OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of West European Politics is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	92
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	60
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	51
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	46
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	38
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	37
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	34
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	34
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	33
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	33
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	31
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	31
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	30
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	30
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	29
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	25
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	24
The formalisation of minority governments	22
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	21
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	21
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	20
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	20
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	20
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe	19

Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	19
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	19
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	19
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	18
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	18
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	17
Precarity and political protest	17
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	16
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	16
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	16
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	16
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	16
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	16
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	15
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	15
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	15
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	15
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	15
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	15
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	15
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size	14
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	14
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	14
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	14
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	13
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	13
Selecting party leaders	13
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	12
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	12
The enlargement of international organisations	12
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	12
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	12
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	12
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	12
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	11
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	11
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	11
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	11
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	11
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	11
Generations and political change	10
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	10
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	10
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	10

Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	10
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	10