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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	33
Trump’s (mis)management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US	30
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	24
Editorial board	23
Donald Trump’s Jacksonian and Jeffersonian foreign policy	22
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	22
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	21
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	21
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	17
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	17
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	15
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	14
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	14
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	13
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	13
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	11
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	11
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	11
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	11
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	10
Trump’s authoritarian neoliberal governance and the US-Mexican border	10
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America	10
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	10
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	9

Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	9
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	9
“Trump and racial equality in America? No pretense at all!”	8
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	8
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	8
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	8
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	8
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	8
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	7
Corrigendum	7
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	7
Policy formation, termination and the multiple streams framework: the case of introducing and abolishing automated university admission in France	7
Editorial board	7
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach	7
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study	6
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	6
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	6
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	6
Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda	6
Assessing the policy effects of political leaders: a layered framework	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	6
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	5
Advancing the structure-in-evolution approach: the case of social policy development in Denmark	5
The effects of Donald Trump	5
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	5
Policy transfer during the COVID era	5
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	5
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	5
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	5
Trump and the “deep state”	4
The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia	4
Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021)	4
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	4
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	4
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	4
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	4
Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party	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	3
President Trump’s transgender moral panic	3
Regulatory transfer in transitioning economies: responses to corruption and weak state institutions	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
Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform	3
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	3
Democracy, women political empowerment, and road safety: evidence from a global analysis, 2000–2019	3
Watching the digital grassroots grow: assessing party members’ social media campaigning during the 2021 German Bundestag election	3

Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain	3
America after Trump: from “clean” to “dirty” democracy?	3
Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt	3
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
Cybersecurity policy and the Trump administration	3
Governance and public administration in China	3
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective	3
Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The right standard for the job? On the limits of standard setting as a tool for governing commercial actors	3
Alcohol, deterrence, and crime: causality and policy lessons from Korea	3
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	3
Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory	2
Balancing urban conservation and (re)development: tracing policy layering in the Mainland of China (1906-2023)	2
System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking	2
The curse of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment: assessing the role of property rights amidst the pandemic	2
The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump	2
Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy	2
Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers	2
Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel	2
Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms	2
Editorial board	2
Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England	2
The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context	2
How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017	2
Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation	2
The effects of wars: lessons from the war in Ukraine	2
Correction	2
Anti-populism in action: a case study of the Remain argument during the EU referendum	2
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of Ghana	2
Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China	1
Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions	1
Resilience policies in China: an analysis of central-level policies	1
Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war	1
The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis	1
Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government	1
Effects of the political configuration of local governments on subjective well-being	1
Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States	1
Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland	1
Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security	1
Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers?	1
Defining “impact” in public guidance policies: local experts’ views on the elements of impact	1
Why do Indigenous public policies fail?	1
Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism	1
Defining negative cases of policy transfer	1
Economic sanctions, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Iran: a system dynamics model	1
The differential impact of evidence types in policy decisions: comparing evidence priorities in employment and education ministries	1
COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond	1
What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created?	1
GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies	1
The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey	1
The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation	1
People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions	1