OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regulation & Governance is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities	157
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	54
Why de‐judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor‐to‐State Dispute Settlement reforms	47
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	41
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	34
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	30
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	27
Algorithmic regulation: A maturing concept for investigating regulationofandthroughalgorithms	26
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence	26
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	25
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	23
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	22
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	20
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	20
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	19
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	19
Why data about people are so hard to govern	19
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	17
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	15
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	14
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	14
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	13
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	13
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	13
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	13

A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	12
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market	12
Issue Information	12
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	12
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	12
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	11
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	11
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	11
How does organizational task matter for the reputation of public agencies?	10
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	10
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	10
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	10
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	10
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	10
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	9
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	9
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.	9
Issue Information	9
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	9
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	9
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	8
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	8
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	8
The Green Economy and the Global South	8
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds	8
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	8
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	7
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	7
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	7
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	7
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	7
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	7
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	7
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making	7
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	7
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	7
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From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	6
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	6
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914	5
Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union	5
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	5
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	5
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	5
Issue Information	5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN	5

Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	5
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	5
Issue Information	5
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	5
Compliance in China	5
Issue Information	5
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes	5
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	5
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Building anti‐corruption agency collaboration and reputation: Hanging together or separately hanged	5
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	5