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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Taxes, redistribution and culture: attitudes towards distribution of the tax burden among eight migrant groups in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany	30
The Chilean turnout gender gap: evidence from administrative census data	21
Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?	18
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	14
Racialisation and counter-radicalisation: a study of Dutch policy frameworks	13
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	13
Feeling represented yet? How populist and non-populist cues in references to the people affect people’s perceived representation	13
The feeling of falling behind: societal fear and anti-immigration attitudes among manual workers	13
When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel	11
Pressure on people and people on streets: social pressures to vote in Tunisia’s new democracy	9
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	8
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	8
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates	8
Holding this space: navigating ethical issues in citizen deliberation	7
Reporting the polls: the quality of media reporting of vote intention polls in the Netherlands	7
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	7
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	7
Correction: Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	7
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	7
Correction: A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	7
Mass issue attitudes, political sophistication and ideology: the European case	7
Perceptions are everything: individuals’ normative attitudes toward inequality and political participation in Europe	6
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	5
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	5
The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa	5

(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	5
Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	4
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	4
Figuring out political rhetoric: a quantitative content analysis of the use of rhetorical figures on the 2018 Flemish municipal election day	4
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex	4
Socioeconomic anxieties and electoral polarization: insights from Belgian federal elections at the municipal level	3
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	3
The personalization of party politics in Western Europe (1985–2016): evidence from an expert survey	3
Correction: Political elites and the democratic duty to trust the people	3
(Un)Expected effects of policy rhetoric: value framing of policy proposals and voters’ reactions to subsequent information	3
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine	3
How a direct vote and public deliberation contribute to the legitimacy of political decision-making: examining situational and individual-level moderators	3
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	3
Seeing the radical right movement parties as activist parties. The case of EKRE in Estonia	3
The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021	3
Correction: The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament	3
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	3
Are feminine traits a liability in elections?	3
David Howarth and Scott James (2023): Bank politics: structural reform in comparative perspective	3
Understanding factual belief polarization: the role of trust, political sophistication, and affective polarization	3
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	3
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	2
Populist pragmatism: the nationalisation of local government strategies by the Rassemblement National	2
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis	2
A three-legged race: assessing the functionality of consociational power-sharing with cabinet conflict-resolution data from Belgium (1979–2006)	2
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	2
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	2
Vote overreporting in national election surveys: a 55-nation exploratory study	2
Political orientations and personal values among university lecturers in Europe	2
Favoring ingroups, derogating from outgroups: how populist parties in Belgium polarize on social media	2
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	2
How political orientation, economic precarity, and participant demographics impact compliance with COVID-19 prevention measures in a Dutch representative sample	2
Do welfare concerns drive electoral support for the populist radical right? An exploratory analysis	2
Movement parties in Europe: a comparative assessment	2
The far right, religion, and conspiracy theories: a discourse-theoretical analysis of the case of Poland	2
Hans Keman and Jaap J. Woldendorp, Transportation and the state: governing the public domain	2
Immigration policy congruence and political trust: a cross-national analysis among 23 European countries	2
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	2
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	2
Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes	2
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	2
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	2
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: how two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms	2
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	2
Review: political entrepreneurs by Catherine de Vries and Sara Hobolt	2
The political representation of left-nationalist voters	2
How do intra-party dynamics impact the party elite’s immigration policy manoeuvres? The case of German Social Democrats	2
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	2
Disengaged or raising voices? An analysis of the relationship between individual risk perception and non-institutionalised political participation	1

Economic perceptions and government approval in Chile: An analysis of democratic transition (1990–2022)	1
‘Let’s agree to disagree’: political disagreement with contact ties and non-electoral political participation	1
Authoritarian personalism, institutional constraints, and plebiscitary rule	1
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	1
Defending democracy politically	1
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship	1
Correction to: Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	1
Living up to expectations? EU politicization and party Europeanization in Flanders and the Netherlands	1
A ‘leftist premium’ to protest movements?: How incumbent partisanship conditions austerity-spurred mass protest	1
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	1
Movement party as a framing strategy: comparing left-wing and right-wing actors in Serbia	1
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	1
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	1
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	1
The plight of the discredited: electoral effects of stigmatizing and prosecuting an anti-immigration politician	1
When do active citizens abstain from the polls? Civic associations, non-electoral participation, and voting in 21st-century democracies	1
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark	1
‘Talking about’ the far right and common sense. A case study of Matteo Salvini’s buon senso trope on Twitter (2018–2023)	1
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)	1
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	1
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	1
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands	1
Do voters prefer more parties on the ballot?	1
Stephen M Jones, Advancing a circular economy: a future without waste? Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-66563-0, €49.99	1