OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Public Policy is 10. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Tackling blind spots in Europeanisation research: the impact of EU legislation on national policy portfolios	109
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups	98
Polarisation or convergence? How the economy shapes party policy positions	91
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: the dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood	88
Unpacking the European Commission's fiscal policy response to crisis: mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–2022	76
Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	61
Constructing expertise: the front- and back-door regulation of AI’s military applications in the European Union	61
How trust, mistrust and distrust shape the governance of the COVID-19 crisis	60
‘When in a hole, keep digging’. How the EUCO system process managed its way to an energy price cap	57
Editorial announcement - JEPP Reviewer Prize 2021	53
Filtering politicisation towards a more social Europe? The European Parliament and EU social legislation	50
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain	49
Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity	48
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe	47
Making a difference – a tribute to Jeremy	45
Missed opportunities: the impact of internal compartmentalisation on EU diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change	45
Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation	45
Social dialogue in professional sports in Europe: towards democratic governance between the European Sport Model and national industrial relations?	43
Mind the gap! UK employment policy both during and beyond EU membership: from policy layering to policy drift	41
Democracy and discontent: institutional trust and evaluations of system performance among core and peripheral far right voters	39
Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state	36
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’	35
The differentiated politicization of free movement of people in the EU. A topic model analysis of press coverage in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK	35
Testing theories of policy growth: public demands, interest group politics, electoral competition, and institutional fragmentation	34
Electoral effects of investment subsidies in national and European elections	33

Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation: survey evidence from Extinction Rebellion’s arrestable and lawful actions (2019 and 2023)	33
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis	32
In this together? Support for European fiscal integration in the COVID-19 crisis	32
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections	31
Regional crises and European fiscal preferences: how regional Covid-19, economic downturn, and migration shape support for EU risk sharing	31
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe	30
From transformation to demarcation: explaining the EU’s shifting motivations of the enlargement policy	29
Representation in times of crisis: women’s executive presence and gender-sensitive policy responses to crises	29
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn	28
Far-right contentious politics in times of crisis: between adaptation and transformation	27
Why courts are the life buoys of migrant rights: anti-immigrant pressure, variation in judicial independence, and asylum recognition rates	27
Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues	26
Police and criminal justice co-operation after Brexit	26
Fear, trust, and knowledge – understanding Norwegian citizens’ perceptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)	25
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy	25
Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions	25
The paradox of positional convergence: how political parties use a commitment strategy to stand out from competitors	25
United we stood, divided we transform? Exploring coalition transformation divergence in the EU trade policy field	25
Supranational modernisation or national partisanship? explaining variation in recovery and resilience plans in Central and Eastern Europe	24
A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy	23
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity	23
International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates: A speaker-topic network analysis	23
Regional manufacturing composition and political (dis)content in Europe	23
Access for all? Socio-demographic biases and interest group access to the European Parliament	21
Implementing market mechanisms in the Paris era: the importance of bureaucratic capacity building for international climate policy	21
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors	21
Reacting to the politicization of trade policy	20
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding	20
The soft hostage-taking of EU foreign policy: Hungary’s rule of law conflict with the EU and Russia’s war against Ukraine	20
How does the composition of the European Parliament shape its role in EU decision-making?	19
EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit?	19
The ties that unbind: intergovernmental decision rules and the policy-opinion link	19
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad	18
Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings	18
Continuity despite crises: Germany’s euro policy in the light of the pandemic, war and inflation	18
From learning to influence: the evolution of collaboration in European Administrative Networks	17
JEPP reviewer prize 2022	17
Beyond powering and puzzling: the political dimensions of policy learning	17
Face to face: France, Germany and the future of the European defence industry	17
Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe	17
Do policy packages that mitigate uncertainty over long-term policy benefits increase support for costly climate action?	17
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on public support for EU enlargement	17
Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses	17
The gender gap in support for governments during the COVID crisis	17
Correction	17
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization?	16
What makes a leader? Antimicrobial resistance leadership among 29 European countries	16
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy	16
Political trust and redistribution preferences	16
Out of sight out of mind? Voter attitudes about cooperation with radical parties in Europe*	16

The security state in Europe: regulatory or positive?	16
European administrative networks, private networks and agencies: coexisting, cooperating or competing?	16
Varieties of regulatory regimes and their effect on citizens’ trust in firms	15
Controlling internet content in the EU: towards digital sovereignty	15
Community and governance beyond the nation-state in the 21st century: introduction to the special issue on the legacy of Ernst B. Haas	14
Patterns of coordination in the European Commission: an analysis of interservice consultations around climate change adaptation policy (2007–2018)	14
Challenges for public-service delivery: the case of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy	14
Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries	14
UK environmental policy and Brexit: simultaneously de-Europeanising, disengaging and (re)-engaging?	14
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe	14
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war	13
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis ?	13
Changes in interest group access in times of crisis: no pain, no (lobby) gain	13
Voting under EMU: economic perceptions, responsibility attribution and EU politicisation.	13
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments: evidence from immigration policies	13
IO survival politics: international organisations amid the crisis of multilateralism	13
Introduction: EU polity building after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	13
How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach	13
Care risks: how concerns about looking after older family members increase support for government spending on the retired	13
Far from the (Conservative) tree? Sexuality and intergenerational partisan preferences	13
Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database	13
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament	13
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises	13
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond	13
Procedural inclusiveness can mitigate trust challenges in environmental policymaking	13
Discourse analysis and strategic policy advice: manoeuvring, navigating, and transforming policy	13
Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy	12
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP: a (post-) exceptionalist policy arrangement?	12
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	12
Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine	12
Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe	12
EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda	12
‘The sovereign cloud’ in Europe: diverging nation state preferences and disputed institutional competences in the context of limited technological capabilities	12
Civil liberties or economic freedom? The political space of Internet policy in the European Parliament, 1999–2014	12
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises	12
A serious crisis that didn't go to waste? The EU, the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of ambiguity in crisis-management	12
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive	12
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?	12
‘Best Paper Prize’ 2022	12
Indirect responsiveness and green central banking	12
Digital sovereignty as control: the regulation of digital finance in the European Union	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and the European Union: politics, policies and institutions	12
The stigma on right-wing parties: perceptions and voting behaviour	12
The anchoring policy perspective on policy change: mechanisms, applications and analytical challenges	11
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	11
Belief system alignment and cross-sectoral advocacy efforts in policy debates	11
State aid policy in the United Kingdom post-Brexit: a case of de-Europeanisation as orbiting Europeanisation	11
From ideal to reality: governance of AMR in a multi-level setting	11
Protagonists or consenters: radical right parties and attacks on trade unions	11
Can information, compensation and party cues increase mass support for green taxes?	11
Transboundary crises and political development: why war is not necessary for European state-building	11
When are governmental blaming strategies effective? How blame, source and trust effects shape citizens’ acceptance of EU sanctions against democratic backsliding	11
Growth models and voter preferences: the moderating impact of export-led growth on centre-left voters	11
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic	11
Electoral competitiveness and responsiveness: rational anticipation in the EU Council	10
The varying effect of court-curbing: evidence from Hungary and Poland	10
Implementation leeway in the Dublin system: evidence from Switzerland	10
Neither responsive, nor responsible? Citizens’ understandings of political actors’ responsiveness and responsibility in the socio-economic governance of the EU	10
From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019)	10
Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union	10
The trade-sustainability nexus: the evolution of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 2022	10
Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism	10
Euroscepticism and bargaining success in the European Union	10