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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	142
Why de‐judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor‐to‐State Dispute Settlement reforms	53
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities	47
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	40
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	33
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	29
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence	25
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	24
Algorithmic regulation: A maturing concept for investigating regulationofandthroughalgorithms	24
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	22
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	22
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	19
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	19
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	19
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	19
Why data about people are so hard to govern	17
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	17
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	14
Accountability infrastructures: Pragmatic compliance inside organizations	14
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	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?	12
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	12
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	12

Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	12
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	11
Issue Information	11
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	10
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	10
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	10
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	10
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	10
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	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
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	9
How does organizational task matter for the reputation of public agencies?	9
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	9
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	9
Process effects of multistakeholder institutions: Theory and evidence from the Open Government Partnership	8
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	8
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	8
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	8
Issue Information	7
The Green Economy and the Global South	7
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	7
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	7
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	7
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds	7
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	7
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	7
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	7
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
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	7
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	6
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making	6
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	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
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	6
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	6
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	5
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
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	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
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	5
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Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	5
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	5
Issue Information	5
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	5

Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	5
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Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	5