West European Politics

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	86
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	59
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	48
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	46
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	38
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	36
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	34
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	33
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	32
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	31
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	30
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	30
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	29
The formalisation of minority governments	29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	29
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	27
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	24
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	23
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	22
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	21
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	21
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	20
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	20
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	20
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe	19

The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	19
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	18
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	18
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	17
Precarity and political protest	16
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	16
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	16
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	15
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	15
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	15
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	15
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	15
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	15
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	14
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size	14
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	14
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	14
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	14
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	14
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	14
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	13
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	13
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	12
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	12
Selecting party leaders	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	12
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	12
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	12
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	12
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	12
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	12
The enlargement of international organisations	12
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	11
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	11
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	11
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	10
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	10
Generations and political change	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	10
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	10
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	10

Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	10
Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	9
The Italian parliamentary election of 2022: the populist radical right takes charge	9
Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	9
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	9
Stuck on the stairway of change: the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies post 2022	9
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	9
The legal mobilisation of EU market freedoms: strategic action or random noise?	8
A spectre of democracy: are populist citizens less supportive of democracy?	8
Representational deprivation: niche parties, niche voters and political protest	8
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals	8
Leaving Europe, leaving Spain: comparing secessionism from and within the European Union	8
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	8
Quiet unity: salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position	8
Divided by Europe: affective polarisation in the context of European elections	8
Measuring and predicting the radical-right gender gap	8
Free votes and the analysis of recorded votes: evidence from Germany (1949–2021)	8
Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects?	8
The Dutch parliamentary elections of November 2023	7
Do voters polarise in response to elite dissensus on immigration?	7
Differentiated or integrated? The influence of European Administrative Networks on differentiated implementation of EU environmental policy	7
Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies	7
Coalition agreements and governments’ policy-making productivity	6
Statement of Retraction: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	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
A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class	6
Assembly dissolution powers and incumbency advantages in coalition formation	6
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe	6
Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when losing electoral support	6
The 2021 Norwegian election	6
The power of prime ministers: evidence from 21 parliamentary democracies	6
To amend or not to amend: under what circumstances do Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills?	6
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe?	6
The crisis of long-termism: time and independence in the European Union	5
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 2022	5
Cleavage theory meets civil society: a framework and research agenda	5
Political participation profiles	5
The 2024 French legislative elections: maintaining elections, political crisis	5
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties	5
EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach	5
Updating cleavage theory for the twenty-first century	5
Mummy’s girls, daddy’s boys: the gendered transmission of political engagement in families	5
Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism	5
Intergovernmentalism in a supranational field: France, Germany, and EU competition policy reform	5
Policy signals in party communication: explaining positional concreteness in parties’ Facebook posts	5
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis	5
A life course approach to political preference formation across social classes	5
The impact of occupational background on issue representation	5
Ideology and policy design after Brexit: explaining the UK subsidy regime	5
Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe	5
Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: a video-vignette survey experiment	4
A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe	4
Freedom for all? Populism and the instrumental support of freedom of speech	4
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: evidence from Spanish regions	4
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 2021	4
What explains the size of parliamentary staff?	4
The determinants of transnational solidarity in the EU	4
Constraining dissensus and permissive consensus: variations in support for core state powers	4
The rhetorical contestation of populism in four European parliaments (2010–2020)	4
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe	4
Exiting after Brexit: public perceptions of future European Union member state departures	4
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets	4
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016	4
What makes people trust or distrust politicians? Insights from open-ended survey questions	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
Local protest event analysis: providing a more comprehensive picture?	3
Rising income inequality and the relative decline in subjective social status of the working class	3
Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy	3
Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness	3
The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective	3
Electoral input and political legitimacy	3
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine	3
How we think about the political stances of others: evidence on projection from Canada, Germany, and the UK	3
Islam, opinion climates, and immigrant party loyalties in Western Europe	3
The broad-appeal strategy and policy representation	3
The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign	3
The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation	3
Assessing the role of the European Council and the European Commission during the migration and COVID-19 crises	3

Kinder, gentler – and crisis-proof? Consensus democracy, inclusive institutions and COVID-19 pandemic performance	3
Why Norway has more female local councillors than Denmark: a crack in the Nordic gender equality model?	3
‘Seen one, seen ‘em all’: political outgroup homogeneity and negative affect	3
Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union	3
Perceptions of policy responsiveness: the effects of egocentric and sociotropic congruence	3
Fragmentation revisited: the UK General Election of 2024	3
European cloud computing policy: failing in Europe to succeed nationally?	3
How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany	3
Regional coalition heuristics: government participation and party perceptions in multi-level systems	3
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden	3
How do voters interpret social class appeals? Lessons from open-ended responses	3