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Papers

(The median citation count of German Politics is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
German Claims for Leadership: From a Federalist to a Geopolitical Leadership Master Narrative	37
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison	30
‘Climate-Soviets,’ ‘Alarmism,’ and ‘Eco-Dictatorship’: The Framing of Climate Change Scepticism by the Populist Radical Right Alternative for Germany	26
The Party-Political Integration of Members with Migrant Backgrounds	21
Do Court Decisions and Redistribution Rules Have Consequences? Malapportionment of German Single-Member Electoral Districts	21
Legislative Democracy in the Bundestag After Reunification	21
Interventions by the Populist Radical Right in German Civil Society and the Search for Counterstrategies	19
Party System Change in Eastern and Western Germany Between Convergence and Dissimilarity	19
The Austrian-German Relationship in EMU Reform: From Asymmetric Partnership to Increased Independence	17
Black–Blue or Bahamas? Explaining CDU, CSU, FDP and AfD Voter Attitudes Towards a Common Governmental Coalition Before the 2017 German Federal Election	17
‘Our Sofa was the Front’- Ontological Insecurity and the German Government’s Humourous Heroification of Couch Potatoes During COVID-19	15
(Re)coordinating the German Political Economy: E-mobility and the Verkehrswende	14
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as Populist Issue Entrepreneur: Explaining the Party and its Voters in the 2021 German Federal Election	13
Breaking with Orthodoxy? German Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of Covid-19	12
Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany Introduction to the Special Issue	12
Accountability: A Battleground for Legitimacy – A Case Study of Decision-Making in Germany’s Third Grand Coalition	12
Unequal German Democracy and the Rise of the ‘Lifestyle-Left’? How Left Parties in Germany Conceive of (In)Equality, 1970–2021	11
Managing the Legacy of Long-Term Leaders: The Curious Evolution of Leadership Styles in the German Chancellery	10
Hard to Follow: Small States and the Franco-German Relationship	9
‘The Politicisation Game’: Strategic Interactions in the Contention Over TTIP in Germany	8
The Baltic States in the Economic and Monetary Union: Standing in the Shadow of Germany or Helping to Counterbalance the ‘South’?	8
The Waxing and Waning of Loyalty in German Citizenship	7
Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany	6
Under Pressure? The Labour Market Policy of the Grand Coalition 2018–2021	6
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy in Germany	6

Explaining Deviant Voting in Subnational Elections: The Case of Local Council Elections in Germany	6
Communal and Exchange-Based Trust in Germany Thirty Years After Reunification: Convergence or Still an East–West Divide?	6
Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs	6
The Effect of More Choice on Voter Turnout Causal Evidence from Germany	5
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	5
Marriage Equality in Germany: Conservative Normalisation Instead of Successful Anti-Gender Mobilisation	5
The Greatest of the Small? The Netherlands, the New Hanseatic League and the Frugal Four	5
The Bundestag in the Pandemic Year 2020/21 – Continuity and Challenges in the Covid-19 Crisis	5
Protest and Polarisation in the Context of Energy Transition and Climate Policy in Germany: Mindsets and Collective Identities	5
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	5
Electoral Systems and Party Systems in Germany on the Local Level	5
The Bundeswehr in German Newspaper Coverage – Using Text Mining for Analysing Strategic Culture	4
German Multi-Level Relations with Superpowers. A Comparison of Subnational Cooperation with American and Chinese Partners	4
Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel	4
Conflicting Institutional Pressures During the Establishment of Tax Administrations in the Post-1990 Eastern German States	4
Living in a Post-material World? Assessing the Impact of Economic and non-Economic Shifts on the Success of the German Greens	4
Strategien gegen Rechtspopulismus? Der Umgang mit der AfD in Landesparlamenten	4
Framing the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Political and Media Framing During the First Three Waves in Germany	4
Beyond Merkel – East Germans’ Recruitment to Leadership Positions in the German Bundestag	4
A Matter of Trust: How Political and Social Trust Relate to the Acceptance of Covid-19 Policies in Germany	3
Change to Stay the Same? German European Preference Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis	3
A (New) East–West-Divide? Representative Democracy in Germany 30 Years after Unification	3
Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power? *Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power?* Liana Fix,	3
(How) Perceived Descriptive Underrepresentation Decreases Political Support: The Case of East Germans	3
‘Parties in the Shadows’ –Do Small and Marginal Parties Cater to a Niche?	3
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag	2
Business as Usual in the Face of the Populist Challenge? The AfD’s Entry Strategy and Mainstream Parties’ Responses to It	2
Voting Behaviour in the 19th German Bundestag and Beyond: Between the Daily Business of Unity and a Special Vote of Conscience	2
Electoral Competition and Policy-Making Under the Fourth Merkel Government. Driven by ‘Fridays for Future’ and the Pandemic?	2
Competitiveness Revisited: Labour Costs, Financial Flows and the Case of Italy	2
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	2
Die politische Architektur deutscher Parlamente. Von Häusern, Schlössern und Palästen	2
Torn between Two Lovers: German Policy on Economic and Monetary Union, the New Hanseatic League and Franco-German Bilateralism	2
The Ukraine War as a Driver of Intraparty Conflict: Germany's Left Party and the AfD	2
From Guilt to Responsibility and Beyond: The Evolution of German Strategic Culture after the End of the Cold War From Guilt to Responsibility and Beyond: The Evolution of German Strateg	2
Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict , by Paul Carls, Abingdon, Ro	2
Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era	2
German Legislators’ Conceptions of Democracy and Process Preferences: Results from a New Survey	1
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany	1
Articulating Change and Responsibility: Identity, Memory, and the Use of Historical Narratives in German Parliamentary Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine	1
Breaking the Budgetary Taboo: German Preference Formation in the EU's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis	1
Taking Stock after 40 Years of Comparative Land Policy Analysis (1980−2020). A Review of the Predictors of Regional Policy Output in Germany	1
The Effects of Federalism, Corporatism and Legislative Power on Health System Transformation in Germany	1
Intra-Party Communication in the Digital Era - An Empirical Case Study of Party Delegates from the German Greens	1
Against All Odds? A Discourse Network Analysis of the Political Debate About the German Passenger Car Toll Act	1
Civic Education and Democratic Identity in Contemporary Germany: Pedagogical Principles and Didactic Challenges in Times of Right-Wing Populism	1
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Immigration Policies: An Intra-Party Perspective	1
Discursive Shifts in the German Right-Wing Newspaper Junge Freiheit 1997–2019: A Computational Approach	1
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany	1
The Politics of Military Force. Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse	1

Do Recall Elections Undermine Political Support? Insights from the Recall of the Mayor of Frankfurt in 2022	1
Lowering the Quality of Democracy by Lowering the Voting Age? Comparing the Impact of School, Classmates, and Parents on 15- to 18-Year-Olds’ Political Interest and Turnout	1
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest: The Case of Anti-Corona Mobilisation in Germany	1
Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament	1
The Impact of German MPs’ Outside Activities on Their Parliamentary Careers	1
The Winds of Winter: COVID-19 and Punctuations Without Policy Change in German Health Care Policy	1
Leading from Behind? Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era	1
Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations	1
Correction	1
COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects	1