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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Trump’s (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US	29
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	25
Campaign-style crisis regime: how China responded to the shock of COVID-19	22
Networked environmental governance: formal and informal collaborative networks in local China	21
Presidential policy narratives and the (mis)use of scientific expertise: Covid-19 policy responses in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico	15
Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda	14
Nudge and co-design: complementary or contradictory approaches to policy innovation?	13
Policy on the move: the enabling settings of participation in participatory budgeting	13
Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links	11
Introduction: towards deliberative policy analysis 2.0	11
Explaining social insurance participation: the importance of the social construction of target groups in China	11
The environmental legacy of President Trump	10
Trump and the “deep state”	10
Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework	10
Policy formation, termination and the multiple streams framework: the case of introducing and abolishing automated university admission in France	9
More “Government”, less “Governance”: Chinese public employees’ preferences for governing public service delivery	9
The architecture of inter-community partnerships in renewable energy: the role of climate intermediaries	9
Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments?	8
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	8
Straddling multiple streams: focusing events, policy entrepreneurs and problem brokers in the governance of English fire and rescue services	7
“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”	7
Governance and public administration in China	7
Faith-based actors as climate intermediaries in Scottish climate policy	7
The macroeconomic impact of Trump	7
The effects of Donald Trump	7

President Trump’s transgender moral panic	6
Trump’s authoritarian neoliberal governance and the US-Mexican border	6
Inequalities in digital welfare take-up: lessons from e-government in Spain	6
The policy transfer of environmental policy integration: path dependency, route flexibility, or the Hungarian way?	6
Understanding design and implementation attributes for strategic policies: the case of Australia’s national environment policies	6
America after Trump: from “clean” to “dirty” democracy?	6
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach	6
The Trump administration and China: policy continuity or transformation?	6
Practices of scalecraft and the reassembling of political boundaries: the contested nature of national schooling reform in the Australian federation	6
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	6
Does administrative capacity matter? The absorption of the European Fund for the integration of migrants	6
The impact of anti-discrimination policies on immigrant youths’ sense of national belonging: an institutionalist account	6
Symposium: revisiting the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis	6
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	6
Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party	6
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	6
The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia	5
Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures?	5
A simultaneous-equation model of active labour market policies and change in unemployment rate: evidence from OECD countries	5
Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning	5
Trump and Congress	5
Why do Indigenous public policies fail?	5
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	4
Donald Trump’s Jacksonian and Jeffersonian foreign policy	4
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	4
Neighbourhood collaboration in co-production: state-resourced responsiveness or state-retrenched responsibilisation?	4
Trump and US soft power	4
Indigenous political participation in the deliberative systems: the long-term care service controversy in Taiwan	4
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	4
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	4
Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States	3
Government size and citizen satisfaction in China: evidence that accommodates two contrasting views	3
Increased support for collective defence in times of threat: European public opinion before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	3
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	3
Trump, trust and the transatlantic relationship	3
Knowledge utilization in the regulatory state: an empirical examination of Schrefler’s typology	3
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	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
The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump	3
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	3
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
Cybersecurity policy and the Trump administration	3
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	3
Policy Studies during an age of uncertainty	2
The Arab Gulf states in the Asian energy market: is the Russia-Ukraine war a game changer?	2
Underlying push and pull factors in undocumented immigration in the United States	2
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	2
Who decides foreign policy? The role of national trauma in shaping the influence of public opinion in South Korea	2
Policy transfer during the COVID era	2
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	2

Women’s movements for the elimination of violence against women: lessons from oral history of the Law 4320 in Turkey	2
Forged in the fires of war: the rise of a new Ukrainian identity	2
A realistic approach to policy formulation: the adapted EMMIE framework	2
Welfare experiments as tools for evidence-based policy making? The political debate on Twitter about the basic income trial in Finland	2
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	2
Tax composition and economic growth in the age of demographic change	2
Trump’s lasting impact on the federal judiciary	2
Regulatory transfer in transitioning economies: responses to corruption and weak state institutions	2
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	2
Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform	2
The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: insights from a regional state in Germany	2
The structure-in-evolution approach: a unified view of evolutionary change in policy systems	2
Intermediating sustainable finance: a case study of The Aotearoa Circle's Sustainable Finance Forum	2
The complexity of convergence: a multi-dimensional analysis of compulsory income management and social investment in New Zealand and Australia	2
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	2
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	2
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	1
Different policies, different voices: gender and legislative coordination in the United States Congress	1
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	1
The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine	1
The politics of regulatory design: evidence from state-level energy regulations in the United States	1
What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act	1
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	1
Strategic R&D budget allocation to achieve national energy policy targets: the case of Korea	1
A new cross-country index measuring the heterogenous effects of informal institutions	1
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	1
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	1
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	1
Migration and soft power: the EU’s visa and refugee policy response to the war in Ukraine	1
A Pragmatist Constructivism Framework (PCF) to understand the undetermined policy process: three policy solutions for shale gas problem	1
Which regions produce the most innovation policy research?	1
Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation	1
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	1
Intermediating climate change: the evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”	1
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America	1
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	1
Anti-populism in action: a case study of the Remain argument during the EU referendum	1
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	1
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	1
Policy punctuations and agenda diversity in China: a national level analysis from 1980 to 2019	1
A black box assessment of institutional quality: the challenge of evaluating lobbying transparency	1
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	1
The real fourth estate? Portrayals of Trump’s rise in the foreign media of friendly countries	1