OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Politics is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Reviewer Acknowledgements	41
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	36
Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance: from values to valuations	33
How do populist discourses influence policy termination?	31
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	27
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	25
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	20
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	19
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	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	15
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	14
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	14
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	13
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	13
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	12
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	11
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	10
The effects of policy dismantling on the policy-making process	10
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	10
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	10
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	10
A systematic review of conflict within collaborative governance	10
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	9
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	9

The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	9
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	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
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	8
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	8
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	8
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	8
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	8
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	7
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	7
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	7
Advocacy coalitions, soft power, and policy change in Mexican electricity policy: a discourse network analysis	7
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	7
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	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
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	6
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	6
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	6