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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	41
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	38
Editorial board	30
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	29
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures	28
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	25
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	18
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	18
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	18
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	17
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?	16
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	15
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	14
Policy diffusion at the agenda-setting stage: lessons from South Korea’s adoption of long-term care insurance	13
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies	13
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	13
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	12
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	12
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	12
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	12
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	12
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	11
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	11
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	10
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	10

Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	10
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	10
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	10
Editorial board	9
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	9
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	9
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	9
National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition	9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	8
Correction	8
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	8
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	8
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	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
Tax policy shifts in aging societies: assessing the impact of tax mix changes on income inequality in OECD countries	7
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	6
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	6
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
Citizen preferences for decisional power levels and participatory instruments in local government	5
Policy analysis without written policy: using practice-based methods to understand work with people labelled at risk of sexually harming	5
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	5
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	5
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	5
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	5
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	4
Stock market reaction to the French snap legislative election	4
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	4
Democracy, Women's Political Empowerment, and Road Safety: Evidence from a Global Analysis, 2001–2019	4
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	4
Policy transfer during the COVID era	4
An (almost) laissez faire party system: how Kyrgyz parties failed and what could be done about it	4
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	4
Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt	4
Policy experts and bureaucrats in the policy process: the nexus between universities’ expertise and policy advisory systems in Africa	4
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
Grassroots fiscal centralization: subnational delegation of revenue authority in Argentina	4
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	4
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	4
Economic complexity and employment in emerging countries: a comparative analysis	4
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	4
Fiscal decentralization and land urbanization: evidence from China's fiscal reform of “province-managing-county”	3
Rethinking situated agency: an interpretive framework to policy implementation	3
The right standard for the job? On the limits of standard setting as a tool for governing commercial actors	3
Watching the digital grassroots grow: assessing party members’ social media campaigning during the 2021 German Bundestag election	3
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	3
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	3

Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	3
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	3
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel	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
Governance and public administration in China	3
Pre-election voter information interventions led by electoral management bodies can improve voter confidence	3
Megatrends and regions: a case study of the English Midlands	3
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	3
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	3
From people’s champion to power consolidator: examining Jokowi’s role in Indonesia’s democratic backsliding	3
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The climate change literacy of public officials in Taiwan: implications and strategies for global adaptation	3
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	3
What sustains flawed indicators? Unpacking the EU's administrative burden agenda	3
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	3
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	2
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	2
Editorial board	2
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	2
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	2
Trade-offs between accountability and discretion in job performance: findings from a survey study in a Chinese regulatory context	2
Future design in the public policy process: giving a voice to future generations*	2
The network of support for inclusive transition education implementation in México	2
Correction	2
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	2
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	1
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	1
Resilience policies in China: an analysis of central-level policies	1
Democracy, public administration, and democratic backsliding	1
Populism, public administration and democratic backsliding: the Indian experience	1
Democratic backsliding and public administration in Pakistan’s hybrid regime: a balance of power approach	1
Defining negative cases of policy transfer	1
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	1
What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created?	1
Benchmarking and non-financial disclosure: the case of large Spanish local governments and the 2030 Agenda	1
Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war	1
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	1
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	1
The (worst) laws of the land: the concept of legislative basket cases, legislative backsliding and public administration in Central-Eastern Europe	1
The wilting jasmine: the erosion of public administration and democratic backsliding in Tunisia	1
Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning	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
Narratives of democratic backsliding: media coverage of illiberal administrative policies	1
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	1
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	1
A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey	1
Eroding democracy and public administration capacities through overstretching the armed forces: evidence of the federal police dismantling in Mexico	1
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	1
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	1
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	1
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	1
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	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
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	1