OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative European Politics is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	25
Future orientation and political participation in Europe	20
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	19
Gendered protest in Europe: EU norm diffusion, conservative backlash, and attitudinal hybridization	19
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	18
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK	18
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	17
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies	17
Far-righting the mainstream: endogenous drivers of reactionary shifts in western party politics	16
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	16
Communist party organisation, frontism and linkage strategy during and after the crisis: evidence from Greece	14
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	14
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	12
Why do MPs run to become MEPs when most simply want to remain MPs? On servicing the personal vote and doing party service	11
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)	11
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	10
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	10
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	10
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	9
An anatomy of ‘freedom’: US and EU competition policy in the crosshairs	9
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	9
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	9
New partners on the street? Cooperation between radical left parties and progressive social movements in Portugal	9
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	8

Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	8
Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe	7
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	6
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power	6
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	6
Pirates the Czech way: sailing (unsuccessfully) from the “Rebel Bay” to the calm waters of neoliberal mainstream?	6
Beyond party lines: radical left party linkage before and after local-level government	6
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	6
Exclusionary Europeans: Radical-right party construction of Europeanness in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’	6
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	5
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
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	5
Political parties and dissensus over liberal democracy in the European Parliament	5
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020	5
Radical left cooperation in twenty-first century Western Europe: forms, drivers, and outcomes	5
“Each one is with their own electorate”: unpacking radical left linkage at the transnational level	5
The party is over. Young activists in radical-left groups and institutional politics	5
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	5
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	4
What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics	4
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars	4
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy	4
‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem	4
Competing proteans	4
Strategic resilience in the OECD: tariff politics and the new trade governance	4
Energy Communities in the European Union: Comparative Analysis of Legislation, Incentives, and Barriers with a Focus on Spain	4
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age	4
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes	4
Multilevel citizenship, free movement, and the contrasting political projects of the United States and the European Union	4
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?	4
Access, capacity and influence	4
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?	4
Two decades of pirate politics in Europe: the supply and demand side	4
Close to politics and to policies: subjective knowledge about referendum topics in Eastern Europe	4
Green and Pirate parties in second-order elections: Alternative to the political mainstream and the far right?	4
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	4
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities: the European Commission as a social advocate in Latvia and Estonia	3
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency	3
Are healthier people more likely to engage in political activities? A multinational analysis of health and institutional participation in Europe	3
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	3
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	3
How not to respond to populism	3
Protean power goes to Europe: on law, norms and power in the EU’s external policies	3
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	3
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	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

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
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	3
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25	2
Introduction: Democracy or dominance? European economic governance in historical perspective	2
Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe	2
Intersectionality and inequalities in political participation in Europe: how do gender, class and age relate to political exclusion?	2
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	2
Reimagining nativism: a comparative analysis of the freedom and victory parties	2
Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance	2
Gender insensitive parliaments: blind spots in anti-harassment parliamentary policies in Europe	2
Now a systemic rival? Inklings of complex representations of the EU in public survey data of Chinese urban residents	2
Navigating ideological pathways: an interactive predispositions model of pro-immigration attitudes in Europe	2
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)	2
A digital divide? Digital market governance in the transatlantic space	2
Explaining degrees of far-right illiberalism in the European parliament	1
Issue framing, news value and national interest: communicating EU crises in China	1
Congruence of national and Europarty manifestoes in the EU elections 2019	1
Politics outside parliament: explaining candidates’ support for citizen-initiated referendums	1
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	1
Europeanisation in the aftermath of COVID-19: the organisational adaptation of the central governance of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in Italy	1
Populism and voters’ projection bias in party ideology estimation	1
National role conceptions and populist parties in Europe between heterogeneity and convergence	1
Party systems politicization and citizens’ political awareness: assessing the relationship on conflict over EU integration	1
Introduction: Europe’s single market in US perspective	1
Changing the topics: the social sciences in EU-funded research projects	1
From Breakthrough to Breakdown? Analyzing the Pirate Party of Luxembourg through a Supply-and-Demand Framework	1
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	1
A pragmatist theory of power: understanding the EU’s transformation and security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	1
Where have all the Pirates gone? strategic party interactions in the electoral stagnation, rise, and fall of the Pirates	1
Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world	1
Protean power reconsidered	1
Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression: how crises shape Europeanization dynamics in EU foreign policy	1
Analysing the gap in non-institutionalized political engagement between Western Europe and the post-communist region	1
Homo ‘Balkanicus’ versus homo ‘Europicus’: a comparative analysis of incompatible national role conceptions in the Western Balkans	1
Governing on loan: conditional risks of early exit for technocratic ministers in Europe	1
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	1
Does the current crisis mark the end of the EU’s austerity era? Competing political projects in European fiscal governance	1
The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism	1
Single markets, federalism and governance in the US and EU	1
Varieties of top incomes: power, regulation and growth models	1
Why and when democracies ban political parties: a classification of democratic state orientations to party bans	1
The more policy positions change, the more they stay the same: mainstream party strategies on the issue of immigration	1