West European Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of West European Politics is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies82
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties53
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling52
Populism in the EU and the trade-off between ethical claiming and mainstreaming42
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine40
What kind of Europe do Europeans want?39
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections38
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in38
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems37
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy31
Threat perceptions and the globalisation divide29
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power29
The formalisation of minority governments27
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation26
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections25
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums25
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach24
The 2025 Czech parliamentary election23
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries23
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election23
The comparative political economy of inequality: the maturation of an emerging field23
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust23
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe23
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters22
Dutch parliamentary elections of October 202521
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy21
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany20
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament20
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success20
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit20
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine20
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom20
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe19
Precarity and political protest19
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 security19
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective18
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right18
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?18
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union18
Budget games real actors play: examining the agreement on CAP and cohesion for MFF 2021–202717
Staying alive: crisis-induced disruptions and interest group survival17
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election17
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision16
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation16
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election15
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association15
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe15
The 2025 Norwegian election14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size14
Selecting party leaders14
Parties’ issue responsiveness between elections14
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK14
The enlargement of international organisations13
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe13
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order12
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems12
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters12
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection11
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies11
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum11
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition11
Dimension-specific party and public opinion responsiveness in the EU immigration acquis11
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment11
Bringing society (back) in? Defence transformations across Europe in the Zeitenwende10
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations10
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states10
Generations and political change10
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–202010
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