West European Politics

Article	Citations
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	82
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	53
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	52
Populism in the EU and the trade-off between ethical claiming and mainstreaming	42
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	40
What kind of Europe do Europeans want?	39
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	38
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	38
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	37
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	31
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	29
Threat perceptions and the globalisation divide	29
The formalisation of minority governments	27
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	26
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	25
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	25
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	24
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	23
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe	23
The 2025 Czech parliamentary election	23
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	23
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	23
The comparative political economy of inequality: the maturation of an emerging field	23
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	22
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	21

Dutch parliamentary elections of October 2025	21
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	20
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	20
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	20
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	20
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	20
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	20
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	19
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	19
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	19
Precarity and political protest	19
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	18
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	18
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	18
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	18
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	17
Budget games real actors play: examining the agreement on CAP and cohesion for MFF 2021–2027	17
Staying alive: crisis-induced disruptions and interest group survival	17
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	16
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	16
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	15
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	15
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	15
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	14
The 2025 Norwegian election	14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size	14
Selecting party leaders	14
Parties’ issue responsiveness between elections	14
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	13
The enlargement of international organisations	13
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	13
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	12
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	12
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	12
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	11
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	11
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	11
Dimension-specific party and public opinion responsiveness in the EU immigration acquis	11
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	11
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	11
Generations and political change	10
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	10
Bringing society (back) in? Defence transformations across Europe in the Zeitenwende	10
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	10
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	10
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	9
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	9
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	9

Party decline revisited: eras and aspects of change	9
Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes 2025	9
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	9
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	9
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	9
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	9
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	8
The legal mobilisation of EU market freedoms: strategic action or random noise?	8
Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies	8
Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	8
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	8
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union	8
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	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
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?	8
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	8
Do voters polarise in response to elite dissensus on immigration?	8
Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	8
Stuck on the stairway of change: the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies post 2022	8
A spectre of democracy: are populist citizens less supportive of democracy?	7
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
Ideology and policy design after Brexit: explaining the UK subsidy regime	7
Statement of Retraction: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	7
Between goals and means: the electoral consequences of parties’ climate proposals	7
The Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023	7
Same old, same old? The return of the (not so) Grand Coalition after the 2025 German Bundestag election	7
Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement	7
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	7
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals	7
Record-high fragmentation, clean drinking water and pigs’ welfare: the Danish General Election 2026	7
Closing the gap: how descriptive and substantive representation affect women’s vote for populist radical right parties	7
The 2024 French legislative elections: maintaining elections, political crisis	7
Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism	6
Mummy’s girls, daddy’s boys: the gendered transmission of political engagement in families	6
The impact of occupational background on issue representation	6
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform	6
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe?	6
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	6
The power of prime ministers: evidence from 21 parliamentary democracies	6
A life course approach to political preference formation across social classes	6
To amend or not to amend: under what circumstances do Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills?	6
Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when losing electoral support	6
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	6
Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs	6
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	5
Homeownership and political efficacy: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard	5
Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe	5
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	5
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: evidence from Spanish regions	5
Freedom for all? Populism and the instrumental support of freedom of speech	5
Constraining dissensus and permissive consensus: variations in support for core state powers	5
Updating cleavage theory for the twenty-first century	5
Cleavage theory meets civil society: a framework and research agenda	5
The crisis of long-termism: time and independence in the European Union	5
The rise of populism and the new cleavage	5
Exiting after Brexit: public perceptions of future European Union member state departures	5
The determinants of transnational solidarity in the EU	5
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	5
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis	5
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	5
Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: a video-vignette survey experiment	5
EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach	5
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets	5
Regional coalition heuristics: government participation and party perceptions in multi-level systems	5
Assessing the role of the European Council and the European Commission during the migration and COVID-19 crises	4
The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign	4
Democratic standards in external differentiation: the area of freedom, security and justice	4
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions	4
Local protest event analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture?	4
Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness	4
The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation	4
How political parties’ youth wings are organised: comparative evidence from 57 statutes in 11 countries	4
Gendered participation and conduct in parliamentary debates	4
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine	4
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	4
The broad-appeal strategy and policy representation	4
How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany	4
Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy	4

Fragmentation revisited: the UK General Election of 2024	4
How we think about the political stances of others: evidence on projection from Canada, Germany, and the UK	4
Islam, opinion climates, and immigrant party loyalties in Western Europe	4
When does accommodation fail? The electoral consequences of intra-party divisions and mainstream party strategies	4
European cloud computing policy: failing in Europe to succeed nationally?	4