OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Street-Level Bureaucrats at the Forefront of Pandemic Response: A Comparative Perspective	40
Governmental Response to Crises and Its Implications for Street-Level Implementation: Policy Ambiguity, Risk, and Discretion during the COVID-19 Pandemic	35
Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines of Crises	33
Multi-Level Governance, Policy Coordination and Subnational Responses to COVID-19: Comparing China and the US	27
Politicization, Depoliticization and Policy Change: A Comparative Theoretical Perspective on Agri-food Policy	22
“Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to COVID-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling	21
A Cross-Country Comparison of Fiscal Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	20
Social Safety Nets and COVID-19 Stay Home Orders across US States: A Comparative Policy Analysis	19
Can Teachers’ Discretion Enhance the Role of Professionalism in Times of Crisis? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Distance Teaching in Italy and Switzerland during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
How COVID-19 Has Affected Frontline Workers in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Nurses and Community Health Workers	17
COVID-19, Federalism, and Health Care Financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico	16
Government-Led or Public-Led? Chinese Policy Agenda Setting during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Resistance, Innovation, and Improvisation: Comparing the Responses of Nursing Home Workers to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada and the United States	15
The Dilemma between Self-Protection and Service Provision under Danish COVID-19 Guidelines: A Comparison of Public Servants’ Experiences in the Pandemic Frontline	14
Comparing Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools: Framework for Policy Designers	14
Coordination and Health Policy Responses to the First Wave of COVID-19 in Italy and Spain	14
Policy Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis	13
Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Potential Outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic	13
Culture, Institution, and COVID-19 First-Response Policy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Thirty-One Countries	13
Policy Implementation by International Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses of National and International Staff	12
Dealing with the Dark Side of Policy-Making: Managing Behavioural Risk and Volatility in Policy Designs	12
Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analyzing Role Changes of Healthcare Street-Level Bureaucrats in Mexico	12
Impacts of policy changes on Care-Leaving Workers in a time of coronavirus: Comparative analysis of discretion and constraints	11
To Yield or Shield? Comparing International Public Administrations’ Responses to Member States’ Policy Contestation	11
International Public Administrations on Twitter: A Comparison of Digital Authority in Global Climate Policy	11

Comparing Motivations for Including Enforcement in US COVID-19 State Executive Orders	10
Comparative Public Policy Analysis of COVID-19 as a Naturally Occurring Experiment	10
Exploring the Prevalence and Meaning of Frontline Work in the COVID-19 Era: Implications for Policy Analysis	9
Policy-Makers, Policy-Takers and Policy Tools: Dealing with Behaviourial Issues in Policy Design	9
Politicizing the Use of Glyphosate in Europe: Comparing Policy Issue Linkage across Advocacy Organizations and Countries	8
Singing Together or Apart? Comparing Policy Agenda Dynamics within International Organizations	7
Mind the Gap? Comparing De Facto and De Jure Expert Authority of International Public Administrations in Financial and Agricultural Policy	7
Party Identification and Cultural Theory in Europe: Methodologically Advancing Comparative Studies of the Advocacy Coalition Framework	7
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during COVID-19	7
State or Civil Society – What Matters in Fighting COVID-19? A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore	7
Can We Be Casual about Being Causal?	6
Politicisation and Coalition Magnets in Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Food Sovereignty and Agricultural Reform in Nepal and Ecuador	6
Attitudinal Feedback towards Sub-national Social Policy: A Comparison of Popular Support for Social Health Insurance in Urban China	6
Using Instrument Typologies in Comparative Research: Conceptual and Methodological Trade-Offs	6
The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum: Comparative Analysis of Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines	5
Community Health Workers as Street-level Quasi-Bureaucrats in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Cases of Kenya and Thailand	5
Politicized Sustainability and Agricultural Policy: Comparing Norm Understandings of International Organizations	5
Promotion Tournament, Labor Market Tightening and Pension Generosity: A Comparative Public Policy Analysis of Pension System for Urban Workers in China (1997–2013)	5
Integrating Problem Structuring Methods And Concept-Knowledge Theory For An Advanced Policy Design: Lessons From A Case Study In Cyprus	5
Policy Effectiveness through Configurational and Mechanistic Lenses: Lessons for Concept Development	5
Institutions and Agency in the Making of Carbon Pricing Policies: Evidence from Mexico and Directions for Comparative Analyses in Latin America	5
Political Attention in a Single-Leading-Party State: A Comparative Study of the Policy Agenda in China, 2003–2019	4
Progress Towards Ending Sexual Harassment at Work? A Comparison of Sexual Harassment Policy in 192 Countries	4
Refining the Multiple Streams Framework’s Integration Concept: Renewable Energy Policy and Ecological Modernization in Germany and Japan in Comparative Perspective	4
Managing Asylum: Street-Level Organizations and Refugee Crises	3
Gendered Impacts of Environmental Degradation in Informal Settlements: A Comparative Analysis and Policy Implications for India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan	3
The Role of Time in the Localisation of Global Urban Policy. A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador and Bolivia	3
Assessing Information-based Policy Tools: An Eye-Tracking Laboratory Experiment on Public Information Posters	3
Comparing Pathways of Policy Internationalization: The Transfer of Brazilian Social Programs	3
Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis	2
Policy Capacity Matters for Education System Reforms: A Comparative Study of Two Brazilian States	2
Why Do Comparative Public Policy and Political Economy Scholars Need an Analytic Eclectic View of Structure, Institution and Agency?	2
Incorporating Time into Policy Transfer Studies: A Comparative Analysis of the Transnational Policy Process of Conditional Cash Transfers and Participatory Budgeting	2
Politicization Strategies in Domestic Trade Policy Making: Comparing Agriculture and Seafood Sectors in Norway	2
Multilevel Analysis of Social and Policy Acceptance of Immigrants across European Countries and Its Implications for Comparative Policy	2
The World Bank and Education Policy in Colombia: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of International Organizations’ Learning on Domestic Policy	2
Populism, Politicization and Policy Change in US and UK Agro-food Policies	2
Self-Governance via Intermediaries: Credibility in Three Different Modes of Governance	2
“Good Enough” Governance in the Post-Soviet Eurasia	2
Comparing Formal Public Sector Policy Staff: Organizing Principles, Composition, and Distribution in Anglophone Countries	2
Political Determinants of Social Assistance Policies: A Critical Global Comparative Systematic Literature Review	2
Does Trade Pattern Enhance Institutional Quality? Comparison across Regions	1
Insights from the Frontline of German Welfare Policy: The Under-Recognised Role of Brokerage in Street-Level Practice	1
Comparative Analysis of Financial Bureaucracies of Europe: The Influence of Policy Sector vs Administrative Tradition on the Attitudes of Finance Officials	1
Coordinating Wickedness: A Comparative Analysis of How Norway and Sweden Organize for Climate Policies	1
Trust in Government and COVID-19 Response Policy: A Comparative Approach	1
Utilizing a Comparative Policy Resource from the WORLD Policy Analysis Center Covering Constitutional Rights, Laws, and Policies across 193 Countries for Outcome Analysis, Monitoring, and Accountabili	1
Vietnam and China’s Civil Service Merit-based Policies: A Comparative Analysis from the Policy Transfer and Historical Institutionalism Approaches	1
Disapproval of Climate Policy Dismantlement: A Comparative Analysis of International Public Opinion on Donald Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Regime	1
Comparative Transfer Analysis: Policy Instruments, Space and Time	1

Special Issue: Policy Innovation in the Global South and South–North Policy Learning	1
Climate Protection for Migration Prevention: Comparison of Policy Discourses on Climate Change and Migration in Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden	1
Frontline Politics: Street-Level Organizations, Family Unification and the Right to Asylum in Germany	1
The Dynamics of Welfare State Regime Development in the Global South: Structures, Institutions, and Political Agency	1
Comparative Studies of Public Administration and Public Policy beyond the Nation State	1
Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning under Multiple Hierarchies	1
The Rise of Anti-Net Zero Populism in the UK: Comparing Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Policy Dismantling	1
Health Policy in Asia: A Policy Design Approach	1
Causality in Comparative Policy Analysis: Introduction to a Special Issue of the JCPA	1
The Grameen Bank Microfinance Model in the Global North: Processes, Transfer Intermediaries and Adoption	1
Delegation versus Control: A Comparison of Reform Patterns and Diffusion Channels in Latin American Regulatory Agencies	1