OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Politica is 3. 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
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex	37
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	23
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	20
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	17
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	16
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	16
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	14
Inside the party’s mind: why and how parties are strategically unresponsive to their voters’ preferences	14
Responsive corporatism without political credit: social concertation, constructive opposition and the long tenure of the Rutte II cabinet in the Netherlands (2012–2017)	13
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	13
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	11
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	9
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums	9
Fernando Casal Bértoa and Zsolt Enyedi, Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	9
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties	9
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	8
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study	8
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	8
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	7
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels	7
Correction: Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries	7
A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income	7
Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	6
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy	6

Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	6
Race/Ethnicity in Candidate Experiments: a Meta-Analysis and the Case for Shared Identification	6
Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society	5
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	5
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	5
Independent agencies? Political vulnerability and affinity of their leaders	5
What is political and what is not? Illustrating how the salience of abortion in the media shapes public perceptions about its political nature	5
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	5
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	5
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	5
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	4
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	4
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
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	4
More than just an experiment? Politicians arguments behind introducing participatory budgeting in Budapest	4
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	4
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	4
A longitudinal analysis of party level candidate turnover drivers in the flexible-list PR system of Flanders (Belgium) (1987–2019)	4
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’: explaining the geographic divide in populist and anti-immigration attitudes	3
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	3
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	3
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	3
Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles	3
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship	3
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	3
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	3
A reassessment of the association between political interest and electoral participation: adding vote overreporting to the equation	3
Defending democracy politically	3
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	3
The personalization of party politics in Western Europe (1985–2016): evidence from an expert survey	3
Time matters: civic engagement and the development of anti-immigrant attitudes among adolescents	3
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	3
The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change	3