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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	32
Reviewer Acknowledgements	32
Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance: from values to valuations	29
How do populist discourses influence policy termination?	26
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	24
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	21
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	20
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	17
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	17
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	14
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	14
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	13
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	12
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	12
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	11
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	11
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	10
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	10
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	10
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	9
The effects of policy dismantling on the policy-making process	9
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	9
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	8
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	8
A systematic review of conflict within collaborative governance	8

The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	8
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	7
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	7
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	7
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	7
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	7
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	7
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	7
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	7
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	6
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	6
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	6
Advocacy coalitions, soft power, and policy change in Mexican electricity policy: a discourse network analysis	6
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	6
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	6
A new measurement model and database of the democratic qualities of regulatory bodies	5
Policy feedback and the politics of trade agreements	5
How do governments learn from ad hoc groups during crises? From SARS to COVID-19	5
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	5
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	5
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	5
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	5
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	4
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	4
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	4
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	4
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	4
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	4
Between win–win and the manufacturing of consent: collaborative governance as a lightning rod in cannabis policy	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
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	3
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	3
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	3
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	3
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	3
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	3
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	3
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	3
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	3
Policy windows and criminal justice reforms: a Multiple Streams Framework analysis	2
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences	2
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	2
Policy responsiveness and media attention	2
The value of poll-worker voice in the delivery of elections	2
Analysing boundaries of health and social care in policy and media reform narratives	2
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	2
Analysing the stability of advocacy coalitions and policy frames in Ghana’s oil and gas governance	2
Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations	2

How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	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
Metagoverning collaborative networks: a cumulative power perspective	2
Transformational change through Public Policy	2
How can governments tax multinational enterprises more fairly? A discourse analysis	2
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	2
Reviewer acknowledgements	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
Policy responsiveness and its administrative organisation in China	2