OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Politica is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex	39
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	26
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	22
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	17
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	17
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	15
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	14
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	14
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	13
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	11
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	9
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	9
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums	9
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	9
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	9
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	8
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	8
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study	8
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	7
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel	7
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	7
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	7
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	6
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	6
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	6

Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy	6
Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	6
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	6
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	5
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	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
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	5
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	5
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	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
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	5
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	4
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	4
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	4
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	4
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: how two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms	4
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	4
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	4
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	4