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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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	24
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	19
Future orientation and political participation in Europe	19
Gendered protest in Europe: EU norm diffusion, conservative backlash, and attitudinal hybridization	17
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	17
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK	17
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies	16
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	15
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	15
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	15
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	13
Why do MPs run to become MEPs when most simply want to remain MPs? On servicing the personal vote and doing party service	13
Communist party organisation, frontism and linkage strategy during and after the crisis: evidence from Greece	13
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	12
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)	11
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	11
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	10
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	9
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	9
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	9
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	9
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	9
An anatomy of ‘freedom’: US and EU competition policy in the crosshairs	8
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	8
New partners on the street? Cooperation between radical left parties and progressive social movements in Portugal	8

Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe	7
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	7
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	7
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’	6
Beyond party lines: radical left party linkage before and after local-level government	6
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power	6
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	6
Political parties and dissensus over liberal democracy in the European Parliament	5
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	5
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	5
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	5
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	5
“Each one is with their own electorate”: unpacking radical left linkage at the transnational level	5
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020	5
Pirates the Czech way: sailing (unsuccessfully) from the “Rebel Bay” to the calm waters of neoliberal mainstream?	5
Can we still talk about ‘movement parties’? The radical left and new forms of party organisation	5
The party is over. Young activists in radical-left groups and institutional politics	5
Two decades of pirate politics in Europe: the supply and demand side	4
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	4
Energy Communities in the European Union: Comparative Analysis of Legislation, Incentives, and Barriers with a Focus on Spain	4
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics	4
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars	4
Green and Pirate parties in second-order elections: Alternative to the political mainstream and the far right?	4
Competing proteans	4
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	4
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	4
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?	4
Strategic resilience in the OECD: tariff politics and the new trade governance	4
Access, capacity and influence	4
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?	4
Radical left cooperation in twenty-first century Western Europe: forms, drivers, and outcomes	4
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age	4
‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem	3
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency	3
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	3
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities: the European Commission as a social advocate in Latvia and Estonia	3
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	3
When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	3
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy	3
Protean power goes to Europe: on law, norms and power in the EU’s external policies	3
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	3
Close to politics and to policies: subjective knowledge about referendum topics in Eastern Europe	3
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	3
How not to respond to populism	3
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes	3
Taking citizens’ ideas and discourse seriously: a non-elite take on discursive institutionalism	3
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	3
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	3
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	3

Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Introduction: Democracy or dominance? European economic governance in historical perspective	2
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	2
Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25	2
Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance	2
Europeanisation in the aftermath of COVID-19: the organisational adaptation of the central governance of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in Italy	2
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	2
Gender insensitive parliaments: blind spots in anti-harassment parliamentary policies in Europe	2
A digital divide? Digital market governance in the transatlantic space	2
The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism	2
Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe	2
Now a systemic rival? Inklings of complex representations of the EU in public survey data of Chinese urban residents	2
Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world	2
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	2
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)	2
Navigating ideological pathways: an interactive predispositions model of pro-immigration attitudes in Europe	2
Intersectionality and inequalities in political participation in Europe: how do gender, class and age relate to political exclusion?	2