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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Cabinet ministers and the use of agenda‐setting power: Evidence from cabinet ministers in Israel	31
Measuring design diversity: A new application of Ostrom's rule types	28
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	25
Can reducing learning costs improve public support for means‐tested benefit programs?	24
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	22
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	22
Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks	21
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	20
Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.	20
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	20
The optimal group size of deliberative mini‐publics: A divide in perceptions	18
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	17
Issue Information	17
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	17
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	17
Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	15
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	15
Issue Information	14
Narrative policy images: Intersecting narrative & attention in presidential stories about the environment	14
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	14
Issue Information	12
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Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	12
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	12

Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France	11
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	10
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More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	10
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	10
Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	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
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	10
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	9
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	9
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	8
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	8
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	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
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	7
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	7
Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	6
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Building street‐level capacity. Evidence from a policy for problem gambling prevention	6
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	5
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality	5
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	5
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Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	5
Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	5
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	5
Advocacy strategies in state preemption: The case of energy fuel bans	4
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Coalition cascades: The politics of tipping points in clean energy transitions	4
The calm before the storm: A punctuated equilibrium theory of international politics	4