OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of West European Politics is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	66
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	48
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	42
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	42
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	35
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	33
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	30
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	28
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	27
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	27
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	26
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	25
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	25
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	24
The formalisation of minority governments	23
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	23
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	21
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	20
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	19
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	19
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	18
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	18
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	17

Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	17
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	16
Do perceived economic constraints affect performance voting?	16
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	15
Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	15
Precarity and political protest	15
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	15
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	14
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	14
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	14
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	14
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	13
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	13
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	13
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	13
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	12
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	12
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	12
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	12
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	11
The enlargement of international organisations	11
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	11
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	11
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	11
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	11
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	10
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	10
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	10
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	10
Selecting party leaders	10
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	10
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	10
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	9
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	9
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	9
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	9
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	9
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	9
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	9
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	9
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	9
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	8
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	8
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	8
Stuck on the stairway of change: the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies post 2022	8
Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	8
Generations and political change	8
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	8

Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	8
Free votes and the analysis of recorded votes: evidence from Germany (1949–2021)	8
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	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
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	8