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Papers

(The median citation count of German Politics is 2. 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
Black–Blue or Bahamas? Explaining CDU, CSU, FDP and AfD Voter Attitudes Towards a Common Governmental Coalition Before the 2017 German Federal Election	44
German Claims for Leadership: From a Federalist to a Geopolitical Leadership Master Narrative	39
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power?	33
Communal and Exchange-Based Trust in Germany Thirty Years After Reunification: Convergence or Still an East–West Divide?	27
Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs	26
‘The Politicisation Game’: Strategic Interactions in the Contention Over TTIP in Germany	25
‘A New Dynamic’ for German Democracy? Democracy Reforms Between Populist Demands and Governmental Strategies	24
(How) Perceived Descriptive Underrepresentation Decreases Political Support: The Case of East Germans	23
Shaping Bilateral Relationships From Below: Civil Society Actors and Their Motivations in the Czech-German Context	19
Strategic Timing? Coalition Governments and the Introduction of Controversial Legislation Throughout the Electoral Cycle	19
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	18
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	17
The Politics of Military Force. Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse	15
Breaking the Budgetary Taboo: German Preference Formation in the EU's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis	15
Taking Stock after 40 Years of Comparative Land Policy Analysis (1980−2020). A Review of the Predictors of Regional Policy Output in Germany	15
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	13
German Foreign Policy Under the Merkel IV Government: The Role of Party Political Contestation Within the ‘Grand Coalition’	13
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison	12
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	11
Hard to Follow: Small States and the Franco-German Relationship	11
Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power? *Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power?* Liana Fix,	10
Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany Introduction to the Special Issue	10
The Winds of Winter: COVID-19 and Punctuations Without Policy Change in German Health Care Policy	9
Living in a Post-material World? Assessing the Impact of Economic and non-Economic Shifts on the Success of the German Greens	9
Between a Curse and a Blessing: Germany’s Role in Shaping the EU-Turkish Relations with the Eastern Mediterranean as a Litmus Test	8

Uncivilian Power Germany: Why States Violate their Foreign Policy Master Roles	8
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag	8
Angela Merkel’s Record on Immigration and Gender	8
Drivers of Consensus: Responses to Brexit in Germany, France, Ireland and Poland	8
The Glass is Half Full: Environmental and Climate Policy of the Last Merkel Government Between Protest and Pandemic	8
German Legislators’ Conceptions of Democracy and Process Preferences: Results from a New Survey	8
Germany’s Triangular Relations with the United States and China in the Era of the Zeitenwende	7
Articulating a Delicate Balancing Act: Identity and Ontological Insecurity in Germany’s Narrative Responses to Israel 1993–2023	7
Acting in the Shadow of German Hegemony? The Role of Small States in the Economic and Monetary Union (Introduction to the Special Issue)	7
Myopic Fiscal Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Intergenerational Burden	7
Framing COVID-19: Public Leadership and Crisis Communication By Chancellor Angela Merkel During the Pandemic in 2020	7
Narratives in Flux: Turkish Elite Perspectives on Germany’s Role in EU–Turkey Relations	6
Under Pressure? The Labour Market Policy of the Grand Coalition 2018–2021	5
Interventions by the Populist Radical Right in German Civil Society and the Search for Counterstrategies	5
Security Policy Professionals as Strategic Cultural Agents: The Drafting of the German National Security Strategy	5
(Re)coordinating the German Political Economy: E-mobility and the Verkehrswende	5
Differentiated Structures of Europe: German Perspectives on Turkey and the United Kingdom	5
Party System Change in Eastern and Western Germany Between Convergence and Dissimilarity	5
German Multi-Level Relations with Superpowers. A Comparison of Subnational Cooperation with American and Chinese Partners	4
Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era	4
Managing the Legacy of Long-Term Leaders: The Curious Evolution of Leadership Styles in the German Chancellery	4
Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany	4
Issue Networks in German Health Insurance Policy	4
The Ukraine War as a Driver of Intraparty Conflict: Germany's Left Party and the AfD	4
The Impact of German MPs’ Outside Activities on Their Parliamentary Careers	4
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands	3
Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation	3
A Rainbow Bundestag? An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTI Representation in Angela Merkel’s Germany	3
Intra-Party Communication in the Digital Era - An Empirical Case Study of Party Delegates from the German Greens	3
The Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Election	3
Game-Changers for Gender Equality in Germany’s Labour Market? Corporate Board Quotas, Pay Transparency and Temporary Part-Time Work	3
Germany and the European Union: How Chancellor Angela Merkel Shaped Europe	3
Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament	3
Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations	3
Is Negative Campaigning a Response to a Dynamic Polling Environment? Evidence from Facebook and Twitter Posts by German Party Leaders in the 2021 German Federal Election	3
On the Association of Attitudes Towards NATO and Weapon Deliveries for Ukraine with Vote Intentions in Germany	2
Unequal Geographic Representation in a Mixed-Member Electoral System: Evidence from the German Bundestag	2
Unequal German Democracy and the Rise of the ‘Lifestyle-Left’? How Left Parties in Germany Conceive of (In)Equality, 1970–2021	2
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy in Germany	2
Change to Stay the Same? German European Preference Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis	2
Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy: An Introduction	2
The Art of Compromise: Belgium as the Bridge between Germany and France	2
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	2
Conflicting Institutional Pressures During the Establishment of Tax Administrations in the Post-1990 Eastern German States	2
German Political Foundations in an Era of Geoeconomic Transformation: Navigating Civil Society Geopolitics and Boundaries of Influence	2
The Party-Political Integration of Members with Migrant Backgrounds	2
‘Climate-Soviets,’ ‘Alarmism,’ and ‘Eco-Dictatorship’: The Framing of Climate Change Scepticism by the Populist Radical Right Alternative for Germany	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	2
The Greatest of the Small? The Netherlands, the New Hanseatic League and the Frugal Four	2
Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel	2

Articulating Change and Responsibility: Identity, Memory, and the Use of Historical Narratives in German Parliamentary Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine