OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of German Politics is 7. 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
Taking Stock after 40 Years of Comparative Land Policy Analysis (1980−2020). A Review of the Predictors of Regional Policy Output in Germany	15
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
German Foreign Policy Under the Merkel IV Government: The Role of Party Political Contestation Within the ‘Grand Coalition’	13
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
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