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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Lockdown policies and the dynamics of the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe	85
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis	81
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?	76
Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration	69
Postfunctionalism reversed: solidarity and rebordering during the COVID-19 pandemic	61
Rebordering Europe: external boundaries and integration in the European Union	58
Not just money: unequal responsiveness in egalitarian democracies	55
Crisis pressures and European integration	54
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?	53
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	45
Is populism a challenge to European energy and climate policy? Empirical evidence across varieties of populism	41
Failing forward in Economic and Monetary Union: explaining weak Eurozone financial support mechanisms	40
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: a principled or pragmatist approach?	38
‘Failing forward’: a critique in light of covid-19	38
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy	36
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: towards a paradigm change or just a big one-off?	34
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	32
The European Commission and the COVID-19 pandemic: a pluri-institutional approach	30
Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers	30
European emergency politics and the question of legitimacy	30
Fractionalized but ambitious? Voting on energy and climate policy in the European Parliament	29
Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?	29
Europe and the transnational politics of emergency	28
Necessary conditions for policy integration and administrative coordination reforms: an exploratory analysis	27

Role of the state and responsibility in governing artificial intelligence: a comparative analysis of AI strategies	27
‘I did it my way’: customisation and practical compliance with EU policies	26
Explaining the response of the ECB to the COVID-19 related economic crisis: inter-crisis and intra-crisis learning	26
Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology	25
From emissions trading to the European Green Deal: the evolution of the climate policy mix and climate policy integration in the EU	24
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Failing forward in the EU's common security and defense policy: the integration of EU crisis management	23
The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law	23
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis	22
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	22
Gendering political leadership: hypermasculine leadership and Covid-19	22
Crisis management performance and the European Union: the case of COVID-19	21
Regulatory cybersecurity governance in the making: the formation of ENISA and its struggle for epistemic authority	21
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	21
Pandemic narratives and policy responses: west European governments and COVID-19	21
Debordering and re-bordering in the refugee crisis: a case of ‘defensive integration’	20
British economic regulators in an age of politicisation: from the responsible to the responsive regulatory state?	20
The rhetoric of inaction: failing to fail forward in the EU’s rule of law crisis	20
Public support for differentiated integration: individual liberal values and concerns about member state discrimination	20
EU health policy in the aftermath of COVID-19: neofunctionalism and crisis-driven integration	19
A new dataset on legislative decision-making in the European Union: the DEU III dataset	19
An unexpected climate activist: central banks and the politics of the climate-neutral economy	19
Fence-sitters no more: Southern and Central Eastern European Member States’ role in the deadlock of the CEAS reform	19
Economic ideas, party politics, or material interests? Explaining Germany’s support for the EU corona recovery plan	18
Governing AI – attempting to herd cats? Introduction to the special issue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence	18
Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy	18
Quick and dirty: how populist parties in government affect greenhouse gas emissions in EU member states	18
The populist challenge to European defense	18
How does income inequality affect the support for populist parties?	18
From a liberal to a strategic actor: the evolution of the EU’s approach to international energy governance	18
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain	18
Policy complexity in the European Union, 1993-today: introducing the EUPLEX dataset	17
The use of pseudo-causal narratives in EU policies: the case of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa	17
Preventing the eurozone budget: issue replacement and small state influence in EMU	17
Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue	17
Policy narratives, localisation, and public justification: responses to COVID-19	17
Strategic silence or regulatory talk? Regulatory agency responses to public allegations amidst the glyphosate controversy	17
Politicization and rebordering in EU enlargement: membership discourses in European parliaments	16
Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade	16
Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a meta-analysis of 67 studies	15
Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses	15
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	15
Rapid or long-term employment? A Scandinavian comparative study of refugee integration policies and employment outcomes	15
Bounded rationality and the Brexit negotiations: why Britain failed to understand the EU	15
Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany	15
EU agencies’ stakeholder bodies: vehicles of enhanced control, legitimacy or bias?	15
The institutional position of national parliaments in the European Union: developments, explanations, effects	15
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market	15
The evolution of behaviourally informed policy-making in the EU	15
The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance	15

Supranational emergency politics? What executives’ public crisis communication may tell us	15
Algorithms, data, and platforms: the diverse challenges of governing AI	14
The EU’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic: disintegration or ‘failing forward’?	14
The EU’s reaction in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic between centralisation and decentralisation, formality and informality	14
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform	14
Seeing Europe like a state	14
The regulatory security state in Europe	14
Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy	13
Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts	13
Re-bordering Europe? Collective action barriers to ‘Fortress Europe’	13
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines	13
The historical origins of wealth taxation	13
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions	13
Re-examining policy stability in climate adaptation through a lock-in perspective	13
Beyond the regulatory state? The European Defence Fund and national military capacities	12
Honesty pledges for the behaviorally-based regulation of dishonesty	12
Political work in the stability and growth pact	12
Lessons and learnings from a decade of EU crises	12
Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?	12
Accelerating low carbon transitions via budgetary processes? EU climate governance in times of crisis	11
A Robin Hood for all: a conjoint experiment on support for basic income	11
The multidimensionality of public support for basic income: a vignette experiment in Belgium	11
Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28	11
Failing forward in Eastern Enlargement: problem solving through problem making	11
The securitization of the EU’s digital tech regulation	11
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission	11
Euroscepticism as a syndrome of stagnation? Regional inequality and trust in the EU	10
Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines	10
Frustrating Brexit? Ireland and the UK’s conflicting approaches to Brexit negotiations	10
Engaging the disengaged? Explaining the participation of Eurosceptic MEPs in trilogue negotiations	10
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	10
Congruent with whom? Parties’ issue emphases and voter preferences in welfare politics	10
External borders and internal freedoms: how the refugee crisis shaped the bordering preferences of European citizens	10
Failing outward: power politics, regime complexity, and failing forward under deadlock	10
The durability–flexibility dialectic: the evolution of decarbonisation policies in the European Union	10
The comparative ‘court politics’ of Covid-19: explaining government responses to the pandemic	10
Regulating with the masses? Mapping the spread of participatory regulation	10
Why the European Parliament lost the Spitzenkandidaten-process	10
Does it pay to lobby? Examining the link between firm lobbying and firm profitability in the European Union	10
The politics of taxing multinational firms in a digital age	10
Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament	9
EU Boundaries in the making: functionalist versus federalist	9
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding	9
How policy growth affects policy implementation: bureaucratic overload and policy triage	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
Beyond neo-corporatism: state employers and the special-interest politics of public sector wage-setting*	9
The anachronism of bellicist state-building	9
Weaponising Europe? Rule-makers and rule-takers in the EU regulatory security state	9
The politics of policy analysis: theoretical insights on real world problems	9
Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom	9
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	9
The relationship between Europeanisation and policy styles: a study of agricultural and public health policymaking in three EU Member States	9
EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?	8
Post-Brexit financial services in the EU	8
Inside the black box of trilogues: introduction to the special issue	8
Having banks ‘play along’ state-bank coordination and state-guaranteed credit programs during the COVID-19 crisis in France and Germany	8
How does politicisation affect the ratification of mixed EU trade agreements? The case of CETA	8
The politics of taxing the rich: declining tax rates in times of rising inequality	8
EU competition policy: an application of the failing forward framework	8
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Procedural vs substantive accountability in EMU governance: between payoffs and trade-offs	8
Leadership in European crisis politics: France, Germany, and the difficult quest for regional stabilization and integration	8
Governing AI through ethical standards: learning from the experiences of other private governance initiatives	8
CJEU judgments in the news – capturing the public salience of decisions of the EU’s highest court	8
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy	8
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building: a comparison of ACER and the German Federal Network Agency	8
The power of ‘weak’ institutions: assessing the EU’s emerging institutional architecture for improving the implementation and enforcement of joint policies	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
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	8
Testing the backlash argument: voter responses to (pro-)immigration reforms	8
Experimenting European healthcare forward. Do institutional differences condition networked governance?	8
Multidimensional issue preferences of the European lavender vote	8
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	8
Delegation and stewardship in international organizations	8