OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies is 2. 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
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	49
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	36
Editorial board	31
Using TRI data to expand understanding of minority faith and environmental justice	26
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures	22
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	21
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?	21
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	20
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	20
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	19
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	18
Policy diffusion at the agenda-setting stage: lessons from South Korea’s adoption of long-term care insurance	18
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	18
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	17
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	16
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies	16
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	15
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	14
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	14
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	14
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	13
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	12
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	11

Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	11
Editorial board	9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	9
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	9
Correction	9
National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition	8
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	8
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	8
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	7
Merit and impartiality in public administration: the effect of democratic backsliding through participation and contestation	7
Tax policy shifts in aging societies: assessing the impact of tax mix changes on income inequality in OECD countries	7
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	7
Administrative resilience and democratic backsliding in crisis governance: comparative lessons from Wuhan and Shanghai during COVID-19	7
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	7
Building party resilience: improving party aid in an age of democratic decline	7
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	7
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	7
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	7
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	6
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	6
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	6
Citizen preferences for decisional power levels and participatory instruments in local government	6
Policy analysis without written policy: using practice-based methods to understand work with people labelled at risk of sexually harming	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
Policy transfer during the COVID era	6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	6
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	5
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	5
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	5
Economic complexity and employment in emerging countries: a comparative analysis	5
Polarization, and party politics in post-revolutionary and post-war Armenia	5
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	5
Policy experts and bureaucrats in the policy process: the nexus between universities’ expertise and policy advisory systems in Africa	5
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	5
Stock market reaction to the French snap legislative election	5
Grassroots fiscal centralization: subnational delegation of revenue authority in Argentina	5
An (almost) laissez faire party system: how Kyrgyz parties failed and what could be done about it	5
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	5
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	5
Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt	4
The right standard for the job? On the limits of standard setting as a tool for governing commercial actors	4
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	4
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
Fiscal decentralization and land urbanization: evidence from China's fiscal reform of “province-managing-county”	4
The climate change literacy of public officials in Taiwan: implications and strategies for global adaptation	4
Rethinking situated agency: an interpretive framework to policy implementation	4
Pre-election voter information interventions led by electoral management bodies can improve voter confidence	4

Megatrends and regions: a case study of the English Midlands	4
Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	4
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	4
Democracy, Women's Political Empowerment, and Road Safety: Evidence from a Global Analysis, 2001–2019	4
Watching the digital grassroots grow: assessing party members’ social media campaigning during the 2021 German Bundestag election	4
Means-Tested welfare policies and the quiet fear of poverty amongst older people: lessons from the UK	4
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	4
What sustains flawed indicators? Unpacking the EU's administrative burden agenda	3
Trade-offs between accountability and discretion in job performance: findings from a survey study in a Chinese regulatory context	3
Diagnostic mapping: unpacking critical agenda-setting dynamics through discursive streams	3
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	3
Editorial board	3
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	3
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	3
Aid without roots: international support and the hollowing out of party accountability	3
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	3
From people’s champion to power consolidator: examining Jokowi’s role in Indonesia’s democratic backsliding	3
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	3
Future design in the public policy process: giving a voice to future generations*	3
The influence of political opponent imprisonment on exchange rate movements	3
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	3
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	3
Do social protection programmes impact income distribution? Evidence from India	3
The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	3
Correction	3
Public administration under competitive authoritarianism: impact of democratic backsliding on public administration in Sri Lanka	2
Benchmarking and non-financial disclosure: the case of large Spanish local governments and the 2030 Agenda	2
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	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
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	2
Democracy, public administration, and democratic backsliding	2
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	2
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	2
A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey	2
Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war	2
The network of support for inclusive transition education implementation in México	2
Building from below: the role of political parties in fostering resilience in an age of democratic decline	2
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	2
Citizen support for climate adaptation policy instruments in gardens	2
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	2
Global governance of commercial actors in data-intensive health innovation: Introduction to the special issue	2
Resilience policies in China: an analysis of central-level policies	2
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	2
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	2
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	2
Agenda-setting success and the 2024 UK Birth Trauma Inquiry	2