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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
When design meets power: design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking	60
Co-experience, co-production and co-governance: an ecosystem approach to the analysis of value creation	49
Co-creation: the new kid on the block in public governance	44
Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design	35
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	34
Policy labs: the next frontier of policy design and evaluation?	33
Applying design in public administration: a literature review to explore the state of the art	30
Expert knowledge and policymaking: a multi-disciplinary research agenda	26
Challenges in applying design thinking to public policy: dealing with the varieties of policy formulation and their vicissitudes	23
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	22
Policy windows and multiple streams: an analysis of alcohol pricing policy in England	20
Applying design science in public policy and administration research	19
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration	17
Does knowledge brokering facilitate evidence-based policy? A review of existing knowledge and an agenda for future research	16
Strategic management as an enabler of co-creation in public services	16
Using a design approach to create collaborative governance	16
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	15
A critique of climate change mitigation policy	14
Digital platforms for the co-creation of public value	13
Why nudge sometimes fails: fatalism and the problem of behaviour change	13
Policy overreaction styles during manufactured crises	11
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England	11
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship: actors and actions in public policy innovation	11
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	10
A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation	10

What determines the audiences that public service organisations target for reputation management?	10
Measuring and assessing the effects of collaborative innovation in crime prevention	10
The role of scientific knowledge in dealing with complex policy problems under conditions of uncertainty	10
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	10
Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions?	9
Designing institutions for designing policy	9
Designing environments for experimentation, learning and innovation in public policy and governance	9
The expertise of politicians and their role in epistemic communities	9
Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept	9
Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial	9
Fit to govern? Comparing citizen and policymaker perceptions of deliberative democratic innovations	8
Polycentric governance and policy advice: lessons from Whitehall policy advisory systems	8
Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally?	7
How policymakers employ ethical frames to design and introduce new policies: the case of childhood vaccine mandates in Australia	7
Why do civil servants experience media-stress differently and what can be done about it?	7
Exploring the role of the state in the depoliticisation of UK transport policy	6
Do citizens use storytelling or rational argumentation to lobby politicians	6
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	6
Can local government by lottery increase democratic responsiveness?	6
Conceptualising policy design in the policy process	6
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	6
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	6
What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians?	6
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant: emotions, ethnography and language	5
New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback	5
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	5
The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens’ initiatives	5
Government’s social responsibility, citizen satisfaction and trust	5
How do media, political and regulatory agendas influence one another in high risk policy issues?	4
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	4
Evaluating the role of bricolage in US Health Care policy reform	4
Successful policy transfer and public sector reform in developing countries	4
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	4
Rescaling education policy: central–local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden	3
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	3
Transformational change through Public Policy	3
A new epistemology of evidence-based policy	3
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	3
How do policy transfer mechanisms influence policy outcomes in the context of authoritarianism in Vietnam?	3
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	3
Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy	2
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	2
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	2
Improving the political judgement of citizens: why the task environment matters	2
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: better together	2
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	2
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	2
Legitimising a radical policy idea: framing basic income as a boost to labour market activity	2
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	2
Co-production in the recruitment of frontline public service employees	2

A future research agenda for transformational urban policy studies	2
The role of super interest groups in public policy diffusion	2
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	2
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	2
Does the marketisation of pensions lead to individualisation? An examination of family-related pension entitlements	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