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Papers

(The TQCC of German Politics is 5. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest: The Case of Anti-Corona Mobilisation in Germany	31
Taking to the Streets in Germany – Disenchanted and Confident Critics in Mass Demonstrations	20
Party Competition in Migration Debates: The Influence of the AfD on Party Positions in German State Parliaments	20
Breaking the Budgetary Taboo: German Preference Formation in the EU's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis	20
Rally Effect in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Affectedness, Fear, and Partisanship	19
‘Climate-Soviets,’ ‘Alarmism,’ and ‘Eco-Dictatorship’: The Framing of Climate Change Scepticism by the Populist Radical Right Alternative for Germany	16
The Greatest of the Small? The Netherlands, the New Hanseatic League and the Frugal Four	16
The Wall in the Mind – Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany	15
A Matter of Trust: How Political and Social Trust Relate to the Acceptance of Covid-19 Policies in Germany	15
New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics	14
Leading from Behind? Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era	14
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as Populist Issue Entrepreneur: Explaining the Party and its Voters in the 2021 German Federal Election	14
Framing COVID-19: Public Leadership and Crisis Communication By Chancellor Angela Merkel During the Pandemic in 2020	11
Game-Changers for Gender Equality in Germany’s Labour Market? Corporate Board Quotas, Pay Transparency and Temporary Part-Time Work	11
Becoming Mainstream? The Emergence of Digital Policies in German Regional Party Politics	11
Acting in the Shadow of German Hegemony? The Role of Small States in the Economic and Monetary Union (Introduction to the Special Issue)	10
A Rainbow Bundestag? An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTI Representation in Angela Merkel’s Germany	10
Reconciling Parliamentary Size with Personalised Proportional Representation? Frontiers of Electoral Reform for the German Bundestag	10
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany	9
German Labour Market Resilience in Times of Crisis: Revealing Coordination Mechanisms in the Social Market Economy	9
‘The Politicisation Game’: Strategic Interactions in the Contention Over TTIP in Germany	9
A (New) East–West-Divide? Representative Democracy in Germany 30 Years after Unification	8
Protest and Polarisation in the Context of Energy Transition and Climate Policy in Germany: Mindsets and Collective Identities	8
Safe and Risky Sovereigns in the Euro Area Capital Market: Financial Drivers of Fiscal Policies in Germany and Italy	8
Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era	7

Resisting the Pressures of Globalisation: The Repeated Failure of Elite Sport Reforms in Re-United Germany	7
Citizen Deliberation in Germany: Lessons from the ‘Bürgerrat Demokratie’	6
Against All Odds: Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Anngret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the German Paradox of Female CDU Leadership	6
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy in Germany	5
The Nomination and Electoral Competitiveness of Working Class Candidates in Germany	5
Short-Term Issue Emphasis on Twitter During the 2017 German Election: A Comparison of the Economic Left-Right and Socio-Cultural Dimensions	5
Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany	5
The Bundestag in the Pandemic Year 2020/21 – Continuity and Challenges in the Covid-19 Crisis	5
Legislative Democracy in the Bundestag After Reunification	5
Unequal Geographic Representation in a Mixed-Member Electoral System: Evidence from the German Bundestag	5
COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects	5
(How) Perceived Descriptive Underrepresentation Decreases Political Support: The Case of East Germans	5
Digitalisation Labs: A New Arena for Policy Design in German Multilevel Governance	5
Angela Merkel and the CDU Quota Curse	5
Torn between Two Lovers: German Policy on Economic and Monetary Union, the New Hanseatic League and Franco-German Bilateralism	5