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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	37
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	36
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	28
Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	26
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	25
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	23
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	22
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	22
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	21
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	21
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	20
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	19
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel	18
Issue Information	16
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	16
Coproduction as a Causal Process	16
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	15
Issue Information	15
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	15
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	14
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The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	14
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	14
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	14
Issue Information	13

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	11
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	10
Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France	10
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	9
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	9
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	9
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Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	9
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories: Evidence from the elements, attributes, and adoptions of Uniform Law Commission model legislation	8
GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research	8
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	8
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	7
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	7
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	7
Advocacy coalitions or pragmatic coupling of streams? Explaining policy change in Mexico: The tax reforms of Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña (2001 and 2013)	7
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Tradeoffs and Spillovers in U.S. Criminal Immigration Enforcement	6
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	5
Narrative power in the narrative policy framework	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
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	5
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	5
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	5
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests	4
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Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust	4
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Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	4
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	4
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	4
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Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise	3
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	3
How does a focusing event shape public opinion? Natural experimental evidence from the Orlando mass shooting	3
Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation	3
The executive lawmaking agenda: Political parties, prime ministers, and policy change in Australia	3
Editorial introduction: Charting new theoretical horizons here and elsewhere	3
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans	3
Who are childcare subsidies for? Examining subsidy eligibility policy in two southwestern states	3
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters	3
Policy design receptivity and target populations: A social construction framework approach to climate change policy	2
Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights	2

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The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas	2
Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior	2
Credit and Crises: How Fringe Credit Changes the Effect of Emergency Policies	2
The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking	2
Editorial introduction: Advancing policy frontiers—Governance, learning, and innovation in policy studies	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
Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending	2
Moralization in Policy Narratives: Insights From the Politics of Climate Change and Public Health	2
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs	2
An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework	2
Unveiling and explaining the procedural justice in the policy design of renewable energy siting process in the United States	2
Interlocal learning mechanisms and policy diffusion: The case of new energy vehicles finance in Chinese cities	2
Participation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference	2
Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials	2
Policy design and policy feedback in welfare retrenchment: A survey experiment in China	1
Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement	1
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Legislative Attention and Nonprofit Efficiency: A Link Across Sectoral Boundaries	1
Agendas and instability in American local politics: A study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900–2020	1
Nascent policy subsystems in polycentric governance networks: The case of sea‐level rise governance in the San Francisco Bay Area	1
Building blocks of polycentric governance	1
Issue Information	1
Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach	1
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	1
Environmental disasters and ecomodernist beliefs: Insights from a quasi‐natural experiment	1
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	1
Editorial introduction: Exploring the frontier of policy theory research	1
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	1
The policy feedback effects of preemption	1
Issue Information	1
Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control	1
The interactive effects of policies: Insights for policy feedback theory from a qualitative study on homelessness	1
Mixing and matching: Intra‐stream interdependence in the multiple streams framework and the adoption of policy mixes	1
Political will as a source of policy innovation	1
Policy Signals in National Crises: How Government Policies Shape Nonprofit and Stakeholder Behavior	1
Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types	1
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Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management	1
Governing policy experiments in Chinese cities: Lessons on effective climate mitigation	1
The adoption of the Swedish carbon tax: Influences and interactions across multiple political levels, jurisdictions, and policy areas	1
Issue Information	1
Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda	1
Unpacking core components for policy design: A comparison of synthesis approaches	1
What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities	1
Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19	1
What's the grand story? A macro‐narrative analytical model and the case of Swiss child and adult protection policy	1
Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	1
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	1
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Editorial Introduction: Unveiling new dimensions in policy process theory research	1