OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Studies Journal is 5. 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 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs	49
Explaining Advocacy Coalition Change with Policy Feedback	46
Collaborative Governance and Environmental Justice: Disadvantaged Community Representation in California Sustainable Groundwater Management	32
Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework	31
Capacity Building toward Resilience: How Communities Recover, Learn, and Change in the Aftermath of Extreme Events	26
Does Entrepreneurship Work? Understanding What Policy Entrepreneurs Do and Whether It Matters	26
China’s Policy Processes and the Advocacy Coalition Framework	25
Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course	21
Layering Action Situations to Integrate Spatial Scales, Resource Linkages, and Change over Time: The Case of Groundwater Management in Agricultural Hubs in Germany	19
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
Salience, Scientific Uncertainty, and the Agenda‐Setting Power of Science	13
Policy Change Through Negotiated Agreements: The Case of Greening Swiss Agricultural Policy	12
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India	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	10
Political Science and U.S. Health Policy in the Era of the Affordable Care Act	10
Policy Learning and Information Processing	9
The multiple streams framework in a nondemocracy: The infeasibility of a national ban on live poultry sales in China	9
The Growth of the Evaluation Tree in the Policy Analysis Forest: Recent Developments in Evaluation	9
Fines, Fees, Forfeitures, and Disparities: A Link Between Municipal Reliance on Fines and Racial Disparities in Policing	9
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	9
Taking Time (and Space) Seriously: How Scholars Falsely Infer Policy Diffusion from Model Misspecification	9

Policy Analysis and Political Sustainability	8
Adapting to Sea‐Level Rise: Centralization or Decentralization in Polycentric Governance Systems?	8
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	8
Coevolution of Networks and Beliefs in U.S. Environmental Risk Policy	8
The Advocacy Coalition Index: A new approach for identifying advocacy coalitions	8
Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems	7
Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Forum Involvement in a Weakly Institutionalized Ecology of Policy Games	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
On the Acoustics of Policy Learning: Can Co‐Participation in Policy Forums Break Up Echo Chambers?	7
Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Influence in Notice‐and‐Comment Rulemaking	7
Disputed Policy Change: The Role of Events, Policy Learning, and Negotiated Agreements	7
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14	6
The Past in the Present—The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Epistemic Learning About How to Tackle Complex Policy Problems	6
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement	6
Dismissing the “Vocal Minority”: How Policy Conflict Escalates When Policymakers Label Resisting Citizens	6
Environmental Federalism in Indian Country: Sovereignty, Primacy, and Environmental Protection	5
Conflicting Messages: Multiple Policy Experiences and Political Participation	5
Feeling Politics: Carceral Contact, Well‐Being, and Participation	5
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries	5
Drivers of (in)equity in collaborative environmental governance	5
Policy Regime Decay	5
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	5