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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	170
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	99
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	75
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	63
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	59
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	53
The long-lasting effects of citizenship education	38
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	35
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	31
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	30
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’	30
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	29
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	29
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	29
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	28
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	27
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	26
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	24
The formalisation of minority governments	24
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	24
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	23
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	23
The (a)symmetric effects of income and unemployment on popular demand for redistribution	23
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	22
Precarity and political protest	22

Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	22
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	21
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	19
Do perceived economic constraints affect performance voting?	18
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	17
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	17
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	17
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	17
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	16
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	16
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	16
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	16
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	15
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	15
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	13
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	13
Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	13
The COVID-19 crisis and the rise of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)	13
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	13
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	12
Selecting party leaders	12
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	12
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	12
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	12
Who supports metropolitan integration? Citizens’ perceptions of city-regional governance in Western Europe	11
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	11
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	11
The enlargement of international organisations	11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	11
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	11
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	10
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	10
A cure worse than the disease? Exploring the health-economy trade-off during COVID-19	10
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	10
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	10
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	10
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	9
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	9
Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education	9
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	9
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	9
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	9
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	9
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	9
Generations and political change	9
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	8

Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	8
Do voters polarise in response to elite dissensus on immigration?	8
Representational deprivation: niche parties, niche voters and political protest	8
Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	8
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	8
Free votes and the analysis of recorded votes: evidence from Germany (1949–2021)	8
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	7
Public support for government responses against COVID-19: assessing levels and predictors in eight Western democracies during 2020	7
A spectre of democracy: are populist citizens less supportive of democracy?	7
Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies	7
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?	7
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	7
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	7
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals	7
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union	7
Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU	6
The 2021 Norwegian election	6
Statement of Retraction: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	6
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change: the polysemy of the ‘Europe of Knowledge’	6
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	6
Closing the gap: how descriptive and substantive representation affect women’s vote for populist radical right parties	6
Differentiated or integrated? The influence of European Administrative Networks on differentiated implementation of EU environmental policy	6
Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance	6
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe?	6
Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism	6
The legal mobilisation of EU market freedoms: strategic action or random noise?	6
A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class	6
The Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023	6
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	6
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	6
Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-19	5
To amend or not to amend: under what circumstances do Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills?	5
The 2024 French legislative elections: maintaining elections, political crisis	5
The impact of occupational background on issue representation	5
How do cross-pressures affect immigration attitudes? Party and educational influences	5
Mummy’s girls, daddy’s boys: the gendered transmission of political engagement in families	5
Political participation profiles	5
Policy signals in party communication: explaining positional concreteness in parties’ Facebook posts	5
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	4
Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe	4
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	4
How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state?	4
EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach	4
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	4
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	4
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis	4
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	4
Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: a video-vignette survey experiment	4
A life course approach to political preference formation across social classes	4
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform	4
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	4
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	4
How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany	3
The challenge populist governments pose for the process and theory of European integration	3
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: evidence from Spanish regions	3
Assessing the role of the European Council and the European Commission during the migration and COVID-19 crises	3
Rising income inequality and the relative decline in subjective social status of the working class	3
Regional coalition heuristics: government participation and party perceptions in multi-level systems	3
Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	3
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	3
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets	3
Constraining dissensus and permissive consensus: variations in support for core state powers	3
Risk and the gender gap in internal political efficacy in Europe	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
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions	3
Freedom for all? Populism and the instrumental support of freedom of speech	3
The determinants of transnational solidarity in the EU	3
Exiting after Brexit: public perceptions of future European Union member state departures	3
Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness	3
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden	3
The broad-appeal strategy and policy representation	3