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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The political effects of communicative interventions during crises104
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process75
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources70
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202169
The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey66
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning63
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies54
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?53
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?51
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization49
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship49
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences48
Excluded but affected? The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy among non-citizens48
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology47
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?45
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets43
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems39
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries39
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties35
Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization34
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions34
Changing the relationship status: how coalition history affects voter perceptions of parties31
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic31
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities31
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support26
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective25
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany24
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe24
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Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe23
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis22
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament22
The state and its schooled elite across 84 countries: Educational differences in political trust depend on the schooled society and sector of employment22
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction22
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis22
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?21
Chains in episodes of democratization21
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation20
The impact of unelected representatives on citizens’ satisfaction with democracy: A cross-national survey experiment20
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public19
Long-term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes18
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe18
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations17
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities17
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?17
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research: How to do it and why it matters17
The paradox of representation: How identity fragmentation complicates voter-party congruence16
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging16
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?16
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives16
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes16
How the coalition formation process and coalition preferences shape satisfaction with democracy16
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway16
Age and support for public debt reduction16
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany16
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics15
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?15
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases15
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications15
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?15
Compensating the losers: The (limited) elite–public gap in trade politics15
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues15
The people as ‘ Volk ’ or ‘ Bürger ’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for t15
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment14
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations14
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union14
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?14
Political constraints, public party funding, and the regulation of political finance: A global study14
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence14
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies14
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens13
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes13
When deliberative mini-publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions13
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule13
EJR volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter13
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership13
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media12
Subjective losers of globalization12
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences12
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations12
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions12
Women talking: Bringing the environment into UK parliamentary speeches12
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability12
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling12
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM12
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness12
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse12
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety12
Urban–rural policy disagreement11
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes11
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine11
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?11
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap11
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?10
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy10
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states10
Conflicting perceptions: Misalignment between citizens’ and politicians’ evaluations of political conflict10
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right10
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making9
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits9
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?9
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent9
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models8
Are poor people poorly heard?8
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device8
Improving hate speech detection with large language models8
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union8
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts8
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–20238
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention8
Democratizing the genomic revolution? Comparing democratic innovations in France and the UK8
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape8
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States8
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union8
Assessing the presidentialisation thesis: Prime ministerial authority in an era of rising centralisation and personalisation8
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment7
Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions7
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)7
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective7
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings7
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic7
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members7
The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective7
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK7
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust7
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems7
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation7
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries7
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Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?7
The electoral benefits of environmental position-taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20197
Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?6
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Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction6
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries6
Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations6
In the shadow of the European Council: When and how do national leaders influence everyday law-making?6
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy6
Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe6
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?6
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources6
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies6
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream6
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain6
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment6
An emotional climate: Legislators’ emotional engagement with climate issues across age, party and time6
Voting against or against voting?6
Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?6
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member-states in the UN General Assembly5
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries5
United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners5
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Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation5
Financing the state: Government tax revenue from 1800 to 20125
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences5
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns5
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments5
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment – ADDENDUM5
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests5
Keep positive and defend democracy: Framing democratic messages under authoritarianism5
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan5
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EJR volume 64 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation5
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils5
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties5
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run5
Power and ideology – A comparison of citizens’ and politicians’ satisfaction with democracy5
Why do people like technocrats?5
A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness5
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Making the case for democracy: A field-experiment on democratic persuasion5
What's left after right-wing extremism? The effects on political orientation5
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark5
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change4
Political socialisation before and after migration: How origin-country political culture shapes immigrant voting in Europe4
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies4
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming4
From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization4
Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany4
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension4
Climate policy strategies and corporate mobilisation in the European Union4
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization4
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Globalisation, government partisanship, and labour strike intensity4
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe4
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany4
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID-19 waves4
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments4
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit4
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New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund4
Strategies of agenda denial: Anti-gender opposition to LGBTQ+ policies in Italy4
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital3
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes3
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters3
What kind of energy transition? Public opinion trade-offs between economic growth, ecological sustainability, and equity3
The stars down to the ballot box: Heterodoxy and comparative electoral behaviour3
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics3
MAGA & MAGYAR: The strategic use of common sense by Trump and Orbán during their state addresses3
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success3
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain3
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Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions3
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support3
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic3
Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic3
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?3
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
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How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description3
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects3
Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom3
Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal3
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?3
One-dimensional, multidimensional, or non-dimensional? Ideological structure in mass and elite opinion3
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants3
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment3
Mainstreaming democratic backsliding: The role of gender stereotypes2
Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy2
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections2
Coalition government formation and policy payoffs2
Generational legacies of authoritarianism: Evidence from Spain2
Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens2
The honest, the efficient, and the trustworthy: National stereotypes and public support for EU redistribution2
Issue trade-offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies2
Does Islamist terrorism still affect political attitudes?2
Rising inequality and public support for redistribution2
It's trade, stupid! How changes in trade competitiveness affect incumbents' electoral success2
A track too far? The effect of general versus vocational upper secondary education on voter turnout2
Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment2
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective2
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited2
A meta-analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities2
Why show up? Understanding why politicians attend public meetings2
Reference groups and electoral behavior2
The electoral risks of austerity2
‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs2
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic – CORRIGENDUM2
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non-) populist discourse on vote choice2
Public opinion towards interest groups: The differential impact of ties to cause and business groups2
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis2
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic2
The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'2
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts2
Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists2
Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage2
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