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Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Trump’s (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US	29
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	27
Campaign-style crisis regime: how China responded to the shock of COVID-19	23
Networked environmental governance: formal and informal collaborative networks in local China	22
Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda	15
Presidential policy narratives and the (mis)use of scientific expertise: Covid-19 policy responses in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico	15
Policy on the move: the enabling settings of participation in participatory budgeting	15
Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links	14
Nudge and co-design: complementary or contradictory approaches to policy innovation?	14
Introduction: towards deliberative policy analysis 2.0	11
Explaining social insurance participation: the importance of the social construction of target groups in China	11
The environmental legacy of President Trump	10
Trump and the “deep state”	10
Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework	10
The architecture of inter-community partnerships in renewable energy: the role of climate intermediaries	9
More “Government”, less “Governance”: Chinese public employees’ preferences for governing public service delivery	9
The macroeconomic impact of Trump	9
Policy formation, termination and the multiple streams framework: the case of introducing and abolishing automated university admission in France	9
Straddling multiple streams: focusing events, policy entrepreneurs and problem brokers in the governance of English fire and rescue services	8
Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments?	8
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	8
Governance and public administration in China	8
Faith-based actors as climate intermediaries in Scottish climate policy	8
“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”	7
The effects of Donald Trump	7

America after Trump: from “clean” to “dirty” democracy?	7
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	7
President Trump’s transgender moral panic	7
Does administrative capacity matter? The absorption of the European Fund for the integration of migrants	7
Trump and Congress	6
Symposium: revisiting the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis	6
The Trump administration and China: policy continuity or transformation?	6
Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party	6
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	6
The impact of anti-discrimination policies on immigrant youths’ sense of national belonging: an institutionalist account	6
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	6
Inequalities in digital welfare take-up: lessons from e-government in Spain	6
Practices of scalecraft and the reassembling of political boundaries: the contested nature of national schooling reform in the Australian federation	6
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach	6
Trump’s authoritarian neoliberal governance and the US-Mexican border	6
The policy transfer of environmental policy integration: path dependency, route flexibility, or the Hungarian way?	6
Understanding design and implementation attributes for strategic policies: the case of Australia’s national environment policies	6
The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump	5
Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning	5
Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures?	5
Why do Indigenous public policies fail?	5
The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia	5
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	4
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	4
Trump and US soft power	4
Neighbourhood collaboration in co-production: state-resourced responsiveness or state-retrenched responsibilisation?	4
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	4
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	4
Forged in the fires of war: the rise of a new Ukrainian identity	4
Increased support for collective defence in times of threat: European public opinion before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Donald Trump’s Jacksonian and Jeffersonian foreign policy	4
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	4
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	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
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	3
Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States	3
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	3
Government size and citizen satisfaction in China: evidence that accommodates two contrasting views	3
Cybersecurity policy and the Trump administration	3
Trump, trust and the transatlantic relationship	3
Knowledge utilization in the regulatory state: an empirical examination of Schrefler’s typology	3
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	3
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	3
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	3
What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act	2
The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: insights from a regional state in Germany	2
Policy transfer during the COVID era	2
A realistic approach to policy formulation: the adapted EMMIE framework	2
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	2

Welfare experiments as tools for evidence-based policy making? The political debate on Twitter about the basic income trial in Finland	2
Disrupted harvests: how Ukraine – Russia war influences global food systems – a systematic review	2
Intermediating climate change: the evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”	2
Who decides foreign policy? The role of national trauma in shaping the influence of public opinion in South Korea	2
Intermediating sustainable finance: a case study of The Aotearoa Circle's Sustainable Finance Forum	2
Women’s movements for the elimination of violence against women: lessons from oral history of the Law 4320 in Turkey	2
Tax composition and economic growth in the age of demographic change	2
Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform	2
Trump’s lasting impact on the federal judiciary	2
Underlying push and pull factors in undocumented immigration in the United States	2
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	2
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	2
The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine	2
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	2
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	2
Which regions produce the most innovation policy research?	2
Policy Studies during an age of uncertainty	2
The complexity of convergence: a multi-dimensional analysis of compulsory income management and social investment in New Zealand and Australia	2
The Arab Gulf states in the Asian energy market: is the Russia-Ukraine war a game changer?	2
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	2
The structure-in-evolution approach: a unified view of evolutionary change in policy systems	2
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	2
Migration and soft power: the EU’s visa and refugee policy response to the war in Ukraine	2
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	2
Regulatory transfer in transitioning economies: responses to corruption and weak state institutions	2