OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regulation & Governance is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	268
Issue Information	89
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	52
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained	51
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	48
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	47
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	41
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	41
Defensive Compliance in Corporate Criminal Justice: Effects of Compliance Programs on Organizational Prosecution and Punishment	36
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	36
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	31
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Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	29
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress	28
Why data about people are so hard to govern	27
Police Cloud : Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	27
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	26
The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements: The Role of Learning, Competition and Emulation	24
Hybridity of Accountability Logics in Voluntary Sustainability Governance: The Case of Commitment 2050	21
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	19
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	18
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	18
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	18
Why Do Eastern African Countries Comply With OECD Tax Norms? How Network Effects Shape Policy Transfer in Anti‐Profit Shifting Governance	17
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	17

Issue Information	17
How Well Do Governments Assess the Distributional Impacts of Policy?	16
How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?	16
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	16
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	16
Supervising Your In‐Group? How Social Identification Shapes Financial Sector Regulatory Leniency	16
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	16
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	16
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	15
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market	15
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	15
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	15
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	14
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	13
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	13
Issue Information	12
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	12
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy	12
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	12
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	11
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan	11
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	11
The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy	11
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	11
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐8	11
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.	11
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training	10
The Green Economy and the Global South	10
Issue Information	10
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	10
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	10
Effectiveness of Regulatory Sandboxes in Financial Services: A Systematic Review	10
Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance	10
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	9
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	9
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	9
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	8
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	8
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	8
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	8
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China	8
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	8
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	8
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	8
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	8
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	8
The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies	7
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	7

From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	7
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	7
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Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	7
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	6
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes	6
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914	6
Issue Information	6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU : The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
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Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance	6
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession	6
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	6
Compliance in China	6
Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies	6
Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?	6
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive	6
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	6
Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy	6
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	6
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	6
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	6