West European Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of West European Politics is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021176
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine104
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties64
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in59
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling57
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement43
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective37
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems32
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust31
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations31
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy31
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums30
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power30
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections27
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach26
The formalisation of minority governments25
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 countries24
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality23
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament23
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy23
The (a)symmetric effects of income and unemployment on popular demand for redistribution22
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters22
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election20
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?19
Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship19
Precarity and political protest19
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit17
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success17
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine17
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security17
Do perceived economic constraints affect performance voting?16
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe16
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany16
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?15
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision15
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective15
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure15
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing15
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union14
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right14
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain14
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK13
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap13
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association13
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order13
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 Netherlands12
Selecting party leaders12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections12
The enlargement of international organisations12
Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism12
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe12
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems11
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection11
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies11
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum10
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition10
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–202010
Who supports metropolitan integration? Citizens’ perceptions of city-regional governance in Western Europe9
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment9
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?9
A cure worse than the disease? Exploring the health-economy trade-off during COVID-199
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties9
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations9
Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education9
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states9
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