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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	30
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	30
Trump’s lasting impact on the federal judiciary	24
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	21
What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created?	17
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	16
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	15
A cross-country analysis of the factors driving innovation performance in the Global South	13
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	13
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	11
A black box assessment of institutional quality: the challenge of evaluating lobbying transparency	11
Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation	11
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	10
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	10
Trump and US soft power	10
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	10
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	10
Trump’s (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US	9
Enterprise policies and R&D support for high-tech SMEs: a multi-perspective approach	9
The effects of Donald Trump	8
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	8
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	8
Better safe than sorry? Digital campaigning governance in Germany	8
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	8
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	8

Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	8
Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States	7
Donald Trump’s Jacksonian and Jeffersonian foreign policy	7
Intellectual entrepreneurs and U.S. International monetary policy change in the early 1970s	7
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	7
Reconceptualizing transfer pathways: policy transfer and armed UAV proliferation	7
Policy punctuations and agenda diversity in China: a national level analysis from 1980 to 2019	7
Which regions produce the most innovation policy research?	7
Policy transfer during the COVID era	6
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	6
Tax composition and economic growth in the age of demographic change	6
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	6
“Data, data, data” – post-Brexit data governance and its relation to the UK’s economic model	6
Advancing the structure-in-evolution approach: the case of social policy development in Denmark	5
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel	5
The multifaceted nature of trust in the uptake of advice: policy advice utilization in ministerial cabinets	5
What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act	5
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	5
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	5
Strategic ambiguity: the U.S. grand strategy initiative in Afghanistan	5
Editorial board	5
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	5
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	5
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	4
People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions	4
The politics of regulatory design: evidence from state-level energy regulations in the United States	4
The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South	4
Correction	4
The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	4
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	4
Faith-based actors as climate intermediaries in Scottish climate policy	4
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	4
Role sets of advisory councils in local policymaking process: the perspective of council members	4
“Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low – and middle-income countries: implications for digital health governance	4
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	4
A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana	4
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	4
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	4
Who decides foreign policy? The role of national trauma in shaping the influence of public opinion in South Korea	4
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	3
Policy on the move: the enabling settings of participation in participatory budgeting	3
Anti-populism in action: a case study of the Remain argument during the EU referendum	3
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	3
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	3
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	3
A Pragmatist Constructivism Framework (PCF) to understand the undetermined policy process: three policy solutions for shale gas problem	3
Trump and the “deep state”	3
Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party	3
Intermediating sustainable finance: a case study of The Aotearoa Circle's Sustainable Finance Forum	3
Toward responsible artificial intelligence in health: regulatory structures and power dynamics of the big tech industry in the United States	3

Trump, trust and the transatlantic relationship	3
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	3
Practices of scalecraft and the reassembling of political boundaries: the contested nature of national schooling reform in the Australian federation	3
The policy transfer of environmental policy integration: path dependency, route flexibility, or the Hungarian way?	3
Editorial board	3
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	2
The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine	2
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	2
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	2
Labour market policies during an age of uncertainty	2
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	2
The structure-in-evolution approach: a unified view of evolutionary change in policy systems	2
The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump	2
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	2
Mapping multi-stakeholder initiatives for public governance and transparency: a comparative assessment of trends and motivations	2
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	2
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	2
Migration and soft power: the EU’s visa and refugee policy response to the war in Ukraine	2
Editorial: managing health and social care after covid: what works and who decides?	2
The Trump administration and China: policy continuity or transformation?	2
Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures?	2
The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia	2
Correction	2
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	2
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
How does policy mix credibility affect citizen participation? Evidence from pilot of household waste sorting policy	2
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	2
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	2
Why do Indigenous public policies fail?	2
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America	2
Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links	2