OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of West European Politics 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Rally round the flag’: the COVID-19 crisis and trust in the national government	114
Democracy in times of the pandemic: explaining the variation of COVID-19 policies across European democracies	92
Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-19	76
Power to the people? Populism, democracy, and political participation: a citizen's perspective	60
Federalism and the management of the COVID-19 crisis: centralisation, decentralisation and (non-)coordination	59
Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic	57
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis	56
Public support for government responses against COVID-19: assessing levels and predictors in eight Western democracies during 2020	53
Opposition in times of crisis: COVID-19 in parliamentary debates	52
Explaining the emergence of the radical right in Spain and Portugal: salience, stigma and supply	48
Radical right parties and their welfare state stances – not so blurry after all?	44
Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance	42
Authoritarian values and the welfare state: the social policy preferences of radical right voters	32
Normative transformations in the European Union: on hardening and softening law	28
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of COVID-19	26
Partisan dealignment and the personalisation of politics in West European parliamentary democracies, 1961–2018	25
COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy	24
The COVID-19 crisis and the rise of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)	23
Reforming me softly – how soft law has changed EU return policy since the migration crisis	23
The Spanish electoral cycle of 2019: a tale of two countries	22
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	21
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’	20
Going transnational? Candidates’ transnational linkages on Twitter during the 2019 European Parliament elections	20
Expert authority and support for COVID-19 measures in Germany and the UK: a survey experiment	19
Dealignment, realignment and generational differences in The Netherlands	19

How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state?	19
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	19
Hardening and softening of country-specific recommendations in the European Semester	19
Softening the surface but hardening the core? Governing renewable energy in the EU	18
Veto power fosters cooperative behaviour: institutional incentives and government-opposition voting in the German Bundestag	18
The will for reason: voter demand for experts in office	18
Hard times for governing parties: the 2019 federal elections in Belgium	18
The end of the EU affair: the UK general election of 2019	16
Social distancing, politics and wealth	15
The rightward shift and electoral decline of social democratic parties under increasing inequality	15
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	15
A cure worse than the disease? Exploring the health-economy trade-off during COVID-19	15
Soft and hard law in times of crisis: budget monitoring, migration and cybersecurity	14
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process	14
Understanding MPs’ perceptions of party voters’ opinion in Western democracies	13
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	13
The impact of radical right parties on family benefits	13
Back to the familialist future: the rise of social policy for ruling populist radical right parties in Italy and Poland	13
Change gradually, then all at once: the general election of February 2020 in the Republic of Ireland	13
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	13
Welfare state policies and far right party support: moderating ‘insecurity effects' among different social groups	13
A new right: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 2022	13
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change: the polysemy of the ‘Europe of Knowledge’	12
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	12
Why do immigrants support an anti-immigrant party? Russian-Germans and the Alternative for Germany	12
The effect of candidate electoral experience on ballot placement in list proportional representation systems	11
A change of heart? Analysing stability and change in European party positions	11
The effect of the constructive vote of no-confidence on government termination and government durability	11
Blame avoidance in hard times: complex governance structures and the COVID-19 pandemic	11
What is intergovernmental about the EU’s ‘(new) intergovernmentalist’ turn? Evidence from the Eurozone and asylum crises	11
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government: insights on the inside	11
How ex-Communist left parties reformed and lost	11
The vote of no confidence: towards a framework for analysis	11
Stability of minority governments and the role of support agreements	10
Congruence and party responsiveness in Western Europe in the 21st century	10
Highlighting supranational institutions? An automated analysis of EU politicisation (2002–2017)	10
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency: processes of learning and emulation in tax policy making	10
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden	9
Differentiated policy implementation in the European Union	9
Seat enlargements in mixed-member proportional systems: evidence from the German Länder	9
Take it and leave it! A postfunctionalist bargaining approach to the Brexit negotiations	9
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	9
Nativist attitudes and opportunistic support for democracy	9
COVID-19 stressors, mental/emotional distress and political support	9
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War: community building without capacity building	9
(N)one of us? The case for descriptive representation of the contemporary working class	8
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	8
Comparing oppositional behaviour in European Union affairs: empirical evidence from six member states	8
Demonisation of political discourses? How mainstream parties talk about the populist radical right	8
The technocratic side of populist attitudes: evidence from the Spanish case	8

The Brexit puzzle: polity attack and external rebordering	8
European solidarity in times of crisis: the role of information and media use	8
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	7
Constitutional parliamentarism in Europe, 1800–2019	7
The European Union as an opportunity: structures and uses of European soft law in French, Austrian and Irish eHealth policies	7
Party-system polarisation, legislative institutions and cabinet survival in 28 parliamentary democracies, 1945–2019	7
Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism	7
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	7
Look where you’re going: the cultural and economic explanations of class voting decline	7
Party goals and interest group influence on parties	7
European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	6
From bureaucratic capacity to legislation: how ministerial resources shape governments’ policy-making capabilities	6
Creating compliance in crisis: messages, messengers, and masking up in Britain	6
The hostile media: politicians’ perceptions of coverage bias	6
Attitudes vs. actions? Direct-democratic preferences and participation of populist citizens	6
Inequality in the public priority perceptions of elected representatives	6
The stigmatisation effect of the radical right on voters’ assessment of political proposals	6
The politics of policy inquiry commissions: Denmark and Norway, 1971-2017	6
Lobbying during government formations: do policy advocates attain their preferences in coalition agreements?	6
Government termination and anti-defection laws in parliamentary democracies	6
Embedded liberalism or embedded nationalism? How welfare states affect anti-globalisation nationalism in party platforms	6
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective	6
Going technocratic? Diluting governing responsibility in electorally turbulent times	5
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	5
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	5
The 2021 Norwegian election	5
Public popularity as a part of the job description? Dismissing unpopular ministers	5
How citizens’ conceptions of democracy relate to positive and negative partisanship towards populist parties	5
Can't buy me votes? Campaign spending and the outcome of direct democratic votes	5
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy?	5
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	5
‘It’s the economy, stupid’: when new politics parties take on old politics issues	5
Who supports metropolitan integration? Citizens’ perceptions of city-regional governance in Western Europe	5
Patterns of contestation across EU parliaments: four modes of inter-parliamentary relations compared	5
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	4
Political participation profiles	4
Studying expert influence: a methodological agenda	4
Losers’ consent and emotions in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum	4
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	4
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	4
Settling it on the multi-level parliamentary field? A fields approach to interparliamentary cooperation in foreign and security policy	4
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	4
Territory and the divine: the intersection of religion and national identity	4
Social citizenship in federations: free movement and social assistance rights in the EU and beyond	4
Rallying around the unwaved flag: national identity and Sweden’s controversial Covid strategy	4
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	4
Do European media ignore female politicians? A comparative analysis of MP visibility	4
Generational differences in disguise? A longitudinal study of the liberalising effect of education on socio-cultural attitudes	4
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	4
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	4
How weather experiences strengthen climate opinions in Europe	4
Weaponisation of finance: the role of European central banks and financial sanctions against Russia	4
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	4
Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU	3
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	3
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	3
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	3
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	3
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	3
Prime ministers, the vote of confidence and the management of coalition terminations between elections	3
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	3
Does institutional misfit trigger customisation instead of non-compliance?	3
Risk and the gender gap in internal political efficacy in Europe	3
Have your cake and eat it, too? Switzerland and the feasibility of differentiated integration after Brexit	3
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	3
Does decentralisation turn minority parties into secessionists? Insights from Eastern and Western Europe	3
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	3
Government termination in Europe: a sensitivity analysis	3
Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies	3
Termination of parliamentary governments: revised definitions and implications	3
Softening the corrective effect of populism: populist parties’ impact on political interest	3
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	3
New (types of) parties and government: the Danish general election 2022	3
Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education	3
The formalisation of minority governments	3
The origins of EU legislation: agenda-setting, intra-institutional decision-making or interinstitutional negotiations?	3
When do European election campaigns become about Europe?	3