OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dutch Parliamentary elections of March 2021	86
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies	59
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections	48
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties	46
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine	38
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in	36
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling	34
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement	33
A theory of external judicial politics: the ECJ as cautious gatekeeper in external relations	32
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums	31
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy	30
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective	30
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power	29
The formalisation of minority governments	29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust	29
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems	27
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation	24
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections	23
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach	22
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries	21
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom	21
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy	20
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality	20
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters	20
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe	19

The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election	19
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament	18
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success	18
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?	18
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit	17
Who wants wage moderation? Trade exposure, export-led growth, and the irrelevance of bargaining structure	17
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany	16
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe	16
Precarity and political protest	16
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security	16
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine	15
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective	15
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation	15
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe	15
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision	15
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right	15
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?	14
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union	14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size	14
The European Commission’s role in EU–Turkey migration: political leadership through strategic framing	14
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association	14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK	14
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election	14
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain	14
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election	14
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems	13
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands	13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order	13
The enlargement of international organisations	12
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections	12
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences	12
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020	12
Selecting party leaders	12
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap	12
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum	12
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies	12
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe	12
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters	12
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment	12
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection	11
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition	11
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations	11
Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over	11
Varieties of trade unions and support for redistribution	10
Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?	10
Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967	10
Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties	10
Generations and political change	10
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states	10
Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns	10

Actors, costs and values: the implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive