OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Research is 8. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The political effects of communicative interventions during crises	106
Public support and advocacy success across the legislative process	77
Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources	73
Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies	73
Quantifying economic policy: Unsupervised learning on archival evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–2021	70
The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey	64
Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning	58
Is ideological polarisation by age group growing in Europe?	55
The backlash against free movement: Does EU‐internal migration fuel public concerns about immigration?	53
Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship	51
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization	51
Excluded but affected? The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy among non-citizens	50
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences	49
Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?	48
Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization	46
Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets	43
Beyond left and right: The role of system trust in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviours across eight western countries	40
Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems	39
The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions	36
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties	36
Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology	35
Changing the relationship status: how coalition history affects voter perceptions of parties	34
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities	33
Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support	31

Differentiation, dominance and fairness in the European Union: Bringing in the citizens’ perspective	29
Correction to (When) do electoral mandates set the agenda? Government capacity and mandate responsiveness in Germany	26
Bounded solidarity? Experimental evidence on cross‐national bonding in the EU during the COVID crisis	26
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Duty calls but not for all: The policy involvement of cabinet ministers during crisis	24
The state and its schooled elite across 84 countries: Educational differences in political trust depend on the schooled society and sector of employment	24
Chosen (not) to win? Party nomination strategies and the unequal class representation in parliament	24
Ethnic party success: Why some minorities have successful ethnic parties and others do not?	23
Long-term income trajectories and the evolution of political attitudes	23
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction	23
Chains in episodes of democratization	22
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation	21
The impact of unelected representatives on citizens’ satisfaction with democracy: A cross-national survey experiment	21
Can the use of minipublics backfire? Examining how policy adoption shapes the effect of minipublics on political support among the general public	20
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe	19
A nativist divide? Anti‐immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe	19
Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe	19
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging	18
Are party families in Europe ideologically coherent today?	18
Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes	18
How the coalition formation process and coalition preferences shape satisfaction with democracy	18
Conceptualizing and measuring district magnitude for comparative research: How to do it and why it matters	18
Voter perceptions and the politics of hidden costs in unilateral sustainable supply chain regulations	18
The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany	18
The paradox of representation: How identity fragmentation complicates voter-party congruence	18
The determinants of the media coverage of politicians: The role of parliamentary activities	17
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?	17
Publicize or Perish—Challenger party success through megaphones and locomotives	17
Age and support for public debt reduction	17
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway	17
Citizens’ issue priorities respond to national conditions, less so to parties’ issue emphases	16
Improving issue representation with candidate‐level voting advice applications	16
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues	16
Compensating the losers: The (limited) elite–public gap in trade politics	16
The people as ‘ Volk ’ or ‘ Bürger ’? The implications of ethnic and civic conceptions of the people for t	15
Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics	15
EJR volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	15
The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?	15
Political constraints, public party funding, and the regulation of political finance: A global study	15
Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments	15
Are right‐wing populists more likely to justify political violence?	15
Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?	15
As you wish? Public preferences for models of representation and MPs’ role orientations	15
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies	15
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media	14
The institutional and political roots of complex policies: Evidence from the European Union	14
Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens	14
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence	14
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies - ERRATUM	14
How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross‐national survey experiment	14

Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self‐rule and for shared rule	13
When deliberative mini-publics’ outcomes and political decisions clash: Examining how responsive communication influences legitimacy perceptions	13
Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness	13
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions	13
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states	13
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership	13
The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes	13
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations	13
Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls?	12
Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences	12
Urban–rural policy disagreement	12
Treaty obligations and support for collective defence: Evidence from Italy after the invasion of Ukraine	12
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse	12
COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy	12
Women talking: Bringing the environment into UK parliamentary speeches	12
Conflicting perceptions: Misalignment between citizens’ and politicians’ evaluations of political conflict	12
Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety	11
With a little help from my friends? The impact of social networks on citizens' forecasting ability	11
Party systems and executive accountability: The politics of investigative committees in Central and Eastern Europe	11
The family policy positions of conservative parties: A farewell to the male‐breadwinner family model?	11
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling	11
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap	11
Subjective losers of globalization	11
The effect of women's parliamentary participation on renewable energy policy outcomes	10
Talking representation: How legislators re‐establish responsiveness in cases of representational deficits	10
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right	10
Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision‐making	10
Chasing the authoritarian spectre: Detecting authoritarian discourse with large language models	9
‘Left behind’ and an undemocratic mind? The link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations	9
The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent	9
Does ideological polarization promote political engagement and trust? Evidence from Swiss panel data, 1999–2023	9
Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts	9
Are poor people poorly heard?	9
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union	9
Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device	8
Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust	8
Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?	8
Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape	8
Democratizing the genomic revolution? Comparing democratic innovations in France and the UK	8
Assessing the presidentialisation thesis: Prime ministerial authority in an era of rising centralisation and personalisation	8
Do business interests control agenda‐setting? Interest groups, policy agendas and media attention	8
Preferences for growth strategies in advanced democracies: A new ‘representation gap’?	8
Improving hate speech detection with large language models	8
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain	8