European Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Economy 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The political economy of international conflict and cooperation: A special issue in honor of Heinrich W. Ursprung49
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights41
Editorial Board39
Political tenure, term limits and corruption35
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights34
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China31
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves30
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks27
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability27
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy26
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?25
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam24
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus24
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting23
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency23
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question23
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure22
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?22
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion21
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?20
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy20
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage19
Grants-in-aid and election outcomes in recipient jurisdictions: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland18
Editorial Board18
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China17
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout17
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes17
Regulation and income inequality in the United States17
Editorial Board16
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China16
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic15
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?15
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy15
When citizens legalize drugs15
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*15
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission14
Editorial Board14
Geopolitical risk and stock prices14
Democracy favors access to credit of firms14
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions14
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy13
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve13
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict12
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions12
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength11
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade11
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions11
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina10
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions10
Political competition in dynamic economies10
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century10
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America10
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting10
Electoral competition with fake news10
Political polarization and international cooperation10
Editorial Board9
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?9
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment9
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?9
Editorial Board9
Press freedom, market information, and international trade9
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model9
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis9
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization9
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI9
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment9
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America9
State Building and Social Control8
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century8
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery8
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?8
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis8
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries8
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents8
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour8
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality8
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD8
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality7
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles7
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books7
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation7
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China7
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success7
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts7
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China7
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches7
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?7
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?7
Identity, social media and online political activism7
Dominance and technology war7
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach6
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection6
Campaigning for retirement: State teacher union campaign contributions and pension generosity6
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy6
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?6
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature6
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China6
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum6
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany6
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth6
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking6
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency6
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide6
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?6
Social mobility and political stability6
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–19776
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes6
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion6
Equilibrium communication in political scandals5
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment5
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism5
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan5
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems5
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises5
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities5
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited5
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method5
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment5
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy5
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve5
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports5
Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts5
The impact of distance on parochial altruism: An experimental investigation5
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter5
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption5
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities5
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 20125
Regime change and critical junctures5
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success5
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization5
Editorial Board5
Islamist terrorism and the status of women5
Upstream effects of female political reservations5
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective5
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers5
Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs5
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy5
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry5
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives5
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences5
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration5
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?5
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle5
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment5
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?5
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach5
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence5
Editorial Board5
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors4
Social welfare and the group size paradox4
In Memoriam: Heinrich W. Ursprung 1951–20214
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States4
On the duration of empires4
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory4
Empowering the next generation: The role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement4
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection4
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years4
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland4
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons4
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform4
Political parties’ ideological bias and convergence in economic outcomes4
Short and long run democracy diffusion4
Editorial Board4
Religiosity and political participation - Panel data evidence from post-communist Poland4
Television market size and political accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives4
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank4
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises4
Assessing policy co-ordination in government: Text and network analysis of the UK's economic strategies4
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting4
Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict4
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation4
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies4
Editorial Board4
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications4
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China4
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation4
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab4
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey4
Optimal favoritism and maximal revenue: A generalized result3
Women’s voice on redistribution: From gender equality to equalizing taxation3
How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt3
Does expert information affect citizens’ attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany3
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 20193
Emigrants’ missing votes3
Fiscal rules, capital controls, and cross-border financial integration3
Social media campaigning and voter behavior–evidence for the German federal election 20213
Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis3
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China3
Editorial Board3
Municipal electoral competition and the economic condition of households: Evidence from the slums of Kolkata3
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences3
Intergovernmental grants and local public finance: An empirical examination in Israel3
Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections3
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement3
“Whatever It Takes!” How tonality of TV-news affected government bond yield spreads during the European debt crisis3
Political alliances and trade: Europe in a polarized world3
Jumping on the bandwagon and off the Titanic: An experimental study of turnout in two-tier voting3
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects3
Crime and social expenditure: A political economic approach3
One money, one voice? Evaluating ideological positions of euro area central banks3
Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy3
Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the EU Economic Governance Review3
Shock absorption via savings in the EMU: The role of international and public mechanisms3
The effects of IMF conditional programs on the unemployment rate3
Assessing the efficacy of China's anti-corruption drive: Insights from consumer expenditure patterns3
Belonging or estrangement—The European Refugee Crisis and its effects on immigrant identity3
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock3
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions3
Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's presidential election3
Women at work: Gender quotas, municipal elections and local spending3
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data3
Predicting scandal3
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco3
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China3
Editorial Board3
Risk preferences and refugee migration to Europe: An experimental analysis3
Terrorism and international economic policy3
Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process3
Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? – Evidence from Germany2
Weapons and influence: Unpacking the impact of Chinese arms exports on the UNGA voting alignment2
(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review2
Presidential versus parliamentary: Political system and stock market volatility2
Political advertising and consumer sentiment: Evidence from U.S. presidential elections2
Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels2
Rule of law and economic performance: A meta-regression analysis2
Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture2
Can health passport overcome political hurdles to COVID-19 vaccination?2
Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes2
Political institutions and output collapses2
The revolving door of former civil servants and firm value: A comprehensive approach2
Court-packing and judicial manipulation2
Italy’s demographic trap: Voting for childcare subsidies and fertility outcomes2
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America2
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?2
Democracy as a competitive discovery process2
Stock market spillovers of global risks and hedging opportunities2
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk: Evidence from a collusive bribery experiment2
Does ethnic heterogeneity decrease workers’ effort in the presence of income redistribution? An experimental analysis2
Editorial Board2
Well-being foundations of populism in Europe2
Comparing voting methods: 2016 US presidential election2
The political economy of education: Politician criminality and higher education institutions2
On the behavioral impacts of violence: Evidence from incentivized games in Kenya2
How does expropriation affect FDI? A synthetic control analysis of oil and gas sector nationalizations in South America2
Reinforcing each other: How the combination of European and domestic reforms increased competition in liberalized industries2
Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions2
District versus at-large voting: Why district voting results in worse policy for minorities2
The accountability gap: Deliberation on monetary policy in Britain and America during the financial crisis2
Causal factors of terrorist attacks on countries, and corresponding spill-overs between them2
Economic sanctions and sovereign debt default2
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