Journal of European Public Policy

Article	Citations
Liberal-democratic self-defense through rights restrictions: the European Court of Human Rights between enabling self-defense and constraining governmental overreach	171
Solidarity in the European Union and the resilience of the state as a communicative frame	109
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	107
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union	105
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	103
Puzzling or powering? How fiscal communication reflects the politicisation of the European Central Bank	90
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	78
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	71
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	69
Justifying European border policies: a quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-2023	69
Democratic governance and policy complexity: revisiting the intelligence of democracy	64
How policy capacities shape the green transition: explaining the use of EU sustainable finance in the EU’s Central and Eastern European member states	60
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off	60
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	59
A sentence-based approach to measuring EU regulatory activity	59
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats	57
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	55
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	52
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	52
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	49
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	49
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	47
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	46
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	45
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	45

War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	42
Policy information and opinion change: panel studies from European Union referendums	39
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	39
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	39
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections	38
Bonding through crises: how the EU social dimension fuels and counteracts Euroscepticism	37
Bargaining hard or hardly bargaining? Brexit and the populist renegotiation of international agreements	35
External pressure, bureaucratic politics and policy insiders: the policy shaping influence of internal coordination processes on European Commission Strategies	35
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	34
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	32
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	32
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	31
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	30
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	30
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy	30
The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU	29
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	29
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections	29
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues	28
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions	28
Polarized public agenda in times of crisis	27
Change against the odds: crisis policy feedback in a politicised EU	27
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates	26
Do gender quotas increase legislative voting attendance? The case of the European Parliament	26
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe	26
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit	26
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)	26
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy	26
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity	25
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament	24
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe	24
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field	24
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine	23
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors	23
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation	23
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy	23
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy	22
Crisis governance and protest during the covid-19 pandemic in Europe: a conditional grievance theory	22
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?	22
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link	22
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors	22
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings	22
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad	22
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe	21
The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis	21
Punctuated politics: the rise and fall of politicization in the EU's refugee crisis	21
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry	20
European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement	20
Simulating democratic reform in the EU: self-legitimation through participatory innovation	20
Solving AI ethics? Hybrid expertise and professional power in EU ethics governance	20

Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation	20
The European Commission’s response to national emergency regimes within the EU’s asylum policy: from rejection to accommodation	20
Puzzling, powering, profiting: the politics of sustainable finance in the European Union	20
Correction	19
JEPP reviewer prize 2022	19
Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program	19
Political trust and redistribution preferences	19
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 2023	19
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries	19
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?	18
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?	18
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?	17
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?	17
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas	17
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe	17
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries	17
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty	17
Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility	17
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach	17
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	17
The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?	17
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*	17
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning	17
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms	17
Externally driven integration in EU migration policy: enabling integration through indifference, undermining it through conflictive politicisation	17
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement	17
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?	16
Technological change and support for redistributive politics	16
Same pressures, different paths: external economic competition, intra-commission politics, and the institutionalisation of IPCEIs in EU industrial policy	16
Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation	16
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	15
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union	15
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management	15
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament	15
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy	15
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism	15
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy	15
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises	15
When democracy erodes at home, the EU loses clout abroad? The EU’s ability to promote democracy externally while backsliding internally	15
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired	14
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine	14
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe	14
Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames	14
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond	14
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.	14
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking	14
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine	14
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences	14
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting	13
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control: implications for European democracies	13
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour	13
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies	13
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking	13
Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer: how agencies use stakeholders to bolster their authority	13
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database	13
From policy access to lobbying influence: comparing exchange, insider and signalling models	13
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities	13
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises	13
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	13
Pinning down an octopus: towards an operational definition of AI systems in the EU AI Act	13
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity	13
Breaking the stalemate: Europeans' preferences to expand, cut, or sustain support to Ukraine	13
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive	13
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good	13
‘Best Paper Prize’ 2022	13
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation	13
Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation	13
Credible resistance or political ploy? How government status and consistency shape citizen perceptions of parliamentarians’ democratic defence	12
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic	12
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters	12
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland	12
Systemic Pensions: The Epistemic Politics of Liability-Driven Investment Strategies	12
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?	12
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	12
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges	12
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism	12
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU	12
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–2014	12
Who got what they wanted? Investigating the role of institutional agenda setting, costly policies, and status quo bias as explanations to income based unequal responsiveness	12
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	12

Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states	12
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland	12
Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups	12
When place shapes attitudes: explaining rural discontent with climate policies	11
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union	11
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration	11
The traveller's guide to policy learning	11
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 2022	11
Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform	11
For want of a champion: why the EU won’t be ready for the next public health crisis	11
JEPP Reviewer Prize 2023	11
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
Forced exit from the joint-decision trap: US power and the harmonisation of company taxation in the EU	11
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy: a process-tracing analysis of the executive state law in Greece	11
JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024	10
How terrorist attacks distort public debates: a comparative study of right-wing and Islamist extremism	10
‘Depoliticised’ regulators as a source of politicisation: rationing drugs in England and France	10
How the impossible became possible: evolving frames and narratives on responsibility and responsiveness from the Eurocrisis to NextGenerationEU	10
Introduction: Regional inequality and political discontent in Europe	10
At the last minute: the use of the prime minister's power to amend the agenda during a crisis	10
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning	10
Bureaucratic politics, risk management, and agency strategy: a study of agency management in a gale	9
Beyond the regulatory state? The European Defence Fund and national military capacities	9
Unravelling national governments’ positions on EU rule of law enforcement: structural, semi-structural and ideological factors	9
Occupy the semantic space! Opening up the language of better regulation	9
Populist agenda-setting	9
How parties respond to protests in a changing political landscape	9
Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda	9
EU sectoral integration in the Eastern Neighbourhood: the case of Frontex-Moldova relations in border management	9
Mainstream party agenda-responsiveness and the electoral success of right-wing populist parties in Europe	9
Persistent informality: preparing the EU’s input into international climate negotiations	9
Theorising European integration: the four phases since Ernst Haas’ original contribution	9
Countering autocratization in a contested liberal international order: comparing the role of EU conditionality in Georgia (2022–2024) and Slovakia (1994–1998)	9
Ownership of national recovery plans: next generation EU and democratic legitimacy	9
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies	9
Administrating crisis is just a transition: interventions on bureaucratic activity in the United Kingdom, 1987–2022	9
Seeing Europe like a state	9
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies	9
Responsible judges or judging responsibilities? EU Court of Justice, Bundesverfassungsgericht and EU economic governance	9
Social identities and deadlocked debates on nuclear energy policy	9
The politics of policy analysis: theoretical insights on real world problems	9
Governing AI through ethical standards: learning from the experiences of other private governance initiatives	9
Might bigger be better? How European Union competition policy became geopolitical	9
Policy-taking styles: a typology and an empirical application to anti-Covid policies	8
Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism	8
Policymaking in times of crisis	8
Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit	8
Becoming Sweden: unpacking women's representation and welfare state building from a historical perspective	8
Fight or flight? Explaining the role of the European Parliament in the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility	8
Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals	8
From accountability victim to accountability entrepreneur: testing reputation-informed explanations of voluntary accountability among European Union agencies	8
Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council	8
Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies	8
How EU industrial policy got its groove back: securitisation and governance shifts in the geoeconomic era	8
Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe	8
Spinning a global web of EU external relations: how the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most	8
Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions	8
Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection	8
The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers	8
Populist radical right party representation and satisfaction with democracy in Europe	8
Immigration as a thermostat? Public opinion and immigration policy across Western Europe (1980–2017)	7
Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare	7
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity	7
The EU and Internet standards – Beyond the spin, a strategic turn?	7
A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?	7
Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right	7
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?	7
Legitimising green monetary policies: market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability	7
Framing enlargement after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: between geopolitical drivers and procedural roadblocks	7
Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions	7
TV debates in EP election campaigns – the influence of the 2019 Eurovision debate on voting behaviour	7
Public perceptions of defence policy in times of crisis: evidence from France during the Ukraine war	7
JEPP Best Paper Prize 2023	7
Rage against the machine? Generative AI exposure, subjective risk, and policy preferences	7
Jeremy Richardson Best Paper Prize 2025	7
EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?	7
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 policy	7
Privatised technological sovereignty: the IRIS² space project and state-capital relations in the European Union	7
Towards an integrated approach to EU foreign policy? Horizontal spillover across the humanitarian–development and the security–migration interfaces	7
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers	7
Gender cleavage and political parties in 19 welfare states, 1900–1975	7
Crisis windows and reversible empowerment in the EU’s common foreign and security policy	7
Independent agencies, credible policies? The role of prior beliefs in shaping stakeholder perceptions of credibility in a contested environment	7
Public preferences for governing AI technology: Comparative evidence	6
The advent of polity conditionality as a new form of internal governance in the European Union	6
Will the European Union escape its autocracy trap?	6
The distributive politics of the green transition: a conjoint experiment on EU climate change mitigation policy	6
Sanctioning democratic backsliding in the European Union: transnational salience, negative intergovernmental spillover, and policy change	6
The firm logic of parallel lobbying: explaining why corporations lobby directly in addition to their associations	6
2025: a transition update	6
The changing geography of support for European integration in the shadow of the Ukraine war	6
Reputational drivers and deterrents of accountability: why are some EU agencies subject to more intense account-holding than others?	6
Robodebt and the limits of learning: exploring meaning-making after a crisis	6
Supranational detectives? Transnational market abuse and the politics of surveillance delegation in the EU	6