OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Politica is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	43
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	24
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	21
Uncivil political discourse in televised election debates in the Netherlands from 1981 to 2023	20
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	20
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	17
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	16
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	11
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	10
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	10
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	10
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums	10
The effects of electoral systems on electoral administration	9
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	9
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	9
Immigrant political participation across Western Europe: the role of political rights, public attitudes, and discrimination	9
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study	9
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	9
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	8
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	8
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel	7
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	7
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	7
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	7
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	7

Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	7
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	6
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	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
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	6
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	6
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	6
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	6
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	5
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	5
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	5
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	5
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	5
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: how two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms	4
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	4
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	4
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	4
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	4
A distorted mirror? party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres	4
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	4
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	4
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	4
Less happiness, more political interactions?—Cross-country evidence of the interrelations between political interactions and self-reported lack of happiness	4
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	4
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship	4
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	4
A reassessment of the association between political interest and electoral participation: adding vote overreporting to the equation	4
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	4