OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti is 4. 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
The way the money goes: The fiscal constitution and public spending in the UK. By ChristopherHood, MaiaKing, IainMcLean, and BarbaraPiotrowska, Oxford University Press. 2023. 289pp. US$115.00 (cloth)	52
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	39
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness	37
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies	34
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients	32
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781009365215	31
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water	26
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities	23
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison, Ahmet T.KuruCambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2019. 316 pp. $34.99 (paper)	22
Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership	21
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The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)	21
Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries	19
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)	19
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana	18
Civil servants' preferences for nonprofit contractors: A conjoint analysis	17
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships	17
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–2019	15
Rules or legacies? Industry and political revolving doors in regulators' careers in Portugal	15
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change	15
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service	14
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy	14
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European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices	13
Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure	13

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Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation	12
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change	12
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure	12
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	12
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).	12
Spin dictators: The changing face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. By SergeiGuriev, and DanielTreisman, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 360. $29.95 (cloth)	12
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis	12
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Helping hand or centralizing tool? The politics of conditional grants in Australia, Canada, and the United States	11
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Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China	11
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance. By DidacQueralt, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 368. $35 (paper)	11
Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice	11
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences	10
Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments	10
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	10
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa	10
Retooling governance for improving public service delivery: Case study of right to public services commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	9
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?	9
Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina. By VirginiaOliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 9781009082525	9
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries	9
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning	9
Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany	9
How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China	9
Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”	9
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.	8
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy	8
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?	8
Unsustainable inequalities: Social justice and the environment, LucasChancel, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020. 184 pp. $29.95 (cloth)	8
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”	8
Viral sovereignty and the political economy of pandemics: What explains how countries deal with outbreaks?. SophalEarRoutledge, New York, 2021. 238 pp. $160 (cloth)	8
The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation	8
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”	8
The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)	7
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Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards	7
Retooling development aid in the 21st century: The importance of budget support. By ShahrokhFardoust, Stefan G.Koeberle, MoritzPiatti‐Fünfkirchen, MarkSundberg, and LodewijkSmets, Oxford, United Kingd	7
Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms	7
The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes	7
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe	7
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Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank	7
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration	7
Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis	6
Fatal remedies. How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a context of trust‐erosion	6
Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?	6
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak	6
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse	6
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 9781003321606	6

The extra‐legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement	6
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking	6
Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace From the Bottom Up. By William G.Nomikos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 202 pp. $125 (hardback); $41.99 (paperback)	6
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona	5
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union	5
Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance	5
The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness	5
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From quiet to noisy politics: Varieties of European reactions to 5G and Huawei	5
American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery, CraigUnger, Dutton, New York, 2021. 352 pp. $13.99 (e‐book)	5
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?	5
The competence‐control dilemma and the institutional design of European Union agencies	5
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited	4
The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation	4
Indebted societies credit and welfare in rich democracies. By AndreasWiedemann, Cambridge University Press	4
The evolving perceptions of corruption in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic	4
Government transparency and corruption in a turbulent setting: The case of foreign aid to Ukraine	4
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis	4
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Neoliberal resilience. AldoMadariagaPrinceton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2020. 368 pp. $45 (cloth)	4
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe	4
Notice the comment? Chinese government responsiveness to public participation in the policymaking process	4
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization	4