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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	59
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	37
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	31
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	27
Future orientation and political participation in Europe	20
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	18
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	18
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	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
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	17
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	16
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	16
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	15
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	15
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	14
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	14
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	14
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	13
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	12
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	11
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)	11
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	10
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	10
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	10

Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	10
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	10
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power	9
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	9
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	9
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	9
Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe	9
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	8
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’	8
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	8
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	8
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	8
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	7
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020	7
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	7
Competing proteans	7
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	7
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?	6
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age	6
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	6
Access, capacity and influence	6
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	6
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars	6
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes	5
Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis	5
Close to politics and to policies: subjective knowledge about referendum topics in Eastern Europe	5
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy	5
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?	5
Protean power goes to Europe: on law, norms and power in the EU’s external policies	4
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	4
How not to respond to populism	4
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities: the European Commission as a social advocate in Latvia and Estonia	4
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	4
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	4
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	4
‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem	4
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: the EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme	4
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	4
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency	4
Introduction: EU constraints and opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic—the politics of NGEU	4
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	4
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	4
When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	4
Introduction: Democracy or dominance? European economic governance in historical perspective	3
Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance	3
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)	3
Now a systemic rival? Inklings of complex representations of the EU in public survey data of Chinese urban residents	3
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	3
Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25	3

Europeanisation in the aftermath of COVID-19: the organisational adaptation of the central governance of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in Italy	3
Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe	3
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	3
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	3
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	3
Intersectionality and inequalities in political participation in Europe: how do gender, class and age relate to political exclusion?	3
The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance: embedding a resilient EMU from the top-down?	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Varieties of top incomes: power, regulation and growth models	2
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	2
The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism	2
Politics outside parliament: explaining candidates’ support for citizen-initiated referendums	2
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	2
Populism and voters’ projection bias in party ideology estimation	2
Congruence of national and Europarty manifestoes in the EU elections 2019	2
Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world	2
Does the current crisis mark the end of the EU’s austerity era? Competing political projects in European fiscal governance	2
Antagonistic understandings of sovereignty in the 2015 Polish constitutional crisis	2
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	2
Issue framing, news value and national interest: communicating EU crises in China	2
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis	2
Changing the topics: the social sciences in EU-funded research projects	2
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	2
National role conceptions and populist parties in Europe between heterogeneity and convergence	2
A pragmatist theory of power: understanding the EU’s transformation and security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2