Journal of European Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of European Public Policy is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022159
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach105
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame103
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions102
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union96
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups88
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy77
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-202370
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states67
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios63
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union60
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off59
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity59
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity58
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats57
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change55
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation53
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy52
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift49
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap48
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?47
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe45
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters45
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation45
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)44
Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements40
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises39
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies39
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’38
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state38
Bonding through crises: how the EU social dimension fuels and counteracts Euroscepticism36
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis35
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing33
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis32
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe32
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections31
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation30
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU29
Policy information and opinion change: panel studies from European Union referendums29
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues29
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections29
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn29
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy29
Change against the odds: crisis policy feedback in a politicised EU28
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy27
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy27
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors26
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions26
Do gender quotas increase legislative voting attendance? The case of the European Parliament25
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)25
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit25
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation25
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity24
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates24
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe24
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field23
Polarized public agenda in times of crisis23
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy23
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors22
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe22
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine22
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?22
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament22
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks22
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings21
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe21
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation21
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry21
Crisis governance and protest during the covid-19 pandemic in Europe: a conditional grievance theory21
The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis21
Punctuated politics: the rise and fall of politicization in the EU's refugee crisis20
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad20
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link20
Puzzling, powering, profiting: the politics of sustainable finance in the European Union20
The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy: from rejection to accommodation20
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance20
Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program19
JEPP reviewer prize 202219
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*19
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement19
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries19
Simulating democratic reform in the EU: self-legitimation through participatory innovation19
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?18
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning18
Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation18
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries17
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?17
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty17
Political trust and redistribution preferences17
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 202317
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?17
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement17
Correction17
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?16
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy16
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine16
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe16
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas16
Technological change and support for redistributive politics16
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy16
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms16
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach16
Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility15
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?15
Same pressures, different paths: external economic competition, intra-commission politics, and the institutionalisation of IPCEIs in EU industrial policy15
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises15
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament15
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?15
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism14
Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation14
When democracy erodes at home, the EU loses clout abroad? The EU’s ability to promote democracy externally while backsliding internally14
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war14
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies14
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive14
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises14
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database14
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management14
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union14
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy14
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking14
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences13
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine13
Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames13
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe13
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour13
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond13
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired13
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.13
‘Best Paper Prize’ 202213
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking13
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine13
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good13
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions13
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation13
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding12
Who got what they wanted? Investigating the role of institutional agenda setting, costly policies, and status quo bias as explanations to income based unequal responsiveness12
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity12
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation12
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine12
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic12
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?12
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland12
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building12
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act12
Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer: how agencies use stakeholders to bolster their authority12
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges12
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–201412
Credible resistance or political ploy? How government status and consistency shape citizen perceptions of parliamentarians’ democratic defence12
From policy access to lobbying influence: comparing exchange, insider and signalling models12
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting12
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies12
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland11
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 202211
Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?11
From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019)11
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy: a process-tracing analysis of the executive state law in Greece11
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU11
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union11
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism11
JEPP Reviewer Prize 202311
How terrorist attacks distort public debates: a comparative study of right-wing and Islamist extremism11
At the last minute: the use of the prime minister's power to amend the agenda during a crisis11
Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups11
Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states11
Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform11
Systemic Pensions: The Epistemic Politics of Liability-Driven Investment Strategies11
For want of a champion: why the EU won’t be ready for the next public health crisis11
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters11
‘Depoliticised’ regulators as a source of politicisation: rationing drugs in England and France10
Forced exit from the joint-decision trap: US power and the harmonisation of company taxation in the EU10
JEPP Best Paper Prize 202410
Introduction: Regional inequality and political discontent in Europe10
How the impossible became possible: evolving frames and narratives on responsibility and responsiveness from the Eurocrisis to NextGenerationEU10
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration10
Social identities and deadlocked debates on nuclear energy policy9
Populist agenda-setting9
Responsible judges or judging responsibilities? EU Court of Justice, Bundesverfassungsgericht and EU economic governance9
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies9
Administrating crisis is just a transition: interventions on bureaucratic activity in the United Kingdom, 1987–20229
Beyond the regulatory state? The European Defence Fund and national military capacities9
Unravelling national governments’ positions on EU rule of law enforcement: structural, semi-structural and ideological factors9
EU sectoral integration in the Eastern Neighbourhood: the case of Frontex-Moldova relations in border management9
Seeing Europe like a state9
Ownership of national recovery plans: next generation EU and democratic legitimacy9
Bureaucratic politics, risk management, and agency strategy: a study of agency management in a gale9
The politics of policy analysis: theoretical insights on real world problems9
Governing AI through ethical standards: learning from the experiences of other private governance initiatives9
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning9
Mainstream party agenda-responsiveness and the electoral success of right-wing populist parties in Europe9
Persistent informality: preparing the EU’s input into international climate negotiations9
The traveller's guide to policy learning9
Occupy the semantic space! Opening up the language of better regulation9
Countering autocratization in a contested liberal international order: comparing the role of EU conditionality in Georgia (2022–2024) and Slovakia (1994–1998)9
Theorising European integration: the four phases since Ernst Haas’ original contribution9
The EU and Internet standards – Beyond the spin, a strategic turn?8
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity8
Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit8
Spinning a global web of EU external relations: how the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most8
How EU industrial policy got its groove back: securitisation and governance shifts in the geoeconomic era8
Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies8
Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda8
Fight or flight? Explaining the role of the European Parliament in the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility8
From accountability victim to accountability entrepreneur: testing reputation-informed explanations of voluntary accountability among European Union agencies8
Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right8
Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection8
Policy-taking styles: a typology and an empirical application to anti-Covid policies8
Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals8
The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers8
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic8
How parties respond to protests in a changing political landscape8
Policymaking in times of crisis8
Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism8
Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe8
Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council8
Populist radical right party representation and satisfaction with democracy in Europe8
Might bigger be better? How European Union competition policy became geopolitical8
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies8
Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions8
Framing enlargement after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: between geopolitical drivers and procedural roadblocks7
EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?7
Independent agencies, credible policies? The role of prior beliefs in shaping stakeholder perceptions of credibility in a contested environment7
TV debates in EP election campaigns – the influence of the 2019 Eurovision debate on voting behaviour7
War as external cause: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the theorising of European integration and EU politics, and the EU’s arduous formation in foreign and security policy7
Rage against the machine? Generative AI exposure, subjective risk, and policy preferences7
Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions7
Public perceptions of defence policy in times of crisis: evidence from France during the Ukraine war7
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers7
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?7
Immigration as a thermostat? Public opinion and immigration policy across Western Europe (1980–2017)7
Towards an integrated approach to EU foreign policy? Horizontal spillover across the humanitarian–development and the security–migration interfaces7
Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare7
Privatised technological sovereignty: the IRIS² space project and state-capital relations in the European Union7
The changing geography of support for European integration in the shadow of the Ukraine war6
Bread or roses? Trade unions, female employment and the expansion of work-family policies6
Opting out of an EU identity? The effects of differentiated integration on European identity6
A two-dimensional conflict? The new politics of minimum income reform in Southern Europe6
The distributive politics of the green transition: a conjoint experiment on EU climate change mitigation policy6
Public preferences for governing AI technology: Comparative evidence6
Process and position power: a social relational research agenda about state power in negotiations6
Spending conditionality in the EU and in the US. Prospects on the EU fiscal integration6
The end of negative market integration: 60 years of free movement of goods litigation in the EU (1961–2020)6
European capitalisms in sustainability transition: the case of green bonds6
European Union versus core state powers: the customisation of EU fiscal policy6
The implementation of decentralisation reforms in multi-level systems6
The limits of EU rule of law financial sanctions: how economic and political costs shaped Hungary’s selective compliance strategy6
The politics of production and social reproduction6
Free riding is not the problem: how agency, heterogeneity and authority challenge collective action against antimicrobial resistance in the European Union6
Supranational detectives? Transnational market abuse and the politics of surveillance delegation in the EU6
2025: a transition update6
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