Policy Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management54
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell52
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis43
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process36
Policy integration as a political process35
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico25
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany24
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes24
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens22
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field22
Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food20
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking19
The legacy of Harold D. Lasswell’s commitment to the policy sciences of democracy: observations on Douglas Torgerson’s the policy sciences of Harold Lasswell18
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking16
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries15
Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil14
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies14
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management14
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends13
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes12
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship12
Keep me posted, but don’t stress me out: how the positive effect of social networking services on civil servants’ information use and political capacities can be attenuated by social media stress11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy11
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning11
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives10
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia10
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion10
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals9
Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance9
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?9
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats8
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice8
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon8
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues8
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process7
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?7
Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia7
Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell7
Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management7
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics7
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity7
Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy7
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics7
Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries7
The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming7
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration7
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