OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of West European Politics is 21. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing Values among Western Publics from 1970 to 2006	483
From Europeanisation to Diffusion: Introduction	333
From Catch-all Politics to Cartelisation: The Political Economy of the Cartel Party	129
Beyond left and right: the eclectic populism of the Five Star Movement	96
Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises	75
Learning from the Americanists (Again): Theory and Method in the Study of Delegation	72
The Europeanisation of conflict: Reflections from a social movement perspective	65
The Career of the Open Method of Coordination: Lessons from a ‘Soft’ EU Instrument	63
Political Strategies and Fiscal Retrenchment: Evidence from Four Countries	61
The European refugee crisis, party competition, and voters’ responses in Germany	56
Housing and populism	53
Politicising embedded neoliberalism: continuity and change in Hungary’s development model	52
The European Union: security governance and collective securitisation	47
The personality of populists: provocateurs, charismatic leaders, or drunken dinner guests?	45
Political parties and the transnational mobilisation of the emigrant vote	44
Party system(s) and electoral behaviour in Belgium: From stability to balkanisation	44
Institutionalising Gender Equality in Spain: From Party Quotas to Electoral Gender Quotas	43
From Conflict to Co-ordination: Economic Governance and Political Innovation in Ireland	40
Variation in policy success: radical right populism and migration policy	40
From Vlaams Blok to Vlaams Belang: The Belgian Far-Right Renames Itself	39
Housing prices and wealth inequality in Western Europe	38
Electoral rules and legislative turnover: Evidence from Germany's mixed electoral system	37
Parliamentary questions as a control mechanism in coalition governments	37
Assessing the diversity of anti-establishment and populist politics in Central and Eastern Europe	37
The 2015 Greek parliamentary elections: from great expectations to no expectations	37

From hostility to ‘constructive engagement’: The Europeanisation of the labour party	36
Norway: Resources count, but votes decide? from neo-corporatist representation to neo-pluralist parliamentarism	36
From stability of stagnation: Germany at the beginning of the twenty-first century	35
Fertile soil: explaining variation in the success of Green parties	33
National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western Europe	32
Populism in election times: a comparative analysis of 11 countries in Western Europe	32
Social divides in the age of globalization	32
On the Politicisation of the European Union: Lessons from Consociational National Polities	31
Small parties: From party pledges to government policy	31
From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Governance in the EU: Explaining a Diagnostic Deficit	31
The Italian election of 2018 and the first populist government of Western Europe	29
Back to Schengen: the collective securitisation of the EU free-border area	28
Bureaucratic Structure and Administrative Behaviour: Lessons from International Bureaucracies	28
Who votes for new parties? Economic voting, political ideology and populist attitudes	28
From the politics of accommodation to adversarial politics in the Netherlands: A reassessment	28
Is there a european electorate and what does it look like? evidence from electoral volatility measures, 1976–2004	28
Do Politics in Europe Benefit from Politicising Corruption?	28
Economic crisis and the variety of populist response: evidence from Greece, Portugal and Spain	27
The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union	27
Changing Patterns of Party Competition in Austria: From Multipolar to Bipolar System	26
Dimensions of political conflict and party positions in multi-level democracies: evidence from the Local Manifesto Project	26
From neo‐fascists to post‐fascists? The transformation of the MSI into the AN	26
Poor versus rich countries: a gap in public attitudes towards fiscal solidarity in the EU	25
The EU’s collective securitisation of climate change	25
Securitisation across borders: the case of ‘health security’ cooperation in the European Union	25
A party system in flux: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 2018	25
Parties’ policy adjustments in response to changes in issue saliency	25
From Laggard to Leader: Explaining the Belgian Gender Quotas and Parity Clause	25
Are they listening? Public opinion, interest groups and government responsiveness	24
A Europe of creditor and debtor states: explaining the north/south divide in the Eurozone	24
The Impact of Voter Evaluations of Leaders’ Traits on Voting Behaviour: Evidence from Seven European Countries	23
Eurosceptics in trilogue settings: interest formation and contestation in the European Parliament	23
The more things change, the more they stay the same? The German federal election of 2017 and its consequences	23
When success is an orphan: informal institutional governance and the EU–Turkey deal	22
Accountability as a Bureaucratic Minefield: Lessons from a Comparative Study	22
Dependent development at a crossroads? Romanian capitalism and its contradictions	22
Institutional Design and the Use of Direct Democracy: Evidence from the German Länder	21
The 2019 Portuguese general elections	21
Has the gender gap in voter turnout really disappeared?	21
From the rule of law to the rule of rules: technocracy and the crisis of EU governance	21
Managing Europe from home in Dublin, Athens and Helsinki: A comparative analysis	21