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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	39
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	31
Editorial board	29
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	27
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	27
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	23
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	16
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	16
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures	16
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	16
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	15
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	13
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	13
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies	12
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	12
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	12
Policy diffusion at the agenda-setting stage: lessons from South Korea’s adoption of long-term care insurance	12
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	11
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	11
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	11
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	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
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	9
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America	9

Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	9
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	9
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach	8
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	8
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	8
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	8
Editorial board	8
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	8
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	7
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	7
“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”	7
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	7
Correction	7
National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition	7
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study	6
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	6
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	6
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	6
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
The effects of Donald Trump	5
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	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
Policy transfer during the COVID era	5
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	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	5
The climate change literacy of public officials in Taiwan: implications and strategies for global adaptation	4
Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform	4
Citizen preferences for decisional power levels and participatory instruments in local government	4
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	4
An (almost) laissez faire party system: how Kyrgyz parties failed and what could be done about it	4
The right standard for the job? On the limits of standard setting as a tool for governing commercial actors	4
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	4
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	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
Democracy, Women's Political Empowerment, and Road Safety: Evidence from a Global Analysis, 2001–2019	4
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	4
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	4
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
Governance and public administration in China	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
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	3
Fiscal decentralization and land urbanization: evidence from China's fiscal reform of “province-managing-county”	3

The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	3
Rethinking situated agency: an interpretive framework to policy implementation	3
Regulatory transfer in transitioning economies: responses to corruption and weak state institutions	3
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	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
Megatrends and regions: a case study of the English Midlands	3
Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt	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
Pre-election voter information interventions led by electoral management bodies can improve voter confidence	3
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
What sustains flawed indicators? Unpacking the EU's administrative burden agenda	3
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	3
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	2
Correction	2
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	2
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	2
Editorial board	2
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	2
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	2
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	2
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	2
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	2
Future design in the public policy process: giving a voice to future generations*	2
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	2
Democracy, public administration, and democratic backsliding	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
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	1
People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions	1
Effects of the political configuration of local governments on subjective well-being	1
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	1
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	1
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	1
Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war	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
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	1
Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning	1
Democratic backsliding and public administration in Pakistan’s hybrid regime: a balance of power approach	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
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	1
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	1
Resilience policies in China: an analysis of central-level policies	1
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	1
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	1
Defining negative cases of policy transfer	1
Tax policy of Ukraine in terms of martial law	1
Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures?	1
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	1
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	1
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	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
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	1