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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)	48
The European Commission’s entrepreneurship and the social dimension of the European Semester: from the European Pillar of Social Rights to the Covid-19 pandemic	41
Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020	37
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	36
A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the “Yellow–Green” government	18
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture	17
Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis	17
Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland	17
Germany, the Eurozone crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic: Failing forward or moving on?	15
Initiatives opposing populist parties in Europe: types, methods, and patterns	15
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	14
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	14
The dog that barked but did not bite: Greek foreign policy under the populist coalition of SYRIZA-Independent Greeks, 2015–2019	13
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	13
Referendums: increasingly unpopular among the ‘winners’ of modernization? Comparing public support for the use of referendums in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary	12
Post-Brexit Europeanization: re-thinking the continuum of British policies, polity, and politics trajectories	12
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis	12
The middle-income trap in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2010s: institutions and divergent growth models	11
Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain	11
Austria and the Global Compact on Migration: the ‘populist securitization’ of foreign policy	10
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	10
Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe	9
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	9
Introduction: EU constraints and opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic—the politics of NGEU	9
Voice, equality and education: the role of higher education in defining the political participation of young Europeans	9

David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	8
Emotions in European parliamentary debates: Passionate speakers or un-emotional gentlemen?	8
Belonging and exclusion: the dark side of regional identity in Germany	8
A new delegation design for EU governance: how preference cohesiveness of multiple principals shapes the European Commission’s discretion in trade negotiations	8
Closer in hard times? The drivers of European solidarity in ‘normal’ and ‘crisis’ times	7
Interest group lobbying in the European Union: privacy, data protection and the right to be forgotten	7
Increasing toleration for the intolerant? “Adapted militancy” and German responses to Alternative für Deutschland	6
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	6
EU resilience in times of COVID? Polity maintenance, public support, and solidarity	6
Should EU member states help each other? How the national context shapes individual preferences for European solidarity	6
Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism	6
How not to respond to populism	6
The silent losers of Germany’s export surpluses. How current account imbalances are exacerbated by the misrepresentation of their domestic costs	6
Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties	6
From toleration to recognition: explaining change and stability in party responses to the Danish People’s Party	6
Constructing a neoliberal exclusionary state: the role of far-right populism in economic policy change in post-war Austria	5
Implementing the will of the people: sovereignty and policy conflicts in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership	5
Populist attitudes, anti-technocratic attitudes, and Covid-related conspiracy beliefs across Europe	5
Experiencing and supporting institutional regionalization in Belgium: a normative and interpretive policy feedback perspective	5
Explaining IMF design of 2010 Greece loan: bricoleurs relying on fiscal space and nonlinear multiple equilibria processes	5
Opposing populists in power: how and why Polish civil society Europeanised their opposition to the rule of law crisis in Poland	5
The strength of a weak centre: pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States	4
Drivers of integration? EU agency board members on transboundary crises	4
Who is afraid of emergency politics? Public opinion on European crisis management during Covid-19	4
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	4
Measuring the inclusiveness of deliberation: structural inequality and the discourse quality index	4
Sovereignty of what and for whom? The political mobilisation of sovereignty claims by the Italian Lega and Fratelli d’Italia	4
Can the EU be a federal democracy? Assessing the horizontal and vertical dimension of the EU government from comparative perspective	4
Explaining economic growth in advanced capitalist democracies: varieties of capitalism and welfare production regimes	4
Citizens’ responses to populists in the borderland between tolerance and intolerance	4
Aversion to far-left parties among Europeans voting abroad	4
Policymaking in the EU under crisis conditions: Covid and refugee crises compared	4
Improved soft law implementation with national ownership: evidence from the European Semester	4
Attitudes of national decision-makers towards differentiated integration in the European Union	3
The changing relevance and meaning of left and right in 34 party systems from 1945 to 2020	3
Antagonistic understandings of sovereignty in the 2015 Polish constitutional crisis	3
Linking electoral realignment to welfare politics: an assessment of partisan effects on active labour market policy in post-industrial democracies	3
Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology	3
Who represents outsiders? A comparative study of The Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden	3
Two regionalisms, one mechanism: how identity shapes support for decentralisation	3
A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era	3
Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South	3
UK’s withdrawal from Justice and Home Affairs: a historical institutionalist analysis of policy trajectories	3
Negotiating the recovery and resilience facility: the emergence of coordinative conditionality	3
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans	3
Who refuses ambiguity? Voters’ issue salience and the electoral effect of party position ambiguity	3
Convergence or divergence? A multilevel analysis of political values in 18 EU countries 1990–2017	3
Strategic leadership in the EU multilevel parliamentary field: the EPP Group’s Erasmus Programme	3
Party views on differentiated integration	3
Regulatory strings that bind and the UK Parliament after Brexit	2

When “the people” of populism is constructed by the relatively privileged: the case of Catalan secessionism	2
Access, capacity and influence	2
Creditor domination in the eurozone: a republican view	2
More or less regional autonomy? A qualitative analysis of citizen arguments towards (de)centralization in Belgium	2
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking	2
Borders and identities in NI after Brexit: remaking Irish–UK relations	2
Changing the topics: the social sciences in EU-funded research projects	2
The political foundations of party organizational variance	2
A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession	2
Referendums and political-institutional convergence in European democracies: A time-differencing configurational analysis	2
Bilateral leadership in critical moments: France, Germany, and the management of major European integration crises	2
How temporal discretion supports interagency coordination: Sweden's intersectoral fight against antimicrobial resistance	2
Numerical rules or political government, that is the (European) question	2
Linking crises: inter-crisis learning and the European Commission’s approach to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	2
The domestic sources of macroprudential policy divergence: financial regulation and the politics of housing in Germany and the UK	2
Emergency politics, mass sentiment and the EU during Covid	2
Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco	2