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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	58
A rightful condition for Europe	48
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	43
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	31
On the determinants of referendum boycotts in Europe: democracy, quorum rules, and party motivations	29
Citizens’ trust in constitutional courts: evidence from Spain	28
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	25
New or old politics? Understanding public preferences for the EU single market	25
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	19
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	19
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	18
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	16
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	16
Institutions or ideology? Cross-party and cross-country analysis of factors contributing to the election of women to the European Parliament	15
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	14
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	14
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	14
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	12
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	12
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	11
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	11
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	11
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	11
The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union	10
Whom do you serve? A comparative analysis of congruence between party representatives, voters, and economic elites (2007–2017)	10

The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	10
Business versus citizens: legislators’ responsiveness in trade policy	10
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	10
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	10
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	10
Whose bread I eat, their song I sing? How the gender of MPs influences the use of oversight mechanisms in government and opposition	9
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	9
Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	9
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	9
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	8
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	8
Public perceptions of populist radical parties in government: inclusion without moderation?	8
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	8
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	8
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	8
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	7
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	7
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design – ERRATUM	7
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	7
Worth the Risk? Mass Obstruction, Vigilantism, and Public Support for Climate Activists	7
Electoral systems and ideological voting	7
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	7
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	6
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	6
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	6
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	6
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	6
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	6
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	6
Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism	5
Perceived legitimacy as a third dimension of bicameralism: Czech senators versus the Czech general public	5
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	5
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	5
The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy?	5
Affinity voting in Europe: the impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians	5
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	5
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	5
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design	5
On the determinants of referendum boycotts in Europe: democracy, quorum rules, and party motivations – CORRIGENDUM	5
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	5
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	5
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	5
Participatory democracy and participatory research	4
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration	4
Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement	4
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	4
The price of ethnic marginalization: the peril of ethnic exclusion in times of public health crisis	4
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	4
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	4

Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	4
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	4
Who’s fit for the job? Allocating ministerial portfolios to outsiders and experts	3
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	3
Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU	3
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration – ERRATUM	3
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	3
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	3
The determinants of turnout in intra-party referendums: a meso-level analysis in digital parties	3
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	3
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	3
Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	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	3
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	3
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	3
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	3
The bond that binds or drives us apart? An empirical test of the national identity argument in three countries	3
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	3
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	3