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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	83
Institutional stability and change in environmental governance	75
Reviewer acknowledgements	57
The opportunities and challenges of politically designed co-creation platforms	37
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	34
The impact of rate capping on local government expenditure	29
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	24
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	22
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	22
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	21
Feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics	19
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	18
Policy responsiveness and media attention	14
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	14
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	13
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development: an analysis of Quebec and Scotland	13
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	12
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	10
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	10
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	9
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	8
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	8
Reviewer Acknowledgements	7
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	6
Using bricolage and robustness theory to explain the dynamism of collaborative governance	6

Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	6
‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	6
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	5
A critical political analysis of wellbeing support for postgraduate researchers in higher education	5
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	5
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	4
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	4
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	4
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	4
How evidence-based policymaking helps and hinders policy conflict	4
Drivers of fintech policy evolution: the role of policy learning and institutions	4
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	4
Analysing expert advice on political decisions in times of crisis	4
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	4
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	4
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	3
Why did the influence of experts erode during the COVID-19 pandemic?	3
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	3
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	3
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	3
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	3
Global Public Policy studies	3
Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	3
Policy and organisational learning in judicial reform: evidence from Italy	3
Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary	3
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	3
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	3
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	2
The democratic transformation of public policy through community activism in Brazil	2
The racialisation of sexism: how race frames shape anti-street harassment policies in Britain and France	2
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	2
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	2
Advocacy strategies of industry and environmental interest groups in oil and gas policy debates	2
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	2
Critical race theory, policy ambiguity and implementation: a multiple streams framework analysis	2
Comparing policy responses to incels in Sweden and the UK	2
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	2
Integrating identity in policy design theory	2
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	2
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	2
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	1
Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation?	1
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	1
Copy, paste, legislate, succeed? The effect of policy plagiarism on policy success	1
Do women leaders of nonprofit public service organisations help to reduce the gender pay gap?	1
An organisational approach to meta-governance: structuring reforms through organisational (re-)engineering	1
The relative effects of diversity on collective learning in local collaborative networks in Belgium	1
An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany	1

Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	1
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	1
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	1
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	1
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	1
Policy beliefs, belief uncertainty, and policy learning through the lens of the Advocacy Coalition Framework	1
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	1
Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy	1
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	1
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	1
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	1
Metagoverning collaborative networks: a cumulative power perspective	1
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	1
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	1
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	1
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	1
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	1
Policy learning and policy innovation: interactions and intersections	1
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	1