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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	35
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	22
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex	22
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	20
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	16
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	16
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	14
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	14
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	14
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	12
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	10
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	9
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	9
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	9
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	8
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	8
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	8
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	8
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	8
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel	7
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	7
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	6
Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	6
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	6
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	5

What is political and what is not? Illustrating how the salience of abortion in the media shapes public perceptions about its political nature	5
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	5
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy	5
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	4
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	4
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	4
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	4
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	4
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	3
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	3
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	3
The personalization of party politics in Western Europe (1985–2016): evidence from an expert survey	3
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	3
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	3
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	3
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	3
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	3
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship	3
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	3
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	3
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: how two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms	3
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	3
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	3
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	3
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	3
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	3
Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?	2
Correction: The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament	2
Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis: how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance	2
Why political parties use deliberation: a framework for analysis	2
The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change	2
A reassessment of the association between political interest and electoral participation: adding vote overreporting to the equation	2
Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	2
The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa	2
‘Let’s agree to disagree’: political disagreement with contact ties and non-electoral political participation	2
‘Talking about’ the far right and common sense. A case study of Matteo Salvini’s buon senso trope on Twitter (2018–2023)	2
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)	2
The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021	2
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis	2
Inequalities in democratic outcomes among young citizens: the role of access to and participation in democratic activities in school in 15 countries	2
Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles	2
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 system	2
Remaking European Political Economies	2
Don’t scratch the moral itch: restoring political image following a scandal	2
Feeling represented yet? How populist and non-populist cues in references to the people affect people’s perceived representation	2
Movement party as a framing strategy: comparing left-wing and right-wing actors in Serbia	2
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands	2
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
(Un)Expected effects of policy rhetoric: value framing of policy proposals and voters’ reactions to subsequent information	2

Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021)	2
Generations and the changing character of support for European unification in the Netherlands: a research note	2
Casting light on citizens’ conceptions of what is ‘political’	2
Defending democracy politically	2
Perceptions are everything: individuals’ normative attitudes toward inequality and political participation in Europe	2
Solidarity frames: the missing link between parties and voters?	2
Correction to: Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	2
Are feminine traits a liability in elections?	2
More competent thus more legitimate? MPs’ discourses on deliberative mini-publics	1
When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel	1
Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries	1
Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support	1
Euroscepticism: a meta-analysis	1
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization	1
Reporting the polls: the quality of media reporting of vote intention polls in the Netherlands	1
Correction: Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	1
Pressure on people and people on streets: social pressures to vote in Tunisia’s new democracy	1
Protest types and protester profiles: testing meso−micro-associations between event characteristics and participant attitudes	1
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark	1
Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020	1
Political elites and the democratic duty to trust the people	1
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates	1
Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation	1
Disengaged or raising voices? An analysis of the relationship between individual risk perception and non-institutionalised political participation	1
Rejecting education as the basis of the social prestige of occupations: the role of polarized political ideologies and parties in Switzerland	1
Civil society and compliance with constitutions	1
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration	1
May’s Law in changing times—an empirical assessment of the German case	1