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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
From polarization of the public to polarization of the electorate: European Parliament elections as the preferred race for ideologues	64
Corrigendum to “Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic”	40
Economic perceptions and attitudes towards the European Union: A survey experiment	21
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union	21
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament	19
The responsive public: How European Union decisions shape public opinion on salient policies	19
Beyond the U-curve: Citizen preferences on European integration in multidimensional political space	17
European integration and political party logos: A ‘visual Europeanization’?	17
Support for European Union membership comes in various guises: Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis of novel Dutch survey data	16
Who holds the union together? Citizens’ preferences for European Union cohesion in challenging times	15
Two sides of the same coin? The effect of differentiation on noncompliance with European Union law	14
Understanding lobbying dynamics through survey research: An introduction to the InterCov dataset	13
From fringe to front? Assessing the voting influence of the radical right in the European Parliament	13
The divided public: Dynamics of heterogeneity of European public opinion towards European integration	13
The nuclear option: Voting for the pan-European party Volt	13
The political effects of intra-EU migration: Evidence from national and European elections in seven countries	12
How supranational institutions benefit from crises: Member states’ solidarity and the EU's image during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Peoples’ perspectives on the ‘Future of Europe’ – A comparative study from within and beyond the European Union	11
Far-right cooperation: Gender, political networks, and the cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament	11
Managing networks: Cohesion and fluidity in EU climate cooperation with European neighbours	10
The electoral consequences of compensation for globalization	10
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration	10
The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing	10
The Eurodisappointed: On the disenchantment with the EU's limited response to democratic backsliding	9
Pandemic threat and authoritarian attitudes in Europe: An empirical analysis of the exposure to COVID-19	9

EU executives on social media: Assessing the potential and trajectories of legitimation via public communication on Twitter	9
From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance	8
More equal than different? Gender and legislative turnover in the European Parliament and west European legislatures	7
EUP Referees 1 January 2020– 31 March 2022	7
The effect of European integration on economic redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe	7
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice	7
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
New threat of culture wars? The religious roots of public opinion polarization on morality issues in Europe	6
EU-sentiment predicts the 2016 Dutch referendum vote on the EU’s association with Ukraine better than concerns about Russia or national discontent	6
European Union, transnational terrorism and the strategic choice of counterterrorism policies in democratic countries	6
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers	6
Conclusion – external threat and internal divisions: How the war in Ukraine shapes mass politics in the EU	6
Where is the EU–UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs	6
The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece	6
Talking about Europe? Explaining the salience of the European Union in the plenaries of 17 national parliaments during 2006–2019	6
As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined? The role of parental versus own education for openness towards globalisation	6
Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament	5
The reverberations of British Brexit politics abroad	5
Studying party-voter congruence in the European elections 2024: Introducing a new dataset on German voter positions from the VAA ‘Europartycheck’	5
Russian invasion as a European issue: Vertical Europeanisation of national political debates and the war in Ukraine	5
The EU Commission: Supplying enforcement and demanding compliance	4
The politicization of European integration and support for restrictive migration policies	4
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared	4
Social benefits for European Union immigrants? A survey experiment on misperceptions	4
Are voters under Euroskeptic leaders turning Euroskeptic: Leadership cues and anti-EU views in Italy	4
Legislating softly: The effect of preference heterogeneity on the share of EU soft-law instruments over time	4
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements	4
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration	4
Two functionalist logics of European Union polity formation under external threat: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	4
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics , Volume 25	4
Unemployment risk-sharing in the EU: How policy design influences citizen support for European unemployment policy	4
Reforming supranational institutions: Insights from a conjoint experiment in 16 countries	4
Differentiation in the European Union and beyond	3
Free to move, reluctant to share: Unequal opposition to transnational rights under the EU's free movement principle	3
Do (too many) elections depress participation? How the position, frequency and nature of domestic ballots affect turnout in European Parliament elections	3
SAGE Award for the best article published in European Union Politics, Volume 23	3
What you see is not what you get: The incorporation of women in radical right parties	3
Roll call votes in the committees of the European Parliament: A new dataset	3
Lingering bias: The effects of legislated gender quotas on representation quality in the European Parliament	3
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust	3
Presidents, commissioners, and time pressure: A mixed-methods analysis of migration communication by the European Commission	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
Asylum seekers in the machinery of the state: administrative capacity vs. preferences. Recognition rates in EU member states	3
What difference does the framing of a crisis make to European Union solidarity?	3
Is Europe raising its voice? EU representation at the UN prior to and post-Lisbon	3
Intra-executive competition as a way to build political trust: Evidence from European semi-presidential countries	3
Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018	3
The effect of trilogues on the European Commission's success in legislative negotiations: A reappraisal	3

Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation	3
Proposal complexity and report allocation in the European Parliament	3
Appeasement or solidarity? Uncovering the drivers of European public opinion on the EU’s foreign policy	3
What is special about women in EU institutions?	3
The use of identity-related frames in electoral pledges and its effects on Euroscepticism in France and Germany	3
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission	3