Journal of European Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of European Public Policy is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies86
The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding: public debates in Hungarian and Polish newspapers84
Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions76
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war67
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration66
Voting Green in European Parliament elections: issue voting in an electoral context62
Religion policy and subnational identity construction in Alsace-Moselle, France, and Catalonia, Spain55
Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection52
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios47
Policy preferences, unity, and floor dissent in the European Parliament42
Dynamics of protest mobilisation in the European poly-crisis42
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: the dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood41
JEPP Reviewer Prize 202041
Externalising internal policies via conflict: the EU’s indirect influence on international institutions40
Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit40
The influence of expert groups: a citation analysis40
Welfare states, media ownership and attitudes towards redistribution39
The polycrisis and EU security and defence competences36
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority36
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy36
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?31
Brexit and UK policy-making: an overview30
Respecting the subject in wellbeing public policy: beyond the social planner perspective30
Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks29
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas29
Geographies of EU dissatisfaction: Does spatial segregation between natives and migrants erode the EU project?28
Euroscepticism as a syndrome of stagnation? Regional inequality and trust in the EU28
Regional inequalities and political trust in a global context28
Economic nationalists, regional investment aid, and the stability of FDI-led growth in East Central Europe27
External democracy promotion in times of internal rule-of-law crisis: the EU and its neighbourhood26
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–202225
Supranational security states for national security problems: governing by rules & capacities in tech-driven security spaces25
Timely climate proposals. Discourse networks and (dis)continuity in European policies25
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies23
How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland23
Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: an analysis of the in-person, online and pivoting styles22
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises22
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine22
Contesting patents on COVID-19 vaccines in the EU: the no profit on pandemic campaign22
NGOs as new Guardians of the Treaties? Analysing the effectiveness of NGOs as decentralised enforcers of EU law22
To play or not to play the ‘moral hazard card’: Germany and the European Union’s response to the Covid-19 crisis21
Referendums as resistance: international pressures and nationalist recoil in Iceland21
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic21
Detecting anticipatory design strategies: the case of asylum policy in Italy20
The challenger advantage – how challenger parties disrupt mainstream party dominance in the European Parliament20
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy20
Europe Re: the rise of the European reinsurance polity20
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions19
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-1919
Communitarians, cosmopolitans, and climate change: why identity matters for EU climate and energy policy19
The ICT revolution and preferences for taxing top earners19
Leadership in EU policy-making: a deep dive into the extension of the EU emissions trading system19
Combating climate change through the welfare state: can social insurance boost support for carbon taxes in Europe?18
Fight or flight? Explaining the role of the European Parliament in the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility18
Revisiting the asymmetry thesis: negative and positive integration in the EU18
Problems chasing missing solutions: the politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda18
The trust deficit. EU bargaining for access and control over cloud infrastructures18
Making space: citizens, parties and interest groups in two ideological dimensions17
Policy-taking styles: a typology and an empirical application to anti-Covid policies17
The institutional position of national parliaments in the European Union: developments, explanations, effects16
Do different parties respond to different problems? A comparative study of parliamentary questions across multiple countries16
Citizens’ agreement to share personal data for public policies: trust and issue importance16
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state16
Do Member States’ permanent representations matter for their bargaining success? Evidence from the EU Council of Ministers16
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic16
The use of pseudo-causal narratives in EU policies: the case of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa16
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union16
Leadership in European crisis politics: France, Germany, and the difficult quest for regional stabilization and integration16
Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts16
Can EU judicial intervention increase polity scepticism? Quasi-experimental evidence from Spain15
Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies15
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach15
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?15
Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us14
How does fiscal austerity affect trust in the European Union? Analyzing the role of responsibility attribution14
Entangled agencies and embedded preferences: National Regulatory Agencies in multi-level European governance14
Crisis pressures and European integration14
Enforcing EU policies: why do EU legislators prefer new networks of national authorities and not existing EU agencies?14
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis13
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-1913
‘Transposition’ of EU regulations: the politics of supplementing EU regulations with national rules13
How should the EU respond to democratic backsliding? A normative assessment of expulsion and suspension of voting rights from the perspective of multilateral democracy13
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines13
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis12
The roots of Dutch frugality: the role of public choice theory in Dutch budgetary policy12
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain12
Compensating for the effects of emigration. Eastern Europe and policy response to EU freedom of movement12
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?12
A taxing issue: the constraining effects of historical state capacity on European property taxes today12
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission12
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups12
Trade-offs of government credibility institutions: market credibility vs. social credibility12
Divergence and continuity after Brexit in agriculture12
Spinning a global web of EU external relations: how the EU establishes stronger joint bodies where they matter most11
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 202111
A different logic of polity building? The Russian invasion of Ukraine and EU citizens’ demand for social security11
Wartime super-spillover? The perils and limits of a neofunctionalist approach to Ukraine’s single market integration11
Single issue EU referendums: tying hands, domestic effects and the challenge of consentification11
Parallel, divergent or drifting? Regulating healthcare products in a post-Brexit UK11
Tit for tat? EU risk-sharing and experienced reciprocity11
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic11
Perceptions of (unequal) responsiveness and their consequences for electoral participation11
Responsive voters – how European integration empowers Eurosceptic parties10
EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?10
Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?10
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database10
The populist challenge to European defense10
Informal procedures, institutional change, and EU decision-making: evaluating the effects of the 1974 Paris summit10
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation10
Higher education and research in the Brexit policy process10
TV debates in EP election campaigns – the influence of the 2019 Eurovision debate on voting behaviour10
Immigration as a thermostat? Public opinion and immigration policy across Western Europe (1980–2017)10
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive10
Solidarity or self-reliance? German mainstream party ideology and the European integration of core state powers9
The other side of agency: bricolage and institutional continuity9
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters9
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences9
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation9
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift9
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions9
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?9
Towards an integrated approach to EU foreign policy? Horizontal spillover across the humanitarian–development and the security–migration interfaces9
How policy growth affects policy implementation: bureaucratic overload and policy triage9
Independent agencies, credible policies? The role of prior beliefs in shaping stakeholder perceptions of credibility in a contested environment9
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy9
Diagnosing individual barriers to collective learning: how governance contexts shape cognitive biases8
Legitimising green monetary policies: market liberalism, layered central banking, and the ECB’s ongoing discursive shift from environmental risks to price stability8
Did pandemic responses trigger corruption in public procurement? Comparing Italy and Germany8
The anachronism of bellicist state-building8
Unleashed dialogue or captured by politics? The impact of judicial independence on national higher courts’ cooperation with the CJEU8
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe8
The JEPP Story: a lot of ‘good reads’8
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.8
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change8
The EU and Internet standards – Beyond the spin, a strategic turn?8
Pandemic narratives and policy responses: west European governments and COVID-198
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond8
The politics of taxing multinational firms in a digital age8
Follow the leader: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the EU's rule of law revolution8
Post-Brexit financial services in the EU8
Beyond ‘economic nationalism’? The (limited) influence of populist parties on public procurement in France and Germany8
Crisis situation and crisis policymaking: a comparison of Germany and Hungary in two refugee crises8
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities8
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda7
Contested comitology? The overlooked importance of the EU Commission7
From Realpolitik to Gefühlspolitik : strategically narrating the European Union at the national level7
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain7
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired7
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management7
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy7
The activation of nationalist attitudes: how voters respond to far-right parties’ campaigns7
Of devils, angels and brokers: how social network positions affect misperceptions of political influence7
Europe and the transnational politics of emergency7
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions7
Helping citizens to lobby themselves. Experimental evidence on the effects of citizen lobby engagement on internal efficacy and political support7
Issue salience and feedback effects: the case of pension reforms7
The politics of IO authority transfers: explaining informal internationalisation and unilateral renationalisation7
Digital practices for consumer e-participation in economic regulation and the role of organisational capacity7
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty7
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity7
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap7
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?7
Avoiding or engaging problems? Issue ownership, problem indicators, and party issue competition7
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union7
The EU’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic: disintegration or ‘failing forward’?7
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism7
The making of landmark rulings in the European Union: the case of national judicial independence7
Hybrid organisations and governance systems: the case of the European Space Agency7
Effective and democratic policymaking during a major crisis: an in-depth analysis of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership after Russia attacked Ukraine7
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies7
The durability–flexibility dialectic: the evolution of decarbonisation policies in the European Union7
From accountability victim to accountability entrepreneur: testing reputation-informed explanations of voluntary accountability among European Union agencies7
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers7
Political work in the stability and growth pact7
Pandemic bordering: domestic politicisation, European coordination, and national border closures in the COVID-19 crisis7
What drives engagement in the Clean Energy Ministerial? An assessment of domestic-level factors7
Manipulation as theft6
Migration levels and welfare support: evidence from the local level6
Editorial announcement - ‘Best paper prize’ 20206
Party ideologies and European foreign policy. Examining the transnational foreign policy space6
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking6
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking6
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform6
Administrative traditions and the effectiveness of regulation6
Editorial announcement6
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence6
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’6
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy6
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises6
The domestic sources of sub-state foreign policymaking: determinants of subnational development cooperation across European regions6
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?6
The UK government’s Northern Ireland policy after Brexit: a retreat to unilateralism and muscular unionism6
Undermining lobbying coalitions: the interest group politics of EU copyright reform6
Multilevel governance and political leadership: crisis communication in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation6
The Commissioner vs the states: responsiveness and responsibility in European tax governance6
Evaluating crisis response speed of international organisations: why it matters and how to achieve it6
The knowledge economy and taxes on the rich6
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?6
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state6
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–20145
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?5
Politicisation, business lobbying, and the design of preferential trade agreements5
JEPP Best Paper Prize 20235
The core of organisational reputation: taking multidimensionality, audience multiplicity, and agency subunits seriously5
Democracy challenged: how parties politicize different democratic principles5
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation5
‘Best Paper Prize’ 20225
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)5
Editorial announcement - ‘Best Paper Prize’ 20215
Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues?5
Making regulation flexible for the governance of disruptive innovation: A comparative study of AVs regulation in the United Kingdom and South Korea5
Balancing reputational strategies in the European administrative space: how private actors and agencies talk about regulation5
The regulatory security state in Europe5
The future might be female: how does the public perceive experts?5
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building5
Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue5
Gender cleavage and political parties in 19 welfare states, 1900–19755
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections5
The direction of gender equality policy in Britain post-Brexit: towards a masculinised Westminster model5
To consent, or not to consent? The publicness effect on citizens’ willingness to grant access to personal data in the face of a health crisis5
When talk meets actions – return to Commission leadership in EU environmental policy-making with the European Green Deal5
Delegation and stewardship in international organizations5
A solidarity bias? Assessing the effects of individual transnationalism on redistributive solidarity in the EU5
The ECB and the inflation monsters: strategic framing and the responsibility imperative (1998–2023)5
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting5
Compassion towards clients: a scale and test on frontline workers’ burnout5
Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space5
How differentiated integration shapes the constraining dissensus5
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic4
Is there an East–West divide on democracy in the European Union? Evidence from democratic backsliding and attitudes towards rule of law interventions4
Introduction: escaping the politics trap? EU integration pathways beyond the polycrisis4
Supranational responses to democratic backsliding: norm contestation and discursive polarisation in the European Parliament4
How policy entrepreneurship training affects policy entrepreneurship behavior among street-level bureaucrats – a randomized field experiment4
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections4
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn4
Core-periphery divisions in the EU? East-west and north-south tensions compared4
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing4
The power of ‘weak’ institutions: assessing the EU’s emerging institutional architecture for improving the implementation and enforcement of joint policies4
The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance4
Mapping the discourse on evidence-based policy, artificial intelligence, and the ethical practice of policy analysis4
New Nordic pathways? Explaining Nordic countries’ defence policy choices in the wake of the Ukrainian war4
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis4
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding4
Locality as a safe haven: place-based resentment and political trust in local and national institutions4
A widening authority–legitimacy gap in EU regulatory governance? An experimental study of the European Medicines Agency’s legitimacy in health security regulation4
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis4
Digital sovereignty - Rhetoric and reality4
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income4
Politicization and rebordering in EU enlargement: membership discourses in European parliaments4
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