OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative European Politics is 5. 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
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
Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe	9

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
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	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