OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Policy Studies is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	96
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	34
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	33
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	32
Forking paths of AI governance – how risk management frameworks shape the politics of AI	27
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	22
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	19
Empathetic policy design: emotional engagement, inclusive space, and empowered deliberation	19
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	16
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	16
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	13
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	13
Governing by promises. Water scarcity and rural hegemony in Morocco	11
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism	10
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	8
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	8
Invisible dimensions of climate obstruction and road transport continuity. The role of mental infrastructure maintenance	8
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	8
The politics of platform regulation by robert gorwa	8
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	7
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	7
Variegated Economies	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	7
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	6
New models of housing and care: the politics of housing an aging population in Switzerland	6
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	6
Nobody’s decision: AI and the perfection of bureaucracy	5
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	5
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	5
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	5
Constructing the imaginary of ‘international talent’ in Finnish migration policy 2006–2024	5
Charting the course, charting the coast: exploring epistemic orientations in the making of sustainable aquaculture futures	5
Policy experts’ strategy in deliberative polling on Korean pension reform: utilizing valence and polysemic ideas through framing and narrative strategies	4
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	4
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	4
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	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
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	4
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	4
Governing through the community: state transversality, neoliberal governmentality, and struggles for schooling of social movements	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4