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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-creation: the new kid on the block in public governance	66
Co-experience, co-production and co-governance: an ecosystem approach to the analysis of value creation	64
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	49
Expert knowledge and policymaking: a multi-disciplinary research agenda	39
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	31
Policy windows and multiple streams: an analysis of alcohol pricing policy in England	27
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship: actors and actions in public policy innovation	23
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	22
Digital platforms for the co-creation of public value	20
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration	20
Why nudge sometimes fails: fatalism and the problem of behaviour change	19
Strategic management as an enabler of co-creation in public services	19
Does knowledge brokering facilitate evidence-based policy? A review of existing knowledge and an agenda for future research	18
A critique of climate change mitigation policy	15
Policy overreaction styles during manufactured crises	15
Polycentric governance and policy advice: lessons from Whitehall policy advisory systems	14
New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback	14
A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation	14
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	14
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England	13
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	13
What determines the audiences that public service organisations target for reputation management?	13
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	12
The role of scientific knowledge in dealing with complex policy problems under conditions of uncertainty	11
Fit to govern? Comparing citizen and policymaker perceptions of deliberative democratic innovations	11

Measuring and assessing the effects of collaborative innovation in crime prevention	10
Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions?	10
Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial	10
Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept	9
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	9
How policymakers employ ethical frames to design and introduce new policies: the case of childhood vaccine mandates in Australia	9
Transformational change through Public Policy	9
Conceptualising policy design in the policy process	9
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	8
Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally?	7
Exploring the role of the state in the depoliticisation of UK transport policy	7
Government’s social responsibility, citizen satisfaction and trust	7
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant: emotions, ethnography and language	7
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	7
What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians?	7
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	7
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
How do media, political and regulatory agendas influence one another in high risk policy issues?	5
The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens’ initiatives	5
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	5
Evaluating the role of bricolage in US Health Care policy reform	5
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	4
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	4
Successful policy transfer and public sector reform in developing countries	4
How do policy transfer mechanisms influence policy outcomes in the context of authoritarianism in Vietnam?	4
A new epistemology of evidence-based policy	4
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	4
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	3
An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany	3
Integrating identity in policy design theory	3
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	3
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	3
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	3
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	3
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	3
Rescaling education policy: central–local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden	3
Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy	3
Legitimising a radical policy idea: framing basic income as a boost to labour market activity	3
The limits to the internationalisation of regulation: divergent enforcement strategies in China’s food safety regulation	3
Improving the political judgement of citizens: why the task environment matters	3
How well do the UK government’s ‘areas of research interest’ work as boundary objects to facilitate the use of research in policymaking?	2
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies	2
Copy, paste, legislate, succeed? The effect of policy plagiarism on policy success	2
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	2
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	2
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: better together	2
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	2
How can better monitoring, reporting and evaluation standards advance behavioural public policy?	2
Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?	2
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	2

Can community involvement policies mitigate NIMBYism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres?	2
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	2
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	2
A future research agenda for transformational urban policy studies	2
Analysing the information sources Brazilian bureaucrats use as evidence in everyday policymaking	2
British counterterrorism, the international prohibition of torture, and the multiple streams framework	2
How street-level bureaucrats use conceptual systems to categorise clients	2
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	2
Co-production in the recruitment of frontline public service employees	2