OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of West European Politics is 8. 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
How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state?	27
COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy	27
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
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
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
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	21
A new right: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 2022	19
The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany	18
European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine	18

Back to the familialist future: the rise of social policy for ruling populist radical right parties in Italy and Poland	17
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
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process	16
Differentiated policy implementation in the European Union	15
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change: the polysemy of the ‘Europe of Knowledge’	15
The impact of radical right parties on family benefits	15
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	15
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
How ex-Communist left parties reformed and lost	14
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
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
The vote of no confidence: towards a framework for analysis	12
Nativist attitudes and opportunistic support for democracy	12
Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War: community building without capacity building	12
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
The technocratic side of populist attitudes: evidence from the Spanish case	11
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
COVID-19 stressors, mental/emotional distress and political support	10
Taking back control of the welfare state: Brexit, rational-imaginaries and welfare chauvinism	10
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
Studying expert influence: a methodological agenda	9
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	9
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
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