OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy Studies Journal is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	49
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement From Large Language Models Increases Citizens' Compliance Willingness in China	32
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	31
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	30
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	29
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	27
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	24
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit	24
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	22
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	22
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	21
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	21
Coproduction as a Causal Process	20
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	18
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel	18
Issue Information	18
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	17
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Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	16
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	15
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	15
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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System	12

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Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	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
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	11
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	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
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	10
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	10
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches	9
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	9
GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research	9
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	9
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	9
Tradeoffs and Spillovers in U.S. Criminal Immigration Enforcement	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)	8
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	8
Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?	7
Moving Beyond Third Generation Policy Implementation Research Towards a Fourth Generation: Synthesizing Across Policy Process Theories	7
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	7
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	7
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion	7
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	6
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	6
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	6
Narrative power in the narrative policy framework	6
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	6
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	5
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	5
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests	5
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	5
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Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise	4
Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	4
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Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation	4
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Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	4
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	4
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	4
Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust	4
Comparing Beyond (Just) the State? Examining Patterns of Policy Advice Externalization Across Policy Domains	4
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	4