OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies Journal 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	42
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	31
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	30
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	28
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	27
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	27
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit	23
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	22
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	21
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	20
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	20
Coproduction as a Causal Process	19
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel	19
Issue Information	17
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Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	16
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	16
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	16
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	15
Issue Information	15
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	15
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Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France	14
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Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	12

More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	12
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	10
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	10
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	10
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	10
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories: Evidence from the elements, attributes, and adoptions of Uniform Law Commission model legislation	10
GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research	9
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	9
Advocacy coalitions or pragmatic coupling of streams? Explaining policy change in Mexico: The tax reforms of Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña (2001 and 2013)	9
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches	9
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	9
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	9
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	8
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	8
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	8
Tradeoffs and Spillovers in U.S. Criminal Immigration Enforcement	8
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion	7
Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?	7
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	7
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	7
Moving Beyond Third Generation Policy Implementation Research Towards a Fourth Generation: Synthesizing Across Policy Process Theories	7
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Narrative power in the narrative policy framework	6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	5
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	5
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	5
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests	5
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	5
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	5
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	5
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Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	4
Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	4
Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation	3
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	3
Editorial introduction: Advancing policy frontiers—Governance, learning, and innovation in policy studies	3
The executive lawmaking agenda: Political parties, prime ministers, and policy change in Australia	3
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans	3
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	3
Comparing Beyond (Just) the State? Examining Patterns of Policy Advice Externalization Across Policy Domains	3
Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust	3
How does a focusing event shape public opinion? Natural experimental evidence from the Orlando mass shooting	3
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters	3
Credit and Crises: How Fringe Credit Changes the Effect of Emergency Policies	3
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Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise	3

Who are childcare subsidies for? Examining subsidy eligibility policy in two southwestern states	3
Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials	3
Editorial introduction: Charting new theoretical horizons here and elsewhere	3
Issue Information	2
Interlocal learning mechanisms and policy diffusion: The case of new energy vehicles finance in Chinese cities	2
Moralization in Policy Narratives: Insights From the Politics of Climate Change and Public Health	2
Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights	2
Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement	2
Participation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference	2
Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies	2
Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence	2
The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas	2
Latent target groups—A methodological contribution of social identities to policy design research	2
Does the implementation status of gender provisions affect the implementation of a peace agreement? Evidence from Colombia's 2016 peace agreement implementation process	2
The adoption of the Swedish carbon tax: Influences and interactions across multiple political levels, jurisdictions, and policy areas	2
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Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior	2
Policy design receptivity and target populations: A social construction framework approach to climate change policy	2
The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking	2
An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework	2
Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending	2
Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types	2
Unveiling and explaining the procedural justice in the policy design of renewable energy siting process in the United States	2
Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda	2
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs	2
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Cash Assistance Policies, Mass Consumption Behavior, and Policy Feedback Mechanisms in Mexico	1
Agendas and instability in American local politics: A study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900–2020	1
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Mixing and matching: Intra‐stream interdependence in the multiple streams framework and the adoption of policy mixes	1
Mind the (Collaborative) Gap: How the Public Symbolically Rewards and Punishes Policy Actors for Their Collaborative Choices	1
Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	1
Legislative Attention and Nonprofit Efficiency: A Link Across Sectoral Boundaries	1
Policy design and policy feedback in welfare retrenchment: A survey experiment in China	1
The policy feedback effects of preemption	1
Governing policy experiments in Chinese cities: Lessons on effective climate mitigation	1
Policy Signals in National Crises: How Government Policies Shape Nonprofit and Stakeholder Behavior	1
Assessing the Effect of Deservingness Cues on Tolerance for Administrative Burdens	1
Presidential Powers and the Evolution of Polycentric Governance Systems	1
What's the grand story? A macro‐narrative analytical model and the case of Swiss child and adult protection policy	1
Political will as a source of policy innovation	1
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	1
Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control	1
Unpacking core components for policy design: A comparison of synthesis approaches	1
Nascent policy subsystems in polycentric governance networks: The case of sea‐level rise governance in the San Francisco Bay Area	1
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	1
Editorial Introduction: Unveiling new dimensions in policy process theory research	1
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	1
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Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19	1
The interactive effects of policies: Insights for policy feedback theory from a qualitative study on homelessness	1
What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities	1
Beyond Visibility: Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems	1
Building blocks of polycentric governance	1
Environmental disasters and ecomodernist beliefs: Insights from a quasi‐natural experiment	1
Issue Information	1
Issue Information	1
Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management	1
Editorial introduction: Exploring the frontier of policy theory research	1
Structure, Valence, and Causality: A Scoping Review of Plot Concepts and Measurements in the Narrative Policy Framework	1
Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach	1
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	1