OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of West European Politics 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
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	92
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	60
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	51
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	46
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	38
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	37
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	34
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	34
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	33
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	33
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	31
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	31
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	30
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	30
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	29
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	25
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	24
The formalisation of minority governments	22
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	21
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	21
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	20
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	20
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	20
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	19

The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	19
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe	19
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	19
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	18
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	18
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	17
Precarity and political protest	17
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	16
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	16
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	16
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	16
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	16
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	16
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	15
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	15
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	15
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	15
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	15
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	15
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	15
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	14
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size	14
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	14
Selecting party leaders	13
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	13
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	13
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	12
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	12
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	12
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	12
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	12
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	12
The enlargement of international organisations	12
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	11
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	11
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	11
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	11
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	11
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	11
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	10
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	10
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	10
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	10

Generations and political change	10
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	10
Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	9
Free votes and the analysis of recorded votes: evidence from Germany (1949–2021)	9
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	9
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	9
Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	9
Stuck on the stairway of change: the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies post 2022	9
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	9
Representational deprivation: niche parties, niche voters and political protest	8
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	8
Do voters polarise in response to elite dissensus on immigration?	8
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?	8
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union	8
Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies	8
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals	8
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	8
A spectre of democracy: are populist citizens less supportive of democracy?	8
Differentiated or integrated? The influence of European Administrative Networks on differentiated implementation of EU environmental policy	7
A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class	7
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	7
The Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023	7
The legal mobilisation of EU market freedoms: strategic action or random noise?	7
The 2021 Norwegian election	6
To amend or not to amend: under what circumstances do Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills?	6
The 2024 French legislative elections: maintaining elections, political crisis	6
The impact of occupational background on issue representation	6
Ideology and policy design after Brexit: explaining the UK subsidy regime	6
Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement	6
Statement of Retraction: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	6
Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when losing electoral support	6
Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism	6
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	6
Closing the gap: how descriptive and substantive representation affect women’s vote for populist radical right parties	6
The power of prime ministers: evidence from 21 parliamentary democracies	6
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	6
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe?	6
Mummy’s girls, daddy’s boys: the gendered transmission of political engagement in families	6
Political participation profiles	5
Policy signals in party communication: explaining positional concreteness in parties’ Facebook posts	5
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	5
The crisis of long-termism: time and independence in the European Union	5
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	5
Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe	5
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform	5
A life course approach to political preference formation across social classes	5
EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach	5
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	5
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	5
Cleavage theory meets civil society: a framework and research agenda	5
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	5
The rise of populism and the new cleavage	5
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis	5
Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: a video-vignette survey experiment	5
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	4
The determinants of transnational solidarity in the EU	4
Assessing the role of the European Council and the European Commission during the migration and COVID-19 crises	4
How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany	4
Regional coalition heuristics: government participation and party perceptions in multi-level systems	4
Updating cleavage theory for the twenty-first century	4
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	4
Freedom for all? Populism and the instrumental support of freedom of speech	4
Constraining dissensus and permissive consensus: variations in support for core state powers	4
Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy	4
Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness	4
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	4
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	4
Exiting after Brexit: public perceptions of future European Union member state departures	4
Rising income inequality and the relative decline in subjective social status of the working class	4
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets	4
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: evidence from Spanish regions	4