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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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Two States, One Voice? The Integration of the East German Länder into the European Community’s Regional Policy	44
Mayoral Leadership in Times of Crisis: The Impact of Structural Factors in Germany	32
‘All Politics is Local’? The AfD in Local Elections and Local Politics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	18
German Claims for Leadership: From a Federalist to a Geopolitical Leadership Master Narrative	17
Germany and Rule of Law Support in Turkey: A Status Quo Power?	16
Voter Turnout in Local Elections With One or No List: Evidence from Germany	15
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW): Curse or Blessing for AfD in the State Elections?	14
‘A New Dynamic’ for German Democracy? Democracy Reforms Between Populist Demands and Governmental Strategies	12
When Crises Unite. Changing Party Positions on Foreign Policy During Critical Events in Germany	12
Communal and Exchange-Based Trust in Germany Thirty Years After Reunification: Convergence or Still an East–West Divide?	10
(How) Perceived Descriptive Underrepresentation Decreases Political Support: The Case of East Germans	9
Under Attack: How Social Threats Push Negative Beliefs about Scientists in Germany	9
Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs	9
Shaping Bilateral Relationships From Below: Civil Society Actors and Their Motivations in the Czech-German Context	8
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	7
Strategic Timing? Coalition Governments and the Introduction of Controversial Legislation Throughout the Electoral Cycle	7
Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict	6
The Politics of Military Force. Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse	6
Public Opinion on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Cooperation between Democracies and Autocracies: The Case of German-Egyptian Relations	5
Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany Introduction to the Special Issue	5
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	5
Living in a Post-material World? Assessing the Impact of Economic and non-Economic Shifts on the Success of the German Greens	5
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison	5
The Importance of Descriptive Representation & Cue-Taking in Free List Local Elections	5
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	5

German Foreign Policy Under the Merkel IV Government: The Role of Party Political Contestation Within the ‘Grand Coalition’	5
Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag	4
Uncivilian Power Germany: Why States Violate their Foreign Policy Master Roles	4
Between a Curse and a Blessing: Germany’s Role in Shaping the EU-Turkish Relations with the Eastern Mediterranean as a Litmus Test	4
German Legislators’ Conceptions of Democracy and Process Preferences: Results from a New Survey	4
‘Poland is Back’: German Narrative Adjustment in the German-Polish Special Relationship, 2007–2024	4
Regulation of Housing Markets in Germany’s Federal States Why do Some Act and Others do not?	4
The Glass is Half Full: Environmental and Climate Policy of the Last Merkel Government Between Protest and Pandemic	4
The Winds of Winter: COVID-19 and Punctuations Without Policy Change in German Health Care Policy	4
Drivers of Consensus: Responses to Brexit in Germany, France, Ireland and Poland	4
Narratives in Flux: Turkish Elite Perspectives on Germany’s Role in EU–Turkey Relations	4
Security Policy Professionals as Strategic Cultural Agents: The Drafting of the German National Security Strategy	3
Zeitenwende in the Indo-Pacific? Assessing Germany’s Regional Security Engagement	3
Differentiated Structures of Europe: German Perspectives on Turkey and the United Kingdom	3
Against Coming to Terms with the Past? The AfD’s Alternative Politics of History	3
Germany’s Triangular Relations with the United States and China in the Era of the Zeitenwende	3
(Re)coordinating the German Political Economy: E-mobility and the Verkehrswende	3
Managing the Legacy of Long-Term Leaders: The Curious Evolution of Leadership Styles in the German Chancellery	3
Implementing Gender Quotas Locally: How Germany’s Alliance 90/The Greens Enforce the Women’s Statute in District Branches	3
Articulating a Delicate Balancing Act: Identity and Ontological Insecurity in Germany’s Narrative Responses to Israel 1993–2023	3
Under Pressure? The Labour Market Policy of the Grand Coalition 2018–2021	3
Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany	2
The Impact of German MPs’ Outside Activities on Their Parliamentary Careers	2
Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation	2
Germany and the European Union: How Chancellor Angela Merkel Shaped Europe	2
German Multi-Level Relations with Superpowers. A Comparison of Subnational Cooperation with American and Chinese Partners	2
The Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Election	2
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands	2
Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament	2
Issue Networks in German Health Insurance Policy	2
The Ukraine War as a Driver of Intraparty Conflict: Germany's Left Party and the AfD	2
Intra-Party Communication in the Digital Era - An Empirical Case Study of Party Delegates from the German Greens	2
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy 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
Conflicting Institutional Pressures During the Establishment of Tax Administrations in the Post-1990 Eastern German States	1
German Political Foundations in an Era of Geoeconomic Transformation: Navigating Civil Society Geopolitics and Boundaries of Influence	1
Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel	1
Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy: An Introduction	1
The Election of the AfD and the Collective Identity of East Germans – Between Perceived Disadvantage and Collective Deprivation	1
Change to Stay the Same? German European Preference Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis	1
Electoral Competition and Policy-Making Under the Fourth Merkel Government. Driven by ‘Fridays for Future’ and the Pandemic?	1
Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues	1
Path Dependence, Institutional (Non-)Change and Politicisation: The EU-Turkey Customs Union and the Evolution of German-Turkish Trade Ties	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: The First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	1
On the Association of Attitudes Towards NATO and Weapon Deliveries for Ukraine with Vote Intentions in Germany	1
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	1
Unequal German Democracy and the Rise of the ‘Lifestyle-Left’? How Left Parties in Germany Conceive of (In)Equality, 1970–2021	1
Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy	1
The AfD and Antifeminism in Germany, 2014–2025: Family First, Trans Panic Second	1
Articulating Change and Responsibility: Identity, Memory, and the Use of Historical Narratives in German Parliamentary Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine	1

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	1
The Party-Political Integration of Members with Migrant Backgrounds	1