OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Politics is 2. 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 2020-06-01 to 2024-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-creation: the new kid on the block in public governance	70
Co-experience, co-production and co-governance: an ecosystem approach to the analysis of value creation	69
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	61
Expert knowledge and policymaking: a multi-disciplinary research agenda	44
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	34
Digital platforms for the co-creation of public value	28
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship: actors and actions in public policy innovation	25
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	23
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration	21
Strategic management as an enabler of co-creation in public services	21
Why nudge sometimes fails: fatalism and the problem of behaviour change	20
New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback	19
A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation	17
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	17
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	17
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England	15
Polycentric governance and policy advice: lessons from Whitehall policy advisory systems	15
Policy overreaction styles during manufactured crises	15
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	13
Conceptualising policy design in the policy process	12
Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial	12
Fit to govern? Comparing citizen and policymaker perceptions of deliberative democratic innovations	11
How policymakers employ ethical frames to design and introduce new policies: the case of childhood vaccine mandates in Australia	10
Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept	10
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	10

Transformational change through Public Policy	10
Measuring and assessing the effects of collaborative innovation in crime prevention	10
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	9
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant: emotions, ethnography and language	9
Government’s social responsibility, citizen satisfaction and trust	8
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	8
Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally?	8
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	7
What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians?	7
The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens’ initiatives	6
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	6
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	6
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	6
How do media, political and regulatory agendas influence one another in high risk policy issues?	6
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	5
Evaluating the role of bricolage in US Health Care policy reform	5
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	4
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	4
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	4
How do policy transfer mechanisms influence policy outcomes in the context of authoritarianism in Vietnam?	4
Integrating identity in policy design theory	4
Improving the political judgement of citizens: why the task environment matters	4
Copy, paste, legislate, succeed? The effect of policy plagiarism on policy success	4
Successful policy transfer and public sector reform in developing countries	4
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	4
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: better together	3
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	3
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	3
Rescaling education policy: central–local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden	3
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies	3
Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy	3
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	3
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	3
An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany	3
Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation?	3
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	3
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	2
How well do the UK government’s ‘areas of research interest’ work as boundary objects to facilitate the use of research in policymaking?	2
A future research agenda for transformational urban policy studies	2
British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the multiple streams framework	2
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	2
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	2
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	2
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	2
Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?	2
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	2
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	2
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	2

Co-production in the recruitment of frontline public service employees	2
How can better monitoring, reporting and evaluation standards advance behavioural public policy?	2
Analysing the information sources Brazilian bureaucrats use as evidence in everyday policymaking	2
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	2
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	2