OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative European 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	40
Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudi	37
Future orientation and political participation in Europe	22
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	19
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	18
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK	17
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies	17
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	17
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	15
Communist party organisation, frontism and linkage strategy during and after the crisis: evidence from Greece	15
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	15
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	15
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	13
Why do MPs run to become MEPs when most simply want to remain MPs? On servicing the personal vote and doing party service	13
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	13
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	11
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)	11
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	11
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	10
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	9
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	9
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	9
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	9
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	9
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power	8

Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe	8
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	8
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’	7
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	7
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	7
Pirates the Czech way: sailing (unsuccessfully) from the “Rebel Bay” to the calm waters of neoliberal mainstream?	6
Political parties and dissensus over liberal democracy in the European Parliament	6
Beyond party lines: radical left party linkage before and after local-level government	6
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	6
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	6
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	5
Can we still talk about ‘movement parties’? The radical left and new forms of party organisation	5
“Each one is with their own electorate”: unpacking radical left linkage at the transnational level	5
Radical left cooperation in twenty-first century Western Europe: forms, drivers, and outcomes	5
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	5
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020	5
The party is over. Young activists in radical-left groups and institutional politics	5
Energy Communities in the European Union: Comparative Analysis of Legislation, Incentives, and Barriers with a Focus on Spain	4
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics	4
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	4
Green and Pirate parties in second-order elections: Alternative to the political mainstream and the far right?	4
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	4
Competing proteans	4
Access, capacity and influence	4
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?	4
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	4
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	4
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?	4
Strategic resilience in the OECD: tariff politics and the new trade governance	4
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars	4
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency	3
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	3
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	3
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age	3
Close to politics and to policies: subjective knowledge about referendum topics in Eastern Europe	3
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes	3
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities: the European Commission as a social advocate in Latvia and Estonia	3
When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	3
Taking citizens’ ideas and discourse seriously: a non-elite take on discursive institutionalism	3
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy	3
Protean power goes to Europe: on law, norms and power in the EU’s external policies	3
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	3
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Two decades of pirate politics in Europe: the supply and demand side	3
‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem	3
Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance	2
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	2
The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism	2

A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	2
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	2
Now a systemic rival? Inklings of complex representations of the EU in public survey data of Chinese urban residents	2
Politics outside parliament: explaining candidates’ support for citizen-initiated referendums	2
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)	2
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	2
How not to respond to populism	2
Europeanisation in the aftermath of COVID-19: the organisational adaptation of the central governance of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in Italy	2
Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25	2
Does the current crisis mark the end of the EU’s austerity era? Competing political projects in European fiscal governance	2
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	2
Intersectionality and inequalities in political participation in Europe: how do gender, class and age relate to political exclusion?	2
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	2
Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world	2
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	2
Introduction: Democracy or dominance? European economic governance in historical perspective	2
A pragmatist theory of power: understanding the EU’s transformation and security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe	2