Review of Policy Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Policy Research is 2. 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.)
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Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?49
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy41
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes34
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem31
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges30
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation29
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile29
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries29
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison22
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?21
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Decarbonization and climate change19
Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure19
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado18
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns18
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta17
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana17
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem17
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Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities17
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China16
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships16
Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing13
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China13
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India13
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis13
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity13
The narrative policy framework and institutions13
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems12
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy11
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries11
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam11
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda10
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China10
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Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs10
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?10
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What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada9
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools9
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China9
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching9
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Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting9
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions9
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown9
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France9
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China9
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Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes8
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs8
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance8
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis8
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict8
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability8
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance8
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide8
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio7
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates7
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism7
The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–20187
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Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐197
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?7
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion7
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk6
Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates6
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States6
How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach6
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures6
Shaping the Crisis Management‐Public Administration Nexus: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda6
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach6
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How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability6
The advocacy coalition framework in Japan: Contributions to policy process studies and the challenges involved5
Frontiers of policy process research in China5
Toward an effective policy mix for domestic waste management in China: Interdepartmental cooperation as an enabler5
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Information and expertise in public policy5
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?5
Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia5
Smart home technology: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative governance and policy research5
Local municipal capacity for climate change action in New York State: Exploring the urban–rural divide5
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Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network5
Accounting for Structural Change in Climate Policy Research: Lessons From Global Commodities Markets4
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies4
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils4
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries4
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?4
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates4
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions4
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports4
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective4
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment3
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation3
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–20193
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management3
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The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration3
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 Germany3
Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements3
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Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations3
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China3
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach3
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system3
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia3
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems3
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China3
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran3
Conditions Favoring the Reduction of Pesticides: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of EU Member States2
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy2
Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities2
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Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–20142
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism2
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State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails2
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Framing market‐based versus regulatory climate policies: A comparative analysis2
Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain2
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities2
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery2
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Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology2
The transformative power of technological change for public policy2
Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy2
Organized elite power and clean energy: A study of negative policy experimentations with renewable portfolio standards2
Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”2
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA2
Innovating Public Food Procurement: A Case Study of Dordogne's Path to Sustainability2
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations2
Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making2
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado2
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany2
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Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy2
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