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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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs	50
Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework	34
Collaborative Governance and Environmental Justice: Disadvantaged Community Representation in California Sustainable Groundwater Management	34
Does Entrepreneurship Work? Understanding What Policy Entrepreneurs Do and Whether It Matters	26
China’s Policy Processes and the Advocacy Coalition Framework	26
Capacity Building toward Resilience: How Communities Recover, Learn, and Change in the Aftermath of Extreme Events	26
Layering Action Situations to Integrate Spatial Scales, Resource Linkages, and Change over Time: The Case of Groundwater Management in Agricultural Hubs in Germany	22
Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course	22
Intersectional Encounters, Representative Bureaucracy, and the Routine Traffic Stop	18
Boundary Spanning Through Engagement of Policy Actors in Multiple Issues	17
Using the Multiple Streams Framework to Connect Policy Adoption to Implementation	16
Systemic Dynamics of Policy Change: Overcoming Some Blind Spots of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory	14
Policy Change Through Negotiated Agreements: The Case of Greening Swiss Agricultural Policy	13
Salience, Scientific Uncertainty, and the Agenda‐Setting Power of Science	12
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India	12
Adapting to Sea‐Level Rise: Centralization or Decentralization in Polycentric Governance Systems?	11
Does Data Drive Policymaking? A Multiple Streams Perspective on the Relationship Between Indicators and Agenda Setting	11
The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation	11
Taking Time (and Space) Seriously: How Scholars Falsely Infer Policy Diffusion from Model Misspecification	10
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	10
Political Science and U.S. Health Policy in the Era of the Affordable Care Act	10
Fines, Fees, Forfeitures, and Disparities: A Link Between Municipal Reliance on Fines and Racial Disparities in Policing	10
The Advocacy Coalition Index: A new approach for identifying advocacy coalitions	10
Policy Analysis and Political Sustainability	9
Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Forum Involvement in a Weakly Institutionalized Ecology of Policy Games	9

The multiple streams framework in a nondemocracy: The infeasibility of a national ban on live poultry sales in China	9
Policy Learning and Information Processing	9
The Growth of the Evaluation Tree in the Policy Analysis Forest: Recent Developments in Evaluation	9
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	8
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14	8
Disputed Policy Change: The Role of Events, Policy Learning, and Negotiated Agreements	8
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement	8
On the Acoustics of Policy Learning: Can Co‐Participation in Policy Forums Break Up Echo Chambers?	8
Coevolution of Networks and Beliefs in U.S. Environmental Risk Policy	8
Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Influence in Notice‐and‐Comment Rulemaking	7
Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements	7
Narrative strategies in a nondemocratic setting: Moscow’s urban policy debates	7
Examining the Influence of Representative Bureaucracy in Public and Private Prisons	7
Dismissing the “Vocal Minority”: How Policy Conflict Escalates When Policymakers Label Resisting Citizens	7
Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems	7
Feeling Politics: Carceral Contact, Well‐Being, and Participation	7
Policy Regime Decay	6
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	6
Environmental Federalism in Indian Country: Sovereignty, Primacy, and Environmental Protection	6
Drivers of (in)equity in collaborative environmental governance	6
The Past in the Present—The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Epistemic Learning About How to Tackle Complex Policy Problems	6
A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods	5
Conflicting Messages: Multiple Policy Experiences and Political Participation	5
Private citizens, stakeholder groups, or governments? Perceived legitimacy and participation in water collaborative governance	5
External drivers of participation in regional collaborative water planning	5
Race, representation, and policy attitudes in U.S. public schools	5
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries	5
The Diffusion of Erin's Law: Examining the Role of the Policy Entrepreneur	4
Contemporary Policy Challenges in Protecting the Homeland	4
Local Government Perspectives on Collaborative Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Iowa's Watershed Management Authorities	4
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	4
Expertise and the Championing of Policy Innovations in State Legislatures	4
Post‐loss power building: The feedback effects of policy loss on group identity and collective action	4
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	4
Policy dimension: A new concept to distinguish substance from process in the Narrative Policy Framework	4
What Was the Problem in Parkland? Using Social Media to Measure the Effectiveness of Issue Frames	4
State Politics, Race, and “Welfare” as a Funding Stream: Cash Assistance Spending Under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families	4
Linking policy design, change, and outputs: Policy responsiveness in American state electricity policy	4
(Un)Informed Voting? A Test of Compulsory Voting Feedback Effects	3
What's the grand story? A macro‐narrative analytical model and the case of Swiss child and adult protection policy	3
The institutional grammar in policy process research	3
Policy attributes shape climate policy support	3
Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters	3
Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs	3
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	3
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	3
The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance	3
The Effect of Beliefs on Policy Instrument Preferences: The Case of Swiss Renewable Energy Policy	3
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	3
The Local Revolution under Second‐Order Devolution: The Effect of County Governments on TANF Administration	2

Building blocks of polycentric governance	2
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the COVID‐19 crisis	2
Identifying institutional configurations for policy outcomes: A comparison of ecosystem services delivery	2
Taking perspective of the stories we tell about transgender rights: The narrative policy framework	2
Policy composition and adoption duration: Capturing conflict in the legislative process	2
Does Program Evaluation Affect Program Termination? Insights from the Repeal of Corporate Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry	2
What do we know about the punctuated equilibrium theory in China? A systematic review and research priorities	2
Environmental governance in China: The effects of policy clarity, career concerns, and new appointed officials on pollution control	2
Punctuated equilibrium in multilevel contexts: How federal and state level forces feedback into shaping the local policy agenda in Mexico	2
Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance	2
Budgetary changes and organizational performance: Evidence from state transportation agencies	2
Design paths of federal intergovernmental cooperation	2
Chain of command vs. Who’s in command: Structure, politics, and regulatory enforcement	2
How police agency diversity, policies, and outcomes shape citizen trust and willingness to engage	2
Understanding policy influence in hybrid regimes: Insights from a qualitative study of policy advice in Ukraine and Moldova	2
Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	2
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	2