increasingly unpopular among the ‘winners’ of modernization? Comparing public support for the use of referendums in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary	2
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	2
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	2
How not to respond to populism	2
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	2
Competitiveness in the European market: a comparative analysis of the Eurozone periphery and the non-Eurozone periphery	2
Do they have no other choice? The mediation effect of liberal party landscapes on electoral support for right-wing populists among conservatives	2
Correction to: Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties	2
Explaining economic growth in advanced capitalist democracies: varieties of capitalism and welfare production regimes	2