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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Big & rich: A new way to measure attention and participation diversity	29
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	28
Unpacking core components for policy design: A comparison of synthesis approaches	25
Client credibility judgment: A source of inequity in street‐level implementation	21
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	19
Unveiling and explaining the procedural justice in the policy design of renewable energy siting process in the United States	18
Budgetary changes and organizational performance: Evidence from state transportation agencies	17
Issue Information	17
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	17
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Issue Information	16
Policy composition and adoption duration: Capturing conflict in the legislative process	16
Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	16
Policy influence and influencers online and off	16
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	16
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	15
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	12
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	12
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	12
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	12
Advocacy coalitions or pragmatic coupling of streams? Explaining policy change in Mexico: The tax reforms of Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña (2001 and 2013)	12
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	11
An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework	10
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	10

Corrigendum	10
Structural lobbying power? An exploration of patterns in preference attainment at varying levels of lobbying activity	10
Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights	10
Does the implementation status of gender provisions affect the implementation of a peace agreement? Evidence from Colombia's 2016 peace agreement implementation process	10
Adapting to Sea‐Level Rise: Centralization or Decentralization in Polycentric Governance Systems?	9
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How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	8
The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking	8
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	7
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	7
Editorial introduction: Exploring theories and subtleties of the policy process	7
Issue Information	7
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Issue Information	7
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	7
External drivers of participation in regional collaborative water planning	6
Analyzing the association of policy narratives with problem tractability in the implementation of EU decisions: Evidence from the phytosanitary policy area	6
Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	6
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	6
Making citizens: The effects of attending a public versus a privately managed school on voter turnout	6
Athletic competition between the states: The rapid spread of Name, Image, Likeness laws and why it matters for understanding policy diffusion	6
The dynamics of constituency representation on immigration policy in the U.S. house	5
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	5
Institutions, in time: Designing feedback pathways for shared infrastructure transitions	5
Interlocal learning mechanisms and policy diffusion: The case of new energy vehicles finance in Chinese cities	4
The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas	4
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	4
Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements	4
Policy dimension: A new concept to distinguish substance from process in the Narrative Policy Framework	4
The Advocacy Coalition Index: A new approach for identifying advocacy coalitions	4
Narratives and expert information in agenda‐setting: Experimental evidence on state legislator engagement with artificial intelligence policy	4
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	4
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Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	3
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	3
Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior	3
Does policy design matter for the effectiveness of local content requirements? A qualitative comparative analysis of renewable energy value chains	3
Chain of command vs. Who’s in command: Structure, politics, and regulatory enforcement	3
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	3
Political will as a source of policy innovation	3
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	3
The multiple streams framework in a nondemocracy: The infeasibility of a national ban on live poultry sales in China	3
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	3
How racialized policy contact shapes the social constructions of policy targets	3
Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control	2
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	2
Linking policy design, change, and outputs: Policy responsiveness in American state electricity policy	2
Participation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference	2
Issue Information	2
Subsystems and ill‐fitting problems: Clarifying a concept	2

How to Explain Major Policy Change Towards Sustainability? Bringing Together the Multiple Streams Framework and the Multilevel Perspective on Socio‐Technical Transitions to Explore the German “Energie	2
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	2
The institutional grammar in policy process research	2
Seeking the high ground: Exploring advocacy groups' use of policy narratives in the legalization of same‐sex marriage in Taiwan	2
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	2
Issue Information	1
How police agency diversity, policies, and outcomes shape citizen trust and willingness to engage	1
Mixing and matching: Intra‐stream interdependence in the multiple streams framework and the adoption of policy mixes	1
Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending	1
Design paths of federal intergovernmental cooperation	1
The interactive effects of policies: Insights for policy feedback theory from a qualitative study on homelessness	1
Editorial Introduction: Multidimensional policy spaces, policy actors and the policy process, and an update to the institutional collective action framework	1
Mobilizing fears? How proximity to deportation threat affects political participation	1
Nascent policy subsystems in polycentric governance networks: The case of sea‐level rise governance in the San Francisco Bay Area	1
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What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities	1
Private citizens, stakeholder groups, or governments? Perceived legitimacy and participation in water collaborative governance	1
Algorithmic meta‐capital and the Narrative Policy Framework	1
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	1
Decentralization and resource contributions within local governance networks: Evidence from health sector reform in Honduras	1
Issue Information	1
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Agendas and instability in American local politics: A study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900–2020	1
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	1
Building blocks of polycentric governance	1
Exploring contextual influences in collaboration: A sensemaking perspective	1
How to talk about crises? Leaders' narrative strategies during the COVID‐19 vaccination campaign in Italy and France	1
Editorial Introduction: Policy entrepreneurs, science and learning, collaboration, and more	1
I paid into it with every paycheck I earned: How benefit type and beneficiary contributions shape attitudes about increasing or decreasing administrative burdens for social protections	1
Issue Information	1
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	1
Desert and redistribution: Justice as a remedy for, and cause of, economic inequality	1
A place‐based approach to understanding firms' voluntary environmental engagement: The role of regional pressures in the case of Korea	1