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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The place of social cohesion in policy design: Lessons from the evolution of pension policy instruments mix in OECD countries	45
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement From Large Language Models Increases Citizens' Compliance Willingness in China	31
Advocacy groups, policy subsidies, and policy change: The case of teacher evaluations	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
The particular and diffuse effects of negative interactions on participation: Evidence from responses to police killings	27
“Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights	24
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit	23
How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence: The accountability regimes framework	21
A novel research method to detect punctuation and its application to bureaucratic decision‐making	21
Correction to “Learning in polycentric governance: Insights from the California Delta science enterprise”	20
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations: The case of citizen oversight of police	20
Coproduction as a Causal Process	19
Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel	18
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Editorial introduction: Punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams, environmental governance, and many more	17
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Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization	16
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government	16
The policy acknowledgement gap: Explaining (mis)perceptions of government social program use	15
Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment	15
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Issue Information	13
Can overarching rules and coordination in polycentric governance help achieve pre‐identified institutional goals over time? Evidence from farmland governance in southeastern France	12

How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System	12
More than agents: Federal bureaucrats as information suppliers in policymaking	10
A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches	10
Scientists in power plays: How substantive were scientists' narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic?	10
Analyzing antimicrobial resistance as a series of collective action problems	10
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Editorial introduction: An eclectic collection	10
GPT models for text annotation: An empirical exploration in public policy research	9
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories: Evidence from the elements, attributes, and adoptions of Uniform Law Commission model legislation	9
Devil and angel shifts in collective action: A call for integration and improvements	9
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies?	9
The soft channels of policy diffusion: Insights from local climate change adaptation policy	9
When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the amazon HQ2 competition	9
A postcode lottery in education? Explaining regional inequality in multilevel systems	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
Tradeoffs and Spillovers in U.S. Criminal Immigration Enforcement	8
When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law	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
Learning to avoid: The long‐term effects of adolescent welfare participation on voting habits in adulthood	7
Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors	7
Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of realIDfor immigration policy	7
Shifting narrative strategies: How monument advocates change their stories in response to conflict over time	7
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland	6
Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion	6
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests	6
Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs	6
Narrative power in the narrative policy framework	6
Editorial introduction: Exploring policy theories, narratives, and policing	6
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics	5
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
Bureaucratic Access in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Participation, dispersion, and centrality	5
More than just experts for hire: A conceptualization of the roles of consultants in public policy formulation	5
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change	4
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Police unions and use‐of‐force reforms in American cities	4
Partisan political staff at the local level: A self‐assessment of the policymaking role of the chief of cabinet	4