Comparative European Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of Comparative European Politics is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union80
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?53
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden52
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 longitudi32
Future orientation and political participation in Europe26
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU25
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France24
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions23
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco22
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking19
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK17
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU17
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union17
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services17
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies17
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism16
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)16
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit15
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe14
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)14
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking14
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy13
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness13
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece13
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary13
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited12
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises11
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 202011
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum9
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans9
Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe9
Who refuses ambiguity? Voters’ issue salience and the electoral effect of party position ambiguity9
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe9
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’8
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power7
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality7
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?7
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–20206
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture6
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments6
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies6
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession6
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party6
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)6
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans6
Competing proteans6
Access, capacity and influence6
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK6
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?6
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework6
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