OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Policy is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors facilitating the adoption of wellbeing budgets in New Zealand: a case study with budget actors	37
The electoral connection, state attorneys general, and the dynamics of incarceration rates	32
How do Europeans want to fight climate change? Comparing and explaining public support for a wide variety of policies	22
The impact of local government information disclosure on county-seat development in an authoritarian context: evidence from a pilot policy in China	21
Tax autonomy mitigates soft budget constraint: evidence from Spanish Regions	18
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation	17
Public policy and elections in authoritarian regimes: evidence from the policy on native languages in Russia	16
Bundling up actions to electrify: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of e-mobility policies in 16 cities in the United States of America	13
Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes – ERRATUM	13
Policy paradigm modes: explaining USA antitrust law changes in the 1970s	13
The political economy of policy instruments: The Left and collectively governed markets in Germany	12
Fluctuations of immigration salience: testing alternative explanations of policy salience among US Latinos	11
Anti-Muslim policy preferences and boundaries of American identity across partisanship	10
Managing ideational complexity in public policies: the case of public research funding	9
Environmental vertical management reform and data manipulation in the public sector: evidence from China	9
Salience, preference, and asylum outcomes in Germany and the UK, 2002–2019	9
PUP volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
War and the adoption of family allowances	8
Income inequality and opinion expression gap in the American public: an analysis of policy priorities	8
As the crow flies: tracking policy diffusion through stakeholder networks	8
Redirecting revenues from law enforcement fines, forfeitures, and related fees to fund local nonprofits: a policy design proposal	8
The price of creativity: a conjoint experiment in copyrights	8
When incumbents successfully retrench big and popular social policies: policy design matters	8
Framing social inclusion in Canadian intellectual disability policy	7
Fear, trust, and compliance with COVID-19 measures: a study of the mediating effect of trust in government on the relationship between fear and compliance	7

A hard pill to swallow: Social capital, opiates, and health outcomes in the United States	7
PUP volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Critical junctures as complex processes: examining mechanisms of policy change and path dependence in the Canadian pandemic response to homelessness	6
Problem indicators and territorial restructuring: do institutional decision rules matter?	6
PUP volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Fiscal equalization in Nordic municipalities: institutions and inequalities	6
Multilevel policy textual learning in Chinese local environmental policies	6
From anticipatory strategies to reactive blame games in multi-level settings: the role of structure and politics in stability and policy change	5
Toward a theory of minority-party influence in the U.S. Congress: whip counts, amendment votes, and minority leverage in the house	5
PUP volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Public demand and LGBTQ+ rights	5
Affluence, congruence, and lobbying success in EU climate policy	5
Messaging, policy and “credible” votes: do members of Congress vote differently when policy is on the line?	5
Does social media undermine trust? Institutional trust in civil society and governance institutions	5
Do policy instruments matter? Governments’ choice of policy mix and higher education performance in Western Europe – CORRIGENDUM	5
Fiscal policy preferences, trade-offs, and support for social investment	5
How self-interest and symbolic politics shape the effectiveness of compensation for nearby housing development	4
Accountability and corruption displacement: evidence from Italy	4
Redefining influence: how a feminist advocacy group reformed paternity leave in Spain through insider women’s alliances	4
Why do citizens support algorithmic government?	4
Public sector innovation outcome-driven sustainable development in Bangladesh: applying the dynamic autoregressive distributed lag simulations and Kernel-based regularised least square machine learnin	4
Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal	4
Why hospitals hire tobacco lobbyists: conflicts of interest among lobbyists’ clients	4
Government spending preferences over the life cycle	3
Overcoming the agglomeration paradox: skill-dependent FDI and urbanization in China	3
Strategic investment of public funds: State responses to federal R&D grants	3
PUP volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
PUP volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
How do policy environments shape public service motivation during the national disaster? Evidence from large-scale survey experiments – CORRIGENDUM	3
How do policy environments shape public service motivation during the national disaster? Evidence from large-scale survey experiments	3
Communication as an enabler of evidence-informed policy: a study on spatial planning	3
PUP volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Does exposure to democracy decrease health inequality?	3
Authoritarian and democratic states: the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of public health outcomes	3
The hidden homeownership welfare state: an international long-term perspective on the tax treatment of homeowners	3
Agency control through the appointed hierarchy: presidential politicization of unilateral appointees	3
Public policies and social progress: two evaluation models	2
Welfare, egalitarianism, and polarization: the politics of noncontributory social programs	2
Bureaucratic politics in customized implementation of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive in France and Germany	2
Types of pandemic-induced psychological distress, clarity of responsibility, and support for incumbents	2
Biodiversity, multi-level governance, and policy implementation in Europe: a comparative analysis at the subnational level	2
PUP volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Executive action that lasts	2
The representative capacity of interest groups: explaining how issue features shape membership involvement when establishing policy positions	2
PUP volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Institutional legacies and temporary assistance for needy families spending decisions: the case of the Freedmen’s Bureau	2
Measuring organizational effects on street-level bureaucrats’ discretionality: a comparative study of three Italian contexts	2
A forum on representation and responsiveness in public policy	1
How proximity and trust of policy narrators motivate their audience	1
Policy entrepreneurs and problem definition: the case of European student mobility	1

PUP volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Identity-based subgroups and information exchange in adversarial policy networks	1
Social media exposure’s effects on public support toward three-child policy in China: role of cognitive elaboration, perceived negative effects, and institutional trust	1
A Trump effect on immigration policy attitudes? Another look	1
Root causes and police abolition	1
Gatekeepers of the Undesired? A systematic review on local housing policy and the settlement of vulnerable groups	1
Selective decentralization under the trend of centralization: reforms in China’s governmental power of environmental governance from 1973 to 2023	1
The impact of inter-actor competition on administrative burdens: theorizing “consequent populations” using the illustrative case of gamete donation governance	1
Determinants of top personal income tax rates in 19 OECD countries, 1981–2018	1
The policy agenda effects of problem indicators: a comparative study in seven countries	1
Holding incumbent chief executives accountable in local government: political versus administrative determinants	1
PUP volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check	1
Pollution and the public: how information accessibility conditions the public’s responsiveness to policy and outcomes	1
They only hate the term: policy branding and the politics of critical race theory	1
The effect of psychological bias on public officials’ attitudes towards the implementation of policy instruments: evidence from survey experiments	1
The post-oil post-COVID social contract: taxing informal workers for healthcare insurance in oil-exporting developing economies	1
Theorising policy advisory system management: approaches and practice	1
Policy design and governance in hierarchical, risk-oriented organizations: a Danish Armed Forces case study	1
Caring after COVID: swiss health policy, windows of opportunity, and programmatic groups	1
Normative, rational, and relational motives in crosscoalition coordination for a VET refugee programme	1
How are policy pilots managed? Findings from the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in China	1
The aftermath of ballot box success and failure: evidence from land preservation referendums	1
Tales and theories as levers of expert influence: A case study of the Norwegian Oil Fund	1
Revolving doors in Europe: does hiring from the public sector facilitate access?	1