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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium)	27
Between intentions and acts: How valid is the hypothetical turnout question? A benchmarking test on abolishing compulsory voting	23
Correction: Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	22
Using go-it-alone power to overcome intergovernmental deadlock: national vetoes, credible threats, and multi-speed Europe in the British budgetary rebate crisis	18
Hans Keman (2024), Democracies in Peril? Waves of Backsliding	12
Uncivil political discourse in televised election debates in the Netherlands from 1981 to 2023	12
Towards an ecological transition from below: insights from a workers' mobilization in the automotive sector	12
Direct democracy and equality: context is the key	12
The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland	12
Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections	11
Introducing the laddering technique to the study of democratic innovations: insights from deliberative and participatory forums	11
Does clientelism pay off abroad? Emigrant voting in Southern and Eastern Europe	11
Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities	11
How populist parties fuel science skepticism: Evidence from a 15-year panel study	10
How active are right-wing party members? Portuguese right-wing delegates, from a comparative and a General Incentives Model (GIM) perspective	10
Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?	9
The effects of electoral systems on electoral administration	9
Immigrant political participation across Western Europe: the role of political rights, public attitudes, and discrimination	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	9
Biased polls: investigating the pressures survey respondents feel	8
Eastern Europe is no exception: acceptance of inequality and left–right politics	8
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
When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties	7

Determinants of trust in order and representative institutions among adolescents across Europe: testing rational and cultural approaches	7
Spatial proximity matters, predispositions do not: explaining policy preferences for long-term natural disaster mitigation	6
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
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: evidence from 18 Latin-American countries	6
Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017	6
Social media and affective polarization: does Facebook news use fuel political in- and out-group affect in a multi-party context?	6
Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections	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
Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	6
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: when are voters loyal to corrupt politicians?	5
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results?: Party ideology and participatory institutions	5
Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults	5
Counterspeech as a form of political participation: an analysis from Hannah Arendt’s perspective	5
Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit	5
Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany	5
A distorted mirror? party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres	5
Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism	5
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain	4
Cleavage structuring in organised modernity: a reconstruction of the Belgian political space of 1979	4
The limits of modern revolutions: global constraints on domestic change	4
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach	4
Correction: Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right	4
Building democratic resilience: the impact of political engagement during education on xenophobia and political trust	4
Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles	4
How does education affect political culture? Evidence across different educational, socioeconomic, and institutional settings	4
Less happiness, more political interactions?—Cross-country evidence of the interrelations between political interactions and self-reported lack of happiness	4
Populist parties and parliamentary collaboration: patterns of co-sponsorship	4
Beyond right and wrong: on the conditionality of dirty hands	4
Generations and the changing character of support for European unification in the Netherlands: a research note	4