OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative European Politics is 5. 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
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
Why and when democracies ban political parties: a classification of democratic state orientations to party bans	17
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
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	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
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	13
Party views on differentiated integration	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
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
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
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
Housing coalition dynamics: a comparative perspective	5
Greece’s accession in the EEC: toward dependency and differentiation	5