West European Politics

Papers
(The H4-Index of West European Politics is 21. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 202192
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies60
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections51
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties46
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in38
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling37
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement34
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine34
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations33
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums33
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective31
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy31
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation30
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach30
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems29
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust25
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections24
The formalisation of minority governments22
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom21
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries21
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