European Journal of Political Research

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Political Research is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class55
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–202152
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process51
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning44
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?40
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies39
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?34
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources33
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization32
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries31
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems30
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology30
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions28
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship28
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets25
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences24
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support23
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis23
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany22
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?21
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis21
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction20
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective20
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 Europe17
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes17
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe16
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe16
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany15
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Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway13
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?13
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes13
Age and support for public debt reduction12
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?12
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities12
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives12
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union11
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics11
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes11
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes11
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications11
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases11
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations11
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens11
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?11
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?11
How parties led by a woman redefine their positions: Empirical evidence for women's green, alternative and libertarian agenda10
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment10
Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision‐making processes10
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership10
Issue Information10
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences10
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?10
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule10
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions10
Urban–rural policy disagreement10
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling9
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy9
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
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states9
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine9
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent8
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes8
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?8
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models8
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy8
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety8
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits8
Subjective losers of globalization8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union7
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?7
Are poor people poorly heard?7
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts7
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making7
Europe's migration crisis: Local contact and out‐group hostility7
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape7
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device6
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?6
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust6
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States6
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective6
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment6
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union6
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic6
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Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK5
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries5
Do opportunistic snap elections affect political trust? Evidence from a natural experiment5
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention5
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When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting5
It's about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members5
Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?5
Carbon inequality and support for carbon taxation5
Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi‐party systems5
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment5
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings5
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The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–20195
The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?4
Public opinion towards welfare state reform: The role of political trust and government satisfaction4
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What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation4
The consistency principle: Crisis perceptions, partisanship and public support for democratic norms in comparative perspective4
Do parties benefit from overhauling their image? The electoral consequences of ‘party rebranding’ in Europe4
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain4
Issue Information4
Class cleavage electoral structuring in Western Europe (1871–2020)4
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy4
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources4
Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries4
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A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness3
Why do people like technocrats?3
Vox populi, vox dei? The effect of sociotropic and egocentric incongruence on democratic preferences3
The politicisation of internet privacy regulation3
Making the case for democracy: A field‐experiment on democratic persuasion3
Government dominance and the role of opposition in parliamentary democracies3
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Can responsibility attributions be sensible in the presence of partisan‐motivated reasoning?3
Issue politicization and social class: How the electoral supply activates class divides in political preferences3
Policy discounting across and beyond the lifespan3
United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners3
Deontological and consequentialist preferences towards arms exports: A comparative conjoint experiment in France and Germany2
Do voters' biases impede future‐oriented policy‐making?2
A regional perspective to the study of affective polarization2
Effect of leader gender on countries' performance: Evidence from four COVID‐19 waves2
Adaptation or inflexibility? Niche party responsiveness to policy competition, with evidence from regionalist parties2
Closed shutters or revolving doors? Elite career track similarity and elite sector transfers in Denmark2
Differentiating the sources of post‐election partisan affect warming2
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run2
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non‐radical right supporters2
Party preferences, individual views and mobility during the pandemic2
Citizen conceptions of democracy and support for artificial intelligence in government and politics2
Issue Information2
Male MPs, electoral vulnerability and the substantive representation of women's interests2
Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?2
Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘none of the above’ choice in eight countries2
Who's to blame? How performance evaluation and partisanship influence responsibility attribution in grand coalition governments2
‘Stop torpedoing women's rights!’: Feminist institutional responses to anti‐gender politics in Spain and Catalonia parliaments2
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change2
Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom2
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe2
Stability and change in political trust: Evidence and implications from six panel studies2
Dimensions of polarization, realignment and electoral participation in Europe: The mobilizing power of the cultural dimension2
Drivers of differentiation between EU Member‐states in the UN General Assembly2
Unpacking the politics of legislative debates2
The times they are a‐changin': An experimental assessment of the causes and consequences of sudden policy U‐turns2
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils2
Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit2
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund2
Us versus them: Do the rules of the game encourage negative partisanship?2
Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: The electoral consequences of the coal phase‐out in Germany2
Issue trade‐offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies1
Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot1
Legislative performance and the electoral connection in European Parliament elections1
Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited1
Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic1
Rising inequality and public support for redistribution1
A compromising mindset? How citizens evaluate the trade‐offs in coalition politics1
Comparing political participation profiles in four Western European countries1
Investing in the knowledge economy: The comparative political economy of public investments in knowledge‐based capital1
It's trade, stupid! How changes in trade competitiveness affect incumbents' electoral success1
Party system institutionalization and the durability of competitive authoritarian regimes1
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective1
It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members1
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice1
Financial regulatory conundrums in the North Atlantic1
Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it make a difference? Evidence from an endorsement experiment with the bureaucracy1
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis1
The effect of politically homogenous neighbourhoods on affective polarization: Evidence from Britain1
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries1
Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing1
‘Stick to the status quo’? A conjoint experiment with German adolescents on democratic designs1
A meta‐analysis of the effects of democratic innovations on participants’ attitudes, behaviour and capabilities1
The electoral risks of austerity1
A political Esperanto, or false friends? Left and right in different political contexts1
Russian aggression and Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU – Evidence from the 2014 annexation of Crimea1
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Citizens’ perceptions of online abuse directed at politicians: Evidence from a survey experiment1
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and COVID‐19 deaths across European regions1
Public opinion towards interest groups: The differential impact of ties to cause and business groups1
How political and social constituent traits affect the responsiveness of legislators: A Comparative Field Experiment1
Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists1
Coalition bargaining time and governments’ policy‐making productivity1
Mainstreaming democratic backsliding: The role of gender stereotypes1
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Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis1
When does ideology matter? Party lists, personal attributes and the effect of ideology on intra‐party success1
How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination1
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The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms1
Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi‐experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal1
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