OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Politics is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-creation: the new kid on the block in public governance	83
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	68
Expert knowledge and policymaking: a multi-disciplinary research agenda	51
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	37
Digital platforms for the co-creation of public value	31
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration	29
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship: actors and actions in public policy innovation	29
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	24
New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback	22
Strategic management as an enabler of co-creation in public services	22
Why nudge sometimes fails: fatalism and the problem of behaviour change	21
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	21
A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation	20
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	19
Conceptualising policy design in the policy process	16
Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial	15
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	14
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	13
Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept	12
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	12
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	11
Transformational change through Public Policy	10
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant: emotions, ethnography and language	10
How policymakers employ ethical frames to design and introduce new policies: the case of childhood vaccine mandates in Australia	10
Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally?	9

Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	8
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	8
What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians?	7
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	7
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	7
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	6
The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens’ initiatives	6
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	6
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	5
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	5
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	4
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	4
Integrating identity in policy design theory	4
How well do the UK government’s ‘areas of research interest’ work as boundary objects to facilitate the use of research in policymaking?	4
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies	4
Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation?	4
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	4
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	4
How do policy transfer mechanisms influence policy outcomes in the context of authoritarianism in Vietnam?	4
Copy, paste, legislate, succeed? The effect of policy plagiarism on policy success	4
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	3
An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany	3
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	3
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	3
A future research agenda for transformational urban policy studies	3
Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?	3
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	3
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	3
How evidence-based policymaking helps and hinders policy conflict	3
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: better together	3
Analysing the information sources Brazilian bureaucrats use as evidence in everyday policymaking	3
Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy	3
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	3
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	3
British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the multiple streams framework	2
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	2
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	2
How can better monitoring, reporting and evaluation standards advance behavioural public policy?	2
Policy beliefs, belief uncertainty, and policy learning through the lens of the Advocacy Coalition Framework	2
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	2
Co-production in the recruitment of frontline public service employees	2
The many meanings of policy instruments: exploring individual and structural determinants in obesity policy	2
Analysing the contextual factors that promote and constrain policy learning in local government	2
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	2
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	2
Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations	2
Analysing boundaries of health and social care in policy and media reform narratives	1
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	1

How do governments learn from ad hoc groups during crises? From SARS to COVID-19	1
Advocacy strategies of industry and environmental interest groups in oil and gas policy debates	1
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	1
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	1
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences	1
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	1
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	1
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	1
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	1
The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency	1
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	1
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	1
Erased: ending faculty sexual misconduct in academia. An open letter from women of public affairs education	1
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	1
Do women leaders of nonprofit public service organisations help to reduce the gender pay gap?	1
The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms	1
Policy responsiveness and its administrative organisation in China	1
Analysing the stability of advocacy coalitions and policy frames in Ghana’s oil and gas governance	1
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	1
A theory of policy advisory system quality: Hirschman 2.0 or what makes for good policy advice?	1
Global Public Policy studies	1
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	1
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	1
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	1
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	1