OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses	312
Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are	125
Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong	124
Nudges against pandemics: Sweden’s COVID-19 containment strategy in perspective	123
Policy style, consistency and the effectiveness of the policy mix in China’s fight against COVID-19	111
Policy learning and crisis policy-making: quadruple-loop learning and COVID-19 responses in South Korea	96
“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets	87
Governance of artificial intelligence	86
Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	83
Stuck in neutral? Federalism, policy instruments, and counter-cyclical responses to COVID-19 in the United States	68
Understanding inclusion in collaborative governance: a mixed methods approach	65
Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy	56
Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective	55
When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective	54
How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison	51
The Turkish state’s responses to existential COVID-19 crisis	50
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	47
Trust, but customize: federalism’s impact on the Canadian COVID-19 response	42
Understanding Collaboration: Introducing the Collaborative Governance Case Databank	38
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice	37
Taming the snake in paradise: combining institutional design and leadership to enhance collaborative innovation	35
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	34
Governing the adoption of robotics and autonomous systems in long-term care in Singapore	34
Collaborative crisis management: a plausibility probe of core assumptions	30
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	27

From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	27
COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia	26
Political boundary spanning: politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy	24
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	23
COVID-19 and social inequality in China: the local–migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic	20
Pathways to collaborative performance: examining the different combinations of conditions under which collaborations are successful	19
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	18
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	18
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	17
Introduction: policy integration and institutional capacity: theoretical, conceptual and empirical challenges	17
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	16
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	14
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools	14
“Provide our basic needs or we go out”: the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, inequality, and social policy in Ghana	14
The alegality of blockchain technology	14
Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms	14
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	13
What has happened and what has not happened due to the coronavirus disease pandemic: a systemic perspective on policy change	13
Law and tech collide: foreseeability, reasonableness and advanced driver assistance systems	13
Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19	12
COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design	12
Policy integration, policy design and administrative capacities. Evidence from EU cohesion policy	11
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	10
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	10
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	10
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	9
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia	9
What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency	8
Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities	8
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy: new politics and policies	8
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: discursive and institutional perspectives	8
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	8
When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness	7
Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries	7
Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands	6
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	6
Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making	6
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	6
Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities	6
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	6
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	6
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Presidential leadership styles and institutional capacity for climate policy integration in the European Commission	6
Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy?	5
Covid (in)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK	5
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	5
Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand	5
When opportunity backfires: exploring the implementation of urban climate governance alternatives in three major US cities	5
More is less: Partisan ideology, changes of government, and policy integration reforms in the UK	5