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Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Politica 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Between intentions and acts: How valid is the hypothetical turnout question? A benchmarking test on abolishing compulsory voting	27
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	24
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	23
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	20
Uncivil political discourse in televised election debates in the Netherlands from 1981 to 2023	14
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	14
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	14
Hans Keman (2024), Democracies in Peril? Waves of Backsliding	14
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	13
Does clientelism pay off abroad? Emigrant voting in Southern and Eastern Europe	12
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums	12
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	12
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	11
The effects of electoral systems on electoral administration	10
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	10
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	10
What you should (not) be allowed to say: how conditional free speech attitudes develop and are socialized during adolescence in the Netherlands	10
Immigrant political participation across Western Europe: the role of political rights, public attitudes, and discrimination	9
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	9
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	9
The best of two worlds? How residence-country contexts affect migrants’ origin-country political engagement	8
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study	8
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	7
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	7
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	7

Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	7
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	7
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel	6
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	6
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	6
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	6
Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	6
What is political and what is not? Illustrating how the salience of abortion in the media shapes public perceptions about its political nature	6
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	6
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	6
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	6
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	6
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	6
A distorted mirror? party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres	5
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	5
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	5
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	5
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	5
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	5
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	5
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	4
How does education affect political culture? Evidence across different educational, socioeconomic, and institutional settings	4
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	4
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	4
Less happiness, more political interactions?—Cross-country evidence of the interrelations between political interactions and self-reported lack of happiness	4
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	4
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship	4
Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles	4
The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change	4
Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis: how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance	3
Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021)	3
Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?	3
Feeling represented yet? How populist and non-populist cues in references to the people affect people’s perceived representation	3
Bridging the gap: human rights NGOs, informational strategies, and MEP access on Iran	3
Remaking European Political Economies	3
Getting the diaspora to vote: the role of e-voting on electoral behaviour of non-resident citizens	3
The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa	3
Inequalities in democratic outcomes among young citizens: the role of access to and participation in democratic activities in school in 15 countries	3
Gender differences in politicians’ exposure to threats, intimidation and harassment: evidence from Belgium	3
Trick of the traits: a conceptual replication of the trait ownership hypothesis	3
The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021	3
Perceptions are everything: individuals’ normative attitudes toward inequality and political participation in Europe	3
Protest types and protester profiles: testing meso−micro-associations between event characteristics and participant attitudes	2
Political openness and the gender gaps in political participation among Africans	2
Movement party as a framing strategy: comparing left-wing and right-wing actors in Serbia	2
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
The ‘sour grapes’ of conspiracy theories: how does the emotion of ressentiment predict conspiracy beliefs?	2
Solidarity frames: the missing link between parties and voters?	2
Analyzing ideological disparities in multi-speed membership parties: the case of the Italian Democratic Party	2

Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020	2
Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation	2
Are feminine traits a liability in elections?	2
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands	2
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark	2
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration	2
A revolution in representation? Insider perspectives on a failed democratic experiment	2
The wrong remedy for the right diagnosis. The republican case against compulsory voting	2
Bonuses and penalties in vote to seat conversion under single-member plurality electoral rules in a cross-national perspective: How large, and why?	2
‘Talking about’ the far right and common sense. A case study of Matteo Salvini’s buon senso trope on Twitter (2018–2023)	2
Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support	2
May’s Law in changing times—an empirical assessment of the German case	1
When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel	1
How do intra-party dynamics impact the party elite’s immigration policy manoeuvres? The case of German Social Democrats	1
The effect of political knowledge on voting motives in the 2024 Belgian elections	1
Pressure on people and people on streets: social pressures to vote in Tunisia’s new democracy	1
Euroscepticism: a meta-analysis	1
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates	1
When do active citizens abstain from the polls? Civic associations, non-electoral participation, and voting in 21st-century democracies	1
Political orientations and personal values among university lecturers in Europe	1
The role of public issue salience in the relationship between political orientation and climate change concern: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Europe	1
Correction: Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	1
Political elites and the democratic duty to trust the people	1
Striking a major chord: music preferences as predictors of vote intentions in Canada	1
The far right, religion, and conspiracy theories: a discourse-theoretical analysis of the case of Poland	1
Disengaged or raising voices? An analysis of the relationship between individual risk perception and non-institutionalised political participation	1