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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	215
Issue Information	70
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained	42
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	42
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	41
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	41
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	39
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	33
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	30
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress	29
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	28
Why data about people are so hard to govern	24
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	22
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	21
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	20
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	19
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	19
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	17
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	16
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	16
Issue Information	16
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	15
How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?	15
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	15

“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	14
Issue Information	14
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	14
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	14
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market	14
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	14
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	13
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	12
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	12
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy	12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	12
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	12
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
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	11
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	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
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	11
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	10
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan	10
The Green Economy and the Global South	10
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	10
Issue Information	10
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	9
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	9
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	9
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training	9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	9
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	8
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds	8
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China	8
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	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	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
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	7
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	7
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	7
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	7
The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies	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
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	6
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	6
Issue Information	6

Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance	6
Compliance in China	6
Issue Information	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
Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?	6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	6
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Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	6
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	6
Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies	6
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	6
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The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe	5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN	5
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
Properties of supranational governance structures and policy diffusion: The case of mifepristone approvals	5
Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy	5
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession	5
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action	5
Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view	5
Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World	5
Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China	5
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes	5
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive	5