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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises	29
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements	25
A new divide? Assessing the transnational-nationalist dimension among political parties and the public across the EU	25
The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism	25
What asylum and refugee policies do Europeans want? Evidence from a cross-national conjoint experiment	24
National identity profiles and support for the European Union	24
Economic determinants of public support for European integration, 1995–2018	21
One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016	19
Populist and nativist attitudes: Does ingroup-outgroup thinking spill over across domains?	19
Voting for a social Europe? European solidarity and voting behaviour in the 2019 European elections	18
Common currency, common identity? The impact of the Euro introduction on European identity	17
Issues that mobilize Europe. The role of key policy issues for voter turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election	17
The Brexit deterrent? How member state exit shapes public support for the European Union	16
Pandemic threat and authoritarian attitudes in Europe: An empirical analysis of the exposure to COVID-19	16
Electoral responses to the increased contestation over European integration. The European Elections of 2019 and beyond	15
A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration	15
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration	14
Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament election: A winning combination	14
Tracing the development of nationalist attitudes in the EU	14
The cultural origins of institutional trust: The case of the European Central Bank	13
National/European identities and political alignments	13
In varietate concordia?! Political parties’ digital political marketing in the 2019 European Parliament election campaign	13
Till austerity do us part? A survey experiment on support for the euro in Italy	13
Differentiation through flexibility in implementation: Strategic and substantive uses of discretion in EU directives	13
From staunch supporters to critical observers: Explaining the turn towards Euroscepticism among regionalist parties	12

Avoidance, ambiguity, alternation: Position blurring strategies in multidimensional party competition	12
From causes to consequences: Investigating the effects of differentiated integration on citizens’ EU support	12
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	12
Do European elections enhance satisfaction with European Union democracy?	11
Beyond the U-curve: Citizen preferences on European integration in multidimensional political space	11
One union, different futures? Public preferences for the EU's future and their explanations in 10 EU countries	10
Joint bodies in the European Union's international agreements: Delegating powers to the European Commission in EU external relations	10
United or divided in diversity? The heterogeneous effects of ethnic diversity on European and national identities	9
When does the European Commission Pursue Noncompliance?	9
Unemployment risk-sharing in the EU: How policy design influences citizen support for European unemployment policy	9
The far-right and asylum outcomes: Assessing the impact of far-right politics on asylum decisions in Europe	8
Introducing the EU exit index measuring each member state’s propensity to leave the European Union	8
Fiscal solidarity: The conditional role of political knowledge	8
Learning about the unknown Spitzenkandidaten: The role of media exposure during the 2019 European Parliament elections	8
Support for European Union membership comes in various guises: Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis of novel Dutch survey data	8
Analysing how crises shape mass and elite preferences and behaviour in the European Union	7
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	7
Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Supranationalism, constrained? Locating the Court of Justice on the EU integration dimension	7
Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates	7
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	7
From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence	6
A (supra)nationalist personality? The Big Five’s effects on political-territorial identification	6
The impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European identity: A comparative analysis of EU regions	6
Cascading opt-outs? The effect of the Euro and migration crises on differentiated integration in the European Union	6
Party group collapse and strategic switching in the European Parliament	6
Oppositional voting in the Council of the EU between 2010 and 2019: Evidence for differentiated politicisation	6
Can we do what we say we will do? Issue salience, government effectiveness, and the legislative efficiency of Council Presidencies	6
Understanding leader evaluations in European Parliament elections	5
Does EU funding improve local state capacity? Evidence from Polish municipalities	5
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times	5
Reconsidering the drivers of country-specific recommendations: The Commission's ideological preferences on wage policies	5
Ever more soft law? A dataset to compare binding and non-binding EU law across policy areas and over time (2004–2019)	5
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	5
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared	5
The influence of foreign elite rhetoric: National identity, emotions, and attitudes toward austerity	5
Bargaining power in informal trilogues: Intra-institutional preference cohesion and inter-institutional bargaining success	5
Civil society – Politically engaged or member-serving? A governance perspective	5
Measuring actual discretion of the European Commission: Using the discretion index to guide empirical research	4
Collective memories on the 2010 European debt crisis	4
What guides citizen support for redistributive EU measures as a response to COVID-19: Justice attitudes, self-interest or support for European integration?	4
Disengaging elections? Political interest, number of elections, and turnout in elections to the European Parliament	4
Does immigration boost public Euroscepticism in European Union member states?	4
Judicial ideology in economic cases: Evidence from the General Court of the European Union	4
The reverberations of British Brexit politics abroad	4
As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined? The role of parental versus own education for openness towards globalisation	4
European fiscal reform preferences of parliamentarians in France, Germany and Italy	3
How supranational institutions benefit from crises: Member states’ solidarity and the EU's image during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
What difference does the framing of a crisis make to European Union solidarity?	3
The imbalanced effect of politicization: How EU politicization favours Eurosceptic parties	3

The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine	3
Foreign economic policy in the European Parliament and economic interdependence with foreign powers	3
Two sides of the same coin? The effect of differentiation on noncompliance with European Union law	3
Why does gender inequality in academic publishing persist? Lessons and recommendations	3
Does differentiated integration weaken parliamentary involvement? Evidence from the European Union's interparliamentary conferences	3
Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany	3
The politicization of European integration and support for restrictive migration policies	3
EU-sentiment predicts the 2016 Dutch referendum vote on the EU’s association with Ukraine better than concerns about Russia or national discontent	3
Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	3