OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 7. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	69
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	55
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	50
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	46
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	40
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	39
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	39
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class	39
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	37
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	37
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	36
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	36
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	36
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	35
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid‐19 protests in multilevel systems	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	28
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities	23
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	22
Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	21
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	21
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	21
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	20
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	19

Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	18
Long‐term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	18
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	17
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	16
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	15
Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	15
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament	15
Age and support for public debt reduction	14
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	14
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Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	13
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	13
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	13
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	13
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?	13
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	13
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	13
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	13
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	13
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	13
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	12
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	12
Issue Information	12
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?	12
When deliberative mini‐publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	12
The people as ‘Volk’ or ‘Bürger’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for the measurement of populist attitudes	12
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	11
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	11
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	11
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	11
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions	11
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	11
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	10
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	10
Subjective losers of globalization	10
Urban–rural policy disagreement	10
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	10
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	10
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	10
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	10
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	9
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap	9
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	9
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	9
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	9
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	9
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations	9
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	9
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	8
Great power dynamics and international economic cooperation: Experimental evidence from parallel surveys in China and the United States	8

The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	8
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	8
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	8
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	8
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	8
Bringing geography back in: Borderlands and public support for the European Union	8
Are poor people poorly heard?	8
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	8
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust	7
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	7
Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries	7
Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings	7
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?	7
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Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK	7
Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective	7
Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic	7
Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi‐site natural experiment	7
The electoral benefits of environmental position‐taking: Floods and electoral outcomes in England 2010–2019	7