Policy Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Policy Sciences is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Policy’s role in democratic conflict management57
The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell49
Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis48
Policy integration as a political process43
Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process34
(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany28
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico27
Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes24
Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field24
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
Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design18
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
Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens17
Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management15
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries14
The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking13
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 stress13
Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies13
How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends13
A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship13
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes12
Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis12
Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion11
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy11
Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia11
The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?10
Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon10
Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives10
Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats10
From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals10
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–20249
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues9
Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice9
The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration9
Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics8
Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?8
How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics8
Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity8
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