Comparative European Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of Comparative European Politics is 4. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 longitudi24
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?19
Future orientation and political participation in Europe19
Gendered protest in Europe: EU norm diffusion, conservative backlash, and attitudinal hybridization18
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco17
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK17
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies17
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU15
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union15
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking14
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services13
Communist party organisation, frontism and linkage strategy during and after the crisis: evidence from Greece13
Why do MPs run to become MEPs when most simply want to remain MPs? On servicing the personal vote and doing party service12
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
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit11
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism10
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe10
New partners on the street? Cooperation between radical left parties and progressive social movements in Portugal9
An anatomy of ‘freedom’: US and EU competition policy in the crosshairs9
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness9
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises9
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary8
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited8
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy8
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum7
Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe7
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans6
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?6
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power6
Pirates the Czech way: sailing (unsuccessfully) from the “Rebel Bay” to the calm waters of neoliberal mainstream?6
Political parties and dissensus over liberal democracy in the European Parliament6
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 government6
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe6
“Each one is with their own electorate”: unpacking radical left linkage at the transnational level5
Can we still talk about ‘movement parties’? The radical left and new forms of party organisation5
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK5
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–20205
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments5
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality5
Radical left cooperation in twenty-first century Western Europe: forms, drivers, and outcomes5
The party is over. Young activists in radical-left groups and institutional politics5
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans4
Energy Communities in the European Union: Comparative Analysis of Legislation, Incentives, and Barriers with a Focus on Spain4
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?4
Two decades of pirate politics in Europe: the supply and demand side4
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age4
Strategic resilience in the OECD: tariff politics and the new trade governance4
Access, capacity and influence4
Competing proteans4
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars4
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy4
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?4
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics4
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies4
Green and Pirate parties in second-order elections: Alternative to the political mainstream and the far right?4
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes4
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