OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	55
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	52
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	51
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	44
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	40
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	39
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	34
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	33
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	32
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	31
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left‐right ideology	30
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems	30
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	28
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	28
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	25
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	24
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	23
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	23
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	22
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	21
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 public	20
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	20
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	20
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	17

Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	17
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	16
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	16
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	15
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	13
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Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	13
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	13
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	12
Age and support for public debt reduction	12
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 activities	12
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	11
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	11
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
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	11
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	11
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes	11
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	11
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	11
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	11
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	10
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	10
Urban–rural policy disagreement	10
How parties led by a woman redefine their positions: Empirical evidence for women's green, alternative and libertarian agenda	10
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	10
Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision‐making processes	10
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	10
Issue Information	10
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	10
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	10
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	9
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	9
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	9
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	9
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	9
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	9
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	8
Subjective losers of globalization	8
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	8
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	8
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 models	8
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy	8
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	8
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	7
Europe's migration crisis: Local contact and out‐group hostility	7
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	7

Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	7
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 experts	7
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union	6
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	6
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	6
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 trust	6
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States	6
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	6
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown with a natural experiment	6