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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities	128
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	50
Why de‐judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor‐to‐State Dispute Settlement reforms	43
Algorithmic regulation: A maturing concept for investigating regulationofandthroughalgorithms	39
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	33
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	27
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	27
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	23
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence	22
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	22
Why data about people are so hard to govern	21
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	21
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	21
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	20
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	19
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	18
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	18
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	17
Accountability infrastructures: Pragmatic compliance inside organizations	17
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	15
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	14
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	14
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	13
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	13
To blow the whistle in Brazil: The impact of gender and public service motivation	13

Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	13
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	12
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	12
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	12
Issue Information	12
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	12
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	11
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	11
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	11
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	10
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	10
How does organizational task matter for the reputation of public agencies?	10
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.	10
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	9
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	8
The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a North Star: How an intermediary network makes, takes, and retrofits the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals	8
Issue Information	8
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	8
The Green Economy and the Global South	8
Process effects of multistakeholder institutions: Theory and evidence from the Open Government Partnership	8
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	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
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	7
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	7
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds	7
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	7
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making	7
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	7
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	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	6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	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 growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	6
Issue Information	6
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	6
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Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	6
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	6
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	6
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	5
Regulatory agencies, reputational threats, and communicative responses	5
Issue Information	5
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	5

Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	5
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	5
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive	5
Issue Information	5
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Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	5
Building anti‐corruption agency collaboration and reputation: Hanging together or separately hanged	5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914	5