Policy Studies Journal

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries49
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement From Large Language Models Increases Citizens' Compliance Willingness in China32
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations31
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings30
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?29
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions27
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit24
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making24
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework22
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police22
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”21
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights21
Coproduction as a Causal Process20
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel18
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Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more18
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Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government17
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment16
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use15
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization15
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Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?12
Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France12
How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System12
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection11
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories: Evidence from the elements, attributes, and adoptions of Uniform Law Commission model legislation10
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition10
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy10
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?10
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements9
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems9
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches9
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law9
GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research9
Advocacy coalitions or pragmatic coupling of streams? Explaining policy change in Mexico: The tax reforms of Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña (2001 and 2013)8
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy8
Tradeoffs and Spillovers in U.S. Criminal Immigration Enforcement8
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors7
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood7
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time7
Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion7
Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?7
Moving Beyond Third Generation Policy Implementation Research Towards a Fourth Generation: Synthesizing Across Policy Process Theories7
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality6
Narrative power in the narrative policy framework6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation6
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland6
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change6
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing6
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests5
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities5
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality5
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention5
Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation4
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Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet4
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs4
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics4
Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust4
Comparing Beyond (Just) the State? Examining Patterns of Policy Advice Externalization Across Policy Domains4
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics4
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Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise4
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions4
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Editorial introduction: Advancing policy frontiers—Governance, learning, and innovation in policy studies3
Credit and Crises: How Fringe Credit Changes the Effect of Emergency Policies3
Who are childcare subsidies for? Examining subsidy eligibility policy in two southwestern states3
Communicating With Congress: An Agenda‐Setting Analysis of the Ukraine Crisis3
Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights3
Interlocal learning mechanisms and policy diffusion: The case of new energy vehicles finance in Chinese cities3
Editorial introduction: Charting new theoretical horizons here and elsewhere3
Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials3
The executive lawmaking agenda: Political parties, prime ministers, and policy change in Australia3
Moralization in Policy Narratives: Insights From the Politics of Climate Change and Public Health3
Balancing Participation and Speed: A Polycentric Governance Lens on Renewable‐Energy Siting3
An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework3
The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas3
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans3
How does a focusing event shape public opinion? Natural experimental evidence from the Orlando mass shooting3
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters3
Unveiling and explaining the procedural justice in the policy design of renewable energy siting process in the United States3
Does the implementation status of gender provisions affect the implementation of a peace agreement? Evidence from Colombia's 2016 peace agreement implementation process3
The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking3
Latent target groups—A methodological contribution of social identities to policy design research3
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs2
Applying Systems Thinking and Participatory Design to Policy Development2
Structure, Valence, and Causality: A Scoping Review of Plot Concepts and Measurements in the Narrative Policy Framework2
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Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management2
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework2
Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies2
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Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence2
Participation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference2
Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior2
Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types2
Editorial introduction: Exploring the frontier of policy theory research2
Editorial Introduction: Unveiling new dimensions in policy process theory research2
Governing policy experiments in Chinese cities: Lessons on effective climate mitigation2
Policy design receptivity and target populations: A social construction framework approach to climate change policy2
Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness2
Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending2
Policy design and policy feedback in welfare retrenchment: A survey experiment in China2
The adoption of the Swedish carbon tax: Influences and interactions across multiple political levels, jurisdictions, and policy areas2
Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement2
The policy feedback effects of preemption2
Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda2
Building blocks of polycentric governance1
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The interactive effects of policies: Insights for policy feedback theory from a qualitative study on homelessness1
Legislative Attention and Nonprofit Efficiency: A Link Across Sectoral Boundaries1
Special Issue on Policy Design: Introduction1
Unpacking core components for policy design: A comparison of synthesis approaches1
Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach1
What's the grand story? A macro‐narrative analytical model and the case of Swiss child and adult protection policy1
The triangle of bureaucratic policy analysis and the professional types of high‐level civil servants: Empirical evidence from Southern Europe1
Editorial Introduction: Contributing to the policy process literatures1
Distracted partners: Why police traffic enforcement is inefficient1
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Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐191
Beyond Visibility: Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems1
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Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery1
Assessing the Effect of Deservingness Cues on Tolerance for Administrative Burdens1
Environmental disasters and ecomodernist beliefs: Insights from a quasi‐natural experiment1
Agendas and instability in American local politics: A study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900–20201
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance1
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Contingent Policy Design: Political Accountability and Environmental Governance in China1
Policy attributes shape climate policy support1
The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance1
Natural Disasters and Local Governments' Fiscal Misconduct: Evidence From Five Earthquakes in China1
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Manifesting symbolic representation through collaborative policymaking1
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Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control1
Editorial introduction: Policy actors, dynamics, and developments—New insights from process theories and methodological applications1
Political will as a source of policy innovation1
Nascent policy subsystems in polycentric governance networks: The case of sea‐level rise governance in the San Francisco Bay Area1
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Cash Assistance Policies, Mass Consumption Behavior, and Policy Feedback Mechanisms in Mexico1
Mind the (Collaborative) Gap: How the Public Symbolically Rewards and Punishes Policy Actors for Their Collaborative Choices1
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis1
Policy Signals in National Crises: How Government Policies Shape Nonprofit and Stakeholder Behavior1
Presidential Powers and the Evolution of Polycentric Governance Systems1
Lobbying responsiveness to congressional policy agendas1
Aggregating narratives on oil and gas from opposing advocacy groups: Revealing temporal shifts in narratives through text mining and network analysis1
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Mixing and matching: Intra‐stream interdependence in the multiple streams framework and the adoption of policy mixes1
What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities1
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