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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Leveraging an Unhappiness Lens for Smarter Policies	66
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	43
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement From Large Language Models Increases Citizens' Compliance Willingness in China	35
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	32
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	27
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	26
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	26
Emotion and the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Affective Dynamics Perspective	24
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	24
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	24
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit	23
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	22
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	22
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel	20
Coproduction as a Causal Process	19
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	18
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Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	16
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	15
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	15
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	14
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Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	14
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Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	12
Limits on Terms, Limits on Control: The Effect of Chief Executive Term Limits on Bureaucratic Responsiveness	12
Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France	12
How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System	12
Resisting Democratic Backsliding From Within the State: Environmental Politics in Bolsonaro's Brazil	12
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	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
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches	10
The Inclusion Trade‐Off: Comparing the Design and Functionality of Collaborative Governance Forums	9
GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research	9
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	9
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The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	9
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	9
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	9
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	9
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	8
Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?	8
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	8
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	7
Unpacking Welfare Deservingness Theory: Evidence From the Perceived Deservingness of Gig Workers	7
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	7
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Tradeoffs and Spillovers in U.S. Criminal Immigration Enforcement	7
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
Can Money Buy Trust? Social Transfers and Trust During the Covid‐19 Pandemic	6
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests	6
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	6
Moving Beyond Third Generation Policy Implementation Research Towards a Fourth Generation: Synthesizing Across Policy Process Theories	6
Editorial Introduction: Institutions, Attention, Narratives, and Policy Outcomes in the Policy Process	6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	6
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	6
Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion	6
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	5
Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	5
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Repeated Modifications in Policy Diffusion: Evidence From River Management Regulations in China's Cities	5
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	5
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	5
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	5
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	5
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Narrative power in the narrative policy framework	5
Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard	4
Editorial introduction: Advancing policy frontiers—Governance, learning, and innovation in policy studies	4

Who are childcare subsidies for? Examining subsidy eligibility policy in two southwestern states	4
How does a focusing event shape public opinion? Natural experimental evidence from the Orlando mass shooting	4
Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights	4
Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials	4
Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust	4
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans	4
Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation	4
Credit and Crises: How Fringe Credit Changes the Effect of Emergency Policies	4
The executive lawmaking agenda: Political parties, prime ministers, and policy change in Australia	4
Communicating With Congress: An Agenda‐Setting Analysis of the Ukraine Crisis	4
Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise	4
Comparing Beyond (Just) the State? Examining Patterns of Policy Advice Externalization Across Policy Domains	4
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	4
Editorial introduction: Charting new theoretical horizons here and elsewhere	4
Does the implementation status of gender provisions affect the implementation of a peace agreement? Evidence from Colombia's 2016 peace agreement implementation process	4
Moralization in Policy Narratives: Insights From the Politics of Climate Change and Public Health	4
Applying Systems Thinking and Participatory Design to Policy Development	3
Immigration, government type, and social welfare spending	3
Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence	3
Policy design and policy feedback in welfare retrenchment: A survey experiment in China	3
Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types	3
Policy design receptivity and target populations: A social construction framework approach to climate change policy	3
Balancing Participation and Speed: A Polycentric Governance Lens on Renewable‐Energy Siting	3
Latent target groups—A methodological contribution of social identities to policy design research	3
Interlocal learning mechanisms and policy diffusion: The case of new energy vehicles finance in Chinese cities	3
Policy feedback via economic behavior: A model and experimental analysis of consumption behavior	3
Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness	3
Narrating the Loser: Theorizing the Role of Characters Within the Narrative Policy Framework	3
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Unveiling and explaining the procedural justice in the policy design of renewable energy siting process in the United States	3
The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking	3
What Drives Forum Rule Adaptation: Investigating the Influence of the Forum Founder and Polycentric Governance Linkages in Dutch Strategic Spatial Planning	3
The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro‐level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas	3
Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies	3
Governing policy experiments in Chinese cities: Lessons on effective climate mitigation	3
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Participation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference	3
An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework	3
Understanding Citizens' Acceptance of AI in Policymaking: How Policy Domains, Levels of AI Involve	2
Editorial Introduction: Unveiling new dimensions in policy process theory research	2
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	2
Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda	2
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	2
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Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	2
Mind the (Collaborative) Gap: How the Public Symbolically Rewards and Punishes Policy Actors for Their Collaborative Choices	2
Unpacking core components for policy design: A comparison of synthesis approaches	2
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Editorial introduction: Exploring the frontier of policy theory research	2
The policy feedback effects of preemption	2
Environmental disasters and ecomodernist beliefs: Insights from a quasi‐natural experiment	2
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	2
Policy Signals in National Crises: How Government Policies Shape Nonprofit and Stakeholder Behavior	2
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Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	2
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Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach	2
Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement	2
The adoption of the Swedish carbon tax: Influences and interactions across multiple political levels, jurisdictions, and policy areas	2
Structure, Valence, and Causality: A Scoping Review of Plot Concepts and Measurements in the Narrative Policy Framework	2
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Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management	2
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Legislative Attention and Nonprofit Efficiency: A Link Across Sectoral Boundaries	2