OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Politics 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
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	98
Institutional stability and change in environmental governance	82
Reviewer acknowledgements	70
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	45
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	40
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	38
Reviewer Acknowledgements	29
The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms	28
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	28
Feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics	24
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	23
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	20
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	19
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	18
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	16
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	16
Policy responsiveness and media attention	16
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	14
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	14
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	13
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	12
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	12
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	11
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	11
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	10

Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	8
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	7
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	7
Analysing expert advice on political decisions in times of crisis	7
What is successful policy experimentation?	7
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	6
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	6
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	6
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	6
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	6
Using bricolage and robustness theory to explain the dynamism of collaborative governance	5
Drivers of fintech policy evolution: the role of policy learning and institutions	5
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	4
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	4
Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary	4
How evidence-based policymaking helps and hinders policy conflict	4
Why did the influence of experts erode during the COVID-19 pandemic?	4
Policy and organisational learning in judicial reform: evidence from Italy	4
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	4
A critical political analysis of wellbeing support for postgraduate researchers in higher education	4
‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	4
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	3
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	3
Advocacy strategies of industry and environmental interest groups in oil and gas policy debates	3
Policy learning and policy innovation: interactions and intersections	3
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	3
Global Public Policy studies	3
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	3
The democratic transformation of public policy through community activism in Brazil	3
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	3
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	3
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	3
Comparing policy responses to incels in Sweden and the UK	2
The racialisation of sexism: how race frames shape anti-street harassment policies in Britain and France	2
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	2
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	2
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	2
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	2
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	2
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	2
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	2
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	2
Critical race theory, policy ambiguity and implementation: a multiple streams framework analysis	2
The relative effects of diversity on collective learning in local collaborative networks in Belgium	2
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	2
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	2
Integrating identity in policy design theory	2
Copy, paste, legislate, succeed? The effect of policy plagiarism on policy success	1
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	1

What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	1
Patterns of stability and change in media attention in Europe	1
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	1
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	1
Policy beliefs, belief uncertainty, and policy learning through the lens of the Advocacy Coalition Framework	1
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	1
Do women leaders of nonprofit public service organisations help to reduce the gender pay gap?	1
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	1
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	1
Identifying and explaining policy preferences in Swiss water management	1
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	1
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	1
Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy	1
An organisational approach to meta-governance: structuring reforms through organisational (re-)engineering	1
Analysing the contextual factors that promote and constrain policy learning in local government	1
Analysing boundaries of health and social care in policy and media reform narratives	1
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	1
Metagoverning collaborative networks: a cumulative power perspective	1
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	1
Why do individuals in democratic societies support stringent policies? A narrative policy framework analysis	1
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	1
Digital platforms for the co-creation of public value	1
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	1
Policy responsiveness and its administrative organisation in China	1
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	1
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	1
British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the multiple streams framework	1