OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy is 9. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis	86
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration	76
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?	75
Lockdown policies and the dynamics of the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe	74
Postfunctionalism reversed: solidarity and rebordering during the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Rebordering Europe: external boundaries and integration in the European Union	62
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?	58
Crisis pressures and European integration	55
Is populism a challenge to European energy and climate policy? Empirical evidence across varieties of populism	52
Work, family, Fatherland: the political economy of populism in central and Eastern Europe	50
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda	47
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	41
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-19	41
Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms	40
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy	40
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?	39
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?	36
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers	35
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	34
The European Commission and the COVID-19 pandemic: a pluri-institutional approach	34
Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?	32
Role of the state and responsibility in governing artificial intelligence: a comparative analysis of AI strategies	31
Fractionalized but ambitious? Voting on energy and climate policy in the European Parliament	31
From emissions trading to the European Green Deal: the evolution of the climate policy mix and climate policy integration in the EU	30
Europe and the transnational politics of emergency	30

European emergency politics and the question of legitimacy	30
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-19	28
The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law	27
‘I did it my way’: customisation and practical compliance with EU policies	27
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning	27
Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology	26
British economic regulators in an age of politicisation: from the responsible to the responsive regulatory state?	25
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration	25
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence	25
Failing forward in the EU's common security and defense policy: the integration of EU crisis management	25
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	25
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis	24
Crisis management performance and the European Union: the case of COVID-19	23
The rhetoric of inaction: failing to fail forward in the EU’s rule of law crisis	23
Pandemic narratives and policy responses: west European governments and COVID-19	22
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority	22
The use of pseudo-causal narratives in EU policies: the case of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa	22
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies	21
Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy	21
How does income inequality affect the support for populist parties?	20
Debordering and re-bordering in the refugee crisis: a case of ‘defensive integration’	20
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market	20
Public support for differentiated integration: individual liberal values and concerns about member state discrimination	20
Fence-sitters no more: Southern and Central Eastern European Member States’ role in the deadlock of the CEAS reform	20
An unexpected climate activist: central banks and the politics of the climate-neutral economy	20
Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?	20
A new dataset on legislative decision-making in the European Union: the DEU III dataset	19
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy	19
Quick and dirty: how populist parties in government affect greenhouse gas emissions in EU member states	19
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain	19
From a liberal to a strategic actor: the evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance	19
Policy narratives, localisation, and public justification: responses to COVID-19	18
Policy complexity in the European Union, 1993-today: introducing the EUPLEX dataset	18
Economic ideas, party politics, or material interests? Explaining Germany’s support for the EU corona recovery plan	18
Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue	18
Algorithms, data, and platforms: the diverse challenges of governing AI	18
The populist challenge to European defense	18
Strategic silence or regulatory talk? Regulatory agency responses to public allegations amidst the glyphosate controversy	17
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform	17
The regulatory security state in Europe	17
Rapid or long-term employment? A Scandinavian comparative study of refugee integration policies and employment outcomes	17
The EU’s reaction in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic between centralisation and decentralisation, formality and informality	16
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	16
The institutional position of national parliaments in the European Union: developments, explanations, effects	16
Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses	16
Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade	16
Politicization and rebordering in EU enlargement: membership discourses in European parliaments	16
Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us	16
Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany	16

The securitization of the EU’s digital tech regulation	16
The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance	16
Re-examining policy stability in climate adaptation through a lock-in perspective	16
The EU’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic: disintegration or ‘failing forward’?	15
The evolution of behaviourally informed policy-making in the EU	15
EU agencies’ stakeholder bodies: vehicles of enhanced control, legitimacy or bias?	15
Re-bordering Europe? Collective action barriers to ‘Fortress Europe’	15
Seeing Europe like a state	14
Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts	14
The historical origins of wealth taxation	14
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions	14
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty	13
Beyond the regulatory state? The European Defence Fund and national military capacities	13
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines	13
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income	13
Failing forward in Eastern Enlargement: problem solving through problem making	12
The multidimensionality of public support for basic income: a vignette experiment in Belgium	12
Political work in the stability and growth pact	12
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic	12
Why the European Parliament lost the Spitzenkandidaten-process	12
Why is it so difficult to tax the rich? Evidence from German policy-makers	12
How policy growth affects policy implementation: bureaucratic overload and policy triage	12
Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines	12
The durability–flexibility dialectic: the evolution of decarbonisation policies in the European Union	12
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	12
Failing outward: power politics, regime complexity, and failing forward under deadlock	11
The power of ‘weak’ institutions: assessing the EU’s emerging institutional architecture for improving the implementation and enforcement of joint policies	11
Engaging the disengaged? Explaining the participation of Eurosceptic MEPs in trilogue negotiations	11
Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament	11
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom	11
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	11
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission	11
Regulating with the masses? Mapping the spread of participatory regulation	11
Accelerating low carbon transitions via budgetary processes? EU climate governance in times of crisis	11
Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28	11
Leadership in European crisis politics: France, Germany, and the difficult quest for regional stabilization and integration	11
The anachronism of bellicist state-building	10
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	10
Governing AI through ethical standards: learning from the experiences of other private governance initiatives	10
Exploring the EU’s status quo tendency in the migration policy field: a network-centred perspective	10
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding	10
The politics of taxing multinational firms in a digital age	10
Frustrating Brexit? Ireland and the UK’s conflicting approaches to Brexit negotiations	10
Will the European Union escape its autocracy trap?	10
Beyond neo-corporatism: state employers and the special-interest politics of public sector wage-setting*	10
How does politicisation affect the ratification of mixed EU trade agreements? The case of CETA	10
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state	10
External borders and internal freedoms: how the refugee crisis shaped the bordering preferences of European citizens	10
A missing link? Maintaining support for the European polity after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	10
Implementing market mechanisms in the Paris era: the importance of bureaucratic capacity building for international climate policy	10
EU Boundaries in the making: functionalist versus federalist	9
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building: a comparison of ACER and the German Federal Network Agency	9
Support for progressive taxation: self-interest (rightly understood), ideology, and political sophistication	9
Respecting the subject in wellbeing public policy: beyond the social planner perspective	9
Failing forward in the Common Commercial Policy? Deep trade and the perennial question of EU competence	9
Sanctioning democratic backsliding in the European Union: transnational salience, negative intergovernmental spillover, and policy change	9
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	9
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain	9
The politics of policy analysis: theoretical insights on real world problems	9
The European Commission in Covid-19 vaccine cooperation: leadership vs coronationalism?	9
How policy entrepreneurship training affects policy entrepreneurship behavior among street-level bureaucrats – a randomized field experiment	9
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic	9