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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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
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
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	26
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’	25
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	25
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
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	23
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	21
The formalisation of minority governments	20
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	20
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	19
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	19
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	19
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
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
Precarity and political protest	17

The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	17
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	17
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	16
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	16
Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	15
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
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
Do perceived economic constraints affect performance voting?	14
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	14
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
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
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
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	11
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	11
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	11
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
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
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
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
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
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