OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Political Science Review is 1. 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
Claiming the right to rule: regime legitimation strategies from 1900 to 2019	32
Ideological extremism, perceived party system polarization, and support for democracy	28
A tough trade-off? The asymmetrical impact of populist radical right inclusion on satisfaction with democracy and government	24
Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending	21
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	19
Are governments paying a price for austerity? Fiscal consolidations reduce government approval	19
Why does the European Right accommodate backsliding states? An analysis of 24 European People’s Party votes (2011–2019)	19
Going in circles? The influence of the electoral cycle on the party behaviour in parliament	18
National identity between democracy and autocracy: a comparative analysis of 24 countries	17
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	17
Perceived risk crowds out trust? Trust and public compliance with coronavirus restrictions over the course of the pandemic	16
Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis	16
The discursive construction of digitalization: a comparative analysis of national discourses on the digital future of work	15
Power-sharing and the quality of democracy	15
Gender quotas and public demand for increasing women’s representation in politics: an analysis of 28 European countries	13
Sympathy for the devil? Voter support for illiberal politicians	13
The partisan politics of employment protection legislation: Social democrats, Christian democrats, and the conditioning effect of unemployment	11
Preferences for consensus and majoritarian democracy: long- and short-term influences	9
What drives support for social distancing? Pandemic politics, securitization, and crisis management in Britain	9
Individual- and party-level determinants of far-right support among women in Western Europe	8
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	8
Plebiscites: a tool for dictatorship	8
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: how do experience and expectation of status decline shape electoral behaviour?	8
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	7
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	7

Civic engagement in times of economic crisis: a cross-national comparative study of voluntary association membership	7
Transnational solidarity among political elites: what determines support for financial redistribution within the EU in times of crisis?	7
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	7
Process matters: the variegated effects of municipal amalgamation features on voter turnout revealed in a 10-country comparative investigation	6
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	6
The makers get it all? The coalitional welfare politics of Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. The case studies of Austria and Italy	6
Prime ministerial autonomy and intra-executive conflict under semi-presidentialism	6
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration	6
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	6
The varying logics for supporting populist right-wing welfare politics in West European welfare regimes	6
Centrifugal forces in a hegemonic environment: the rise of small-state coalitions in the Economic and Monetary Union	5
Affective polarization in Europe	5
Parliamentary questions as an intra-coalition control mechanism in mixed regimes	5
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	5
Internal democracy in populist right parties: the process of party policy development in the Alternative for Germany	5
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	4
Electoral systems and ideological voting	4
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	4
Social influence and political participation around the world	4
Participatory processes and their outcomes: comparing assembly and popular vote decisions	4
Party competition over EU integration: asymmetrical impacts of external shocks across regions?	4
Space invaders and norm-politicians: how the media represent the intersectional identities of Members of Parliament	4
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	4
How governance shaped military responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Why do legislators rebel on trade agreements? The effect of constituencies’ economic interests	3
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	3
Tailoring the truth – evidence on parliamentarians’ responsiveness and misinformation toleration from a field experiment	3
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	3
Presidential power effects on government and ministerial durability: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	3
Measuring satisfaction with democracy: how good are different scales across countries and languages?	3
Story incentive: the effect of national stories on voter turnout	3
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: evidence from Germany	3
Who’s fit for the job? Allocating ministerial portfolios to outsiders and experts	3
Where is the class bias attenuation? The consequences of adopting compulsory voting in Austria-Hungary in 1907	3
Making the rich pay? Social democracy and wealth taxation in Europe in the aftermath of the great financial crisis	3
Which political outsiders do Europeans prefer as ministers?	3
What drives trust in regulatory agencies? Probing the relevance of governmental level and performance through a cross-national elite experiment on EU regulation	3
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	3
The bond that binds or drives us apart? An empirical test of the national identity argument in three countries	3
Cabinet Composition, Collegiality, and Collectivity: Examining Patterns in Cabinet Committee Structure	3
Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	2
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	2
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	2
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	2
Revamping the menu – or just offering what’s in stock? Candidate list volatility in open-list PR systems. Evidence from Finland	2
Wealth wars: how productivity gaps explain democratic erosion in advanced economies	2
The potentials of heresthetic and rhetoric in an open framing situation: theory and evidence from a survey experiment	2
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	2
Incentives and constraints: a configurational account of European involvement in the anti-Daesh coalition	2
Once they are seated: the impact of radical right parties’ political representation on attitudes of trust and solidarity	2

Separatism and identity: a comparative analysis of the Basque and Catalan cases	2
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	2
Pax populi? An analysis of the conflict resolution potential of referendums on self-determination	2
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	2
Political and ideological normalization: quality of government, mainstream-right ideological positions and extreme-right support	2
The minipublic bubble: how the contributions of minipublics are conceived in Belgium (2001–2021)	2
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	2
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	2
Deliberative ecologies: a relational critique of deliberative systems	1
From immigration over redistributive attitudes to welfare spending. The moderating role of social program design	1
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	1
Lip service to liberal democracy in Western Europe?	1
Freedom of speech within political parties	1
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	1
Farewell editorial	1
Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas	1
Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule	1
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	1
Time is on my side? The temporal proximity between elections and parties’ salience strategies	1
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	1
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	1
The bottom-up spillover effect for radical right parties	1
Solidarity in question: activation of dormant political dispositions and Latino support for Trump in 2020	1
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	1
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: Evidence from Germany – Erratum	1
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	1
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	1
Insecurity and the reintegration of former armed non-state actors in Colombia	1
The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	1
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	1
Setting the terms of state intervention: employers, unions and the politics of inclusiveness in Austrian and Danish vocational education institutions	1
(Don’t) bite the hand that feeds you: do critical interest organizations gain less funding in the EU?	1
Where you live explains how much you trust local (and national) institutions: A study of the Italian case	1