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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	70
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	51
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	48
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	29
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	23
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	22
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	22
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	21
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	19
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies	17
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	17
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	17
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK	17
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	17
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	14
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	14
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	13
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	13
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	13
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	12
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	12
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	11
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	11
Who refuses ambiguity? Voters’ issue salience and the electoral effect of party position ambiguity	11
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	10

The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	9
Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe	9
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	9
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	9
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’	8
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	8
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	8
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	8
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	8
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	7
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture	7
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	6
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	6
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?	6
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)	6
Access, capacity and influence	6
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars	6
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	6
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	6
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	6
Close to politics and to policies: subjective knowledge about referendum topics in Eastern Europe	5
The interplay of economic vote dimensions: inequality, redistribution preferences and support for incumbents	5
‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem	5
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy	5
Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis	5
Introduction: EU constraints and opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic—the politics of NGEU	5
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age	5
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes	5
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	4
Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020	4
Improved soft law implementation with national ownership: evidence from the European Semester	4
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: the EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme	4
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency	4
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	4
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	4
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	3
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
How not to respond to populism	3
Now a systemic rival? Inklings of complex representations of the EU in public survey data of Chinese urban residents	3
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	3
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)	3
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	3
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	3
Can the EU be a federal democracy? Assessing the horizontal and vertical dimension of the EU government from comparative perspective	3
When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	3
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	3
Linking electoral realignment to welfare politics: an assessment of partisan effects on active labour market policy in post-industrial democracies	3

Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	3
Introduction: Democracy or dominance? European economic governance in historical perspective	3
Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance	3
Europeanisation in the aftermath of COVID-19: the organisational adaptation of the central governance of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in Italy	2
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	2
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	2
A new delegation design for EU governance: how preference cohesiveness of multiple principals shapes the European Commission’s discretion in trade negotiations	2
A pragmatist theory of power: understanding the EU’s transformation and security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland	2
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis	2
Congruence of national and Europarty manifestoes in the EU elections 2019	2
The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism	2
Measuring the inclusiveness of deliberation: structural inequality and the discourse quality index	2
National role conceptions and populist parties in Europe between heterogeneity and convergence	2
Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe	2
Antagonistic understandings of sovereignty in the 2015 Polish constitutional crisis	2
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	2
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	2
Does the current crisis mark the end of the EU’s austerity era? Competing political projects in European fiscal governance	2
Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	2
The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance: embedding a resilient EMU from the top-down?	2
A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the “Yellow–Green” government	2