European Journal of Political Research

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Research 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.)
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Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202158
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning51
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises51
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources44
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?41
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class40
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?40
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process38
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization37
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies34
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions28
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets27
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology27
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems27
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship26
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences23
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries21
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties21
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic18
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities18
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany18
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support18
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis17
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe17
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?16
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction16
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective16
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe15
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public15
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament15
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis15
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes15
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe15
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany14
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Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations14
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?14
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes14
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Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway13
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities13
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging13
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?13
Age and support for public debt reduction13
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?12
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics12
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes12
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations12
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?11
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications11
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases11
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?11
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions10
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The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union10
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives10
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence10
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment10
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media10
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership10
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens10
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM10
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions10
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine9
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations9
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability9
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness9
Subjective losers of globalization9
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes9
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse9
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy8
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling8
Urban–rural policy disagreement8
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap8
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states8
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences8
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models7
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits7
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety7
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes7
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape7
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?7
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device6
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States6
Are poor people poorly heard?6
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union6
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain6
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–20236
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention6
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective6
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent6
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making6
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union5
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries5
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation5
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment5
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?5
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment5
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Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?5
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic5
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members5
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings5
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)5
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Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe5
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries5
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust5
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Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK5
The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20195
The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective5
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain5
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream5
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences4
What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation4
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The politicisation of internet privacy regulation4
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan4
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run4
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark4
Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?4
Voting against or against voting?4
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies4
United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners4
A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness4
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties4
Why do people like technocrats?4
Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion4
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‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments4
Climate policy strategies and corporate mobilisation in the European Union4
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils4
Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic3
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Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom3
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming3
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?3
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization3
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment – ADDENDUM3
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns3
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies3
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions3
Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal3
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters3
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund3
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany3
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit3
Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany3
Power and ideology – A comparison of citizens’ and politicians’ satisfaction with democracy3
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe3
Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization3
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members3
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support3
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic3
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants3
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Drivers of differentiation between EU Member‐states in the UN General Assembly3
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID‐19 waves3
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension3
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics3
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice2
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A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts2
A meta‐analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities2
Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity2
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The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'2
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic2
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections2
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries2
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects2
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing2
Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens2
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes2
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success2
Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment2
Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy2
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited2
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital2
A compromising mindset? How citizens evaluate the trade‐offs in coalition politics2
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain2
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment2
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies2
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