OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Politica is 3. 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
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
Racialisation and counter-radicalisation: a study of Dutch policy frameworks	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
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
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
Perceptions are everything: individuals’ normative attitudes toward inequality and political participation in Europe	6
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
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
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
Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	4
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
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