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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation39
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?31
Editorial board26
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region26
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities25
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia24
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)22
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory16
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures16
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey16
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election15
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis15
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support13
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy12
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 202011
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance11
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation11
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries11
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa10
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy10
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages10
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies10
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America9
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries9
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-199
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure9
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico8
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?8
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans8
National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition8
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information8
Editorial board8
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach8
“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 generations7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies7
Correction7
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa7
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service7
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?6
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing6
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach6
Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda6
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives6
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates5
The effects of Donald Trump5
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space5
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand5
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse5
Policy transfer during the COVID era5
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank5
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