OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Policy Studies is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	67
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers	28
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	26
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	23
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	22
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	20
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	18
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	18
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	17
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
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	14
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
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	11
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	11
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change	11
Variegated Economies	10
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	10
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	10
Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	10
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	8
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	8
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	8
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	7

Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	7
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world	7
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	7
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	6
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
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	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
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation	5
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection	4
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	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
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program	4
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	3
A critical explanation of uses of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach	3
Interpretivism vs. positivism in policy studies: Is there common ground?	3
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
‘The region’ between care and control: How Dutch policy actors discursively legitimate regional ‘reception and protection’	3
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	3
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	3