OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Union Politics 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The responsive public: How European Union decisions shape public opinion on salient policies	86
European integration and political party logos: A ‘visual Europeanization’?	47
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament	25
Corrigendum to “Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic”	20
From polarization of the public to polarization of the electorate: European Parliament elections as the preferred race for ideologues	19
Economic perceptions and attitudes towards the European Union: A survey experiment	18
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union	18
Understanding lobbying dynamics through survey research: An introduction to the InterCov dataset	16
Measuring European integration as boundary formation—The EUROBORD dataset	16
Two sides of the same coin? The effect of differentiation on noncompliance with European Union law	15
The divided public: Dynamics of heterogeneity of European public opinion towards European integration	15
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times	13
The political effects of intra-EU migration: Evidence from national and European elections in seven countries	13
From fringe to front? Assessing the voting influence of the radical right in the European Parliament	11
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration	11
The nuclear option: Voting for the pan-European party Volt	11
Peoples’ perspectives on the ‘Future of Europe’ – A comparative study from within and beyond the European Union	11
How supranational institutions benefit from crises: Member states’ solidarity and the EU's image during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Managing networks: Cohesion and fluidity in EU climate cooperation with European neighbours	10
The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing	10
The effect of European integration on economic redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe	10
Far-right cooperation: Gender, political networks, and the cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament	10
The electoral consequences of compensation for globalization	10
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice	9
From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance	9

Solidarity on a divided continent: Perceptions of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ determine European citizens’ willingness to help other EU countries	9
The Eurodisappointed: On the disenchantment with the EU's limited response to democratic backsliding	9
EU executives on social media: Assessing the potential and trajectories of legitimation via public communication on Twitter	8
International fiscal rules and domestic support for austerity	8
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	8
Conclusion – external threat and internal divisions: How the war in Ukraine shapes mass politics in the EU	8
Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	8
New threat of culture wars? The religious roots of public opinion polarization on morality issues in Europe	8
How occupation shapes awareness and preferences for European funding	8
More equal than different? Gender and legislative turnover in the European Parliament and west European legislatures	8
EUP Referees 1 January 2020– 31 March 2022	8
The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece	7
As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined? The role of parental versus own education for openness towards globalisation	7
European Union, transnational terrorism and the strategic choice of counterterrorism policies in democratic countries	7
The European Court of Justice and legal European integration	7
Towards more fairness among states: How Dublin transfers redistribute asylum responsibility	7
Studying party-voter congruence in the European elections 2024: Introducing a new dataset on German voter positions from the VAA ‘Europartycheck’	7
Two functionalist logics of European Union polity formation under external threat: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	7
Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament	7
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	7
EU-sentiment predicts the 2016 Dutch referendum vote on the EU’s association with Ukraine better than concerns about Russia or national discontent	7
The reverberations of British Brexit politics abroad	7
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics , Volume 25	6
The politicization of European integration and support for restrictive migration policies	6
Are voters under Euroskeptic leaders turning Euroskeptic: Leadership cues and anti-EU views in Italy	6
Russian invasion as a European issue: Vertical Europeanisation of national political debates and the war in Ukraine	6
Legislating softly: The effect of preference heterogeneity on the share of EU soft-law instruments over time	6
The EU Commission: Supplying enforcement and demanding compliance	5
Reforming supranational institutions: Insights from a conjoint experiment in 16 countries	5
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	5
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration	5
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared	5
The effect of trilogues on the European Commission's success in legislative negotiations: A reappraisal	5
Social benefits for European Union immigrants? A survey experiment on misperceptions	5
Economic voting in European elections: Explaining abstention and support for Eurosceptic parties	5
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements	5
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust	4
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	4
Lingering bias: The effects of legislated gender quotas on representation quality in the European Parliament	4
The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany	4
Intra-executive competition as a way to build political trust: Evidence from European semi-presidential countries	4
The predictors of party group bargaining success in the European Parliament	4
EUPROPS: A new dataset on policymaking in the European Union from 1958 to 2021	4
Appeasement or solidarity? Uncovering the drivers of European public opinion on the EU’s foreign policy	4
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission	4
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states?	4
Presidents, commissioners, and time pressure: A mixed-methods analysis of migration communication by the European Commission	4
Free to move, reluctant to share: Unequal opposition to transnational rights under the EU's free movement principle	4
Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation	4
What drives European solidarity? Evidence on identity-based, value-based, and utilitarian explanations	3

Empathy, geography and immigration: Political framing of sea migrant arrivals in European media	3
Who attacks whom? How populism and Euroscepticism drive cross-national conflict between European party elites	3
What difference does the framing of a crisis make to European Union solidarity?	3
What is special about women in EU institutions?	3
External perceptions of the European Union in Israel—the role of norms and culture	3
International sanctions and domestic backlash. Exploring public support towards the EU's rule of law enforcement	3
What you see is not what you get: The incorporation of women in radical right parties	3
Asylum seekers in the machinery of the state: administrative capacity vs. preferences. Recognition rates in EU member states	3
Shelter from the storm: External threat, social identity, and support for the EU	3
Compensation, austerity and populism: Labor market spending and voting in 16 Western European countries	3
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics , Volume 23	3
Proposal complexity and report allocation in the European Parliament	3
Do (too many) elections depress participation? How the position, frequency and nature of domestic ballots affect turnout in European Parliament elections	3