OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Politics is 2. 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
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	71
Reviewer Acknowledgements	40
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	31
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	30
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	25
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	23
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	22
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	21
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	18
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	17
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	16
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	16
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	13
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	13
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	12
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	11
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	11
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	10
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	9
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	9
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	9
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	7
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	7
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	6
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	6

Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	6
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	6
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	6
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	6
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	6
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	6
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	6
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	5
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	5
Advocacy coalitions, soft power, and policy change in Mexican electricity policy: a discourse network analysis	5
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	5
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	5
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	5
Policy feedback and the politics of trade agreements	5
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	4
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	4
Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary	4
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	4
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	4
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	4
How do governments learn from ad hoc groups during crises? From SARS to COVID-19	4
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	4
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	4
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	3
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	3
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	3
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	3
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	3
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	3
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	3
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	3
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	3
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	3
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	3
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	3
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	2
Policy windows and criminal justice reforms: a Multiple Streams Framework analysis	2
Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations	2
Policy responsiveness and media attention	2
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	2
Reviewer acknowledgements	2
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences	2
How can governments tax multinational enterprises more fairly? A discourse analysis	2
Analysing the stability of advocacy coalitions and policy frames in Ghana’s oil and gas governance	2
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	2
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	2
Transformational change through Public Policy	2
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	2
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	2

‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	2
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	2
Critical race theory, policy ambiguity and implementation: a multiple streams framework analysis	2