OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies Journal 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Adapting to Sea‐Level Rise: Centralization or Decentralization in Polycentric Governance Systems?	25
The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation	22
The Advocacy Coalition Index: A new approach for identifying advocacy coalitions	21
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India	20
Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Influence in Notice‐and‐Comment Rulemaking	19
Policy Change Through Negotiated Agreements: The Case of Greening Swiss Agricultural Policy	18
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement	16
Private citizens, stakeholder groups, or governments? Perceived legitimacy and participation in water collaborative governance	16
Drivers of (in)equity in collaborative environmental governance	16
The multiple streams framework in a nondemocracy: The infeasibility of a national ban on live poultry sales in China	16
Narrative strategies in a nondemocratic setting: Moscow’s urban policy debates	16
Does Data Drive Policymaking? A Multiple Streams Perspective on the Relationship Between Indicators and Agenda Setting	15
How to Explain Major Policy Change Towards Sustainability? Bringing Together the Multiple Streams Framework and the Multilevel Perspective on Socio‐Technical Transitions to Explore the German “Energie	15
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries	14
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	14
Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements	13
Building blocks of polycentric governance	13
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	13
Policy dimension: A new concept to distinguish substance from process in the Narrative Policy Framework	13
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	12
Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems	12
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	12
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	11
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14	11
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	11

External drivers of participation in regional collaborative water planning	10
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	10
Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Forum Involvement in a Weakly Institutionalized Ecology of Policy Games	10
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	10
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	10
What's the grand story? A macro‐narrative analytical model and the case of Swiss child and adult protection policy	9
How police agency diversity, policies, and outcomes shape citizen trust and willingness to engage	8
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters	8
Policy Regime Decay	8
Race, representation, and policy attitudes in U.S. public schools	8
How racialized policy contact shapes the social constructions of policy targets	8
More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	7
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	7
A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods	7
The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance	7
Linking policy design, change, and outputs: Policy responsiveness in American state electricity policy	7
Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control	6
Post‐loss power building: The feedback effects of policy loss on group identity and collective action	6
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	6
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs	6
Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management	5
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	5
What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities	5
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	5
Punctuated equilibrium in multilevel contexts: How federal and state level forces feedback into shaping the local policy agenda in Mexico	4
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	4
The institutional grammar in policy process research	4
Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	4
Understanding policy influence in hybrid regimes: Insights from a qualitative study of policy advice in Ukraine and Moldova	4
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	4
Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior	4
Narratives and expert information in agenda‐setting: Experimental evidence on state legislator engagement with artificial intelligence policy	4
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	4
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	4
Chain of command vs. Who’s in command: Structure, politics, and regulatory enforcement	4
Policy coordination and selective corruption control in China	3
Does Program Evaluation Affect Program Termination? Insights from the Repeal of Corporate Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry	3
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	3
Global diffusion of COVID‐19 policies: The role of geographic, institutional, and cultural cues	3
Who is satisfied with their inclusion in polycentric sustainability governance? Networks, power, and procedural justice in Swiss wetlands	3
Design paths of federal intergovernmental cooperation	3
Policy composition and adoption duration: Capturing conflict in the legislative process	3
The politics of problems versus solutions: Policymaking and grandstanding in congressional hearings	3
The policy feedback effects of preemption	3
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	3
Budgetary changes and organizational performance: Evidence from state transportation agencies	3
A grammar of institutions for complex legal topics: Resolving statutory multiplicity and scaling up to jurisdiction‐level legal institutions	2
Subsystems and ill‐fitting problems: Clarifying a concept	2
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	2
Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	2

The public‐facing policy agenda of state legislatures: The communication of public policy via twitter	2
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans	2
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	2
The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas	2
Does anxiety increase policy learning?	2
Operationalizing social equity in public policy design: A comparative analysis of solar equity policies in the United States	2
Decentralization and resource contributions within local governance networks: Evidence from health sector reform in Honduras	2
Analyzing the association of policy narratives with problem tractability in the implementation of EU decisions: Evidence from the phytosanitary policy area	2
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	2
Narrative spillover: A narrative policy framework analysis of critical race theory discourse at multiple levels	2