OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of West European Politics is 21. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	145
Neither religious nor rational: heterodoxy and institutional trust	118
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	95
The shifting issue content of left–right identification: cohort differences in Western Europe	73
Adopting restriction: how coalition governments respond to radical right parties	68
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	65
Highlighting supranational institutions? An automated analysis of EU politicisation (2002–2017)	60
Government termination in Europe: a sensitivity analysis	60
Inequality in the public priority perceptions of elected representatives	57
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions	51
Do they feel like they don’t matter? The rural-urban divide in external political efficacy	39
Government termination and anti-defection laws in parliamentary democracies	27
The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation	27
America’s rusted families: working-class political participation through three biological generations (1965–1997)	27
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	27
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy?	26
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	25
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	22
Mainstream partisans’ affective response to (non) cooperation with populist radical right parties	22
The rightward shift and electoral decline of social democratic parties under increasing inequality	21
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective	21
The effect of the constructive vote of no-confidence on government termination and government durability	21