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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs	72
Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework	46
Does Entrepreneurship Work? Understanding What Policy Entrepreneurs Do and Whether It Matters	35
Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course	27
Boundary Spanning Through Engagement of Policy Actors in Multiple Issues	21
The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation	18
Adapting to Sea‐Level Rise: Centralization or Decentralization in Polycentric Governance Systems?	17
Policy Learning and Information Processing	16
Policy Change Through Negotiated Agreements: The Case of Greening Swiss Agricultural Policy	15
Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Influence in Notice‐and‐Comment Rulemaking	15
The Roles of Experts and Expert‐Based Information in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations Based on the Acid Mine Drainage Case Study in Gauteng, South Africa	15
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India	15
The Advocacy Coalition Index: A new approach for identifying advocacy coalitions	14
Does Data Drive Policymaking? A Multiple Streams Perspective on the Relationship Between Indicators and Agenda Setting	13
The Growth of the Evaluation Tree in the Policy Analysis Forest: Recent Developments in Evaluation	13
Policy Analysis and Political Sustainability	12
Private citizens, stakeholder groups, or governments? Perceived legitimacy and participation in water collaborative governance	12
Fines, Fees, Forfeitures, and Disparities: A Link Between Municipal Reliance on Fines and Racial Disparities in Policing	12
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement	12
Narrative strategies in a nondemocratic setting: Moscow’s urban policy debates	11
The multiple streams framework in a nondemocracy: The infeasibility of a national ban on live poultry sales in China	11
Political Science and U.S. Health Policy in the Era of the Affordable Care Act	11
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14	10
Disputed Policy Change: The Role of Events, Policy Learning, and Negotiated Agreements	10
Drivers of (in)equity in collaborative environmental governance	10

Policy dimension: A new concept to distinguish substance from process in the Narrative Policy Framework	10
The Diffusion of Erin's Law: Examining the Role of the Policy Entrepreneur	10
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	10
Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Forum Involvement in a Weakly Institutionalized Ecology of Policy Games	10
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	9
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	9
Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems	9
Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements	9
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries	9
Environmental Federalism in Indian Country: Sovereignty, Primacy, and Environmental Protection	8
Building blocks of polycentric governance	8
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	8
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	8
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	8
Coevolution of Networks and Beliefs in U.S. Environmental Risk Policy	8
Feeling Politics: Carceral Contact, Well‐Being, and Participation	7
Policy Regime Decay	7
What Was the Problem in Parkland? Using Social Media to Measure the Effectiveness of Issue Frames	6
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs	6
How police agency diversity, policies, and outcomes shape citizen trust and willingness to engage	6
What's the grand story? A macro‐narrative analytical model and the case of Swiss child and adult protection policy	6
Linking policy design, change, and outputs: Policy responsiveness in American state electricity policy	6
External drivers of participation in regional collaborative water planning	6
Local Government Perspectives on Collaborative Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Iowa's Watershed Management Authorities	6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	6
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	6
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters	5
More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	5
Race, representation, and policy attitudes in U.S. public schools	5
What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities	5
A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods	5
The Effect of Beliefs on Policy Instrument Preferences: The Case of Swiss Renewable Energy Policy	5
Contemporary Policy Challenges in Protecting the Homeland	4
State Politics, Race, and “Welfare” as a Funding Stream: Cash Assistance Spending Under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families	4
The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance	4
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	4
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	4
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	4
Post‐loss power building: The feedback effects of policy loss on group identity and collective action	4
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	4
The institutional grammar in policy process research	3
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	3
Does Program Evaluation Affect Program Termination? Insights from the Repeal of Corporate Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry	3
Chain of command vs. Who’s in command: Structure, politics, and regulatory enforcement	3
Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control	3
Theorizing reactive policy entrepreneurship: A case study of Swedish local emergency management	3
Design paths of federal intergovernmental cooperation	3
How racialized policy contact shapes the social constructions of policy targets	3
Narratives and expert information in agenda‐setting: Experimental evidence on state legislator engagement with artificial intelligence policy	3
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	3

The Local Revolution under Second‐Order Devolution: The Effect of County Governments on TANF Administration	3
A grammar of institutions for complex legal topics: Resolving statutory multiplicity and scaling up to jurisdiction‐level legal institutions	2
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	2
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	2
Budgetary changes and organizational performance: Evidence from state transportation agencies	2
Understanding policy influence in hybrid regimes: Insights from a qualitative study of policy advice in Ukraine and Moldova	2
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	2
Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	2
Punctuated equilibrium in multilevel contexts: How federal and state level forces feedback into shaping the local policy agenda in Mexico	2
Policy coordination and selective corruption control in China	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
Policy composition and adoption duration: Capturing conflict in the legislative process	2