Acta Politica

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Politica 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex39
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 201726
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis22
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector17
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)17
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland15
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences14
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key14
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities13
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)11
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections9
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe9
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums9
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective9
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties9
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study8
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?8
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics8
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries7
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income7
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel7
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels7
Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches6
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections6
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification6
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties6
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries6
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy6
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society5
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation5
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany5
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders5
What is political and what is not? Illustrating how the salience of abortion in the media shapes public perceptions about its political nature5
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults5
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?5
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 20175
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions5
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective4
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)4
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest4
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit4
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: how two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms4
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?4
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right4
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism4
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes4
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain3
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship3
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach3
Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles3
A reassessment of the association between political interest and electoral participation: adding vote overreporting to the equation3
Defending democracy politically3
When even the prime minister sits on the municipal council. Analysing the value of ‘localness’ and Finnish MPs’ incentives to ‘cumulate’ in an open-list voting system3
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust3
The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change3
Don’t scratch the moral itch: restoring political image following a scandal3
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands3
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 19793
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right3
Why political parties use deliberation: a framework for analysis3
Generations and the changing character of support for European unification in the Netherlands: a research note3
Solidarity frames: the missing link between parties and voters?2
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)2
Correction: The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament2
Perceptions are everything: individuals’ normative attitudes toward inequality and political participation in Europe2
Inequalities in democratic outcomes among young citizens: the role of access to and participation in democratic activities in school in 15 countries2
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine2
Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?2
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis2
Correction to: Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents2
The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–20212
Feeling represented yet? How populist and non-populist cues in references to the people affect people’s perceived representation2
Remaking European Political Economies2
Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021)2
Trick of the traits: a conceptual replication of the trait ownership hypothesis2
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark2
‘Talking about’ the far right and common sense. A case study of Matteo Salvini’s buon senso trope on Twitter (2018–2023)2
‘Let’s agree to disagree’: political disagreement with contact ties and non-electoral political participation2
Movement party as a framing strategy: comparing left-wing and right-wing actors in Serbia2
Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis: how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance2
The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa2
Casting light on citizens’ conceptions of what is ‘political’2
How does education affect political culture? Evidence across different educational, socioeconomic, and institutional settings2
(Un)Expected effects of policy rhetoric: value framing of policy proposals and voters’ reactions to subsequent information2
Are feminine traits a liability in elections?2
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands2
Pressure on people and people on streets: social pressures to vote in Tunisia’s new democracy1
When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel1
Correction: Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society1
Protest types and protester profiles: testing meso−micro-associations between event characteristics and participant attitudes1
Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support1
Civil society and compliance with constitutions1
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates1
When do active citizens abstain from the polls? Civic associations, non-electoral participation, and voting in 21st-century democracies1
Immigration policy congruence and political trust: a cross-national analysis among 23 European countries1
Disengaged or raising voices? An analysis of the relationship between individual risk perception and non-institutionalised political participation1
May’s Law in changing times—an empirical assessment of the German case1
Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 20201
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration1
Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation1
The far right, religion, and conspiracy theories: a discourse-theoretical analysis of the case of Poland1
Striking a major chord: music preferences as predictors of vote intentions in Canada1
The role of public issue salience in the relationship between political orientation and climate change concern: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Europe1
Political elites and the democratic duty to trust the people1
Euroscepticism: a meta-analysis1
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization1
Rejecting education as the basis of the social prestige of occupations: the role of polarized political ideologies and parties in Switzerland1
Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries1
How do intra-party dynamics impact the party elite’s immigration policy manoeuvres? The case of German Social Democrats1
Political orientations and personal values among university lecturers in Europe1
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