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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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	40
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	27
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	24
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	18
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	18
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	16
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	16
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums	14
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	13
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	11
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	10
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	10
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	9
Immigrant political participation across Western Europe: the role of political rights, public attitudes, and discrimination	9
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study	9
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	9
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	9
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	9
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	8
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	8
The effects of electoral systems on electoral administration	8
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	7
Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	6
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	6
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy	6

Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	6
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	6
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel	6
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	6
What is political and what is not? Illustrating how the salience of abortion in the media shapes public perceptions about its political nature	6
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	5
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	5
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	5
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	5
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	5
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	5
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	5
A distorted mirror? party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres	4
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	4
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	4
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	4
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: how two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms	4
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	4
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	4
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	4
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	4
The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change	3
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	3
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	3
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	3
Don’t scratch the moral itch: restoring political image following a scandal	3
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	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
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	3
Generations and the changing character of support for European unification in the Netherlands: a research note	3
A reassessment of the association between political interest and electoral participation: adding vote overreporting to the equation	3
Defending democracy politically	3
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	3
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	3
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	3
How does education affect political culture? Evidence across different educational, socioeconomic, and institutional settings	3
Why political parties use deliberation: a framework for analysis	2
(Un)Expected effects of policy rhetoric: value framing of policy proposals and voters’ reactions to subsequent information	2
Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support	2
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)	2
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands	2
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis	2
The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa	2
Correction: The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament	2
Casting light on citizens’ conceptions of what is ‘political’	2
Perceptions are everything: individuals’ normative attitudes toward inequality and political participation in Europe	2
Trick of the traits: a conceptual replication of the trait ownership hypothesis	2
Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?	2
Movement party as a framing strategy: comparing left-wing and right-wing actors in Serbia	2

Solidarity frames: the missing link between parties and voters?	2
‘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 participation	2
Remaking European Political Economies	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
The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021	2
Protest types and protester profiles: testing meso−micro-associations between event characteristics and participant attitudes	2
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark	2
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration	2
Are feminine traits a liability in elections?	2
Feeling represented yet? How populist and non-populist cues in references to the people affect people’s perceived representation	2
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis: how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance	2
Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021)	2
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization	1
May’s Law in changing times—an empirical assessment of the German case	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
The role of public issue salience in the relationship between political orientation and climate change concern: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Europe	1
Immigration policy congruence and political trust: a cross-national analysis among 23 European countries	1
Striking a major chord: music preferences as predictors of vote intentions in Canada	1
A revolution in representation? Insider perspectives on a failed democratic experiment	1
Correction: Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	1
Civil society and compliance with constitutions	1
When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel	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
Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020	1
Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries	1
Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation	1
Euroscepticism: a meta-analysis	1
Pressure on people and people on streets: social pressures to vote in Tunisia’s new democracy	1
Political orientations and personal values among university lecturers in Europe	1