West European Politics

Papers
(The H4-Index of West European Politics is 19. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 202161
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties46
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine42
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in39
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement34
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling32
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power30
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation26
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach26
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections26
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems25
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’25
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust23
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums23
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy23
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations21
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective20
The formalisation of minority governments20
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality19
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy19
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries19
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