OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses	316
Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are	127
Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong	126
Nudges against pandemics: Sweden’s COVID-19 containment strategy in perspective	123
Policy style, consistency and the effectiveness of the policy mix in China’s fight against COVID-19	112
Policy learning and crisis policy-making: quadruple-loop learning and COVID-19 responses in South Korea	97
“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets	94
Governance of artificial intelligence	94
Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	83
Stuck in neutral? Federalism, policy instruments, and counter-cyclical responses to COVID-19 in the United States	69
Understanding inclusion in collaborative governance: a mixed methods approach	67
Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy	60
Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective	59
When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective	56
How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison	53
The Turkish state’s responses to existential COVID-19 crisis	51
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	48
Trust, but customize: federalism’s impact on the Canadian COVID-19 response	42
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice	42
Understanding Collaboration: Introducing the Collaborative Governance Case Databank	38
Taming the snake in paradise: combining institutional design and leadership to enhance collaborative innovation	37
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	37
Governing the adoption of robotics and autonomous systems in long-term care in Singapore	35
Collaborative crisis management: a plausibility probe of core assumptions	31
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	30

COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia	28
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	28
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	23
Pathways to collaborative performance: examining the different combinations of conditions under which collaborations are successful	21
COVID-19 and social inequality in China: the local–migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic	20
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	18
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	18
Introduction: policy integration and institutional capacity: theoretical, conceptual and empirical challenges	17
The alegality of blockchain technology	17
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	17
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	16
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	16
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools	15
“Provide our basic needs or we go out”: the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, inequality, and social policy in Ghana	14
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	14
Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms	14
COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design	14
What has happened and what has not happened due to the coronavirus disease pandemic: a systemic perspective on policy change	13
Law and tech collide: foreseeability, reasonableness and advanced driver assistance systems	13
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	13
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	12
Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19	12
Policy integration, policy design and administrative capacities. Evidence from EU cohesion policy	11
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia	11
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	10
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: discursive and institutional perspectives	9
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	9
Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities	8
What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency	8
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	8
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	7
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	7
When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness	7
Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries	7
Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands	6
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	6
Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities	6
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	6
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	6
Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making	6
Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand	6
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Presidential leadership styles and institutional capacity for climate policy integration in the European Commission	6
Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy?	5
Covid (in)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK	5
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	5
The development of large public infrastructure projects: integrating policy and project studies models	5
When opportunity backfires: exploring the implementation of urban climate governance alternatives in three major US cities	5
More is less: Partisan ideology, changes of government, and policy integration reforms in the UK	5