OOIR: Observatory of International 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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of COVID‐19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?	265
Political trust during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Rally around the flag or lockdown effects?	119
How the coronavirus crisis affects citizen trust in institutions and in unknown others: Evidence from ‘the Swedish experiment’	118
Still blurry? Economic salience, position and voting for radical right parties in Western Europe	52
Retrospective pledge voting: A comparative study of the electoral consequences of government parties’ pledge fulfilment	37
Voter mobilisation in the echo chamber: Broadband internet and the rise of populism in Europe	31
If I'll win it, I want it: The role of instrumental considerations in explaining public support for referendums	29
Dynamics of protest and electoral politics in the Great Recession	27
Empowered and enraged: Political efficacy, anger and support for populism in Europe	25
Under pressure. Economic constraints, electoral politics and labour market reforms in Southern Europe in the decade of the Great Recession	23
Elite‐public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign	23
The European lavender vote: Sexuality, ideology and vote choice in Western Europe	22
Terrorist attacks and Europeans’ attitudes towards immigrants: An experimental approach	20
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy	20
Between governance‐driven democratisation and democracy‐driven governance: Explaining changes in participatory governance in the case of Barcelona	19
European ruling parties’ electoral strategies and overseas enfranchisement policies	19
Different worlds of contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe	19
In‐group solidarity or out‐group hostility in response to terrorism in France? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design	19
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions	18
The more the better? Rule growth and policy impact from a macro perspective	18
From chasing populists to deconstructing populism: A new multidimensional approach to understanding and comparing populism	17
Does counter‐mobilization contain right‐wing populist movements? Evidence from Germany	16
Male and female politicians on Twitter: A machine learning approach	16
Degrees of influence: Educational inequality in policy representation	15
The mobilising effect of political choice	14

Congruence between voters and parties: The role of party‐level issue salience	14
Regional inequality and institutional trust in Europe	14
Institutionalising electoral uncertainty and authoritarian regime survival	14
Why are the affluent better represented around the world?	13
Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space	12
Confident and cautious candidates: Explaining under‐representation of women in Danish municipal politics	12
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources	12
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	11
Social status, political priorities and unequal representation	11
The winners of legislative mandate: An analysis of post‐parliamentary career positions in Germany and the Netherlands	11
The abiding voter: The lengthy horizon of retrospective evaluations	11
Party effects on total and disaggregated welfare spending: A mixed‐effects approach	11
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic	11
Multiple roots of the populist radical right: Support for the Dutch PVV in cities and the countryside	10
Having a say or getting your way? Political choice and satisfaction with democracy	10
Do people want a ‘fairer’ electoral system? An experimental study in four countries	10
Local labour market competition and radical right voting: Evidence from France	10
Unpacking the politics of legislative debates	10
Explaining the immigration policy mix: Countries' relative openness to asylum and labour migration	10
The partisan nature of support for democratic backsliding: A comparative perspective	10
Sharing the burden in a free riders’ land: The EU migration and asylum policy in the views of public opinion and politicians	10
The moment you decide, you divide: How politicians assess procedural fairness	10
Depression and attitudes to change in referendums: The case of Brexit	10
Change and continuity in the ideological gender gap a longitudinal analysis of left‐right self‐placement in OECD countries	9
The micro–macro interactive approach to political trust: Quality of representation and substantive representation across Europe	9
The importance of personal vote intentions for the responsiveness of legislators: A field experiment	9
Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision‐making processes	9
Organised interests in the media and policy congruence: The contingent impact of the status quo	9
Welfare state reforms and mass media attention: Evidence from three European democracies	9
Political parties, globalization and labour strength: Assessing differences across welfare state programs	8
Jurisdiction size and local government effectiveness: Assessing the effects of municipal amalgamations on performance	8
Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences	8
Testing the input‐process‐output model of public participation	8
Public support for state surveillance	8
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	8
The unseen hands: Collaborative instrumental leadership in the British renegotiation case	8
‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions	8
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction	7
No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation	7
Institutionalising participatory and deliberative procedures: The origins of the first permanent citizens’ assembly	7
Do citizens care about government debt? Evidence from survey experiments on budgetary priorities	7
The electoral roots of unequal representation. A spatial modelling approach to party systems and voting in Western Europe	7
Legislating or rubber‐stamping? Assessing parliament's influence on law‐making with text reuse	7
Redistribution attitudes and vote choice across the educational divide	7
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	7
A problem‐based approach to understanding public support for referendums	7
Appealing broadly while appearing unified: Resolving an electoral dilemma	6
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries	6
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?	6
Voter expectations of government formation in coalition systems: The importance of the information context	6

Policy responsiveness to all citizens or only to voters? A longitudinal analysis of policy responsiveness in OECD countries	6
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis	5
Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right	5
Citizens and the state during crisis: Public authority, private behaviour and the Covid‐19 pandemic in France	5
Europe's migration crisis: Local contact and out‐group hostility	5
‘Going institutional’ to overcome obstruction: Explaining the suppression of minority rights in Western European parliaments, 1945−2010	5
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	5
What parties want from their leaders: How office achievement trumps electoral performance as a driver of party leader survival	5
The pandemic and the question of national belonging: Exposure to covid‐19 threat and conceptions of nationhood	5
Don't air your dirty laundry: Party leadership contests and parliamentary election outcomes	5
Climate politics in hard times: How local economic shocks influence MPs attention to climate change	5
Agenda‐setting under pressure: Does domestic politics influence the European Commission?	5
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment	5
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests	5
(Same)‐sex in the city: Urbanisation and LGBTI rights expansion	5
Cabinet ministers and inequality	5
Parenthood and social policy preferences: A gender and time sensitive examination	4
Institutional reform and public attitudes toward EU decision making	4
Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?	4
Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union	4
Do populist values or civic values drive support for referendums in Europe?	4
Cost of ruling as a game of tones: The accumulation of bad news and incumbents’ vote loss	4
Quotas, women's leadership and grassroots women activists: Bringing women into the party?	4
Birds of a feather flock together? The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1991–2015	4
Immigration and the sociocultural divide in Central and Eastern Europe: Stasis or evolution?	4
Populism's rise in post‐communist countries: Breaking electoral promises and incumbent left parties’ vote losses	4
Succession, power‐sharing and the development of representative institutions in medieval Europe	4
How parties led by a woman redefine their positions: Empirical evidence for women's green, alternative and libertarian agenda	4
Defending the European court of human rights: Experimental evidence from Britain	3
When democratic experience distorts democracy: Citizen reactions to undemocratic incumbent behaviour	3
Oil, elections and fiscal transparency	3
Corruption and support for decentralisation	3
Institutional constraints on cabinet formation: Veto points and party system dynamics	3
Why change party finance transparency? Political competition and evidence from the ‘deviant’ case of Norway	3
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization	3
What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation	3
Does fiscal pressure constrain policy responsiveness? Evidence from Germany	3
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy	3
Portfolio allocation patterns and policy‐making effectiveness in minority coalition governments	3
Interest group networks in the European Union	3
Action repertoires in contentious episodes: What determines governments’ and challengers’ action strategies? A cross‐national analysis	3
The legitimacy‐conferring capacity of constitutional courts: Evidence from a comparative survey experiment1	2
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?	2
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	2
Who cares about the public sphere?	2
The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs	2
Q&A in legislative oversight: A framework for analysis	2
Redistribution in a political union: The case of the EU	2
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment	2
The leadership dilemma: Examining the impact of strong leaders on parties	2
Mind the gap: How party–voter incongruence fuels the entry and support of new parties	2
Threat or corrective to democracy? The relationship between populism and different models of democracy	2
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments	2
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	2
Environmentalism as an independent dimension of political preferences	2
Candidate evaluations across the aisle: Cross‐cultural evidence that out‐partisans value candidate warmth more than in‐partisans	2
Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot	2
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting	2
Committee strength in parliamentary democracies: A new index	2
Rule omission, rule migration and the limits of financial industry power	2
Do politicians anticipate voter control? A comparative study of representatives’ accountability beliefs	2
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	2
Agents of past principals: The lasting effects of incumbents on the political ideology of bureaucrats	2