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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Two States, One Voice? The Integration of the East German Länder into the European Community’s Regional Policy	49
Mayoral Leadership in Times of Crisis: The Impact of Structural Factors in Germany	35
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW): Curse or Blessing for AfD in the State Elections?	19
Voter Turnout in Local Elections With One or No List: Evidence from Germany	19
When Crises Unite. Changing Party Positions on Foreign Policy During Critical Events in Germany	16
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power?	15
‘All Politics is Local’? The AfD in Local Elections and Local Politics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	14
German Claims for Leadership: From a Federalist to a Geopolitical Leadership Master Narrative	13
‘A New Dynamic’ for German Democracy? Democracy Reforms Between Populist Demands and Governmental Strategies	12
Under Attack: How Social Threats Push Negative Beliefs about Scientists in Germany	10
Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs	10
Communal and Exchange-Based Trust in Germany Thirty Years After Reunification: Convergence or Still an East–West Divide?	9
Shaping Bilateral Relationships From Below: Civil Society Actors and Their Motivations in the Czech-German Context	9
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	7
The Politics of Military Force. Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse	7
Strategic Timing? Coalition Governments and the Introduction of Controversial Legislation Throughout the Electoral Cycle	7
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	6
Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict	6
German Foreign Policy Under the Merkel IV Government: The Role of Party Political Contestation Within the ‘Grand Coalition’	6
German Legislators’ Conceptions of Democracy and Process Preferences: Results from a New Survey	5
The Importance of Descriptive Representation & Cue-Taking in Free List Local Elections	5
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	5
The Winds of Winter: COVID-19 and Punctuations Without Policy Change in German Health Care Policy	5
‘Poland is Back’: German Narrative Adjustment in the German-Polish Special Relationship, 2007–2024	5

Public Opinion on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Cooperation between Democracies and Autocracies: The Case of German-Egyptian Relations	5
Living in a Post-material World? Assessing the Impact of Economic and non-Economic Shifts on the Success of the German Greens	5
Drivers of Consensus: Responses to Brexit in Germany, France, Ireland and Poland	4
Uncivilian Power Germany: Why States Violate their Foreign Policy Master Roles	4
Narratives in Flux: Turkish Elite Perspectives on Germany’s Role in EU–Turkey Relations	4
The Glass is Half Full: Environmental and Climate Policy of the Last Merkel Government Between Protest and Pandemic	4
Germany’s Triangular Relations with the United States and China in the Era of the Zeitenwende	4
Zeitenwende in the Indo-Pacific? Assessing Germany’s Regional Security Engagement	4
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag	4
Regulation of Housing Markets in Germany’s Federal States Why do Some Act and Others do not?	4
Articulating a Delicate Balancing Act: Identity and Ontological Insecurity in Germany’s Narrative Responses to Israel 1993–2023	4
How to (Not) Implement a ‘Complementary Coalition’? Lessons from the First Green–Black Government in Baden-Württemberg 2016–2021	3
Under Pressure? The Labour Market Policy of the Grand Coalition 2018–2021	3
Between a Curse and a Blessing: Germany’s Role in Shaping the EU-Turkish Relations with the Eastern Mediterranean as a Litmus Test	3
Differentiated Structures of Europe: German Perspectives on Turkey and the United Kingdom	3
(Re)coordinating the German Political Economy: E-mobility and the Verkehrswende	3
Implementing Gender Quotas Locally: How Germany’s Alliance 90/The Greens Enforce the Women’s Statute in District Branches	3
Security Policy Professionals as Strategic Cultural Agents: The Drafting of the German National Security Strategy	3
Managing the Legacy of Long-Term Leaders: The Curious Evolution of Leadership Styles in the German Chancellery	2
Protests in Germany 2000–2020. A dataset based on local protest event data in Bremen, Dresden, Leipzig, and Stuttgart	2
Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament	2
The Impact of German MPs’ Outside Activities on Their Parliamentary Careers	2
Against Coming to Terms with the Past? The AfD’s Alternative Politics of History	2
German Multi-Level Relations with Superpowers. A Comparison of Subnational Cooperation with American and Chinese Partners	2
Issue Networks in German Health Insurance Policy	2
Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation	2
Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany	2
The Ukraine War as a Driver of Intraparty Conflict: Germany's Left Party and the AfD	2
The Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Election	2
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands	2
Electoral Competition and Policy-Making Under the Fourth Merkel Government. Driven by ‘Fridays for Future’ and the Pandemic?	1
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy in Germany	1
Unequal German Democracy and the Rise of the ‘Lifestyle-Left’? How Left Parties in Germany Conceive of (In)Equality, 1970–2021	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: The First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	1
On the Association of Attitudes Towards NATO and Weapon Deliveries for Ukraine with Vote Intentions in Germany	1
The Election of the AfD and the Collective Identity of East Germans – Between Perceived Disadvantage and Collective Deprivation	1
Conflicting Institutional Pressures During the Establishment of Tax Administrations in the Post-1990 Eastern German States	1
Path Dependence, Institutional (Non-)Change and Politicisation: The EU-Turkey Customs Union and the Evolution of German-Turkish Trade Ties	1
Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy	1
Intra-Party Communication in the Digital Era - An Empirical Case Study of Party Delegates from the German Greens	1
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	1
Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy: An Introduction	1
The Party-Political Integration of Members with Migrant Backgrounds	1
‘Stroke of Genius’ or ‘Attack on Democracy’? The 2023 Reform of the German Electoral System	1
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	1
The Effects of Federalism, Corporatism and Legislative Power on Health System Transformation in Germany	1
Germany and the European Union: How Chancellor Angela Merkel Shaped Europe	1
Advocacy Coalitions, Power and Opportunities: Policy Change in Germany’s Dual Citizenship Policy Subsystem	1
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	1
Change to Stay the Same? German European Preference Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis	1

Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel