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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	57
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	34
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	31
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	27
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	21
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	18
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	17
Racial minorities’ attitudes towards mainstream right-wing parties: the case of the Black African middle class in France and the UK	17
Future orientation and political participation in Europe	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	15
Déjà vu all over again? A model and indexes of proto-fascism for Western and comparable societies	15
Correction: Better together? Explaining Poland’s and Germany’s bargaining success in EU lawmaking	15
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	15
How to explain citizens’ declined political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-series qualitative comparative analysis (TsQCA)	14
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	14
The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services	14
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	13
When institutions matter: electoral systems and intraparty fractionalization in Western Europe	13
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014–2025)	11
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	11
Chinese representations of EU trade actorness	11
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	11
Protean power Europe in the southern neighbourhood? EU in the face of migration and political crises	10
An intertemporal statistical analysis to ideal point estimates: EU cohesion at the UNGA revisited	10

Chinese academic representations of the rise of populism in Europe	9
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	9
Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum	9
Liberal and illiberal industrial policy in the EU: the political economy of building the EV battery value chain in Sweden and Hungary	9
Trick or treaty? An empirical analysis of the treaty ratification process in Italy	9
The EU’s response to Ukraine’s quest for membership: Intergovernmental decision-making and the contingency of protean power	8
The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe	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	7
Concentration of political power: Can we improve its measurement?	7
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	7
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	7
Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments	6
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	6
Competing proteans	6
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	6
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
President’s constitutional powers and public activism: a focused analysis of presidential speeches under Finland’s two presidencies	6
Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020	6
Shifting spectrums: how does media consumption alter political orientation?	6
Physical health conditions and political participation in Europe: the moderating effects of age	5
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	5
Introduction: EU constraints and opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic—the politics of NGEU	5
The EU’s vaccine strategy: A glimpse of protean power?	5
Access, capacity and influence	5
Close to politics and to policies: subjective knowledge about referendum topics in Eastern Europe	5
China’s perception of the European Union during Brexit: the case of Chinese scholars	5
Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes	4
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
The imitation game: indirect European Union influence on municipal officials’ attitudes towards elite corruption and informal payments	4
Financial adjustment as a driver of growth model change: a balance-sheet approach to comparative political economy	4
Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis	4
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	4
‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem	4
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency	4
Thin or thick? Populist and radical right politics across European cities, suburbs, and countryside	4
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	4
Narrating the other: the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and China–EU relations in the context of Brexit	3
Making sense of the European Union: Chinese representations	3
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: the EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme	3
Introduction: Democracy or dominance? European economic governance in historical perspective	3
Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25	3
Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship	3
Signaling to creditors and voters: the determinants of national fiscal rules	3
Understanding public attitudes during Covid-19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster	3
Can the EU be a federal democracy? Assessing the horizontal and vertical dimension of the EU government from comparative perspective	3
Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework	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

How not to respond to populism	3
Now a systemic rival? Inklings of complex representations of the EU in public survey data of Chinese urban residents	3
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	3
Europeanisation in the aftermath of COVID-19: the organisational adaptation of the central governance of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in Italy	2
The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance: embedding a resilient EMU from the top-down?	2
Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe	2
Does the current crisis mark the end of the EU’s austerity era? Competing political projects in European fiscal governance	2
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	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
Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world	2
Intersectionality and inequalities in political participation in Europe: how do gender, class and age relate to political exclusion?	2
The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism	2
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	2
Congruence of national and Europarty manifestoes in the EU elections 2019	2
Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance	2
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis	2
A pragmatist theory of power: understanding the EU’s transformation and security response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Demographic deepening and far right durability: evidence from the Great Recession	2
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	2