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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?39
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes33
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy32
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile31
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem31
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison30
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation24
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries22
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns21
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Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure19
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How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta18
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem18
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado18
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities18
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?17
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The narrative policy framework and institutions17
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis17
Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China15
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships15
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems14
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana14
NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration13
Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing13
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India13
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?11
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries11
Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs11
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China11
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China10
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy10
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Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity10
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Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam10
Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda10
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada9
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Narratives and Framing in Policy Making9
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown9
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools9
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions9
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China9
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China9
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France9
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Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting9
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance8
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide8
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis8
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance8
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate8
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes8
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching8
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐197
Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling7
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs7
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
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio7
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism7
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How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China7
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates7
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability7
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Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?6
How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability6
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk6
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach6
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Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates6
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion6
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures6
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
Smart home technology: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative governance and policy research5
Frontiers of policy process research in China5
Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network5
Shaping the Crisis Management‐Public Administration Nexus: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda5
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Local municipal capacity for climate change action in New York State: Exploring the urban–rural divide5
Compensation, Horizontal Diffusion, and Bottom‐Up Pathways: State Climate Policies in the United States and Australia5
Information and expertise in public policy5
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?5
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils4
Accounting for Structural Change in Climate Policy Research: Lessons From Global Commodities Markets4
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Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries4
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates4
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach4
Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management4
Chinese‐style policy transfer: Adaptive niche cultivation in the genesis of China's science funding system4
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
A Configurational Approach for Local‐Government Policy Reinvention: A Study on Chinese PPP Policy4
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies4
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions4
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment4
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports4
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?4
Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia4
Toward an effective policy mix for domestic waste management in China: Interdepartmental cooperation as an enabler4
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic4
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective4
Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations3
Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements3
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia3
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China3
Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery3
Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities3
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China3
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The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration3
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran3
Innovating Public Food Procurement: A Case Study of Dordogne's Path to Sustainability3
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–20193
The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation3
Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems3
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The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities3
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Organized elite power and clean energy: A study of negative policy experimentations with renewable portfolio standards2
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Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”2
Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations2
(Re)securitizing Food Policy in Vietnam: The Mekong Delta Plan and the Discourse Metamorphosis2
Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism2
Explaining the Variance of City Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in China: A Matter of Leadership?2
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany2
Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy2
Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy2
Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain2
Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA2
Conditions Favoring the Reduction of Pesticides: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of EU Member States2
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Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms2
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement2
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Framing market‐based versus regulatory climate policies: A comparative analysis2
Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making2
State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails2
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy2
Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology2
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy2
How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado2
The transformative power of technological change for public policy2
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