OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Political Science Review is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	66
A rightful condition for Europe	53
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	45
“Don’t Know, Don’t Care?” How information and institutional reform affect voting in supranational elections: experimental evidence from the 2024 European Parliamentary elections	32
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	29
On the determinants of referendum boycotts in Europe: democracy, quorum rules, and party motivations	28
New or old politics? Understanding public preferences for the EU single market	26
Citizens’ trust in constitutional courts: evidence from Spain	21
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	20
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	17
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	17
Rising rents – rising dissatisfaction? On the influence of rental prices on satisfaction with local public administration in German cities	16
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	15
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	15
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	14
Institutions or ideology? Cross-party and cross-country analysis of factors contributing to the election of women to the European Parliament	14
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	13
Paying the piper: government advertising and media bias	13
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	12
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	12
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	12
“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old	12
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	12
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	11
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	11

Whom do you serve? A comparative analysis of congruence between party representatives, voters, and economic elites (2007–2017)	10
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	10
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	10
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	10
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	10
Business versus citizens: legislators’ responsiveness in trade policy	9
Not all migrants are equal: public support for migrant welfare access by migrant type and social protection scheme	9
The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union	9
Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	9
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	8
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	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
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	8
The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	8
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	7
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	7
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	7
Overcoming impeachment hurdles: elite polarization, mass mobilization, and corruption scandals	7
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	7
Public perceptions of populist radical parties in government: inclusion without moderation?	6
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	6
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	6
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	6
Worth the Risk? Mass Obstruction, Vigilantism, and Public Support for Climate Activists	6
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design – ERRATUM	6
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	6
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	6
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	6
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	6
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	6
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	6
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	6
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	5
Perceived legitimacy as a third dimension of bicameralism: Czech senators versus the Czech general public	5
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	5
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	5
On the determinants of referendum boycotts in Europe: democracy, quorum rules, and party motivations – CORRIGENDUM	5
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	5
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	5
Affinity voting in Europe: the impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians	5
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	5
The price of ethnic marginalization: the peril of ethnic exclusion in times of public health crisis	4
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	4
The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy?	4
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	4
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design	4
Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism	4
Priming common European and democratic values does not reduce affective polarization	4
Participatory democracy and participatory research	4
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	4

Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	4
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	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	3
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	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
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	3
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	3
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	3
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	3
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	3
What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model	3
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	3
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions	3
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	3