OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	80
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	57
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	47
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	46
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	37
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	33
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	33
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	32
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	30
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	29
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	29
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	29
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	28
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	26
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	24
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	23
The formalisation of minority governments	22
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	20
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	20
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	19
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	19
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	19
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	19
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	18

The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	18
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	17
Precarity and political protest	17
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	17
Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship	16
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	15
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	15
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	15
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	15
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	14
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	14
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	14
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	14
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	14
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	14
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	14
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	14
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	13
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	13
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	13
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	13
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	12
Selecting party leaders	12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	12
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	12
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	12
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	11
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	11
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	11
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	11
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	11
The enlargement of international organisations	11
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	11
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	10
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	10
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	10
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	10
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	10
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	10
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	10
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	10
Generations and political change	9
Dying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation	9
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	9

Stuck on the stairway of change: the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies post 2022	9
Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?	9
Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive	9
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections	9
Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels	9
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	9