OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	41
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	32
Editorial board	31
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures	30
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?	28
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	22
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	19
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	19
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	18
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	18
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	17
Policy diffusion at the agenda-setting stage: lessons from South Korea’s adoption of long-term care insurance	16
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	16
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	16
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	16
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	15
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	14
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	13
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	13
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	13
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies	13
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	12
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	12
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	11
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	11

National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition	10
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	10
Editorial board	10
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	10
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	9
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	9
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	9
Correction	9
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	8
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	8
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	7
Tax policy shifts in aging societies: assessing the impact of tax mix changes on income inequality in OECD countries	7
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	7
Merit and impartiality in public administration: the effect of democratic backsliding through participation and contestation	7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	7
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	7
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study	7
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	6
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	6
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	5
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	5
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	5
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	5
Policy transfer during the COVID era	5
Citizen preferences for decisional power levels and participatory instruments in local government	5
Policy analysis without written policy: using practice-based methods to understand work with people labelled at risk of sexually harming	5
An (almost) laissez faire party system: how Kyrgyz parties failed and what could be done about it	5
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	4
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	4
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	4
Rethinking situated agency: an interpretive framework to policy implementation	4
Grassroots fiscal centralization: subnational delegation of revenue authority in Argentina	4
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	4
Policy experts and bureaucrats in the policy process: the nexus between universities’ expertise and policy advisory systems in Africa	4
Economic complexity and employment in emerging countries: a comparative analysis	4
The climate change literacy of public officials in Taiwan: implications and strategies for global adaptation	4
Stock market reaction to the French snap legislative election	4
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	4
Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt	4
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	4
Watching the digital grassroots grow: assessing party members’ social media campaigning during the 2021 German Bundestag election	3
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	3
Trade-offs between accountability and discretion in job performance: findings from a survey study in a Chinese regulatory context	3
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	3
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel	3

The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	3
Governance and public administration in China	3
Megatrends and regions: a case study of the English Midlands	3
Democracy, Women's Political Empowerment, and Road Safety: Evidence from a Global Analysis, 2001–2019	3
Means-Tested welfare policies and the quiet fear of poverty amongst older people: lessons from the UK	3
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	3
Fiscal decentralization and land urbanization: evidence from China's fiscal reform of “province-managing-county”	3
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	3
What sustains flawed indicators? Unpacking the EU's administrative burden agenda	3
The right standard for the job? On the limits of standard setting as a tool for governing commercial actors	3
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	3
Pre-election voter information interventions led by electoral management bodies can improve voter confidence	3
From people’s champion to power consolidator: examining Jokowi’s role in Indonesia’s democratic backsliding	3
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	3
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	3
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	3
Can electoral management bodies expand the pool of registered voters? Examining the effects of face-to-face, remote, traditional, and social media outreach	3
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	2
Correction	2
Future design in the public policy process: giving a voice to future generations*	2
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	2
Resilience policies in China: an analysis of central-level policies	2
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	2
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	2
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	2
Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war	2
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	2
Editorial board	2
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
The network of support for inclusive transition education implementation in México	2
Eroding democracy and public administration capacities through overstretching the armed forces: evidence of the federal police dismantling in Mexico	2
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	2
What determines citizens’ attitudes to municipal mergers?	1
A realistic approach to policy formulation: the adapted EMMIE framework	1
Tax policy of Ukraine in terms of martial law	1
The (worst) laws of the land: the concept of legislative basket cases, legislative backsliding and public administration in Central-Eastern Europe	1
Defining negative cases of policy transfer	1
People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions	1
Democracy, public administration, and democratic backsliding	1
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	1
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	1
Narratives of democratic backsliding: media coverage of illiberal administrative policies	1
Does labour market flexibility boost or discourage the economic business cycle?	1
The Arab Gulf states in the Asian energy market: is the Russia-Ukraine war a game changer?	1
Russia-Ukraine War, India, and US grand strategy: punishing or leveraging neutrality?	1
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	1
Populism, public administration and democratic backsliding: the Indian experience	1
Post-conflict party-building in Southern Philippines: the promise and perils of institutional re-engineering in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao	1
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	1
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	1
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	1
Democratic backsliding and public administration in Pakistan’s hybrid regime: a balance of power approach	1
Benchmarking and non-financial disclosure: the case of large Spanish local governments and the 2030 Agenda	1
The impact of electronic levy on mobile money transactions: lessons from Ghana	1
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	1
Correction	1
Effects of the political configuration of local governments on subjective well-being	1
Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning	1
On historical justice in post-socialist contexts. Reparatory justice and social trust in the Romanian obști	1
Public administration under competitive authoritarianism: impact of democratic backsliding on public administration in Sri Lanka	1
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	1
A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey	1
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	1
The wilting jasmine: the erosion of public administration and democratic backsliding in Tunisia	1