OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Politics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reviewer Acknowledgements	42
Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance: from values to valuations	35
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	29
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	26
How do populist discourses influence policy termination?	21
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	19
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	19
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	17
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	17
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	16
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	14
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	13
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	13
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	13
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	13
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	12
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	11
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	11
The effects of policy dismantling on the policy-making process	11
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	11
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	10
A systematic review of conflict within collaborative governance	9
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	9
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	9
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	9

Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	9
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	8
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	8
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	8
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	8
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	8
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	8
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	8
Advocacy coalitions, soft power, and policy change in Mexican electricity policy: a discourse network analysis	7
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	7
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	7
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	7
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	7
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	6
The performance of accountability and the treatment of experts by politicians: UK parliamentary select committees during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Policy feedback and the politics of trade agreements	6
How do governments learn from ad hoc groups during crises? From SARS to COVID-19	6
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	5
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	5
A new measurement model and database of the democratic qualities of regulatory bodies	5
Between win–win and the manufacturing of consent: collaborative governance as a lightning rod in cannabis policy	5
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	5
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	5
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	4
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	4
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	4
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	4
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	4
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	4
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	4
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	4
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	4
Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary	4
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	4
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	4
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	3
Transformational change through Public Policy	3
Analysing the stability of advocacy coalitions and policy frames in Ghana’s oil and gas governance	3
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	3
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	3
Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations	3
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	3
Reviewer acknowledgements	3
Policy windows and criminal justice reforms: a Multiple Streams Framework analysis	3
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	3
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences	3
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	3
Policy responsiveness and media attention	3
A systematic review of the Narrative Policy Framework: a future research agenda	2
Policy responsiveness and its administrative organisation in China	2

Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	2
The value of poll-worker voice in the delivery of elections	2
Analysing the contextual factors that promote and constrain policy learning in local government	2
British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the multiple streams framework	2
The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public–common partnerships	2
The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms	2
An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany	2
Critical race theory, policy ambiguity and implementation: a multiple streams framework analysis	2
Preference reversals in early policy adoption	2
Metagoverning collaborative networks: a cumulative power perspective	2
Did low-income essential workers during COVID-19 increase public support for redistribution?	2
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: better together	2
Using bricolage and robustness theory to explain the dynamism of collaborative governance	2
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	2
Analysing boundaries of health and social care in policy and media reform narratives	2
‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	2
The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency	2