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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)	40
The European Commission’s entrepreneurship and the social dimension of the European Semester: from the European Pillar of Social Rights to the Covid-19 pandemic	34
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	33
Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020	27
The long-term effects of the economic crisis on political trust in Europe: Is there a negativity bias in the relation between economic performance and political support?	15
Negotiating Brexit: A clash of approaches?	15
Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland	15
Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis	15
A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the “Yellow–Green” government	14
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture	12
Germany, the Eurozone crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic: Failing forward or moving on?	12
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	12
The dog that barked but did not bite: Greek foreign policy under the populist coalition of SYRIZA-Independent Greeks, 2015–2019	11
Austria and the Global Compact on Migration: the ‘populist securitization’ of foreign policy	10
Referendums: increasingly unpopular among the ‘winners’ of modernization? Comparing public support for the use of referendums in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary	10
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis	10
Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain	10
Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe	9
Voice, equality and education: the role of higher education in defining the political participation of young Europeans	9
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	9
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	9
The middle-income trap in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2010s: institutions and divergent growth models	9
A new delegation design for EU governance: how preference cohesiveness of multiple principals shapes the European Commission’s discretion in trade negotiations	8
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	8
Introduction: EU constraints and opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic—the politics of NGEU	8

Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	8
Initiatives opposing populist parties in Europe: types, methods, and patterns	7
Interest group lobbying in the European Union: privacy, data protection and the right to be forgotten	7
Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU	7
The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing	7
Post-Brexit Europeanization: re-thinking the continuum of British policies, polity, and politics trajectories	7
Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support	7
EU resilience in times of COVID? Polity maintenance, public support, and solidarity	6
Belonging and exclusion: the dark side of regional identity in Germany	6
Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties	6
Emotions in European parliamentary debates: Passionate speakers or un-emotional gentlemen?	5
Bringing the middleman back in: EU umbrella organizations and interest group access in the European Union	5
Free movement of workers under challenge: the indexation of family benefits	5
Closer in hard times? The drivers of European solidarity in ‘normal’ and ‘crisis’ times	5
The strength of a weak centre: pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States	4
Can the EU be a federal democracy? Assessing the horizontal and vertical dimension of the EU government from comparative perspective	4
Implementing the will of the people: sovereignty and policy conflicts in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership	4
The silent losers of Germany’s export surpluses. How current account imbalances are exacerbated by the misrepresentation of their domestic costs	4
Explaining economic growth in advanced capitalist democracies: varieties of capitalism and welfare production regimes	4
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	4
Measuring the inclusiveness of deliberation: structural inequality and the discourse quality index	4
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	4
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	4
Improved soft law implementation with national ownership: evidence from the European Semester	4
Convergence or divergence? A multilevel analysis of political values in 18 EU countries 1990–2017	3
From toleration to recognition: explaining change and stability in party responses to the Danish People’s Party	3
Party views on differentiated integration	3
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	3
Increasing toleration for the intolerant? “Adapted militancy” and German responses to Alternative für Deutschland	3
Experiencing and supporting institutional regionalization in Belgium: a normative and interpretive policy feedback perspective	3
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	3
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	3
Drivers of integration? EU agency board members on transboundary crises	3
Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	3
The political foundations of party organizational variance	2
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	2
Borders and identities in NI after Brexit: remaking Irish–UK relations	2
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs: a historical institutionalist analysis of policy trajectories	2
Explaining IMF design of 2010 Greece loan: bricoleurs relying on fiscal space and nonlinear multiple equilibria processes	2
Emergency politics, mass sentiment and the EU during Covid	2
Changing the topics: the social sciences in EU-funded research projects	2
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	2
Sovereignty of what and for whom? The political mobilisation of sovereignty claims by the Italian Lega and Fratelli d’Italia	2
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19	2
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	2
More or less regional autonomy? A qualitative analysis of citizen arguments towards (de)centralization in Belgium	2
Creditor domination in the eurozone: a republican view	2
Who refuses ambiguity? Voters’ issue salience and the electoral effect of party position ambiguity	2
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	2
Policymaking in the EU under crisis conditions: Covid and refugee crises compared	2

Numerical rules or political government, that is the (European) question	2
How not to respond to populism	2
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	2
How temporal discretion supports interagency coordination: Sweden's intersectoral fight against antimicrobial resistance	2
Should EU member states help each other? How the national context shapes individual preferences for European solidarity	2
Constructing a neoliberal exclusionary state: the role of far-right populism in economic policy change in post-war Austria	2
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	2
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	2
Antagonistic understandings of sovereignty in the 2015 Polish constitutional crisis	2