OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Regulation & Governance 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.)

Article	Citations
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Mapping the relationship between regulation and innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective: A critical systematic review of the literature	73
Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies	39
Why de‐judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor‐to‐State Dispute Settlement reforms	39
Issue Information	38
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	36
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Jordan, Andrew and Gravey, Viviane (2021). Environmental policy in the EU: Actors, institutions and processes. London, UK: Routledge.	24
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	23
The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street‐level integration and sectoral policy outcomes	22
Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security	20
Regulatory agency reputation acquisition: A Q Methodology analysis of the views of agency employees	20
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities	18
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx	18
Fine me if you can: Fixed asset intensity and enforcement of environmental regulations in China	18
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	18
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making	18
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Reconfiguring governance: How cyber security regulations are reconfiguring water governance	16
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	16
Transparency and corruption: Measuring real transparency by a new index	15
Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries	13
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?	13
Conceptualization and measurement of regulatory discretion: Text analysis of 120 years of British legislation	12
More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations	11

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Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	11
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	11
Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election	11
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	10
A comparative analysis of Inspector responses to complaints about psychosocial and physical hazards	10
Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state: Global market governance in flux	9
Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?	9
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	9
Magnetic law: Designing environmental enforcement laws to encourage us to go further	9
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	9
Passing on the red genes: Communism nostalgia in online fictions and ideological governance in China	9
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	8
Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy	8
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence	8
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	8
Tussle for space: The politics of mock‐compliance with global financial standards in developing countries	8
Algorithmic regulation: A maturing concept for investigating regulationofandthroughalgorithms	8
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	8
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	7
Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies	7
From voluntary to mandatory corporate accountability: The politics of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act	7
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	6
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges	6
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	6
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	6
Assessing Input Legitimacy of Occupational Pensions in Europe	6
Financial technocrats as competitive regime creators: The founding and design of the Network for Greening the Financial System	6
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	6
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Behavioral responsive regulation: Bringing together responsive regulation and behavioral public policy	5
Toxic waste and public procurement: The defense sector as a disproportionate contributor to pollution from public–private partnerships	5
Regulation timing in the states: The role of divided government and legislative recess	5
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Taxation: A Regulatory Multilevel Governance Perspective	5
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?	5
The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States	5
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Understanding regulatory cultures: The case of water regulatory reforms in India	5
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	5
Policy growth and maintenance in comparative perspective	4
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Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies	4
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How many regulations does it take to get a beer? The geography of beer regulations	4
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	4
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	4
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains	4

Beyond Security: The Compliance Dimension of National Security Reviews in Singapore and Taiwan	4
Regulatory policy choice in post‐reform contexts: The case of industrial safety regulation in Mexico's oil and gas industry	4
Judicial Self‐Governance Index: Towards better understanding of the role of judges in governing the judiciary	4
Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors	3
Jens Arnoltz, The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	3
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	3
Patterns of company misconduct, recidivism, and complaint resolution delays: A temporal analysis of UK pharmaceutical industry self‐regulation within the European context	3
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	3
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	3
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	3
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	3
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	3
State‐ledbricolage and the extension of collective governance: Hybridity in the Swiss skill formation system	3
The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region	3
The portrayal of effectiveness of supplier codes of conduct in improving labor conditions in global supply chains: A systematic review of the literature	3
Alone in the campaign: Distrust in regulators and the coping of front‐line workers	3
Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training	3
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Greening energy governance through agencification in the Global South: Drivers and implications	3
Rethinking drug laws: Theory, history, politics. By TobySeddon, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2023. £90.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐284652‐5	3
The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service	3
Governance transference and shifting capacities and expectations in multi‐stakeholder initiatives	3
Accountability infrastructures: Pragmatic compliance inside organizations	3
The governance of policy integration and policy coordination through joined‐up government: How subnational levels counteract siloism and fragmentation within Swedish migration policy	3
Themulti‐agenciesdilemma of delegation: Why do policymakers choose one or multiple agencies for financial regulation?	3
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	3
Why data about people are so hard to govern	3
The influence of the legislative and judicial branches on moral judgment and norm perception with the special case of judicial intervention	3
Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change	3
Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state‐backed funds for green transition	3
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Orchestrating private investors for development: How the World Bank revitalizes	3
Who captures whom? Regulatory misperceptions and the timing of cognitive capture	3
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	2
Managing dissonance: Bureaucratic justice and public procurement	2
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To blow the whistle in Brazil: The impact of gender and public service motivation	2
Developmental channels: (Incomplete) development strategies in democratic Latin America	2
Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust‐based policy instruments	2
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID‐19 regulations	2
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	2
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Subterranean successes: Durable regulation and regulatory endowments	2
Different encounter behaviors: Businesses in encounters with regulatory agencies	2
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	2
Deceptive choice architecture and behavioral audits: A principles‐based approach	2
How do private companies shape responses to migration in Europe? Informality, organizational decisions, and transnational change	2
The logic of regulatory impact assessment: From evidence to evidential reasoning	2
Would regional competition pressure affect audit quality? Evidence from a spatial distribution of the audit market	2
Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation	2
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Regulatory agencies, reputational threats, and communicative responses	2
Regulatory reforms, normative changes, and performance: Evidence from the electricity sector in Latin America	2
Regulating risk: How private information shapes global safety standards. By Rebecca L.Perlman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, US$ 29.99. 2023. pp. 227. ISBN: 978‐1‐009‐29193‐4	2
Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance	2
Policy coherence versus regulatory governance. Electricity reforms in Algeria and Morocco	1
More Policies, More Work? An Epidemiological Assessment of Accumulating Implementation Stress in the Context of German Pension Policy	1
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	1
Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico	1
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	1
Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long‐Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies	1
Accountability in the EU's para‐regulatory state: The case of the Economic and Monetary Union	1
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More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU	1
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union	1
Informal governance and transnational access in world politics	1
Private authority and public policy interactions in global context: Governance spheres for problem solving	1
Bilateral responsive regulation and international tax competition: Anagent‐basedsimulation	1
Under the influence: The celebrity factor in policy capture	1
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	1
What drives compliance withCOVID‐19 measures over time? Explaining changing impacts with Goal Framing Theory	1
Corrigendum	1
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany	1
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	1
Engineering the expansion of higher education: High skills, advanced manufacturing, and the knowledge economy	1
From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy	1
Rethinking the national quality framework: Improving the quality and safety of alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia	1
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	1