OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Politica is 5. 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
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	14
Hans Keman (2024), Democracies in Peril? Waves of Backsliding	14
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
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	13
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
Does clientelism pay off abroad? Emigrant voting in Southern and Eastern Europe	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
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
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
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
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