| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: Achievements, challenges, perspectives | Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning | 2005 | 751 |
| 2 | SEN'S CAPABILITY APPROACH AND GENDER INEQUALITY: SELECTING RELEVANT CAPABILITIES | Feminist Economics | 2003 | 744 |
| 3 | Policy without polity? Policy analysis and the institutional void | Policy Sciences | 2003 | 610 |
| 4 | Immigration, Europe and the ‘new’ cultural dimension | European Journal of Political Research | 2009 | 352 |
| 5 | Ethnic Diversity and Its Effects on Social Cohesion | Annual Review of Sociology | 2014 | 330 |
| 6 | Three models of education | Theory and Research in Education | 2006 | 325 |
| 7 | New social movements and political opportunities in Western Europe | European Journal of Political Research | 1992 | 298 |
| 8 | Political participation and political trust in Amsterdam: Civic communities and ethnic networks | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | 1999 | 292 |
| 9 | What voters teach us about Europe-Wide elections: What Europe-Wide elections teach us about voters | Electoral Studies | 1996 | 235 |
| 10 | Flank attacks | Party Politics | 2017 | 226 |
| 11 | Selecting Capabilities for Quality of Life Measurement | Social Indicators Research | 2005 | 210 |
| 12 | The Uses of Social Investment | | 2017 | 186 |
| 13 | Expressing or fuelling discontent? The relationship between populist voting and political discontent | Electoral Studies | 2016 | 182 |
| 14 | Methadone | Social Studies of Science | 2002 | 165 |
| 15 | The Dynamics of Voters’ Left/Right Identification: The Role of Economic and Cultural Attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | 2013 | 164 |
| 16 | Contextualizing Reflexive Governance: the Politics of Dutch Transitions to Sustainability | Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning | 2007 | 158 |
| 17 | Socializing the European Semester: EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond | Journal of European Public Policy | 2018 | 158 |
| 18 | State of the field: How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus | European Journal of Political Research | 2019 | 150 |
| 19 | Political Trust as the Evaluation of Process and Performance: A Cross-National Study of 42 European Countries | Political Studies | 2017 | 143 |
| 20 | Democracy in the risk society? Learning from the new politics of mobility in Munich | Environmental Politics | 1999 | 142 |
| 21 | No Longer Lost in Translation: Evidence that Google Translate Works for Comparative Bag-of-Words Text Applications | Political Analysis | 2018 | 132 |
| 22 | Macroeconomic performance, political trust and the Great Recession: A multilevel analysis of the effects of within‐country fluctuations in macroeconomic performance on political trust in 15 EU countries, 1999–2011 | European Journal of Political Research | 2016 | 127 |
| 23 | Introduction: the European Union beyond the polycrisis? Integration and politicization in an age of shifting cleavages | Journal of European Public Policy | 2019 | 127 |
| 24 | Measuring Agreement in Ordered Rating Scales | | 2001 | 124 |
| 25 | Radical distinction: Support for radical left and radical right parties in Europe | European Union Politics | 2017 | 124 |
| 26 | How the Media Shape Perceptions of Right-Wing Populist Leaders | Political Communication | 2011 | 119 |
| 27 | Cities and the politics of immigrant integration: a comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | 2016 | 110 |
| 28 | The “migrant with poor prospects”: racialized intersections of class and culture in Dutch civic integration debates | Ethnic and Racial Studies | 2018 | 110 |
| 29 | The Corporate Elite Community Structure of Global Capitalism | New Political Economy | 2016 | 107 |
| 30 | Why interest organizations do what they do: Assessing the explanatory potential of ‘exchange’ approaches | Interest Groups and Advocacy | 2013 | 106 |
| 31 | Managing Mistrust | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2013 | 104 |
| 32 | Anti-immigration parties and the defence of liberal values: The exceptional case of the List Pim Fortuyn | Journal of Political Ideologies | 2005 | 101 |
| 33 | Talking Active Citizenship: Framing Welfare State Reform in England and the Netherlands | Social Policy and Society | 2013 | 95 |
| 34 | The appeal of nostalgia: the influence of societal pessimism on support for populist radical right parties | West European Politics | 2018 | 95 |
| 35 | Gender Differences in Political Media Coverage: A Meta-Analysis | Journal of Communication | 2020 | 94 |
| 36 | Popular Mobilization in Syria: Opportunity and Threat, and the Social Networks of the Early Risers | Meditteranean Politics | 2012 | 92 |
| 37 | All quiet on election day? International election observation and incentives for pre-election violence in African elections | Electoral Studies | 2014 | 91 |
| 38 | Experimentalism in the EU: Common ground and persistent differences | Regulation and Governance | 2012 | 90 |
| 39 | Nationalism and the Cohesive Society | Comparative Political Studies | 2013 | 88 |
| 40 | Rebuilding Ground Zero. The Politics of Performance | Planning Theory and Practice | 2005 | 84 |
| 41 | The politics of meta-governance in transnational private sustainability governance | Policy Sciences | 2015 | 84 |
| 42 | Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 81 |
| 43 | Introduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice | Journal of European Public Policy | 2018 | 78 |
| 44 | Making Inference across Mobilisation and Influence Research: Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Mapping of Interest Systems | Political Studies | 2018 | 77 |
| 45 | True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2015 | 76 |
| 46 | Legitimacy, Democracy and Public Justification: Rawls’ Political Liberalism Versus Gaus’ Justificatory Liberalism | Res Publica | 2014 | 72 |
| 47 | Vox populismus: a populist radical right attitude among the public? | Nations and Nationalism | 2014 | 68 |
| 48 | Steering capital: the growing private authority of index providers in the age of passive asset management | Review of International Political Economy | 2021 | 66 |
| 49 | The living institutions of the EU: Analysing governance as performance | Perspectives on European Politics and Society | 2006 | 65 |
| 50 | Design issues in electoral research: taking care of (core) business | Electoral Studies | 2002 | 64 |
