OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	34
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	27
Editorial board	25
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	24
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	24
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	21
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	21
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	19
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	16
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	16
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	15
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	14
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	14
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	13
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	11
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	11
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	11
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	11
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	10
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	10
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	10
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	10
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	9

Trump’s authoritarian neoliberal governance and the US-Mexican border	9
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	9
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America	9
Corrigendum	8
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	8
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach	8
Editorial board	8
“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”	8
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	7
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	7
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study	7
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	7
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	7
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	7
Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework	7
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	7
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	6
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
The effects of Donald Trump	6
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	6
Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	6
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	6
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	5
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	5
Advancing the structure-in-evolution approach: the case of social policy development in Denmark	5
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	5
Policy transfer during the COVID era	5
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	4
Economic complexity and employment in emerging countries: a comparative analysis	4
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	4
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	4
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	4
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	4
Trump and the “deep state”	4
Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party	4
The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia	4
America after Trump: from “clean” to “dirty” democracy?	3
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	3
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	3
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	3
Watching the digital grassroots grow: assessing party members’ social media campaigning during the 2021 German Bundestag election	3
Governance and public administration in China	3
Democracy, women political empowerment, and road safety: evidence from a global analysis, 2000–2019	3
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
President Trump’s transgender moral panic	3

Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	3
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
Megatrends and regions: a case study of the English Midlands	3
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	3
Can electoral management bodies expand the pool of registered voters? Examining the effects of face-to-face, remote, traditional, and social media outreach	3
Regulatory transfer in transitioning economies: responses to corruption and weak state institutions	3
The climate change literacy of public officials in Taiwan: implications and strategies for global adaptation	3
The right standard for the job? On the limits of standard setting as a tool for governing commercial actors	3
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	3
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel	3
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	3
Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform	3
Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt	3
Cybersecurity policy and the Trump administration	3
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	2
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	2
Correction	2
Future design in the public policy process: giving a voice to future generations*	2
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	2
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	2
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	2
Anti-populism in action: a case study of the Remain argument during the EU referendum	2
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	2
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	2
The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	2
Editorial board	2
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	2
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	1
Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States	1
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	1
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	1
Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning	1
Effects of the political configuration of local governments on subjective well-being	1
The wilting jasmine: the erosion of public administration and democratic backsliding in Tunisia	1
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	1
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	1
Resilience policies in China: an analysis of central-level policies	1
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	1
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	1
Tax policy of Ukraine in terms of martial law	1
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	1
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	1
People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions	1
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	1
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	1
Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war	1
Defining negative cases of policy transfer	1
The (worst) laws of the land: the concept of legislative basket cases, legislative backsliding and public administration in Central-Eastern Europe	1
Why do Indigenous public policies fail?	1
Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures?	1
Post-conflict party-building in Southern Philippines: the promise and perils of institutional re-engineering in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao	1
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	1
What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created?	1