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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian clientelism: the case of the president’s ‘creatures’ in Cameroon	23
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	19
More competent thus more legitimate? MPs’ discourses on deliberative mini-publics	16
The EU–Turkey deal in the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’: when intergovernmentalism cast a shadow on the EU’s normative power	16
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy	15
Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries	13
The personalization of party politics in Western Europe (1985–2016): evidence from an expert survey	13
Solidarity in Europe: from crisis to policy?	10
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	10
The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament	8
A scandal effect? Local scandals and political trust	7
When even the prime minister sits on the municipal council. Analysing the value of ‘localness’ and Finnish MPs’ incentives to ‘cumulate’ in an open-list voting system	7
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	7
Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype	7
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	6
Why political parties use deliberation: a framework for analysis	6
Facilitators of intergenerational similarity in social and political attitudes: the role of discussion, sophistication, attitudinal homogeneity, and gender	6
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	6
Welfare solidarities in the age of mass migration: evidence from European Social Survey 2016	6
Political parties, state resources and electoral clientelism	6
Minding the political engagement gap: how discrimination and religion impact Dutch voters with an immigrant background	5
Understanding factual belief polarization: the role of trust, political sophistication, and affective polarization	5
The political representation of left-nationalist voters	5
Do welfare concerns drive electoral support for the populist radical right? An exploratory analysis	5
Civil society and compliance with constitutions	5

Living up to expectations? EU politicization and party Europeanization in Flanders and the Netherlands	5
On their own turf? The level-specificity of political trust in multilevel political systems	4
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference	4
Populist pragmatism: the nationalisation of local government strategies by the Rassemblement National	4
Casting light on citizens’ conceptions of what is ‘political’	4
The first two laws of politics: Nannestad and Paldam’s “Cost of Ruling” revisited	4
Coordinating the machine: subnational political context and the effectiveness of machine politics	4
What drives the propensity to vote for ethnic-minority-interest parties?	4
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	4
Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation	3
New parties in a crowded electoral space: the (in)stability of radical right voters in the Netherlands	3
Implicit and explicit populist and anti-immigrant attitudes and their explanatory power for populist radical-right party support	3
Rally 'Round the Prime Minister: a study into the effects of a diplomatic conflict on public opinion under coalition government	3
Ballot position effects in open-list PR systems: the moderating impact of postal voting	3
The delusive economy: how information and affect colour perceptions of national economic performance	3
Exploring the proportionality of representation in interest group mobilization and political access: the case of the Netherlands	3
Does clientelism hinder progressive social policy in Latin America?	3
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	2
Mass issue attitudes, political sophistication and ideology: the European case	2
(Un)Expected effects of policy rhetoric: value framing of policy proposals and voters’ reactions to subsequent information	2
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	2
Responsible citizens, political consumers and the state	2
Measuring solidarity: towards a survey question on fiscal solidarity in the European Union	2
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	2
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	2
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	2
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	2
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	2
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization	2
Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	2
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: a conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark	2
The plight of the discredited: electoral effects of stigmatizing and prosecuting an anti-immigration politician	2
Vote overreporting in national election surveys: a 55-nation exploratory study	2
Nativism, civic nationalism and the malleability of voter attitudes	2
Reporting the polls: the quality of media reporting of vote intention polls in the Netherlands	2
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex	2
Ideological voting for radical right parties in Europe	2
Conflict or choice? The differential effects of elite incivility and ideological polarization on political support	2
Hidden policy conflicts? Administrative strategies to manage depoliticisation	2
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	2
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	2
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	1
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)	1
Stephen M Jones, Advancing a circular economy: a future without waste? Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-66563-0, €49.99	1
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	1
The Chilean turnout gender gap: evidence from administrative census data	1
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	1
Generations and the changing character of support for European unification in the Netherlands: a research note	1
Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021)	1
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	1

The epistemic quality of expert bodies: from normative-theoretical concept to empirical measurement	1
Do voters prefer more parties on the ballot?	1
Defending democracy politically	1
‘Talking about’ the far right and common sense. A case study of Matteo Salvini’s buon senso trope on Twitter (2018–2023)	1
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis	1
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	1
Disinterested or enraged? Understanding people’s political interest	1
Introduction: extremes and divides in electoral politics, the Dutch 2021 elections in particular	1
Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters	1
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration	1
Exploring the effect of personalized voting on affective polarization: Prototypical leadership and campaign effects	1
The predictive value of polls in a fragmented multi-party system: the Netherlands (1998–2021)	1
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	1
Immigration policy congruence and political trust: a cross-national analysis among 23 European countries	1
Disengaged or raising voices? An analysis of the relationship between individual risk perception and non-institutionalised political participation	1
Are feminine traits a liability in elections?	1
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	1
Information and deliberation in the Covid-19 crisis and in the climate crisis: how expertocratic practices undermine self-government and compliance	1
Keeping women in their place? The prevalence of gender role attitudes among local party chairs in Flanders	1
Inequalities in democratic outcomes among young citizens: the role of access to and participation in democratic activities in school in 15 countries	1
Correction to: Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	1
Minority candidates on party lists: evidence from Belgium	1