OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Political Science Review 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	45
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	39
Citizens’ trust in constitutional courts: evidence from Spain	38
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	37
A rightful condition for Europe	35
EPR volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	28
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	26
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	20
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	19
Institutions or ideology? Cross-party and cross-country analysis of factors contributing to the election of women to the European Parliament	18
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	17
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	17
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	15
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	13
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	13
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	12
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	12
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	11
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	11
Setting the terms of state intervention: employers, unions and the politics of inclusiveness in Austrian and Danish vocational education institutions	10
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	10
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	10
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	10
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	10
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	9

Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	9
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	9
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	8
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	8
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	8
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	8
The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	8
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	8
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: evidence from Germany	8
Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	8
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	8
Whose bread I eat, their song I sing? How the gender of MPs influences the use of oversight mechanisms in government and opposition	8
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	8
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	7
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	7
Worth the Risk? Mass Obstruction, Vigilantism, and Public Support for Climate Activists	7
(Don’t) bite the hand that feeds you: do critical interest organizations gain less funding in the EU?	7
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	7
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	6
The bottom-up spillover effect for radical right parties	6
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	6
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	6
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards minipublics’ design – ERRATUM	6
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	6
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	6
Electoral systems and ideological voting	6
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	6
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	6
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	5
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	5
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	5
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	5
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	5
Perceived legitimacy as a third dimension of bicameralism: Czech senators versus the Czech general public	5
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	5
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	4
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy?	4
Pax populi? An analysis of the conflict resolution potential of referendums on self-determination	4
Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism	4
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	4
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	4
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	4
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	4
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	3
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	3
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration	3
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	3

The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	3
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	3
Participatory democracy and participatory research	3
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design	3
Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	3
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	3
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	3
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	2
Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement	2
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	2
When trust is not enough. A longitudinal analysis of political trust and political competence during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland	2
Affective polarization in Europe	2
Two worlds, one nation? Comparing the political spaces of Flanders and Francophone Belgium	2
Separatism and identity: a comparative analysis of the Basque and Catalan cases	2
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	2
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	2
Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU	2
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	2
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	2
The bond that binds or drives us apart? An empirical test of the national identity argument in three countries	2
Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior	2
Populist attitudes and foreign policy postures: a comparative analysis of four European countries	2
Lobbying coalitions and their determinants: a systematic literature review	2
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	2
Who’s fit for the job? Allocating ministerial portfolios to outsiders and experts	2
What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model	2
Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule	2
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration – ERRATUM	2
Quality of government and public support for taxation for climate change mitigation: evidence from 135 European regions	2
Echoes from the trenches: World War I deaths and contemporary support for the far-right in France	2
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: Evidence from Germany – Erratum	2