OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Studies is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Instrumental councillors? On the strategic interests that drive local councillors’ legitimacy perceptions of citizen participation	39
Do intergovernmental interactions increase government spending?	36
Editorial board	30
Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region	28
Assessing the economic impact of innovative cities	28
The oil price volatility and arms import relationship: the role of security imperatives and budget pressures	25
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)	18
Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory	17
The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia	16
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis	16
Do happy individuals support government environmental spending? Evidence from the general social survey	16
Policy diffusion at the agenda-setting stage: lessons from South Korea’s adoption of long-term care insurance	13
Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies	13
Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support	13
Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance	12
Towards the creation of an independent fiscal council for growth sustainability and development in oil-exporting small-open economy	12
“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries	12
Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election	12
Digital political campaigning: contemporary challenges and regulation	12
Institutional diversity and the immigrant wage gap? A comparison between the German and British experience with statutory minimum wages	11
Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020	11
A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy	11
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on energy prices: evidence from OECD countries	10
Policy transfer and policy experimentation in China: the case of state-sponsored student loans	10

Experts’ active representation in the UN treaty bodies: the role of members’ tenure	10
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19	9
Editorial board	9
The historical evolution of the minimum wage policy in Mexico: from local to federal determination	9
Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico	9
The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information	8
Nervi rei publicae: local governments as economic populists?	8
Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies? – Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations	8
Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach	8
National leadership and economic growth: the case of India’s 2014 transition	8
Correction	7
Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies	7
Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service	7
Willing to be transparent? Assessing political parties’ commitment towards regulating party aid in South Africa	7
Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing	6
Can financial transparency help parties institutionalize and save democracy?	6
COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures	6
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China	6
Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach	6
The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study	6
Tax policy shifts in aging societies: assessing the impact of tax mix changes on income inequality in OECD countries	6
Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives	6
Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates	5
The effects of Donald Trump	5
Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank	5
The war in Ukraine and environmental security in Central European ministerial discourse	5
Policy transfer during the COVID era	5
Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand	5
Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile	4
Stock market reaction to the French snap legislative election	4
Designing intermediary-involved regulatory system: organizational capacities and institutional conditions for NGO regulatory intermediation	4
Reimagining public water: an intergenerational exploration of paradigms for future system design	4
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for COVID-19 health-related data: lessons for the European Health Data Space	4
An ecosystem approach to governing commercial actors in healthcare AI	4
Geopolitical risks and inflation: insights across time horizons	4
Narrating for representation policies: the discursive institutionalization of indigenous political representation in Australia & Singapore	4
Grassroots fiscal centralization: subnational delegation of revenue authority in Argentina	4
An (almost) laissez faire party system: how Kyrgyz parties failed and what could be done about it	4
Citizen preferences for decisional power levels and participatory instruments in local government	4
Economic complexity and employment in emerging countries: a comparative analysis	4
Conflict disruptions of epistemic communities: initial lessons from the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4