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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	33
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	30
A cross-country analysis of the factors driving innovation performance in the Global South	21
Trump’s lasting impact on the federal judiciary	19
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	17
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	17
What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created?	17
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	15
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	15
Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation	13
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	13
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	13
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	13
Trump and US soft power	11
Enterprise policies and R&D support for high-tech SMEs: a multi-perspective approach	10
The effects of Donald Trump	10
A black box assessment of institutional quality: the challenge of evaluating lobbying transparency	10
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	10
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	10
Trump’s (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US	10
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	9
Better safe than sorry? Digital campaigning governance in Germany	9
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	8
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	8
Reconceptualizing transfer pathways: policy transfer and armed UAV proliferation	8

Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	8
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	8
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	8
The French school in policy studies: toward suitable approaches for policy analysis within undemocratic contexts in the Middle East?	7
Donald Trump’s Jacksonian and Jeffersonian foreign policy	7
Tax composition and economic growth in the age of demographic change	7
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	7
Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States	7
The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South	7
Policy punctuations and agenda diversity in China: a national level analysis from 1980 to 2019	7
“Data, data, data” – post-Brexit data governance and its relation to the UK’s economic model	7
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	7
Which regions produce the most innovation policy research?	6
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel	6
Intellectual entrepreneurs and U.S. International monetary policy change in the early 1970s	6
Policy transfer during the COVID era	6
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	6
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	5
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	5
Advancing the structure-in-evolution approach: the case of social policy development in Denmark	5
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	5
People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions	5
A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana	5
The multifaceted nature of trust in the uptake of advice: policy advice utilization in ministerial cabinets	5
Faith-based actors as climate intermediaries in Scottish climate policy	5
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	5
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	5
Strategic ambiguity: the U.S. grand strategy initiative in Afghanistan	5
Editorial board	5
The politics of regulatory design: evidence from state-level energy regulations in the United States	5
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	4
The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	4
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	4
“Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low – and middle-income countries: implications for digital health governance	4
Role sets of advisory councils in local policymaking process: the perspective of council members	4
What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act	4
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	4
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	4
Defining negative cases of policy transfer	3
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	3
A Pragmatist Constructivism Framework (PCF) to understand the undetermined policy process: three policy solutions for shale gas problem	3
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	3
Toward responsible artificial intelligence in health: regulatory structures and power dynamics of the big tech industry in the United States	3
Intermediating sustainable finance: a case study of The Aotearoa Circle's Sustainable Finance Forum	3
Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party	3
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	3
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	3
Anti-populism in action: a case study of the Remain argument during the EU referendum	3
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	3
Editorial board	3

System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	3
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	3
Trump, trust and the transatlantic relationship	3
The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine	3
How does policy mix credibility affect citizen participation? Evidence from pilot of household waste sorting policy	3
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	3
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	3
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	3
Mapping multi-stakeholder initiatives for public governance and transparency: a comparative assessment of trends and motivations	2
Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links	2
Trump and the “deep state”	2
Determinants of fiscal decentralization: a neural network approach for OECD countries	2
National will in the context of low fertility: exploring the Chinese childcare policies after the implementation of three-child policy	2
The Trump administration and China: policy continuity or transformation?	2
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	2
Labour market policies during an age of uncertainty	2
Correction	2
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Migration and soft power: the EU’s visa and refugee policy response to the war in Ukraine	2
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	2
Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures?	2
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	2
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	2
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	2
Inclusive deliberation for future-regarding governance: potentials and pitfalls	2
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	2
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	2
The structure-in-evolution approach: a unified view of evolutionary change in policy systems	2
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	1
Trump’s authoritarian neoliberal governance and the US-Mexican border	1
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	1
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	1
Disrupted harvests: how Ukraine – Russia war influences global food systems – a systematic review	1
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	1
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	1
The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump	1
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	1
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	1
The wilting jasmine: the erosion of public administration and democratic backsliding in Tunisia	1
The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia	1
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	1
How do you do, implementation? A Latour-inspired critical approach to implementation	1
Why do Indigenous public policies fail?	1
Flattened futures: (strangely) governing uncertain AI futures in the UK and the Netherlands	1
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	1
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	1
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	1
Economic impact of a credit guarantee scheme: evidence from Spain	1
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America	1