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Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Policy Studies is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	69
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers	33
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	30
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	23
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	23
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	22
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	21
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	19
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	19
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	18
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	16
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe	15
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	14
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	13
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	12
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	11
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	11
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	10
Variegated Economies	10
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	8
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	8
Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	8
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	8
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	7
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	7

The pandemic within: policy making for a better world	7
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	7
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	6
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	6
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	6
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation	5
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy	5
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	5
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	5
Charting the course, charting the coast: exploring epistemic orientations in the making of sustainable aquaculture futures	5
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	5
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	5
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
Wicked problems or second-order problem? A phenomenological stance	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program	4
A critical explanation of uses of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach	3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	3
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	3
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
‘The region’ between care and control: How Dutch policy actors discursively legitimate regional ‘reception and protection’	3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	2
Interpretivism vs. positivism in policy studies: Is there common ground?	2
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	2
Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse	2
Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing	2
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis	2
As we have always done: indigenous freedom through radical resistance	2
Mending democracies, patching societies	2
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	2
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?	2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	2
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents	2
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education	2
The policy author-function: analyzing authorship of policy documents	2
Democracy in the post-truth era: restoring faith in expertise Democracy in the post-truth era: restoring faith in expertise , by Janusz Grygieńć (translated by Dominika	2

Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	2
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	2
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis	2
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	2
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy	2
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence	2
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis	2
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 2023	1
Climbing fences: formal and informal participations in an urban Dutch neighborhood	1
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework	1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	1
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures	1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	1
Reframing robustness, reclaiming politics: a constructivist reappraisal of robust governance in turbulent times	1
Problematizing ultra-processing: opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance	1
The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension - Conclusion to the CPS Special Book Review	1
Political formulation of policy solutions	1
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem	1
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education	1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	1
Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters	1
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research	1
Research methods in deliberative democracy	1
On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil	1
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden	1
Correction	1
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy	1
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space: implications for policy and administration	1
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	1
Departing from all semblance of democracy: how scholarly communities can respond to the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism	1
Mapping networks of critical policy studies	1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct	1
The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security ,	1
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	1
Correction	1
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance	1