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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
When do voters perceive intra-party conflict? A democratic life cycle perspective	34
A rightful condition for Europe	28
EPR volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	21
Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis	21
Political parties, issue salience, and the appointment of women cabinet members	21
Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion	20
When does women’s political power matter? Women’s representation and legal gender equality of economic opportunity across contexts	20
Thematic analysis using the Schwartz values theory: exploring the use of values appeals in persuasive speech during COVID-19 in Australia	18
Delving into the divide: how ideological differences fuel out-party hostility in a multi-party context	18
Religiosity and electoral turnout among Muslims in Western Europe	18
Deindustrialization fosters ethnonationalism; a comparative analysis of ethnonational parties in Western Europe, 1918–2018	17
Institutions or ideology? Cross-party and cross-country analysis of factors contributing to the election of women to the European Parliament	16
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis	14
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs	12
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election	10
Nonparticipation in democratic assemblies: factors, reasons, and suggestions	10
EPR volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	10
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries	9
Is the grass greener on the other side? Benchmarking Covid-19 vaccine procurement against the British experience	9
Making sense of comeback prime ministers	8
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8
EPR volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
EPR volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Setting the terms of state intervention: employers, unions and the politics of inclusiveness in Austrian and Danish vocational education institutions	7
Gender quotas and public demand for increasing women’s representation in politics: an analysis of 28 European countries	7

Centrifugal forces in a hegemonic environment: the rise of small-state coalitions in the Economic and Monetary Union	7
Internal democracy in populist right parties: the process of party policy development in the Alternative for Germany	7
Do immigrants at bay keep the xenophobes away? Post-entry rights and public opposition to immigrant admission	7
Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain	7
Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning	7
Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes	7
The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy	7
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	6
Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation	6
Dealing with the populist radical right in parliament: mainstream party responses toward the Alternative for Germany	6
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: evidence from Germany	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
Is the unhappy citizen a populist citizen? Linking subjective well-being to populist and nativist attitudes	6
Do party politics still matter? Examining the effect of parties, governments and government changes on the local tax rate in Sweden	6
How does economic openness affect the relative economic voting?	6
Gender stereotypes in print and online media coverage of Slovak presidential candidates in 2009 and 2019	6
LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates	6
Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes	6
(Don’t) bite the hand that feeds you: do critical interest organizations gain less funding in the EU?	5
Some differences, many similarities: comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis	5
Electoral systems and ideological voting	5
Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland	5
The bottom-up spillover effect for radical right parties	4
Insecurity and the reintegration of former armed non-state actors in Colombia	4
The partisan politics of employment protection legislation: Social democrats, Christian democrats, and the conditioning effect of unemployment	4
A need for control? Political trust and public preferences for asylum and refugee policy	4
Freedom of speech within political parties	4
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany	4
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies	3
Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?	3
The good, the loyal or the active? MPs’ parliamentary performance and the achievement of static and progressive career ambitions in parliament	3
Forging support: when there is no alternative to ‘there is no alternative’	3
EPR volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?	3
The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership	3
An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy	3
Exploring the domestic and international drivers of professionalization of Central and Eastern European interest groups	3
Ethnic minority MPs as reputational shields? How Western European political parties respond to public opinion shifts on immigration policy	3
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data	3
Civilian victimization and ethnic attitudes in Africa	3
EPR volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
The clash of traditional values: opposition to female monarchs – ERRATUM	3
Critical junctures and the crystallization of cosmopolitanism and communitarianism	3
The COVID-19 lockdown paradox: democratic support during democratic restrictions	2
EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	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
Transnational solidarity among political elites: what determines support for financial redistribution within the EU in times of crisis?	2
Unequal inequalities? How participatory inequalities affect democratic legitimacy	2
The emotional fabric of populism during a public health crisis: How anger shapes the relationship between pandemic threat and populist attitudes	2
Power-sharing and the quality of democracy	2

Pax populi? An analysis of the conflict resolution potential of referendums on self-determination	2
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom	2
Election integrity across Europe: who thinks elections are held fairly and why?	2
Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office	2
The micro-foundations of social democratic welfare chauvinism and inclusion: class demand and policy reforms in Western Europe, 1980−2018	2
Labour market policies and support for populist radical right parties: the role of nostalgic producerism, occupational risk, and feedback effects	2
Revamping the menu – or just offering what’s in stock? Candidate list volatility in open-list PR systems. Evidence from Finland	2
Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU	2
EPR volume 13 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands	2
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany	2
Citizens’ preferences for liberal democracy and its deformations: Evidence from Germany – Erratum	1
Two worlds, one nation? Comparing the political spaces of Flanders and Francophone Belgium	1
Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation: gerrymandering and its discontents	1
What drives support for social distancing? Pandemic politics, securitization, and crisis management in Britain	1
The bond that binds or drives us apart? An empirical test of the national identity argument in three countries	1
Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships	1
Preconditions for pacted transitions from authoritarian rule	1
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging	1
Echoes from the trenches: World War I deaths and contemporary support for the far-right in France	1
Populist attitudes and foreign policy postures: a comparative analysis of four European countries	1
Explaining candidate turnover. Evidence from a comparative analysis in 10 European established democracies with a list-PR system	1
Who’s fit for the job? Allocating ministerial portfolios to outsiders and experts	1
Term limits in parliament and electoral disconnection: the case of the Five Star Movement	1
Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture	1
Separatism and identity: a comparative analysis of the Basque and Catalan cases	1
Quality of government and public support for taxation for climate change mitigation: evidence from 135 European regions	1
How challenger party issue entrepreneurship and mainstream party strategies drive public issue salience: evidence from radical-right parties and the issue of immigration – ERRATUM	1
Deliberative reason and the effect of minipublic configurations	1
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	1
Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe	1