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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	78
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	32
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	31
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	29
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	26
Empathetic policy design: emotional engagement, inclusive space, and empowered deliberation	22
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	19
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	16
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	16
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	15
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	15
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	13
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	12
Invisible dimensions of climate obstruction and road transport continuity. The role of mental infrastructure maintenance	12
Governing by promises. Water scarcity and rural hegemony in Morocco	10
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism	9
Variegated Economies	8
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	8
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	8
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	8
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	7
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	7
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	7
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	7
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	7

Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	6
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	6
New models of housing and care: the politics of housing an aging population in Switzerland	6
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	5
Constructing the imaginary of ‘international talent’ in Finnish migration policy 2006–2024	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	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
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation	5
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	4
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	4
Governing through the community: state transversality, neoliberal governmentality, and struggles for schooling of social movements	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	4
Policy experts’ strategy in deliberative polling on Korean pension reform: utilizing valence and polysemic ideas through framing and narrative strategies	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	4
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose	4
(De)politicizing animal-related policies and rights: discourses and institutional dynamics in Finnish city councils	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
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
‘The region’ between care and control: How Dutch policy actors discursively legitimate regional ‘reception and protection’	3
Wicked problems or second-order problem? A phenomenological stance	3
The therapeutic function of evidence-based policy making: a Study of ex ante analysis in infrastructure policy processes	3
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?	3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
International environmental sustainability discourse in the wake of Covid-19: exploring the psychic dimension of political discourse through fantasy	3
A critical explanation of uses of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	3
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	3
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	3
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	3
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
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis	2
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education	2
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	2
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy	2
Interpretivism vs. positivism in policy studies: Is there common ground?	2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	2
The policy author-function: analyzing authorship of policy documents	2

Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing	2
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	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
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents	2
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis	2
Mapping networks of critical policy studies	2
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence	2
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	2
Correction	1
Questioning the ‘transparency-fix’ in the fight against corruption: The example of Transparency International	1
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	1
Civil society narratives of climate justice: subjects, causes, and solutions	1
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research	1
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	1
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden	1
Departing from all semblance of democracy: how scholarly communities can respond to the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism	1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct	1
Correction	1
Reframing robustness, reclaiming politics: a constructivist reappraisal of robust governance in turbulent times	1
The rhythm and space of collegial interactions. A qualitative study of mediating interaction sites in palliative care	1
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 2023	1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	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
Problematizing ultra-processing: opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance	1
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education	1
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy	1
What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy	1
The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension - Conclusion to the CPS Special Book Review	1
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance	1
Correction	1
Below-the-Radar Public Policy: a conceptual and empirical contribution from Argentina (2016–2023)	1
Audit culture: how indicators and rankings are reshaping the world	1
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem	1
Political formulation of policy solutions	1
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures	1
Research methods in deliberative democracy	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
Review: magical thinking in public policy – why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist in cynical times	1