OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	59
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	35
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	31
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	27
Future orientation and political participation in Europe	19
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	18
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	18
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	17
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	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
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	15
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	15
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	15
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	15
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	14
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	14
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	13
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	12
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	11
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)	11
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	11
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	10
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	10
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	10

Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	9
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
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	9
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	9
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	9
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	8
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power	8
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	8
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’	8
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	8
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	7
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	7
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	7
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020	7
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	6
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	6
Competing proteans	6
Access, capacity and influence	6
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?	6
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6