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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Eastern Partnership and its strategic objectives: a Polish–German compromise?	60
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	39
Citizens’ response to a non-responsive government: the case of the Swiss Initiative on Mass Immigration	37
How temporal discretion supports interagency coordination: Sweden's intersectoral fight against antimicrobial resistance	18
Corporate reconstructions of federal macroeconomic government institutions compared: USA then, Europe Now	17
Interest group lobbying in the European Union: privacy, data protection and the right to be forgotten	17
The discursive framing of European integration in EU-wide media: actors, narratives and policies following the Russian invasion of Ukraine	17
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	17
Why and when democracies ban political parties: a classification of democratic state orientations to party bans	15
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	15
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	14
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	13
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	13
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	12
Radicality and moderation in the language of Europe’s extreme right	12
Party views on differentiated integration	11
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	11
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs: a historical institutionalist analysis of policy trajectories	10
Voices unheard: How feelings of inefficacy fuel populism	10
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture	9
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	9
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	9
Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020	8
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	8
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	8

Improved soft law implementation with national ownership: evidence from the European Semester	8
Coordinative Europeanization as a response to crisis: what lessons from the RRF for future EU cohesion policy?	7
Correction to: Immigration attitudes among western and eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	7
Geopolitical triangle: how China’s European studies scholars represent the EU	6
Borders and identities in NI after Brexit: remaking Irish–UK relations	6
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	6
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	6
The middle-income trap in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2010s: institutions and divergent growth models	6
Belonging and exclusion: the dark side of regional identity in Germany	6
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	6
Implementing the will of the people: sovereignty and policy conflicts in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership	6
More or less regional autonomy? A qualitative analysis of citizen arguments towards (de)centralization in Belgium	5
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: the EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme	5
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	5
Authoritarian liberalism between market capitalism and democracy: critical and neoliberal perspectives	5
(De)regulating automation: the rise of credit scoring and market-led banking in the UK and Germany	5
Austerity and its alternatives in the European parliament: from the Eurozone crisis to the COVID-19 crisis	5
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	4
Congruence of national and Europarty manifestoes in the EU elections 2019	4
The strange bedfellows of populism and liberalism: the effect of populist attitudes on the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and policies to contain it	4
Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective	4
EU resilience in times of COVID? Polity maintenance, public support, and solidarity	4
Greece’s accession in the EEC: toward dependency and differentiation	4
Fixing the boundary of a nation: how the European Union influences nationalism in contemporary Europe	4
Housing coalition dynamics: a comparative perspective	4
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)	4
The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study	4
Building Euro area bodies: the institutionalisation of differentiated integration in economic and monetary union	4
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Unions of the mind: the UK as a subjective state	3
Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain	3
Identities and attitudes to decentralization in multi-level states: understanding the territorial scales of political life	3
Growth models and the comparative political economy of Europe	3
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	3
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	3
Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	3
Explaining economic growth in advanced capitalist democracies: varieties of capitalism and welfare production regimes	3
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	3
Access, capacity and influence	3
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	3
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	3
From toleration to recognition: explaining change and stability in party responses to the Danish People’s Party	2
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19	2
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	2
The political foundations of party organizational variance	2
When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	2
The dog that barked but did not bite: Greek foreign policy under the populist coalition of SYRIZA-Independent Greeks, 2015–2019	2
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	2

Tolerant and intolerant responses to populist parties: who does what, when and why?	2
Experiencing and supporting institutional regionalization in Belgium: a normative and interpretive policy feedback perspective	2
Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland	2
A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the “Yellow–Green” government	2
Linking electoral realignment to welfare politics: an assessment of partisan effects on active labour market policy in post-industrial democracies	2
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	2
How not to respond to populism	2
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	2
Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South	2
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	2
Correction to: Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties	2