OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Lockdown policies and the dynamics of the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe	82
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis	73
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?	72
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration	60
Postfunctionalism reversed: solidarity and rebordering during the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Rebordering Europe: external boundaries and integration in the European Union	52
Not just money: unequal responsiveness in egalitarian democracies	45
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?	45
Work, family, Fatherland: the political economy of populism in central and Eastern Europe	43
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda	40
Is populism a challenge to European energy and climate policy? Empirical evidence across varieties of populism	39
Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms	39
Crisis pressures and European integration	37
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-19	33
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy	32
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?	32
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers	28
European emergency politics and the question of legitimacy	28
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	27
Fractionalized but ambitious? Voting on energy and climate policy in the European Parliament	27
‘I did it my way’: customisation and practical compliance with EU policies	26
Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?	26
Europe and the transnational politics of emergency	25
Breaking the legal link but not the law? The externalization of EU migration control through orchestration in the Central Mediterranean	24
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?	23

The European Commission and the COVID-19 pandemic: a pluri-institutional approach	23
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning	22
Role of the state and responsibility in governing artificial intelligence: a comparative analysis of AI strategies	22
Trade-offs between redistribution and environmental protection: the role of information, ideology, and self-interest	21
Necessary conditions for policy integration and administrative coordination reforms: an exploratory analysis	21
The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law	21
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-19	21
Debordering and re-bordering in the refugee crisis: a case of ‘defensive integration’	20
Failing forward in the EU's common security and defense policy: the integration of EU crisis management	20
Fence-sitters no more: Southern and Central Eastern European Member States’ role in the deadlock of the CEAS reform	19
Pandemic narratives and policy responses: west European governments and COVID-19	19
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Voluntary business initiatives can reduce public pressure for regulating firm behaviour abroad	18
The asymmetric long-term electoral consequences of unpopular reforms: why retrenchment really is a losing game for left parties	18
Economic ideas, party politics, or material interests? Explaining Germany’s support for the EU corona recovery plan	18
The populist challenge to European defense	18
Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology	18
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy	18
A new dataset on legislative decision-making in the European Union: the DEU III dataset	17
Public support for differentiated integration: individual liberal values and concerns about member state discrimination	17
From emissions trading to the European Green Deal: the evolution of the climate policy mix and climate policy integration in the EU	17
Quick and dirty: how populist parties in government affect greenhouse gas emissions in EU member states	17
Countering bias? The EU Commission’s consultation with interest groups	17
Crisis management performance and the European Union: the case of COVID-19	17
British economic regulators in an age of politicisation: from the responsible to the responsive regulatory state?	17
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority	17
Policy complexity in the European Union, 1993-today: introducing the EUPLEX dataset	16
Policy narratives, localisation, and public justification: responses to COVID-19	16
From a liberal to a strategic actor: the evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance	16
The rhetoric of inaction: failing to fail forward in the EU’s rule of law crisis	16
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	16
Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue	15
The use of pseudo-causal narratives in EU policies: the case of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa	15
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis	15
Bounded rationality and the Brexit negotiations: why Britain failed to understand the EU	15
How women in the executive influence government stability	15
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain	15
An unexpected climate activist: central banks and the politics of the climate-neutral economy	15
Strategic silence or regulatory talk? Regulatory agency responses to public allegations amidst the glyphosate controversy	15
Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us	15
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration	14
Politicization and rebordering in EU enlargement: membership discourses in European parliaments	14
EU agencies’ stakeholder bodies: vehicles of enhanced control, legitimacy or bias?	14
Rapid or long-term employment? A Scandinavian comparative study of refugee integration policies and employment outcomes	14
Preventing the eurozone budget: issue replacement and small state influence in EMU	14
Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany	14
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	14
Europe as ideological resource: the case of the Rassemblement National	14
Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses	14
Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade	14

Caught between 1945 and 1989: collective memory and the rise of illiberal democracy in postcommunist Europe	14
The institutional position of national parliaments in the European Union: developments, explanations, effects	14
Seeing Europe like a state	13
The EU’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic: disintegration or ‘failing forward’?	13
Does monitoring without enforcement make a difference? The European Union and anti-corruption policies in Bulgaria and Romania after accession	13
How does income inequality affect the support for populist parties?	13
The EU’s reaction in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic between centralisation and decentralisation, formality and informality	13
The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance	12
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines	12
Re-bordering Europe? Collective action barriers to ‘Fortress Europe’	12
The regulatory security state in Europe	12
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence	12
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions	12
Algorithms, data, and platforms: the diverse challenges of governing AI	11
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income	11
Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts	11
The historical origins of wealth taxation	11
Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28	11
Lessons and learnings from a decade of EU crises	11
The multidimensionality of public support for basic income: a vignette experiment in Belgium	11
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty	11
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission	10
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market	10
Accelerating low carbon transitions via budgetary processes? EU climate governance in times of crisis	10
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	10
Political work in the stability and growth pact	10
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic	10
External borders and internal freedoms: how the refugee crisis shaped the bordering preferences of European citizens	10
Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines	10
The securitization of the EU’s digital tech regulation	10
The durability–flexibility dialectic: the evolution of decarbonisation policies in the European Union	10
Congruent with whom? Parties’ issue emphases and voter preferences in welfare politics	10
Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019)	10
Re-examining policy stability in climate adaptation through a lock-in perspective	10
Failing outward: power politics, regime complexity, and failing forward under deadlock	10
Taking emigration seriously: a new agenda for research on free movement and welfare	10
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform	10
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies	9
EU Boundaries in the making: functionalist versus federalist	9
Does it pay to lobby? Examining the link between firm lobbying and firm profitability in the European Union	9
The anachronism of bellicist state-building	9
‘All hands on deck’ or separate lifeboats? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Failing forward in the Common Commercial Policy? Deep trade and the perennial question of EU competence	9
Why is it so difficult to tax the rich? Evidence from German policy-makers	9
Expanding without much ado. International bureaucratic expansion tactics in the case of bioethics	9
Engaging the disengaged? Explaining the participation of Eurosceptic MEPs in trilogue negotiations	9
Frustrating Brexit? Ireland and the UK’s conflicting approaches to Brexit negotiations	9
Beyond the regulatory state? The European Defence Fund and national military capacities	9
The evolution of behaviourally informed policy-making in the EU	9
The relationship between Europeanisation and policy styles: a study of agricultural and public health policymaking in three EU Member States	9
Between power and powerlessness in the euro zone crisis and thereafter	9
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	8
Euroscepticism as a syndrome of stagnation? Regional inequality and trust in the EU	8
Inside the black box of trilogues: introduction to the special issue	8
Experimenting European healthcare forward. Do institutional differences condition networked governance?	8
Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy	8
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	8
Delegation and stewardship in international organizations	8
Post-Brexit financial services in the EU	8
Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?	8
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state	8
Regulating with the masses? Mapping the spread of participatory regulation	8
Having banks ‘play along’ state-bank coordination and state-guaranteed credit programs during the COVID-19 crisis in France and Germany	8
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding	8
Multidimensional issue preferences of the European lavender vote	8
Beyond neo-corporatism: state employers and the special-interest politics of public sector wage-setting*	8
How policy entrepreneurship training affects policy entrepreneurship behavior among street-level bureaucrats – a randomized field experiment	8
Support for progressive taxation: self-interest (rightly understood), ideology, and political sophistication	8
The politics of taxing multinational firms in a digital age	8
Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament	8
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom	8
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building: a comparison of ACER and the German Federal Network Agency	8
EU competition policy: an application of the failing forward framework	8
Conflict among member states and the influence of the Commission in EMU politics	8
The social democratic case against the EU	8