OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Politics is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Reviewer Acknowledgements	43
How do populist discourses influence policy termination?	37
Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance: from values to valuations	31
The policy process of adopting environmental standards for coal plants in India: accommodating transnational politics in the Multiple Streams Framework	27
How young people can shape environmental policy in urban spaces	23
Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management	21
Can policy instruments shape the policy problems they aim to solve? How interest registers redefined conflicts of interest	21
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’	19
An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking	19
Policy coordination and integration in local government: perspectives on barriers	18
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism: the case of the Prison Service in England and Wales	16
The impact of self-reinforcing and self-undermining policy feedback on Mexican social policy: the end of the conditional cash transfer programme	13
The democratic qualities of regulatory agencies	13
Patterns in the use of problem- and solution-oriented evidence in legislative discourse: the case of pesticide policy in Switzerland	13
Tracing 25 years of ‘initiativitis’ in central government attempts to join up local public services in England	13
How can non-elected representatives secure democratic representation?	13
Advocacy coalitions, power and policy change	12
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	11
Applying collective action frameworks to analyse local-level collaboration for electric vehicle-related policies	11
What kind of political agency can foster radical transformation towards ecological sustainability?	11
The effects of policy dismantling on the policy-making process	10
Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship	9
Examining policy feedback effects from COVID-19 on social welfare support: developing an outcome distance dimension	9
Challenging the insider outsider approach to advocacy: how collaboration networks and belief similarities shape strategy choices	9
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	9

A systematic review of conflict within collaborative governance	9
The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress	9
The impact of participatory policy formulation on regulatory legitimacy: the case of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)	9
Embracing policy innovations from abroad: the role of learning in Chile’s anti-cartel reforms	9
Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy–science nexus	8
Welfare solidarity in multi-ethnic societies: can social investment reduce the anti-immigrant bias?	8
Brexit implications for sustainable energy in the UK	8
Policy & Politics: a perspective on the first half century	8
Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia	8
Policy processes in China: a systematic review of the multiple streams framework	8
Evidence-based policymaking in the legislatures: timeliness and politics of evidence in Finland	7
Advocacy coalitions, soft power, and policy change in Mexican electricity policy: a discourse network analysis	7
Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience	7
How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations	7
Policy feedback and the politics of trade agreements	7
Do policy actors have different views of what constitutes evidence in policymaking?	7
A new measurement model and database of the democratic qualities of regulatory bodies	6
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	6
Between win–win and the manufacturing of consent: collaborative governance as a lightning rod in cannabis policy	6
How do governments learn from ad hoc groups during crises? From SARS to COVID-19	6
Does HIV status affect attitudes on welfare deservingness? A survey experiment on welfare policy in the US	6
The performance of accountability and the treatment of experts by politicians: UK parliamentary select committees during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Externalising policy advice within subnational governments	5
Heading for health policy reform: transforming regions of care from geographical place into governance object	5
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	5
What defines deservingness? Specifying the criteria for target groups constructions in public policy	5
The promise and performance of data ecosystems: Australia’s COVID-19 response	5
Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies	5
Legitimising policy knowledge in autocratising contexts: the case of Hungary	5
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking: the social organisation of anomaly, risk and policy decay	4
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context	4
Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector	4
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	4
Intended and unintended effects of cannabis regulation in Uruguay	4
What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system?	4
Fostering innovation through collaboration: a comparison of collaborative approaches to policy design	4
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences	4
Exploring civic engagement dynamics during emergencies: an empirical study into key drivers	4
The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests	4
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	4
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	4
Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations	4
The dynamics of municipal contestation: responses from local government to perceived policy threats from higher authorities	3
How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	3
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	3
Reviewer acknowledgements	3
Analysing the stability of advocacy coalitions and policy frames in Ghana’s oil and gas governance	3
The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis	3
The value of poll-worker voice in the delivery of elections	3
Policy windows and criminal justice reforms: a Multiple Streams Framework analysis	3

Transformational change through Public Policy	3
‘Law but not law’: explaining unenacted policy as a type of policy failure	3
Policy responsiveness and media attention	3