West European Politics

Papers
(The H4-Index of West European Politics is 22. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Neither religious nor rational: heterodoxy and institutional trust164
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters98
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap72
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order69
Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance64
The shifting issue content of left–right identification: cohort differences in Western Europe60
Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes 202458
Adopting restriction: how coalition governments respond to radical right parties48
Highlighting supranational institutions? An automated analysis of EU politicisation (2002–2017)35
Party goals and interest group influence on parties32
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions30
Mainstream partisans’ affective response to (non) cooperation with populist radical right parties29
Do they feel like they don’t matter? The rural-urban divide in external political efficacy29
America’s rusted families: working-class political participation through three biological generations (1965–1997)27
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties27
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe26
The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation26
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling25
A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class25
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective23
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy?23
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance23
Fragmentation revisited: the UK General Election of 202422
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections22
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