OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 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
‘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
Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989. Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftsumbruchs	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
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
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison	13
Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany	12
Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany Introduction to the Special Issue	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
The Winds of Winter: COVID-19 and Punctuations Without Policy Change in German Health Care Policy	8
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
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
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
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
Germany’s Triangular Relations with the United States and China in the Era of the Zeitenwende	6
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
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