Policy Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Policy Studies is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?34
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation27
Editorial board25
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities24
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)24
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory21
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region21
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey19
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis16
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia16
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries15
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election14
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation14
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy13
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy11
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support11
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa11
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance11
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 202011
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination10
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages10
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries10
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure10
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico9
Trump’s authoritarian neoliberal governance and the US-Mexican border9
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-199
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America9
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans9
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach8
Editorial board8
“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”8
Corrigendum8
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information8
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study7
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa7
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations7
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China7
Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework7
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service7
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies7
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?7
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures6
The effects of Donald Trump6
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates6
Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives6
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse6
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand6
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach6
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank6
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space5
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons5
Advancing the structure-in-evolution approach: the case of social policy development in Denmark5
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI5
Policy transfer during the COVID era5
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