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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Rally round the flag’: the COVID-19 crisis and trust in the national government	145
Democracy in times of the pandemic: explaining the variation of COVID-19 policies across European democracies	112
Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-19	87
Federalism and the management of the COVID-19 crisis: centralisation, decentralisation and (non-)coordination	73
Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic	65
Opposition in times of crisis: COVID-19 in parliamentary debates	61
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis	60
Public support for government responses against COVID-19: assessing levels and predictors in eight Western democracies during 2020	59
Radical right parties and their welfare state stances – not so blurry after all?	57
Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance	48
Authoritarian values and the welfare state: the social policy preferences of radical right voters	39
Partisan dealignment and the personalisation of politics in West European parliamentary democracies, 1961–2018	37
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of COVID-19	27
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	27
How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state?	27
COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy	27
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	26
The COVID-19 crisis and the rise of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)	25
Expert authority and support for COVID-19 measures in Germany and the UK: a survey experiment	22
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	21
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’	21
The rightward shift and electoral decline of social democratic parties under increasing inequality	21
A new right: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 2022	19
European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	18
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	18

Back to the familialist future: the rise of social policy for ruling populist radical right parties in Italy and Poland	17
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process	16
Welfare state policies and far right party support: moderating ‘insecurity effects' among different social groups	16
Social distancing, politics and wealth	16
A change of heart? Analysing stability and change in European party positions	16
(N)one of us? The case for descriptive representation of the contemporary working class	16
A cure worse than the disease? Exploring the health-economy trade-off during COVID-19	16
The impact of radical right parties on family benefits	15
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	15
Differentiated policy implementation in the European Union	15
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change: the polysemy of the ‘Europe of Knowledge’	15
How ex-Communist left parties reformed and lost	14
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden	14
Understanding MPs’ perceptions of party voters’ opinion in Western democracies	14
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	14
Why do immigrants support an anti-immigrant party? Russian-Germans and the Alternative for Germany	14
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	13
Stability of minority governments and the role of support agreements	13
Blame avoidance in hard times: complex governance structures and the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Congruence and party responsiveness in Western Europe in the 21st century	13
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	13
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War: community building without capacity building	12
The vote of no confidence: towards a framework for analysis	12
Nativist attitudes and opportunistic support for democracy	12
The technocratic side of populist attitudes: evidence from the Spanish case	11
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	11
The effect of the constructive vote of no-confidence on government termination and government durability	11
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency: processes of learning and emulation in tax policy making	11
COVID-19 stressors, mental/emotional distress and political support	10
Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism	10
Take it and leave it! A postfunctionalist bargaining approach to the Brexit negotiations	10
How citizens’ conceptions of democracy relate to positive and negative partisanship towards populist parties	10
The Brexit puzzle: polity attack and external rebordering	10
Highlighting supranational institutions? An automated analysis of EU politicisation (2002–2017)	10
Studying expert influence: a methodological agenda	9
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	9
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	9
Inequality in the public priority perceptions of elected representatives	9
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	9
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	9
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective	9
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	8
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	8
Party goals and interest group influence on parties	8
Rising income inequality and the relative decline in subjective social status of the working class	8
Party-system polarisation, legislative institutions and cabinet survival in 28 parliamentary democracies, 1945–2019	8
Constitutional parliamentarism in Europe, 1800–2019	8
Creating compliance in crisis: messages, messengers, and masking up in Britain	8
From bureaucratic capacity to legislation: how ministerial resources shape governments’ policy-making capabilities	8
European solidarity in times of crisis: the role of information and media use	8

Look where you’re going: the cultural and economic explanations of class voting decline	8
Attitudes vs. actions? Direct-democratic preferences and participation of populist citizens	7
Embedded liberalism or embedded nationalism? How welfare states affect anti-globalisation nationalism in party platforms	7
Generational differences in disguise? A longitudinal study of the liberalising effect of education on socio-cultural attitudes	7
The shifting issue content of left–right identification: cohort differences in Western Europe	7
Weaponisation of finance: the role of European central banks and financial sanctions against Russia	7
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	7
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	7
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	7
The politics of policy inquiry commissions: Denmark and Norway, 1971-2017	7
Political participation profiles	7
The stigmatisation effect of the radical right on voters’ assessment of political proposals	6
The 2021 Norwegian election	6
Losers’ consent and emotions in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum	6
Rallying around the unwaved flag: national identity and Sweden’s controversial Covid strategy	6
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy?	6
Who supports metropolitan integration? Citizens’ perceptions of city-regional governance in Western Europe	6
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	6
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	6
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	6
Exploring the dynamics of policy change in EU security and defence: policy entrepreneurs behind the Strategic Compass	6
Government termination and anti-defection laws in parliamentary democracies	6
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	6
Going technocratic? Diluting governing responsibility in electorally turbulent times	6
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	6
Do EU policies constrain government autonomy? Insights from the implementation of EU migration policies	5
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	5
New (types of) parties and government: the Danish general election 2022	5
The origins of EU legislation: agenda-setting, intra-institutional decision-making or interinstitutional negotiations?	5
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	5
Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU	5
Have your cake and eat it, too? Switzerland and the feasibility of differentiated integration after Brexit	5
The formalisation of minority governments	5
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	5
Public popularity as a part of the job description? Dismissing unpopular ministers	5
The resilience of parliamentary oversight during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Can't buy me votes? Campaign spending and the outcome of direct democratic votes	5
Patterns of contestation across EU parliaments: four modes of inter-parliamentary relations compared	5
Dynamics and determinants of right-wing populist mobilisation in Germany	4
Do European media ignore female politicians? A comparative analysis of MP visibility	4
Making sense of gold and governance: the importance of practices and repertoires	4
The 2023 Swiss federal elections: the radical right did it again	4
Territory and the divine: the intersection of religion and national identity	4
Representational deprivation: niche parties, niche voters and political protest	4
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	4
Settling it on the multi-level parliamentary field? A fields approach to interparliamentary cooperation in foreign and security policy	4
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	4
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	4
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	4
Risk and the gender gap in internal political efficacy in Europe	4
The challenge populist governments pose for the process and theory of European integration	4
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	4
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	4
Do they feel like they don’t matter? The rural-urban divide in external political efficacy	4
Closing the gap: how descriptive and substantive representation affect women’s vote for populist radical right parties	4
Does institutional misfit trigger customisation instead of non-compliance?	4
Termination of parliamentary governments: revised definitions and implications	4
The insider–outsider divide and contentious politics: the tripartite field of the Italian labour movement	3
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	3
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	3
The (a)symmetric effects of income and unemployment on popular demand for redistribution	3
The 2022 Maltese general election: an outcome foretold	3
Prime ministers, the vote of confidence and the management of coalition terminations between elections	3
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	3
Softening the corrective effect of populism: populist parties’ impact on political interest	3
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	3
Rebuilding the coalition ship at sea: how uncertainty and complexity drive the reform of portfolio design in coalition cabinets	3
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	3
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	3
Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies	3
Partisan attachments in a multidimensional space	3
Un-solvable crises? Differential implementation and transboundary crisis management in the EU	3
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	3
Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education	3
Government termination in Europe: a sensitivity analysis	3