OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Political Science Review 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	43
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	33
A rightful condition for Europe	31
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	31
EPR volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	30
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	26
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	24
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	21
Institutions or ideology? Cross-party and cross-country analysis of factors contributing to the election of women to the European Parliament	19
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	16
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	13
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	13
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	12
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	12
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	11
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	11
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	10
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	10
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	10
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	10
Setting the terms of state intervention: employers, unions and the politics of inclusiveness in Austrian and Danish vocational education institutions	9
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	9
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	9
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	9
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	9

Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	8
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	8
Whose bread I eat, their song I sing? How the gender of MPs influences the use of oversight mechanisms in government and opposition	8
The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	8
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	8
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	8
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	8
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	8
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	7
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	7
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	7
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	7
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: evidence from Germany	7
Worth the Risk? Mass Obstruction, Vigilantism, and Public Support for Climate Activists	6
(Don’t) bite the hand that feeds you: do critical interest organizations gain less funding in the EU?	6
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	6
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	6
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	6
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	6
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	6
Electoral systems and ideological voting	6
The bottom-up spillover effect for radical right parties	6
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	5
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	5
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	5
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	5
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	5
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	5
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	5
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	5
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	4
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	4
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	4
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	4
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	4
Pax populi? An analysis of the conflict resolution potential of referendums on self-determination	4
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	4
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	4
The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy?	4
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	4
Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement	3
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	3
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration	3
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	3
EPR volume 13 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	3
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	3

Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	3
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	3
Participatory democracy and participatory research	3
What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model	3
Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule	2
Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU	2
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	2
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	2
The bond that binds or drives us apart? An empirical test of the national identity argument in three countries	2
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	2
Who’s fit for the job? Allocating ministerial portfolios to outsiders and experts	2
When trust is not enough. A longitudinal analysis of political trust and political competence during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland	2
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	2
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	2
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	2
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	2
Separatism and identity: a comparative analysis of the Basque and Catalan cases	2
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	2