West European Politics

Papers
(The TQCC of West European Politics is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Rally round the flag’: the COVID-19 crisis and trust in the national government114
Democracy in times of the pandemic: explaining the variation of COVID-19 policies across European democracies92
Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-1976
Power to the people? Populism, democracy, and political participation: a citizen's perspective60
Federalism and the management of the COVID-19 crisis: centralisation, decentralisation and (non-)coordination59
Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic57
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis56
Public support for government responses against COVID-19: assessing levels and predictors in eight Western democracies during 202053
Opposition in times of crisis: COVID-19 in parliamentary debates52
Explaining the emergence of the radical right in Spain and Portugal: salience, stigma and supply48
Radical right parties and their welfare state stances – not so blurry after all?44
Parliaments in times of crisis: COVID-19, populism and executive dominance42
Authoritarian values and the welfare state: the social policy preferences of radical right voters32
Normative transformations in the European Union: on hardening and softening law28
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of COVID-1926
Partisan dealignment and the personalisation of politics in West European parliamentary democracies, 1961–201825
COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy24
The COVID-19 crisis and the rise of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)23
Reforming me softly – how soft law has changed EU return policy since the migration crisis23
The Spanish electoral cycle of 2019: a tale of two countries22
German politics at the traffic light: new beginnings in the election of 202121
Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’20
Going transnational? Candidates’ transnational linkages on Twitter during the 2019 European Parliament elections20
Expert authority and support for COVID-19 measures in Germany and the UK: a survey experiment19
Dealignment, realignment and generational differences in The Netherlands19
How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state?19
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement19
Hardening and softening of country-specific recommendations in the European Semester19
Softening the surface but hardening the core? Governing renewable energy in the EU18
Veto power fosters cooperative behaviour: institutional incentives and government-opposition voting in the German Bundestag18
The will for reason: voter demand for experts in office18
Hard times for governing parties: the 2019 federal elections in Belgium18
The end of the EU affair: the UK general election of 201916
Social distancing, politics and wealth15
The rightward shift and electoral decline of social democratic parties under increasing inequality15
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain15
A cure worse than the disease? Exploring the health-economy trade-off during COVID-1915
Soft and hard law in times of crisis: budget monitoring, migration and cybersecurity14
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process14
A new right: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 202213
Understanding MPs’ perceptions of party voters’ opinion in Western democracies13
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections13
The impact of radical right parties on family benefits13
Back to the familialist future: the rise of social policy for ruling populist radical right parties in Italy and Poland13
Change gradually, then all at once: the general election of February 2020 in the Republic of Ireland13
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention: the French elections of 202213
Welfare state policies and far right party support: moderating ‘insecurity effects' among different social groups13
Why do immigrants support an anti-immigrant party? Russian-Germans and the Alternative for Germany12
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change: the polysemy of the ‘Europe of Knowledge’12
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany12
The effect of candidate electoral experience on ballot placement in list proportional representation systems11
A change of heart? Analysing stability and change in European party positions11
The effect of the constructive vote of no-confidence on government termination and government durability11
Blame avoidance in hard times: complex governance structures and the COVID-19 pandemic11
What is intergovernmental about the EU’s ‘(new) intergovernmentalist’ turn? Evidence from the Eurozone and asylum crises11
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government: insights on the inside11
How ex-Communist left parties reformed and lost11
The vote of no confidence: towards a framework for analysis11
Stability of minority governments and the role of support agreements10
Congruence and party responsiveness in Western Europe in the 21st century10
Highlighting supranational institutions? An automated analysis of EU politicisation (2002–2017)10
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency: processes of learning and emulation in tax policy making10
Gender equality salience, backlash and radical right voting in the gender-equal context of Sweden9
Differentiated policy implementation in the European Union9
Seat enlargements in mixed-member proportional systems: evidence from the German Länder9
Take it and leave it! A postfunctionalist bargaining approach to the Brexit negotiations9
We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties9
Nativist attitudes and opportunistic support for democracy9
COVID-19 stressors, mental/emotional distress and political support9
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War: community building without capacity building9
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