OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative European Politics is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism and foreign policy: a research agenda (Introduction)	40
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	34
Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU	33
Populist argumentation in foreign policy: the case of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, 2010–2020	27
Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis	15
The long-term effects of the economic crisis on political trust in Europe: Is there a negativity bias in the relation between economic performance and political support?	15
Negotiating Brexit: A clash of approaches?	15
Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland	15
A sovereignist revolution? Italy’s foreign policy under the “Yellow–Green” government	14
European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration	12
Populist governments and career diplomats in the EU: the challenge of political capture	12
Germany, the Eurozone crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic: Failing forward or moving on?	12
The dog that barked but did not bite: Greek foreign policy under the populist coalition of SYRIZA-Independent Greeks, 2015–2019	11
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the COVID-19 crisis	10
Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain	10
Austria and the Global Compact on Migration: the ‘populist securitization’ of foreign policy	10
Referendums: increasingly unpopular among the ‘winners’ of modernization? Comparing public support for the use of referendums in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary	10
The middle-income trap in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2010s: institutions and divergent growth models	9
Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe	9
Voice, equality and education: the role of higher education in defining the political participation of young Europeans	9
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework	9
Conflicts of sovereignty over EU trade policy: a new constitutional settlement?	9
Introduction: EU constraints and opportunities in the COVID-19 pandemic—the politics of NGEU	8
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions	8
A new delegation design for EU governance: how preference cohesiveness of multiple principals shapes the European Commission’s discretion in trade negotiations	8

The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France	8
Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support	7
Initiatives opposing populist parties in Europe: types, methods, and patterns	7
Interest group lobbying in the European Union: privacy, data protection and the right to be forgotten	7
Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU	7
The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing	7
Post-Brexit Europeanization: re-thinking the continuum of British policies, polity, and politics trajectories	7
EU resilience in times of COVID? Polity maintenance, public support, and solidarity	6
Belonging and exclusion: the dark side of regional identity in Germany	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
Emotions in European parliamentary debates: Passionate speakers or un-emotional gentlemen?	5
Bringing the middleman back in: EU umbrella organizations and interest group access in the European Union	5
Free movement of workers under challenge: the indexation of family benefits	5
Closer in hard times? The drivers of European solidarity in ‘normal’ and ‘crisis’ times	5
Measuring the inclusiveness of deliberation: structural inequality and the discourse quality index	4
Recovery, resilience and growth regimes under overlapping EU conditionalities: the case of Greece	4
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party	4
Improved soft law implementation with national ownership: evidence from the European Semester	4
The strength of a weak centre: pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States	4
Can the EU be a federal democracy? Assessing the horizontal and vertical dimension of the EU government from comparative perspective	4
Implementing the will of the people: sovereignty and policy conflicts in the aftermath of the UK’s referendum on EU membership	4
The silent losers of Germany’s export surpluses. How current account imbalances are exacerbated by the misrepresentation of their domestic costs	4
Explaining economic growth in advanced capitalist democracies: varieties of capitalism and welfare production regimes	4
Resisting ambiguously anti-democratic parties: What role for the state, political parties and civil society?	4