West European Politics

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
How local is decentral politics? Variations in the supply of municipal policies110
Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties76
Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in63
Differentiated implementation and European integration: the development of EU food quality labelling62
Populism in the EU and the trade-off between ethical claiming and mainstreaming46
Ideational agenda-setting leadership: President von der Leyen and the EU response to the invasion of Ukraine43
Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections40
What kind of Europe do Europeans want?39
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement37
Group-based public opinion polarisation in multi-party systems35
When does the parliamentary opposition take to the streets? Social protest against government COVID-19 policy34
Compulsory voting, economic conditions and turnout: explaining the outcome of constitutional referendums31
Leaving democracy? Pandemic threat, emotional accounts and regime support in comparative perspective29
The Spanish 2023 general elections: unexpected snap elections to survive in power29
Fear and the COVID-19 rally round the flag: a panel study on political trust27
Partisan politics and economic intervention: evidence from an aggregating approach25
Radical right advance and party system change: the 2024 Portuguese snap elections25
The 2025 Czech parliamentary election25
The formalisation of minority governments24
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom23
Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation23
Radicalisation and discursive accommodation: responses to rising Euroscepticism in the European Parliament23
Ethnic harassment and political engagement of immigrants in Europe22
The making of an ‘unhappy marriage’? The 2023 Finnish general election22
Government alternation and satisfaction with democracy21
Immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries21
Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters20
Dutch parliamentary elections of October 202520
Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine19
Not so independent? The effect of Commissioners’ attributes on EU member states’ bargaining success19
Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany19
EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit19
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations?18
Winter is coming: Russian gas, Italy and the post-war European politics of energy security18
Precarity and political protest18
Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe17
Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision17
Preference cohesion and bargaining satisfaction among Southern EU member states: a comparative perspective17
What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?17
From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election16
Staying alive: crisis-induced disruptions and interest group survival16
A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe16
How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right16
Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union16
Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain15
Pre-electoral coalitions, familiarity, and delays in government formation15
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK15
The political life cycle and electoral mobilisation among immigrant-origin and native citizens during the 2021 German election15
Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association15
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters14
Parties’ issue responsiveness between elections14
An unexpected Socialist majority: the 2022 Portuguese general elections14
Selecting party leaders14
Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size14
Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems13
The enlargement of international organisations13
Nationalism and political support: longitudinal evidence from The Netherlands13
Frightening politics: citizens’ reactions to party statements about law and order13
The 2025 Norwegian election13
Accountability in pan-European borrowing: mind the gap13
The (unintended) consequences of ineffective corruption control on populism in Europe13
Dimension-specific party and public opinion responsiveness in the EU immigration acquis12
How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–202012
Allowing mobility and preventing migration? The combination of entry and stay in immigration policies12
Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences11
Loyal lists, distinctive districts: how dissent-shirking and leisure-shirking affect mixed-candidate selection11
Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations11
It’s a hoax! The mediating factors of populist climate policy opposition11
Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment10
Policy diffusion across political ideologies: explaining Denmark’s desire to externalise asylum10
Institutional accountability: the differentiated implementation of collaborative governance in two EU states10
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