OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Union Politics is 2. 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
Economic perceptions and attitudes towards the European Union: A survey experiment	46
The responsive public: How European Union decisions shape public opinion on salient policies	33
Corrigendum to “Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic”	31
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union	23
European integration and political party logos: A ‘visual Europeanization’?	22
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament	19
From polarization of the public to polarization of the electorate: European Parliament elections as the preferred race for ideologues	19
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 21	18
Issues that mobilize Europe. The role of key policy issues for voter turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election	18
Support for European Union membership comes in various guises: Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis of novel Dutch survey data	17
Does immigration boost public Euroscepticism in European Union member states?	17
Beyond the U-curve: Citizen preferences on European integration in multidimensional political space	17
Understanding lobbying dynamics through survey research: An introduction to the InterCov dataset	15
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	14
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	13
The nuclear option: Voting for the pan-European party Volt	13
Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament election: A winning combination	12
The electoral consequences of compensation for globalization	11
Managing networks: Cohesion and fluidity in EU climate cooperation with European neighbours	10
Electoral responses to the increased contestation over European integration. The European Elections of 2019 and beyond	10
Peoples’ perspectives on the ‘Future of Europe’ – A comparative study from within and beyond the European Union	10
How supranational institutions benefit from crises: Member states’ solidarity and the EU's image during the COVID-19 pandemic	10

Far-right cooperation: Gender, political networks, and the cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament	10
Pandemic threat and authoritarian attitudes in Europe: An empirical analysis of the exposure to COVID-19	9
The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing	9
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration	9
The effect of European integration on economic redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe	8
EU executives on social media: Assessing the potential and trajectories of legitimation via public communication on Twitter	8
Solidarity on a divided continent: Perceptions of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ determine European citizens’ willingness to help other EU countries	7
International fiscal rules and domestic support for austerity	7
The Eurodisappointed: On the disenchantment with the EU's limited response to democratic backsliding	7
New threat of culture wars? The religious roots of public opinion polarization on morality issues in Europe	7
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice	7
Conclusion – external threat and internal divisions: How the war in Ukraine shapes mass politics in the EU	6
EUP Referees 1 January 2020– 31 March 2022	6
Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	6
More equal than different? Gender and legislative turnover in the European Parliament and west European legislatures	6
Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament	5
European Union, transnational terrorism and the strategic choice of counterterrorism policies in democratic countries	5
EU-sentiment predicts the 2016 Dutch referendum vote on the EU’s association with Ukraine better than concerns about Russia or national discontent	5
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	5
Together we stand? Transnational solidarity in the EU in times of crises	5
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	5
The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece	5
The reverberations of British Brexit politics abroad	4
The politicization of European integration and support for restrictive migration policies	4
Social benefits for European Union immigrants? A survey experiment on misperceptions	4
As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined? The role of parental versus own education for openness towards globalisation	4
Two functionalist logics of European Union polity formation under external threat: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	4
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration	4
The EU Commission: Supplying enforcement and demanding compliance	4
Russian invasion as a European issue: Vertical Europeanisation of national political debates and the war in Ukraine	4
Legislating softly: The effect of preference heterogeneity on the share of EU soft-law instruments over time	4
Unemployment risk-sharing in the EU: How policy design influences citizen support for European unemployment policy	4
Free to move, reluctant to share: Unequal opposition to transnational rights under the EU's free movement principle	3
Appeasement or solidarity? Uncovering the drivers of European public opinion on the EU’s foreign policy	3
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements	3
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission	3
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	3
Lingering bias: The effects of legislated gender quotas on representation quality in the European Parliament	3
Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation	3
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	3
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust	3
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared	3
The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany	3
Proposal complexity and report allocation in the European Parliament	3
The effect of trilogues on the European Commission's success in legislative negotiations: A reappraisal	3
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states?	3
EUPROPS: A new dataset on policymaking in the European Union from 1958 to 2021	3
Foreign economic policy in the European Parliament and economic interdependence with foreign powers	2
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 23	2
Empathy, geography and immigration: Political framing of sea migrant arrivals in European media	2

Demand-side constraints on European solidarity for energy sanctions: Experimental evidence from seven EU countries	2
What difference does the framing of a crisis make to European Union solidarity?	2
Asylum seekers in the machinery of the state: administrative capacity vs. preferences. Recognition rates in EU member states	2
Is Europe raising its voice? EU representation at the UN prior to and post-Lisbon	2
External perceptions of the European Union in Israel—the role of norms and culture	2
One union, different futures? Public preferences for the EU's future and their explanations in 10 EU countries	2
From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence	2
What is special about women in EU institutions?	2
Do (too many) elections depress participation? How the position, frequency and nature of domestic ballots affect turnout in European Parliament elections	2
Measuring actual discretion of the European Commission: Using the discretion index to guide empirical research	2
Roll call votes in the committees of the European Parliament: A new dataset	2