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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors facilitating the adoption of wellbeing budgets in New Zealand: a case study with budget actors	30
Tax autonomy mitigates soft budget constraint: evidence from Spanish Regions	27
Public policy and elections in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the policy on native languages in Russia	24
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation	21
The electoral connection, state attorneys general, and the dynamics of incarceration rates	20
How do Europeans want to fight climate change? Comparing and explaining public support for a wide variety of policies	19
Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes – ERRATUM	15
Environmental vertical management reform and data manipulation in the public sector: evidence from China	14
Anti-Muslim policy preferences and boundaries of American identity across partisanship	14
Policy paradigm modes: explaining USA antitrust law changes in the 1970s	14
Fluctuations of immigration salience: testing alternative explanations of policy salience among US Latinos	12
PUP volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	12
Managing ideational complexity in public policies: the case of public research funding	11
Salience, preference, and asylum outcomes in Germany and the UK, 2002–2019	11
As the crow flies: tracking policy diffusion through stakeholder networks	10
When incumbents successfully retrench big and popular social policies: policy design matters	10
War and the adoption of family allowances	9
From clubs to hubs: analysing lobbying networks in EU financial regulation after crisis	8
Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes	8
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
Income inequality and opinion expression gap in the American public: an analysis of policy priorities	7
Multilevel policy textual learning in Chinese local environmental policies	7
Redirecting revenues from law enforcement fines, forfeitures, and related fees to fund local nonprofits: a policy design proposal	7
A hard pill to swallow: Social capital, opiates, and health outcomes in the United States	7

PUP volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
Problem indicators and territorial restructuring: do institutional decision rules matter?	6
Toward a theory of minority-party influence in the U.S. Congress: whip counts, amendment votes, and minority leverage in the house	6
PUP volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
PUP volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Do policy instruments matter? Governments’ choice of policy mix and higher education performance in Western Europe – CORRIGENDUM	6
Critical junctures as complex processes: examining mechanisms of policy change and path dependence in the Canadian pandemic response to homelessness	6
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
Does social media undermine trust? Institutional trust in civil society and governance institutions	5
Party cues or policy information? The differential influence of financial and economic literacy on economic policy preferences	5
Affluence, congruence, and lobbying success in EU climate policy	5
Why do citizens support algorithmic government?	5
Public demand and LGBTQ+ rights	5
Fiscal policy preferences, trade-offs, and support for social investment	5
Messaging, policy and “credible” votes: do members of Congress vote differently when policy is on the line?	5
From anticipatory strategies to reactive blame games in multi-level settings: the role of structure and politics in stability and policy change	5
How self-interest and symbolic politics shape the effectiveness of compensation for nearby housing development	4
Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal	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
Accountability and corruption displacement: evidence from Italy	4
PUP volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Why hospitals hire tobacco lobbyists: conflicts of interest among lobbyists’ clients	4
How do policy environments shape public service motivation during the national disaster? Evidence from large-scale survey experiments – CORRIGENDUM	4
Does exposure to democracy decrease health inequality?	3
Government spending preferences over the life cycle	3
PUP volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	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
PUP volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	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
Strategic investment of public funds: State responses to federal R&D grants	3
The representative capacity of interest groups: explaining how issue features shape membership involvement when establishing policy positions	2
Welfare, egalitarianism, and polarization: the politics of noncontributory social programs	2
PUP volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Executive action that lasts	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
Biodiversity, multi-level governance, and policy implementation in Europe: a comparative analysis at the subnational level	2
Aviation policy instrument choice in Europe: high flying and crash landing? Understanding policy evolutions in the Netherlands and Germany	2
Measuring organizational effects on street-level bureaucrats’ discretionality: a comparative study of three Italian contexts	2
Types of pandemic-induced psychological distress, clarity of responsibility, and support for incumbents	2
Public policies and social progress: two evaluation models	2
PUP volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
PUP volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Institutional legacies and temporary assistance for needy families spending decisions: the case of the Freedmen’s Bureau	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
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
Gatekeepers of the Undesired? A systematic review on local housing policy and the settlement of vulnerable groups	1

The impact of inter-actor competition on administrative burdens: theorizing “consequent populations” using the illustrative case of gamete donation governance	1
PUP volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Theorising policy advisory system management: approaches and practice	1
Fifty shades of deservingness: an analysis of state-level variation and effect of social constructions on policy outcomes	1
PUP volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
How are policy pilots managed? Findings from the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in China	1
They only hate the term: policy branding and the politics of critical race theory	1
The policy agenda effects of problem indicators: a comparative study in seven countries	1
The effect of psychological bias on public officials’ attitudes towards the implementation of policy instruments: evidence from survey experiments	1
The aftermath of ballot box success and failure: evidence from land preservation referendums	1
The post-oil post-COVID social contract: taxing informal workers for healthcare insurance in oil-exporting developing economies	1
Identity-based subgroups and information exchange in adversarial policy networks	1
Pollution and the public: how information accessibility conditions the public’s responsiveness to policy and outcomes	1
Tales and theories as levers of expert influence: A case study of the Norwegian Oil Fund	1
A Trump effect on immigration policy attitudes? Another look	1
Handmaidens of the legislature? Understanding regulatory timing	1
Selective decentralization under the trend of centralization: reforms in China’s governmental power of environmental governance from 1973 to 2023	1
PUP volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Policy entrepreneurs and problem definition: the case of European student mobility	1
PUP volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Determinants of top personal income tax rates in 19 OECD countries, 1981–2018	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
Normative, rational, and relational motives in crosscoalition coordination for a VET refugee programme	1
On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check	1