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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A rightful condition for Europe	34
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	28
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	24
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	22
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	22
EPR volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	22
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	21
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	21
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	20
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	18
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	17
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	14
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	11
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	10
EPR volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	10
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	10
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	9
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	9
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	9
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	9
Gender quotas and public demand for increasing women’s representation in politics: an analysis of 28 European countries	8
Setting the terms of state intervention: employers, unions and the politics of inclusiveness in Austrian and Danish vocational education institutions	8
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	8

Internal democracy in populist right parties: the process of party policy development in the Alternative for Germany	8
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	8
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	8
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	7
The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	7
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	7
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	7
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	7
Centrifugal forces in a hegemonic environment: the rise of small-state coalitions in the Economic and Monetary Union	7
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	7
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	7
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	6
Whose bread I eat, their song I sing? How the gender of MPs influences the use of oversight mechanisms in government and opposition	6
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: evidence from Germany	6
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	6
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	6
Worth the Risk? Mass Obstruction, Vigilantism, and Public Support for Climate Activists	6
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	6
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	6
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	6
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	5
Electoral systems and ideological voting	5
The bottom-up spillover effect for radical right parties	5
(Don’t) bite the hand that feeds you: do critical interest organizations gain less funding in the EU?	5
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	4
EPR volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	4
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	4
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	4
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	4
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	4
Insecurity and the reintegration of former armed non-state actors in Colombia	4
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	4
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	4
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	3
Participatory democracy and participatory research	3
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	3
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	3
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	3
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	3
Revamping the menu – or just offering what’s in stock? Candidate list volatility in open-list PR systems. Evidence from Finland	3
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	3
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	3
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	3
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	3
Pax populi? An analysis of the conflict resolution potential of referendums on self-determination	3
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
Power-sharing and the quality of democracy	3
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	3

EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	3
Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement	2
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	2
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	2
Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule	2
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	2
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	2
Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	2
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	2
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	2
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	2
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	2
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration	2
What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model	2
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	2
Who’s fit for the job? Allocating ministerial portfolios to outsiders and experts	2
EPR volume 13 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	2
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	2