OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian clientelism: the case of the president’s ‘creatures’ in Cameroon	21
Antecedents of intentional and incidental exposure modes on social media and consequences for political participation: a panel study	14
The EU–Turkey deal in the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’: when intergovernmentalism cast a shadow on the EU’s normative power	13
More competent thus more legitimate? MPs’ discourses on deliberative mini-publics	11
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy	10
The personalization of party politics in Western Europe (1985–2016): evidence from an expert survey	10
Public opinion on Twitter? How vote choice and arguments on Twitter comply with patterns in survey data, evidence from the 2016 Ukraine referendum in the Netherlands	10
Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries	10
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	10
Solidarity in Europe: from crisis to policy?	9
Lost connection? The attitudinal and ideological (in)congruence of social democracy’s elites, members and voters in Flanders-Belgium	7
“Le Grand absent Européen”: solidarity in the politics of European integration	7
Is trust in government really declining? Evidence using the sequential probability ratio test	6
A scandal effect? Local scandals and political trust	6
Facilitators of intergenerational similarity in social and political attitudes: the role of discussion, sophistication, attitudinal homogeneity, and gender	6
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	6
Conditioned solidarity: EU citizens’ attitudes towards economic and social austerities for crisis countries receiving financial aid	6
Removing the intermediaries? Patterns of intra-party organizational change in Europe (1970–2010)	5
Intersectional candidate nomination: how district and party factors shape the inclusion of ethnic minority men and women in Brussels	5
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	5
Transnational solidarity: a transformative narrative for the EU and its citizens?	4
Why political parties use deliberation: a framework for analysis	4
The first two laws of politics: Nannestad and Paldam’s “Cost of Ruling” revisited	4
Do welfare concerns drive electoral support for the populist radical right? An exploratory analysis	4

Political parties, state resources and electoral clientelism	4
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	4
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	4
Coordinating the machine: subnational political context and the effectiveness of machine politics	4
On their own turf? The level-specificity of political trust in multilevel political systems	4
The political representation of left-nationalist voters	4
Welfare solidarities in the age of mass migration: evidence from European Social Survey 2016	4
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference	3
Exploring the proportionality of representation in interest group mobilization and political access: the case of the Netherlands	3
The delusive economy: how information and affect colour perceptions of national economic performance	3
Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype	3
Ballot position effects in open-list PR systems: the moderating impact of postal voting	3
Administrative clientelism and policy reform failure: the Western Canada Integrated Land Management experience 1990–2015	3
Clientelism and distributive politics in Australia: comparing partisan pork barrel with contingency-based vote-buying	3
Living up to expectations? EU politicization and party Europeanization in Flanders and the Netherlands	3
Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes	2
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	2
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex	2
Ideological voting for radical right parties in Europe	2
Casting light on citizens’ conceptions of what is ‘political’	2
Risk attitudes and the propensity to vote for a new party in multi-party systems	2
Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	2
Vote overreporting in national election surveys: a 55-nation exploratory study	2
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	2
Mass issue attitudes, political sophistication and ideology: the European case	2
(Un)Expected effects of policy rhetoric: value framing of policy proposals and voters’ reactions to subsequent information	2
Implicit and explicit populist and anti-immigrant attitudes and their explanatory power for populist radical-right party support	2
Civil society and compliance with constitutions	2
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization	2
Measuring solidarity: towards a survey question on fiscal solidarity in the European Union	2
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands	2
Business Groups and Advocacy Success: Insights from a Multi-venue Approach	2
Understanding factual belief polarization: the role of trust, political sophistication, and affective polarization	2
Do campaign posters trigger voting based on looks? Probing an explanation for why good-looking candidates win more votes	2
Does clientelism hinder progressive social policy in Latin America?	2
What drives the propensity to vote for ethnic-minority-interest parties?	2
Impartiality and public sector employees’ online political activity: evidence from three Australian elections	2
Rally 'Round the Prime Minister: a study into the effects of a diplomatic conflict on public opinion under coalition government	2
Minding the political engagement gap: how discrimination and religion impact Dutch voters with an immigrant background	2
Still for sale: the micro-dynamics of vote selling in the United States, evidence from a list experiment	2
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	2
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration	1
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	1
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	1
Inequalities in democratic outcomes among young citizens: the role of access to and participation in democratic activities in school in 15 countries	1
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	1
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	1
Cas Mudde, “The Far Right Today”	1
The epistemic quality of expert bodies: from normative-theoretical concept to empirical measurement	1
The predictive value of polls in a fragmented multi-party system: the Netherlands (1998–2021)	1

International recognition, religion, and the status of Western Sahara	1
Defending democracy politically	1
Immigration policy congruence and political trust: a cross-national analysis among 23 European countries	1
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis	1
Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation	1
What is the point of urban justice? Access to human space	1
Responsible citizens, political consumers and the state	1
Correction to: Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	1
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	1
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)	1
Populist pragmatism: the nationalisation of local government strategies by the Rassemblement National	1
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	1
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	1
Keeping women in their place? The prevalence of gender role attitudes among local party chairs in Flanders	1
Reporting the polls: the quality of media reporting of vote intention polls in the Netherlands	1
Indigenous people, redistribution, and support for the political regime in Latin America	1
Do voters prefer more parties on the ballot?	1
The ‘sanction-policy’ linkage from the perspective of citizens and the role of the party system	1