OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Politics is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-creation: the new kid on the block in public governance	83
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value	68
Expert knowledge and policymaking: a multi-disciplinary research agenda	51
How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation	37
Digital platforms for the co-creation of public value	31
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration	29
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship: actors and actions in public policy innovation	29
Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings	24
New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback	22
Strategic management as an enabler of co-creation in public services	22
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality	21
Why nudge sometimes fails: fatalism and the problem of behaviour change	21
A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation	20
Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states	19
Conceptualising policy design in the policy process	16
Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial	15
Concluding discussion: key themes in the (possible) move to co-production and co-creation in public management	14
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?	13
Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept	12
Emotions and the policy process: enthusiasm, anger and fear	12
How does policy learning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?	11
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant: emotions, ethnography and language	10
How policymakers employ ethical frames to design and introduce new policies: the case of childhood vaccine mandates in Australia	10
Transformational change through Public Policy	10
Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally?	9

How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1	8
Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories	8
Design of services or designing for service? The application of design methodology in public service settings	7
The neglected politics behind evidence-based policy: shedding light on instrument constituency dynamics	7
What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians?	7
Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU climate policy	6
The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens’ initiatives	6
The dynamic role of governments in adopting policy innovations in China	6
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy	6
The implications of COVID-19 for concepts and practices of citizenship	5
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power	5
Policy learning from crises: lessons learned from the Italian food stamp programme	4
Integrating identity in policy design theory	4
How well do the UK government’s ‘areas of research interest’ work as boundary objects to facilitate the use of research in policymaking?	4
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies	4
Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation?	4
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness	4
Analysing the ‘follow the science’ rhetoric of government responses to COVID-19	4
How do policy transfer mechanisms influence policy outcomes in the context of authoritarianism in Vietnam?	4
Copy, paste, legislate, succeed? The effect of policy plagiarism on policy success	4
The role of charitable funding in the provision of public services: the case of the English and Welsh National Health Service	4