OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Policy 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors facilitating the adoption of wellbeing budgets in New Zealand: a case study with budget actors	26
How do Europeans want to fight climate change? Comparing and explaining public support for a wide variety of policies	25
Tax autonomy mitigates soft budget constraint: evidence from Spanish Regions	24
Public policy and elections in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the policy on native languages in Russia	19
The electoral connection, state attorneys general, and the dynamics of incarceration rates	19
Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes – ERRATUM	18
Policy paradigm modes: explaining USA antitrust law changes in the 1970s	14
Anti-Muslim policy preferences and boundaries of American identity across partisanship	14
Environmental vertical management reform and data manipulation in the public sector: evidence from China	11
PUP volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	11
Fluctuations of immigration salience: testing alternative explanations of policy salience among US Latinos	11
Managing ideational complexity in public policies: the case of public research funding	10
Salience, preference, and asylum outcomes in Germany and the UK, 2002–2019	10
When incumbents successfully retrench big and popular social policies: policy design matters	10
As the crow flies: tracking policy diffusion through stakeholder networks	9
The price of creativity: a conjoint experiment in copyrights	8
Never let a serious crisis go to waste: the introduction of supplemental carbon taxes in Europe	8
War and the adoption of family allowances	7
Income inequality and opinion expression gap in the American public: an analysis of policy priorities	7
Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes	7
A hard pill to swallow: Social capital, opiates, and health outcomes in the United States	7
From clubs to hubs: analysing lobbying networks in EU financial regulation after crisis	7
Redirecting revenues from law enforcement fines, forfeitures, and related fees to fund local nonprofits: a policy design proposal	7
Fear, trust, and compliance with COVID-19 measures: a study of the mediating effect of trust in government on the relationship between fear and compliance	6
Critical junctures as complex processes: examining mechanisms of policy change and path dependence in the Canadian pandemic response to homelessness	6

Multilevel policy textual learning in Chinese local environmental policies	6
PUP volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Problem indicators and territorial restructuring: do institutional decision rules matter?	6
Does social media undermine trust? Institutional trust in civil society and governance institutions	5
PUP volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Toward a theory of minority-party influence in the U.S. Congress: whip counts, amendment votes, and minority leverage in the house	5
Messaging, policy and “credible” votes: do members of Congress vote differently when policy is on the line?	5
Do policy instruments matter? Governments’ choice of policy mix and higher education performance in Western Europe – CORRIGENDUM	5
Fiscal policy preferences, trade-offs, and support for social investment	5
PUP volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
How self-interest and symbolic politics shape the effectiveness of compensation for nearby housing development	4
Affluence, congruence, and lobbying success in EU climate policy	4
How do policy environments shape public service motivation during the national disaster? Evidence from large-scale survey experiments – CORRIGENDUM	4
Public sector innovation outcome-driven sustainable development in Bangladesh: applying the dynamic autoregressive distributed lag simulations and Kernel-based regularised least square machine learnin	4
Party cues or policy information? The differential influence of financial and economic literacy on economic policy preferences	4
Public demand and LGBTQ+ rights	4
Accountability and corruption displacement: evidence from Italy	4
PUP volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
From anticipatory strategies to reactive blame games in multi-level settings: the role of structure and politics in stability and policy change	4
Why do citizens support algorithmic government?	4
Why hospitals hire tobacco lobbyists: conflicts of interest among lobbyists’ clients	4
Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal	4
Does exposure to democracy decrease health inequality?	3
Overcoming the agglomeration paradox: skill-dependent FDI and urbanization in China	3
How do policy environments shape public service motivation during the national disaster? Evidence from large-scale survey experiments	3
Authoritarian and democratic states: the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of public health outcomes	3
The hidden homeownership welfare state: an international long-term perspective on the tax treatment of homeowners	3
Government spending preferences over the life cycle	3
PUP volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
PUP volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
PUP volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Measuring organizational effects on street-level bureaucrats’ discretionality: a comparative study of three Italian contexts	2
Permission to bail out EU’s national flag carriers? Technocratic and political determinants of commission approval of state aid to national airlines in difficulties in the pre-COVID era	2
The representative capacity of interest groups: explaining how issue features shape membership involvement when establishing policy positions	2
Aviation policy instrument choice in Europe: high flying and crash landing? Understanding policy evolutions in the Netherlands and Germany	2
Determinants of top personal income tax rates in 19 OECD countries, 1981–2018	2
PUP volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
Executive action that lasts	2
Types of pandemic-induced psychological distress, clarity of responsibility, and support for incumbents	2
Institutional legacies and temporary assistance for needy families spending decisions: the case of the Freedmen’s Bureau	2
Biodiversity, multi-level governance, and policy implementation in Europe: a comparative analysis at the subnational level	2
Welfare, egalitarianism, and polarization: the politics of noncontributory social programs	2
Public policies and social progress: two evaluation models	2
PUP volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Agency control through the appointed hierarchy: presidential politicization of unilateral appointees	2
Bureaucratic politics in customized implementation of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive in France and Germany	2
Policy entrepreneurs and problem definition: the case of European student mobility	2
PUP volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
The policy agenda effects of problem indicators: a comparative study in seven countries	1
Theorising policy advisory system management: approaches and practice	1

How are policy pilots managed? Findings from the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in China	1
Normative, rational, and relational motives in crosscoalition coordination for a VET refugee programme	1
PUP volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Fifty shades of deservingness: an analysis of state-level variation and effect of social constructions on policy outcomes	1
The post-oil post-COVID social contract: taxing informal workers for healthcare insurance in oil-exporting developing economies	1
In the cradle of laws: resolving coalition controversies in the executive phase of law-making	1
Revolving doors in Europe: does hiring from the public sector facilitate access?	1
Pollution and the public: how information accessibility conditions the public’s responsiveness to policy and outcomes	1
PUP volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Social media exposure’s effects on public support toward three-child policy in China: role of cognitive elaboration, perceived negative effects, and institutional trust	1
Tales and theories as levers of expert influence: A case study of the Norwegian Oil Fund	1
Gatekeepers of the Undesired? A systematic review on local housing policy and the settlement of vulnerable groups	1
They only hate the term: policy branding and the politics of critical race theory	1
Handmaidens of the legislature? Understanding regulatory timing	1
The effect of psychological bias on public officials’ attitudes towards the implementation of policy instruments: evidence from survey experiments	1
Identity-based subgroups and information exchange in adversarial policy networks	1
The aftermath of ballot box success and failure: evidence from land preservation referendums	1
On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check	1
PUP volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1