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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A rightful condition for Europe	37
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	31
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	29
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	29
EPR volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	27
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	25
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	24
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	21
Institutions or ideology? Cross-party and cross-country analysis of factors contributing to the election of women to the European Parliament	17
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	14
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	13
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	13
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	10
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	10
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	10
EPR volume 14 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
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	10
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	10
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	9
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	9
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	9
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	8
Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	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 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	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
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	8
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	7
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	7
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	7
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	7
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	7
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	6
(Don’t) bite the hand that feeds you: do critical interest organizations gain less funding in the EU?	6
The bottom-up spillover effect for radical right parties	6
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	6
Worth the Risk? Mass Obstruction, Vigilantism, and Public Support for Climate Activists	6
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	6
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: evidence from Germany	6
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	6
Electoral systems and ideological voting	6
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	6
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	6
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	6
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	6
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	5
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	5
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	5
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	5
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
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	5
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	4
Pax populi? An analysis of the conflict resolution potential of referendums on self-determination	4
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	4
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	4
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	4
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	4
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	4
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	4
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	4
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	3
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	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
Participatory democracy and participatory research	3
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	3
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	3
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	3
EPR volume 13 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3

Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement	3
Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU	2
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	2
Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	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
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	2
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	2
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	2
The bond that binds or drives us apart? An empirical test of the national identity argument in three countries	2
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	2
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration – ERRATUM	2
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	2
What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model	2
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	2
Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule	2
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	2