West European Politics

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	61
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	46
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	42
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	39
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	34
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	32
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	30
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	26
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	26
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	26
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	25
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’	25
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	23
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	23
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	23
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	21
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	20
The formalisation of minority governments	20
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	19
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	19
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	19
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	18
The (a)symmetric effects of income and unemployment on popular demand for redistribution	18
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	17

Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	17
Precarity and political protest	17
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	16
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	16
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	15
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	15
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	15
Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	15
Do perceived economic constraints affect performance voting?	14
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	14
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	14
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	14
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	13
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	13
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	13
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	13
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	13
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	12
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	12
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	12
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	11
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	11
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	11
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	10
The enlargement of international organisations	10
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	10
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	10
Selecting party leaders	10
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	10
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	10
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	10
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	10
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	9
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	9
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	9
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	9
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	9
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	9
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	9
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	9
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	8
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	8
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	8
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	8
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	8
Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	8
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	8
Generations and political change	8
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	8

Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	8
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	8
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	8
Representational deprivation: niche parties, niche voters and political protest	7
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	7
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals	7
Do voters polarise in response to elite dissensus on immigration?	7
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	7
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	7
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	7
The legal mobilisation of EU market freedoms: strategic action or random noise?	7
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union	7
Free votes and the analysis of recorded votes: evidence from Germany (1949–2021)	7
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	7
A spectre of democracy: are populist citizens less supportive of democracy?	7
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?	7
A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class	6
Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies	6
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	6
The Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023	6
The 2021 Norwegian election	6
Differentiated or integrated? The influence of European Administrative Networks on differentiated implementation of EU environmental policy	6
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	5
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	5
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	5
How do cross-pressures affect immigration attitudes? Party and educational influences	5
Closing the gap: how descriptive and substantive representation affect women’s vote for populist radical right parties	5
To amend or not to amend: under what circumstances do Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills?	5
Mummy’s girls, daddy’s boys: the gendered transmission of political engagement in families	5
Policy signals in party communication: explaining positional concreteness in parties’ Facebook posts	5
Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when losing electoral support	5
Statement of Retraction: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	5
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe?	5
The 2024 French legislative elections: maintaining elections, political crisis	5
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform	5
Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism	5
Political participation profiles	5
The impact of occupational background on issue representation	5
A life course approach to political preference formation across social classes	4
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis	4
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	4
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	4
EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach	4
Freedom for all? Populism and the instrumental support of freedom of speech	4
Exiting after Brexit: public perceptions of future European Union member state departures	4
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	4
The crisis of long-termism: time and independence in the European Union	4
Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: a video-vignette survey experiment	4
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets	4
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	4
Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy	4
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: evidence from Spanish regions	4
Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe	4
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	4
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	4
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	4
Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness	4
The determinants of transnational solidarity in the EU	4
The challenge populist governments pose for the process and theory of European integration	4
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions	3
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective	3
European cloud computing policy: failing in Europe to succeed nationally?	3
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden	3
Rising income inequality and the relative decline in subjective social status of the working class	3
Assessing the role of the European Council and the European Commission during the migration and COVID-19 crises	3
Fragmentation revisited: the UK General Election of 2024	3
Islam, opinion climates, and immigrant party loyalties in Western Europe	3
Democratic standards in external differentiation: the area of freedom, security and justice	3
The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign	3
The broad-appeal strategy and policy representation	3
How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany	3
Regional coalition heuristics: government participation and party perceptions in multi-level systems	3
The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation	3
How education, generation and gender jointly structure green and radical right voting	3
Perceptions of policy responsiveness: the effects of egocentric and sociotropic congruence	3
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine	3
Local protest event analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture?	3
Constraining dissensus and permissive consensus: variations in support for core state powers	3
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	3
Risk and the gender gap in internal political efficacy in Europe	3

Look where you’re going: the cultural and economic explanations of class voting decline

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