OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of German Politics is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Black–Blue or Bahamas? Explaining CDU, CSU, FDP and AfD Voter Attitudes Towards a Common Governmental Coalition Before the 2017 German Federal Election	41
German Claims for Leadership: From a Federalist to a Geopolitical Leadership Master Narrative	32
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power?	28
Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs	23
‘The Politicisation Game’: Strategic Interactions in the Contention Over TTIP in Germany	23
Communal and Exchange-Based Trust in Germany Thirty Years After Reunification: Convergence or Still an East–West Divide?	23
(How) Perceived Descriptive Underrepresentation Decreases Political Support: The Case of East Germans	21
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	21
Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict , by Paul Carls, Abingdon, Ro	19
The Politics of Military Force. Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse	18
Taking Stock after 40 Years of Comparative Land Policy Analysis (1980−2020). A Review of the Predictors of Regional Policy Output in Germany	17
Breaking the Budgetary Taboo: German Preference Formation in the EU's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis	15
Lowering the Quality of Democracy by Lowering the Voting Age? Comparing the Impact of School, Classmates, and Parents on 15- to 18-Year-Olds’ Political Interest and Turnout	14
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison	13
German Foreign Policy Under the Merkel IV Government: The Role of Party Political Contestation Within the ‘Grand Coalition’	13
Hard to Follow: Small States and the Franco-German Relationship	13
Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany Introduction to the Special Issue	12
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	12
Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power? *Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power?* Liana Fix,	10
Living in a Post-material World? Assessing the Impact of Economic and non-Economic Shifts on the Success of the German Greens	9
The Bundeswehr in German Newspaper Coverage – Using Text Mining for Analysing Strategic Culture	9
German Legislators’ Conceptions of Democracy and Process Preferences: Results from a New Survey	8
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag	8
The Winds of Winter: COVID-19 and Punctuations Without Policy Change in German Health Care Policy	8
Drivers of Consensus: Responses to Brexit in Germany, France, Ireland and Poland	7

Angela Merkel’s Record on Immigration and Gender	7
The Glass is Half Full: Environmental and Climate Policy of the Last Merkel Government Between Protest and Pandemic	7
Framing COVID-19: Public Leadership and Crisis Communication By Chancellor Angela Merkel During the Pandemic in 2020	7
Uncivilian Power Germany: Why States Violate their Foreign Policy Master Roles	7
Germany’s Triangular Relations with the United States and China in the Era of the Zeitenwende	6
Myopic Fiscal Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Intergenerational Burden	6
Articulating a Delicate Balancing Act: Identity and Ontological Insecurity in Germany’s Narrative Responses to Israel 1993–2023	6
Interventions by the Populist Radical Right in German Civil Society and the Search for Counterstrategies	5
Managing the Legacy of Long-Term Leaders: The Curious Evolution of Leadership Styles in the German Chancellery	5
Acting in the Shadow of German Hegemony? The Role of Small States in the Economic and Monetary Union (Introduction to the Special Issue)	5
(Re)coordinating the German Political Economy: E-mobility and the Verkehrswende	5
The Ukraine War as a Driver of Intraparty Conflict: Germany's Left Party and the AfD	5
Party System Change in Eastern and Western Germany Between Convergence and Dissimilarity	5
Under Pressure? The Labour Market Policy of the Grand Coalition 2018–2021	5
Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany	5
The Impact of German MPs’ Outside Activities on Their Parliamentary Careers	4
German Multi-Level Relations with Superpowers. A Comparison of Subnational Cooperation with American and Chinese Partners	4
Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era	4
Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations	4
Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation	3
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands	3
Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament	3
Intra-Party Communication in the Digital Era - An Empirical Case Study of Party Delegates from the German Greens	3
The Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Election	3
Game-Changers for Gender Equality in Germany’s Labour Market? Corporate Board Quotas, Pay Transparency and Temporary Part-Time Work	3
On the Association of Attitudes Towards NATO and Weapon Deliveries for Ukraine with Vote Intentions in Germany	2
‘Climate-Soviets,’ ‘Alarmism,’ and ‘Eco-Dictatorship’: The Framing of Climate Change Scepticism by the Populist Radical Right Alternative for Germany	2
The Waxing and Waning of Loyalty in German Citizenship	2
Germany and the European Union: How Chancellor Angela Merkel Shaped Europe	2
Unequal Geographic Representation in a Mixed-Member Electoral System: Evidence from the German Bundestag	2
The Party-Political Integration of Members with Migrant Backgrounds	2
Is Negative Campaigning a Response to a Dynamic Polling Environment? Evidence from Facebook and Twitter Posts by German Party Leaders in the 2021 German Federal Election	2
The Art of Compromise: Belgium as the Bridge between Germany and France	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	2
Unequal German Democracy and the Rise of the ‘Lifestyle-Left’? How Left Parties in Germany Conceive of (In)Equality, 1970–2021	2
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy in Germany	2
A Rainbow Bundestag? An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTI Representation in Angela Merkel’s Germany	2
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany	1
Die politische Architektur deutscher Parlamente. Von Häusern, Schlössern und Palästen	1
Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel	1
Change to Stay the Same? German European Preference Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis	1
Against All Odds: Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Anngret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the German Paradox of Female CDU Leadership	1
The Austrian-German Relationship in EMU Reform: From Asymmetric Partnership to Increased Independence	1
Against All Odds? A Discourse Network Analysis of the Political Debate About the German Passenger Car Toll Act	1
COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects	1
The Effects of Federalism, Corporatism and Legislative Power on Health System Transformation in Germany	1
From Guilt to Responsibility and Beyond: The Evolution of German Strategic Culture after the End of the Cold War From Guilt to Responsibility and Beyond: The Evolution of German Strateg	1
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	1
Articulating Change and Responsibility: Identity, Memory, and the Use of Historical Narratives in German Parliamentary Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine	1
Explaining Deviant Voting in Subnational Elections: The Case of Local Council Elections in Germany	1

Mapping Continuity and Change in German Strategic Culture, 1999–2022	1
Turkey and Germany in the Interregnum: New Foreign Policy Strategies for a Multipolar World	1
Signing Globally, Implementing Locally: Protecting Endangered Wildlife and the Predicament of Germany’s Federalism	1
Electoral Competition and Policy-Making Under the Fourth Merkel Government. Driven by ‘Fridays for Future’ and the Pandemic?	1
The Greatest of the Small? The Netherlands, the New Hanseatic League and the Frugal Four	1
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany	1
Conflicting Institutional Pressures During the Establishment of Tax Administrations in the Post-1990 Eastern German States	1
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as Populist Issue Entrepreneur: Explaining the Party and its Voters in the 2021 German Federal Election	1
Voter Polarisation in Germany: Unpolarised Western but Polarised Eastern Germany?	1
Gender and the Integration of Newcomers in Merkel’s Germany	1