OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Studies Journal is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	35
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	30
Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	25
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	23
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	22
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	22
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	22
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	21
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	21
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	20
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	18
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	18
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	17
Issue Information	17
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	17
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	15
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	15
Issue Information	15
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	14
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	14
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	14
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	14
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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 France	12

Issue Information	12
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	11
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories: Evidence from the elements, attributes, and adoptions of Uniform Law Commission model legislation	11
More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	11
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GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research	10
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	10
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	9
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	9
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	9
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	8
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	8
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	8
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	8
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	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
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	6
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	6
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	6
Narrative power in the narrative policy framework	5
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Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	5
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	5
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Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	5
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	5
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	5