OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy Studies Journal 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
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Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	31
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	28
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	25
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	24
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	22
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	22
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	21
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	20
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	20
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	20
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	18
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	17
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	17
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	17
Issue Information	17
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	15
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	15
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	14
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	14
Issue Information	14
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Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	12
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	12
Issue Information	12

Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France	11
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	10
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	10
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories: Evidence from the elements, attributes, and adoptions of Uniform Law Commission model legislation	10
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	10
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	10
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More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	10
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	9
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	9
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	8
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	8
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	8
Advocacy coalitions or pragmatic coupling of streams? Explaining policy change in Mexico: The tax reforms of Vicente Fox and Enrique Peña (2001 and 2013)	7
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	7
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	7
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	6
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	5
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Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	5
Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	5
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	5
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	5
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	5
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Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	4
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	4
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans	4
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Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems	3
How does a focusing event shape public opinion? Natural experimental evidence from the Orlando mass shooting	3
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters	3
Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials	3
Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise	3
The executive lawmaking agenda: Political parties, prime ministers, and policy change in Australia	3
Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights	3
Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust	3
Editorial introduction: Advancing policy frontiers—Governance, learning, and innovation in policy studies	3
Editorial introduction: Charting new theoretical horizons here and elsewhere	3
Unveiling and explaining the procedural justice in the policy design of renewable energy siting process in the United States	3
The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas	2
Interlocal learning mechanisms and policy diffusion: The case of new energy vehicles finance in Chinese cities	2
Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending	2
Linking policy design, change, and outputs: Policy responsiveness in American state electricity policy	2

Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement	2
Does the implementation status of gender provisions affect the implementation of a peace agreement? Evidence from Colombia's 2016 peace agreement implementation process	2
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Latent target groups—A methodological contribution of social identities to policy design research	2
Policy design receptivity and target populations: A social construction framework approach to climate change policy	2
Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior	2
An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework	2
The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking	2
Participation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference	2
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs	2
Environmental disasters and ecomodernist beliefs: Insights from a quasi‐natural experiment	1
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	1
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Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types	1
Editorial Introduction: Unveiling new dimensions in policy process theory research	1
Issue Information	1
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Unpacking core components for policy design: A comparison of synthesis approaches	1
Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management	1
The adoption of the Swedish carbon tax: Influences and interactions across multiple political levels, jurisdictions, and policy areas	1
The policy feedback effects of preemption	1
Issue Information	1
Editorial introduction: Exploring the frontier of policy theory research	1
Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	1
Editorial Introduction: Exploring policy diffusion, collaborative governance, and policy conflict	1
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	1
Issue Information	1
Governing policy experiments in Chinese cities: Lessons on effective climate mitigation	1
Race, representation, and policy attitudes in U.S. public schools	1
Policy design and policy feedback in welfare retrenchment: A survey experiment in China	1
Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda	1
Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach	1
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Policy attributes shape climate policy support	1
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	1