West European Politics

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	71
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	50
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	46
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	43
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	35
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	33
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	30
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	29
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	28
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	28
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	27
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	27
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	26
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	26
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	24
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	23
The formalisation of minority governments	23
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	22
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	20
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	19
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	19
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	19
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	19
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	18
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	18

Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	17
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	15
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	15
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	15
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	15
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	15
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	15
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	14
Precarity and political protest	14
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	14
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	14
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	13
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	13
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	13
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	12
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	12
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	12
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	12
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	12
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	12
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	11
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	11
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	11
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	11
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	11
Selecting party leaders	11
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	10
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	10
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	10
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	10
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	10
The enlargement of international organisations	10
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	10
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	10
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	10
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	9
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	9
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	9
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	9
Generations and political change	9
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	9
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	9
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	9
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	9
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	9

Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	8
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	8
Free votes and the analysis of recorded votes: evidence from Germany (1949–2021)	8
Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	8
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	8
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	8
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	8
Stuck on the stairway of change: the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies post 2022	8
Representational deprivation: niche parties, niche voters and political protest	8
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union	7
The legal mobilisation of EU market freedoms: strategic action or random noise?	7
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?	7
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	7
Do voters polarise in response to elite dissensus on immigration?	7
Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies	7
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals	7
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	7
A spectre of democracy: are populist citizens less supportive of democracy?	7
A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class	6
Closing the gap: how descriptive and substantive representation affect women’s vote for populist radical right parties	6
Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement	6
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	6
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	6
The 2021 Norwegian election	6
The 2024 French legislative elections: maintaining elections, political crisis	6
Differentiated or integrated? The influence of European Administrative Networks on differentiated implementation of EU environmental policy	6
The Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023	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
The power of prime ministers: evidence from 21 parliamentary democracies	5
Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism	5
A life course approach to political preference formation across social classes	5
Policy signals in party communication: explaining positional concreteness in parties’ Facebook posts	5
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	5
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	5
The impact of occupational background on issue representation	5
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	5
Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe	5
Cleavage theory meets civil society: a framework and research agenda	5
Political participation profiles	5
Mummy’s girls, daddy’s boys: the gendered transmission of political engagement in families	5
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe?	5
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	5
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform	5
To amend or not to amend: under what circumstances do Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills?	5
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	4
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	4
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets	4
The determinants of transnational solidarity in the EU	4
Freedom for all? Populism and the instrumental support of freedom of speech	4
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	4
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	4
Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: a video-vignette survey experiment	4
The challenge populist governments pose for the process and theory of European integration	4
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	4
EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach	4
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	4
The crisis of long-termism: time and independence in the European Union	4
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis	4
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: evidence from Spanish regions	4
Exiting after Brexit: public perceptions of future European Union member state departures	4
The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation	3
Communicating a common front: mainstream party rhetoric and affective polarisation towards the radical right	3
Democratic standards in external differentiation: the area of freedom, security and justice	3
The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign	3
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective	3
Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness	3
Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy	3
Local protest event analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture?	3
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden	3
Perceptions of policy responsiveness: the effects of egocentric and sociotropic congruence	3
Look where you’re going: the cultural and economic explanations of class voting decline	3
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions	3
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	3
Rising income inequality and the relative decline in subjective social status of the working class	3
Constraining dissensus and permissive consensus: variations in support for core state powers	3
The broad-appeal strategy and policy representation	3
Fragmentation revisited: the UK General Election of 2024	3
Islam, opinion climates, and immigrant party loyalties in Western Europe	3
How we think about the political stances of others: evidence on projection from Canada, Germany, and the UK	3

European cloud computing policy: failing in Europe to succeed nationally?	3
Regional coalition heuristics: government participation and party perceptions in multi-level systems	3
Assessing the role of the European Council and the European Commission during the migration and COVID-19 crises	3
How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany	3