European Journal of Political Research

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Research is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey101
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?73
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202172
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?70
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning69
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises66
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process63
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class63
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources54
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization51
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies50
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship48
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries47
Excluded but affected? The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy among non-citizens47
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets47
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems44
Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization43
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties41
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions39
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?38
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology37
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences35
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities33
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic32
Long-term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes31
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support31
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe30
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament28
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis25
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany23
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Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective23
The state and its schooled elite across 84 countries: Educational differences in political trust depend on the schooled society and sector of employment22
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe22
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction22
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis21
The impact of unelected representatives on citizens’ satisfaction with democracy: A cross-national survey experiment21
Chains in episodes of democratization21
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?21
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public20
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe20
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation20
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations19
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?18
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany18
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research: How to do it and why it matters18
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes17
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?17
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications17
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities17
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging17
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway17
Age and support for public debt reduction17
Compensating the losers: The (limited) elite–public gap in trade politics16
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics16
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives16
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues16
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?15
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment15
When deliberative mini-publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions15
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases15
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?15
EJR volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter15
The people as ‘ Volk ’ or ‘ Bürger ’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for t15
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations15
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?15
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union15
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership14
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens14
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence14
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap14
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes14
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media14
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule14
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions14
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM14
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse13
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences13
Urban–rural policy disagreement13
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations13
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability13
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness13
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?13
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy12
Conflicting perceptions: Misalignment between citizens’ and politicians’ evaluations of political conflict12
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy12
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states12
Subjective losers of globalization12
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety12
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right12
Women talking: Bringing the environment into UK parliamentary speeches12
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling12
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?12
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine12
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes12
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making11
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models11
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts11
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits11
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?11
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union11
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent11
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–202311
Are poor people poorly heard?11
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment10
Democratizing the genomic revolution? Comparing democratic innovations in France and the UK10
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting10
Improving hate speech detection with large language models10
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape10
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union10
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective9
Assessing the presidentialisation thesis: Prime ministerial authority in an era of rising centralisation and personalisation9
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention9
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain8
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic8
Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions8
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States8
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems8
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?8
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust8
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device8
The electoral benefits of environmental position-taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20198
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation7
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment7
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries7
In the shadow of the European Council: When and how do national leaders influence everyday law-making?7
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain7
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Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?7
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members7
Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK7
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy7
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction7
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)7
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries7
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings7
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The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective7
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream7
Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe7
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?7
Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation6
Making the case for democracy: A field-experiment on democratic persuasion6
Voting against or against voting?6
Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?6
EJR volume 64 issue 4 Cover and Front matter6
What's left after right-wing extremism? The effects on political orientation6
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan6
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment6
Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations6
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Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences6
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A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness6
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources6
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies6
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Financing the state: Government tax revenue from 1800 to 20126
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation5
United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners5
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments5
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit5
EJR volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming5
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run5
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments5
Power and ideology – A comparison of citizens’ and politicians’ satisfaction with democracy5
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Why do people like technocrats?5
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member-states in the UN General Assembly5
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns5
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?5
Keep positive and defend democracy: Framing democratic messages under authoritarianism5
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization5
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID-19 waves5
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment – ADDENDUM5
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils5
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests5
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences5
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension5
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change5
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties5
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark5
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries5
Climate policy strategies and corporate mobilisation in the European Union5
From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization4
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund4
MAGA & MAGYAR: The strategic use of common sense by Trump and Orbán during their state addresses4
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic4
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support4
Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot4
Globalisation, government partisanship, and labour strike intensity4
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany4
Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany4
One-dimensional, multidimensional, or non-dimensional? Ideological structure in mass and elite opinion4
What kind of energy transition? Public opinion trade-offs between economic growth, ecological sustainability, and equity4
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants4
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?4
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Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics4
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies4
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe4
Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom4
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters4
Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal4
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain3
Why show up? Understanding why politicians attend public meetings3
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment3
Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic3
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members3
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes3
Issue trade-offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies3
How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description3
Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization3
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects3
The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'3
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EJR volume 61 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts3
Everything for the fans: Party responsiveness across the EU over time3
The honest, the efficient, and the trustworthy: National stereotypes and public support for EU redistribution3
Reference groups and electoral behavior3
Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens3
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital3
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions3
A meta-analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities3
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success3
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing3
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