OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Studies Journal is 4. 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
Coproduction as a Causal Process	16
Issue Information	16
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	16
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	15
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	15
Issue Information	15
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	14
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	14
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
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
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	6
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
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
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
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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