Review of Policy Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Policy Research 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism47
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Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda25
Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms24
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Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement22
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries21
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict20
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Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development18
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How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns17
The transformative power of technological change for public policy17
The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism: Shaped and saved by shifting multi‐level reinforcement?15
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Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness14
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes14
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?14
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–201413
Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy13
Measuring climate change adaptation policy output: Toward a two‐dimensional approach13
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado12
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide11
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs10
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?10
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Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany9
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance9
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy9
Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin8
The evolution of mandated coordination in policy implementation: Evidence from China's central government agencies8
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching8
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China8
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance8
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem7
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment7
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate7
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system7
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries7
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
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Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates6
Complementarity of additionalities resulting from European Union funds: Perspective of the users of research infrastructures6
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Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils6
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Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐196
Perception and performance in environmental policy6
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach6
Policy responses and public reactions to risks5
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports5
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Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies5
The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda5
Wrestling with multiple accountabilities in times of crisis: Findings from the experiences of Chinese local governments in responding to COVID‐195
Programmatic action in Chinese health policy—The making and design of “Healthy China 2030”5
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability5
Alternative policy narratives of the future of climate change: Analyzing Finland's energy and climate strategy and news reports5
Contagious COVID‐19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis5
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation5
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Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison5
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges5
At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport5
Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states4
“Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find.” Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices4
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile4
The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–20184
Government‐led innovation acceleration: Case studies of US federal government innovation and technology acceleration organizations4
Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany4
A Review of an Urban Living Lab Initiative4
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Policy processes in authoritarian settings4
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Impact of public information campaign on citizen behaviors: Vignette experimental study on recycling program in South Korea4
Narrative dynamics in European Commission AI policy—Sensemaking, agency construction, and anchoring4
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Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado3
Crises, technology, and policy change3
Localities and infrastructures in science, technology, and environmental policy making3
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–20193
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The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective3
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Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities3
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Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure3
Investigating the mechanisms linking revenue recycling to increased political acceptability of carbon pricing3
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions3
Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated equilibrium theory and the agenda‐setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy in Bhutan3
Non‐policy making: The case of comprehensive immigration reform, 2005–20063
United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making3
Trans‐local action and local climate policy. Configurations of success for climate innovations in the European multilevel system3
Narratives, evidence and public policy in crisis situations3
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Implementation arrangements as institutions: Assessments and prospects2
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?2
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management2
Advocacy coalitions and the co‐production of anti‐corruption policy in Botswana: A discourse network analysis2
Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive2
Understanding Chinese authoritative experts and their roles in China's COVID‐19 policy response process: A combined perspective of institutional and multiple‐streams framework2
Reputation management in turmoil—An analysis of the clashing narratives in the introduction of a “salmon tax” in Norway2
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation2
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?2
The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration2
Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements2
Politics and policy of Artificial Intelligence2
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates2
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion2
Blockchain and digital governance: Decentralization of decision making policy2
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism2
Decarbonization and climate change2
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia2
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio2
Powerful stories of local climate action: Comparing the evolution of narratives using the “narrative rate” index2
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta2
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems2
Lancang‐Mekong Cooperation and policy actors' coalition behavior around hydropower development in the Mekong countries: Testing the impact of coalition opportunity structures2
Political ideology and nuclear energy: Perception, proximity, and trust2
Local power: Understanding the adoption and design of county wind energy regulation2
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The policy process and governance of technological innovation2
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China2
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Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach1
Who should “do more” about climate change? Cultural theory, polycentricity, and public support for climate change actions across actors and governments1
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China1
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana1
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The times make a hero: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in major crisis responses in China1
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Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships1
Turn to the right, turn away from the green?—A nuanced analysis on how a populist radical right party affects environmental policy making in Sweden1
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China1
The narrative policy framework and institutions1
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery1
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Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures1
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Stakeholder theory in the public sector domain: A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda1
Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities1
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk1
Why did Argentina and Uruguay decide to pursue a carbon tax? Fiscal reforms and explicit carbon prices1
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations1
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How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach1
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Keeping policy commitments: An organizational capability approach to local green housing equity1
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Structuring wicked problems in science communication1
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns1
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