OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Policy History is 0. 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
Bringing the Constituents Back In: The Politics of Social Security in the 1950s	13
Term Limits in France and the United States: A Comparative History of Policy Debate and Adoption	9
Evolution and Electoral Implications of Congressional Gun Control Issue Framing: “From Crime Control to Mass Shootings”	4
Policy Escalation: Richard Nixon, Welfare Reform, and the Development of a Comprehensive Approach to Health Insurance	4
Race, Post-Reconstruction Politics, and the Birth of Federal Support for Black Colleges	3
JPH volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Out with the Old, In with the Republicans? The Partisan Push of Legislative Term Limits	2
Contributors	2
Government by Improvisation? Towards a New History of the Nineteenth-Century American State	2
A New Deal for Wine	2
Free Speech and World War II	1
Defining Rockefeller Republicanism: Promise and Peril at the Edge of the Liberal Consensus, 1958–1975	1
Diplomatic Security Failure in Benghazi, Libya, September 11, 2012	1
Clandestine Networks and Closeted Bureaucrats: AIDS and the Forming of a Gay Policy Network in California	1
The Unlikely Heroes of Progressive Taxation: CEOs’ Support for Bill Clinton’s Tax Increase Package in 1993	1
The Armed Career Criminal Act and the Puzzle of Federal Crime Control in the Reagan Era: “It’s at the state and local levels that problems exist”	1
Making Policies: The History of the Danish Child Welfare System at the Local Level	1
Vote Aquí Hoy: The 1975 Extension of the Voting Rights Act and the Creation of Language Minorities	1
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins Reorganizes Her Department’s Immigration Enforcement Functions, 1933–1940: “Going against the Grain”	1
Congress and the Establishment of a National Budget System in the United States during the Progressive Era	1
The Most Iniquitous Lobby: The Committee for Constitutional Government and the Shaping of American Politics, 1937–1955	0
JPH volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Contributors	0
JPH volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Contributors	0

Remembering Welfare as We Knew It: Understanding Neoliberalism through Histories of Welfare	0
Contributors	0
The Political Development of Schools as Cause and Solution to Delinquency	0
Membership, Mobilization, and Policy Adoption in the Gilded Age: The Case of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union	0
JPH volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Evading Capture: U.S. Army Engineers and Railroad Policy, 1827–1853	0
JPH volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
JPH volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
JPH volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Cross-Domain Policy Feedback: The Institutionalization of Collective Bargaining Rights for Health Care Workers	0
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins Reorganizes Her Department’s Immigration Enforcement Functions, 1933–1940: “Going against the Grain” – CORRIGENDUM	0
Introduction: Perspectives on Term Limits in Democratic Society	0
The United States Navy, Slave-Trade Suppression, and State Development	0
JPH volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Suicide versus Euthanasia in the American Press in the 1890s and 1900s: “A Man Should be Permitted to Go Out of This World Whenever He Sees Fit”	0
“Granting” Justice, Debating Delinquency: The Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act and the UNC Training Center on Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1967	0
Borrowed Agency: The Institutional Capacity of the Early Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	0
“Still Doin’ Time”: An Analysis of the Conditional Effects of Legislative Term Limits on State Incarceration Rates	0
Social Welfare History in the Age of Diversity	0
Health Care Financing Instruments during the Colonial Period in Senegal: The Historical and Institutional Nature of Policy Instruments	0
Contributors	0
The Politics of Clemency in the Early American Presidency: Power Inherited, Power Refashioned	0
JPH volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Contributors to vol. 34, no. 2 – ERRATUM	0
The Origins of Policy Ideas in German Pension Debates	0
Why Consult, Why Consent? Employers in Concertation Platforms Facing Welfare State Expansion in the Netherlands, 1920–1960	0
JPH volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
An Industry Worth Protecting? The Manufacturers Aircraft Association’s Struggle against the British Surplus, 1919–1922	0
Sailors, Crimps, and Commerce: Laws Protecting Seamen, 1866–1884	0
The Rise of the Anti-Abortion Movement in North Dakota and the Defeat of the 1972 Initiative to Liberalize State Abortion Laws	0
JPH volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Salvaging Marginalized Men: How the Department of Defense Waged the War on Poverty	0
Beyond a “Partisan-Ethics-Wars” Interpretation of Congressional Ethics Investigations: The Cases of James Wright, Newt Gingrich, and Tom DeLay	0
Transnational Diffusion of Health Policy Ideas in Uruguay in the Early Twentieth Century	0
Rethinking the American Industrial Policy Debate: The Political Significance of a Losing Idea	0
“A Mission Without Precedent”: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Economic Opportunity, 1964–1981	0
Contributors	0
Legislative Term Limits and Ideological Representation	0
JPH volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Jacksonian Consular Reform and the Forging of America’s First Global Bureaucracy	0
Understanding the Controversy: The Kerner Commission, The Harvest of American Racism, and the Dynamics of Incorporating Social Science with Public Policy	0
How U.S. Health Policy Embraced Markets and Helped Wall Street Gentrify Medicine	0
JPH volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Mobilizing for the Mind: Veteran Activism and the National Mental Health Act of 1946	0
Oscar DePriest and Black Agency in American Politics, 1928–1934	0
Inflation and the Corruption of Currency in Latin America: Chile, 1970–1973	0
Identity Politics within Kentucky’s Civil Service and the Growth of the Bureaucratic State	0
Conflict over Congressional Reapportionment: The Deadlock of the 1920s	0
Clearing the Bench: The Perils of Appointing Politicians to the Cabinet	0
“Liberty of Conscience is Every Man’s Natural Right”: Historical Background of the First Amendment	0

Desegregation is Not a Black and White Issue: Latino Advocacy for Equal Schooling before and after Brown	0
New Policy Elites and the Affordable Care Act: The Making ofLong-Term Insiders	0
“One Dedicated, Single-Minded Staff Aide”: John M. Blair and Institutional Keynesianism in Postwar US Economic Policy	0
Gender and Disability in US State Temporary Disability Systems 1942–1949	0
Incremental Lobby Reform: Elite Interests and Governance Policies	0
The Larger Gifts of Taxation: Foundations and Tax Reform in the Jim Crow South	0
Business Support for Nature Protection in the Nineteenth Century	0
JPH volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
JPH volume 36 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Civic Republicanism, Liberty, and Police: The Roots of Modern English Policing	0
JPH volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Voters in a Foreign Land: Alien Suffrage in the United States, 1704–1926	0
Examining the Opposition to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: “Nothing More than Bad Quality Hogwash”	0
A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations	0
Free Speech Viet Nam through the War on Terror	0
States of Immigration: Making Immigration Policy from Above and Below, 1875–1924	0
Explaining the Prevalence of State Constitutional Conventions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	0
Occupational Liberty and Licensing before the US Civil War	0
From Labor Rights to the Right to Work: Constituting and Resisting Social Citizenship, 1932–1953	0
Contributors	0
Legislating Medicare Fraud: The Politics of Self-Regulation and the Creation of Professional Standards Review Organizations	0
JPH volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
JPH volume 37 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Christian Democracy, Labor, and the Postwar Politics of Old-Age Pension Reform	0
Free Speech in the Civil War	0
A Republic Goes to War: Federalists, Republicans, and Foreign Influence	0
The Abuse of Civil Liberties in World War I	0