OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of West European Politics is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	176
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	104
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	64
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	59
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	57
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	43
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	37
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	32
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	31
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	31
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	31
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	30
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	30
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	27
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	26
The formalisation of minority governments	25
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’	25
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	24
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	23
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	23
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	23
The (a)symmetric effects of income and unemployment on popular demand for redistribution	22
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	22
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	20
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	19

Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	19
Precarity and political protest	19
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	17
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	17
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	17
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	16
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	16
Do perceived economic constraints affect performance voting?	16
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	15
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	15
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	15
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	15
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	15
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	14
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	14
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	14
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	13
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	13
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	13
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	13
The COVID-19 crisis and the rise of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)	13
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	12
Selecting party leaders	12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
The enlargement of international organisations	12
Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism	12
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	12
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	11
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	11
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	11
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	10
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	10
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	10
A cure worse than the disease? Exploring the health-economy trade-off during COVID-19	9
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	9
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	9
Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education	9
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	9
Who supports metropolitan integration? Citizens’ perceptions of city-regional governance in Western Europe	9
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	9
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	9
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	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
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	8
Generations and political change	8

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