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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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Strong Firms, Weak Banks: The Financial Consequences of Germany’s Export-Led Growth Model	17
Religious Immunity to Populism: Christian Religiosity and Public Support for the Alternative for Germany	17
‘Wir sind das Volk!’Representative Claim-Making and Populist Style in the PEGIDA Movement’s Discourse	17
Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations	14
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest: The Case of Anti-Corona Mobilisation in Germany	14
A Matter of Trust: How Political and Social Trust Relate to the Acceptance of Covid-19 Policies in Germany	13
Party Competition in Migration Debates: The Influence of the AfD on Party Positions in German State Parliaments	13
How Much State and How Much Market? Comparing Social Housing in Berlin and Vienna	11
Breaking the Budgetary Taboo: German Preference Formation in the EU's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis	10
Towards German leadership? Germany’s Evolving Role and the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy	10
Forty-Eight Shades of Germany: Positive and Negative Discrimination in Federal Asylum Decision Making	10
Rally Effect in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Affectedness, Fear, and Partisanship	9
Leading from Behind? Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era	8
The Greatest of the Small? The Netherlands, the New Hanseatic League and the Frugal Four	8
Surplus Germany	8
Topic Coverage of Coalition Agreements in Multi-Level Settings: The Case of Germany	8
German Labour Market Resilience in Times of Crisis: Revealing Coordination Mechanisms in the Social Market Economy	8
Urban Challenges and the Gig Economy: How German Cities Cope with the Rise of Airbnb	8
How Emotional Displays of Political Leaders Shape Citizen Attitudes: The Case of German Chancellor Angela Merkel	7
Germany After the Social Democratic Century: The Political Economy of Imbalance	7
Game-Changers for Gender Equality in Germany’s Labour Market? Corporate Board Quotas, Pay Transparency and Temporary Part-Time Work	7
Becoming Mainstream? The Emergence of Digital Policies in German Regional Party Politics	7
Reconciling Parliamentary Size with Personalised Proportional Representation? Frontiers of Electoral Reform for the German Bundestag	7
Against All Odds: Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Anngret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the German Paradox of Female CDU Leadership	6
Safe and Risky Sovereigns in the Euro Area Capital Market: Financial Drivers of Fiscal Policies in Germany and Italy	6

New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics	6
Protest and Polarisation in the Context of Energy Transition and Climate Policy in Germany: Mindsets and Collective Identities	6
Keep it Simple! German Voters’ Limited Competence to Evaluate Electoral Systems’ Functions	5
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	5
Framing COVID-19: Public Leadership and Crisis Communication By Chancellor Angela Merkel During the Pandemic in 2020	5
Deliberating Foreign Policy: Perceptions and Effects of Citizen Participation in Germany	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
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	5
Germany Going Postal? Comparing Postal and Election Day Voters in the 2017 German Federal Election	5
How the 2017 Federal Election in Germany Affected Satisfaction with Democracy among AfD Voters	4
Visible Minority Women in German Politics: Between Discrimination and Targeted Recruitment	4
Resisting the Pressures of Globalisation: The Repeated Failure of Elite Sport Reforms in Re-United Germany	4
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as Populist Issue Entrepreneur: Explaining the Party and its Voters in the 2021 German Federal Election	4
The Bundestag in the Pandemic Year 2020/21 – Continuity and Challenges in the Covid-19 Crisis	4
Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era	3
Marriage Equality in Germany: Conservative Normalisation Instead of Successful Anti-Gender Mobilisation	3
Partisan Voting in the German Bundesrat. The Case of its Finance Committee	3
‘Climate-Soviets,’ ‘Alarmism,’ and ‘Eco-Dictatorship’: The Framing of Climate Change Scepticism by the Populist Radical Right Alternative for Germany	3
Angela Merkel and the CDU Quota Curse	3
The Financial Consequences of Export-led Growth in Germany and Italy	3
Rhapsody in Beige: The Impact of SPD Candidate Evaluations on Vote Choice in the 2009, 2013, and 2017 Federal Elections	3
The Limits of Change: German Family Policy and the Dynamics of Policy Transfer 2009–2017	3
The Nomination and Electoral Competitiveness of Working Class Candidates in Germany	3
Germany Going ‘Midstream’: Balancing vs Leadership in EU-NATO Cooperation	3
Local Strategies to Counter the Rise of Housing Rents – Munich and Dresden in Comparison	3
Competitiveness Revisited: Labour Costs, Financial Flows and the Case of Italy	3
Recent German Migration Laws: A Contribution to Fiscal Sustainability	3
Legislative Democracy in the Bundestag After Reunification	3
Why Parties Take Neutral Positions on Policy Issues: Insights from the German Christian Democratic Union	3
Introduction to the Special Issue: The First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	3
Unequal Geographic Representation in a Mixed-Member Electoral System: Evidence from the German Bundestag	2
From Private Wrongs to Public Rights: The Politics of Intersex Activism in the Merkel Era	2
United We Stand: Gruppenwettbewerb and European Banking Union	2
Taking Stock after 40 Years of Comparative Land Policy Analysis (1980−2020). A Review of the Predictors of Regional Policy Output in Germany	2
Regulating the Transition From Work to Retirement: Towards a New Distribution of Responsibilities Between the State, Social Partners and Companies?	2
A (New) East–West-Divide? Representative Democracy in Germany 30 Years after Unification	2
Is It All a Question of the Electoral System? The Effects of Electoral System Types on the Representation of Women in German Municipal Councils	2
Digitalisation Labs: A New Arena for Policy Design in German Multilevel Governance	2
History is not Bunk. Tradition, Political Economy and Regional Identity in the GermanLänder	2
Interventions by the Populist Radical Right in German Civil Society and the Search for Counterstrategies	2
Voter Polarisation in Germany: Unpolarised Western but Polarised Eastern Germany?	2
The Compleat German Economic Voter: New Pathways in Patrimonial and Positional Economic Voting	2
Short-Term Issue Emphasis on Twitter During the 2017 German Election: A Comparison of the Economic Left-Right and Socio-Cultural Dimensions	2
German and Italian Pensions: Similar Roots, Different Reform Paths, Comparable Trajectories?	2
Torn between Two Lovers: German Policy on Economic and Monetary Union, the New Hanseatic League and Franco-German Bilateralism	2
How do the Characteristics of Voting Advice Application Users Change Over Time? Evidence from the German Election Studies	2
International Theory and German Foreign Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue	2
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany: Incompatible Varieties of Europe?’	2
German Leadership in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union	2
Myopic Fiscal Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Intergenerational Burden	2

The Enduring Culture of Restraint in Modern Germany: GermanMentalitéson the Use of Force as Portrayed in Contemporary Television Narratives	2
COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects	2
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany	2
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany	2
The Rise of Faith-Based Welfare Providers in Germany and Its Consequences	2
Between Strategic Cooperation and Distrustful Neighbourhood. Polish-German relations in the agendas of Polish governments, 1990–2019	2
Beyond Stability: Rethinking Germany’s Political Economy	2
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison	2
Ideological Talk, Strategic Vote: German Parties’ Positions on the Military Intervention in Afghanistan in Parliament	1
Ruth Wittlinger and Wade Jacoby	1
The Bundeswehr in German Newspaper Coverage – Using Text Mining for Analysing Strategic Culture	1
Effects of Party Primaries in German Regional Party Branches	1
Similar Origins – Divergent Paths: The Politics of German and Dutch Housing Markets	1
Breaking with Orthodoxy? German Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of Covid-19	1
‘The Politicisation Game’: Strategic Interactions in the Contention Over TTIP in Germany	1
The Baltic States in the Economic and Monetary Union: Standing in the Shadow of Germany or Helping to Counterbalance the ‘South’?	1
Greece, Germany and the Eurozone Crisis: Preferences, Strategies and Power Asymmetry	1
Housing Policy Reframed? How Conceptual Framing Affects Support for Social Housing Policies in Germany	1
A Rainbow Bundestag? An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTI Representation in Angela Merkel’s Germany	1
‘Parties in the Shadows’ –Do Small and Marginal Parties Cater to a Niche?	1
Change to Stay the Same? German European Preference Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis	1
The Waxing and Waning of Loyalty in German Citizenship	1
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy in Germany	1
Hard to Follow: Small States and the Franco-German Relationship	1
German–Polish Transfers on Eastern Policy? Research Deficits, Europeanisation Inputs, Empirical Testing	1
Varieties of Private Household Debt in Europe: Incompatibility of Culturally Diverse Lending Regimes Between Germany and Italy?	1
Voting Behaviour in the 19th German Bundestag and Beyond: Between the Daily Business of Unity and a Special Vote of Conscience	1
Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World	1
Italy and Germany: Incompatible Varieties of Europe or Dissimilar Twins?	1
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	1
How the SPD Lost the Future: The Party’s Crisis as a Loss of Future-imagining	1