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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	73
Reviewer Acknowledgements	41
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	31
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	30
Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance: from values to valuations	26
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	25
How do populist discourses influence policy termination?	22
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	21
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	18
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	18
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	16
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	16
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	14
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	14
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	11
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	11
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	10
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	10
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	9
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	9
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	9
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	8
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	8
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	7

A systematic review of conflict within collaborative governance	7
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	7
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	7
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	7
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	6
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	6
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	6
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	6
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	6
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	6
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	6
Advocacy coalitions, soft power, and policy change in Mexican electricity policy: a discourse network analysis	5
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	5
Policy feedback and the politics of trade agreements	5
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	5
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	5
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	5
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	5
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	5
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	4
Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary	4
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	4
How do governments learn from ad hoc groups during crises? From SARS to COVID-19	4
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	4
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	4
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	4
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	4
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	4
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	4
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	4
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	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
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	3
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	3
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	3
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	3
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	3
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	3
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	3
How can governments tax multinational enterprises more fairly? A discourse analysis	3
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	3
Reviewer acknowledgements	2
Analysing the stability of advocacy coalitions and policy frames in Ghana’s oil and gas governance	2
Policy responsiveness and media attention	2
‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	2
Critical race theory, policy ambiguity and implementation: a multiple streams framework analysis	2
Analysing boundaries of health and social care in policy and media reform narratives	2
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	2

Social identities, emotions and policy preferences	2
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	2
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	2
Policy responsiveness and its administrative organisation in China	2
An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany	2
Transformational change through Public Policy	2
Policy windows and criminal justice reforms: a Multiple Streams Framework analysis	2
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	2
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	2
British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the multiple streams framework	2