OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The way the money goes: The fiscal constitution and public spending in the UK. By ChristopherHood, MaiaKing, IainMcLean, and BarbaraPiotrowska, Oxford University Press. 2023. 289pp. US$115.00 (cloth)	75
Correction to “Legislative Hearings and Presidential Cabinet Management”	50
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781009365215	47
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies	38
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients	31
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	31
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities	28
United in Diversity? EU Core‐Periphery Divides at the Time of the Green Transition	28
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness	27
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water	27
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Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership	26
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships	24
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service	23
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–2019	21
European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices	21
Rules or legacies? Industry and political revolving doors in regulators' careers in Portugal	20
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana	20
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy	20
The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)	19
Navigating the Accountability Paradoxes of Financial Resource Abundance in the Post‐Pandemic Public Service Delivery	18
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)	18
The Nature and Dynamics of Access: Conceptualizing and Measuring Procedural Engagement Dynamics Between EU Interest Groups and Public Officials	17
Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries	16
Policy Design Below the Political Radar: When Policy Bureaucracies Mobilize Expertise to Restrict Business Power	16

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Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure	15
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).	15
Spin dictators: The changing face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. By SergeiGuriev, and DanielTreisman, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 360. $29.95 (cloth)	15
Reputational Management in Advisory Agencies: The Case of the STOA Unit	14
Effectiveness of Term Limits Combating Administrative Corruption	14
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis	14
Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation	13
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change	13
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure	13
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Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice	12
Retooling governance for improving public service delivery: Case study of right to public services commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	12
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance. By DidacQueralt, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 368. $35 (paper)	12
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	12
Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany	12
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Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences	12
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	11
Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China	11
Helping hand or centralizing tool? The politics of conditional grants in Australia, Canada, and the United States	11
How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China	11
Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments	11
Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina. By VirginiaOliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 9781009082525	11
There Is No Rose Without a Thorn: Examining the Contribution of Collaborative Platforms to Sustaining Collaborative Governance	11
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy	10
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning	10
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries	10
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?	10
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa	10
Unwritten Rules of the Game in the Danish and Dutch Core Executives	10
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”	10
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?	9
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”	9
Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”	9
Viral sovereignty and the political economy of pandemics: What explains how countries deal with outbreaks?. SophalEarRoutledge, New York, 2021. 238 pp. $160 (cloth)	8
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The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes	8
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.	8
The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation	8
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration	7
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards	7
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe	7
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 9781003321606	7
Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace From the Bottom Up. By William G.Nomikos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 202 pp. $125 (hardback); $41.99 (paperback)	7
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank	7
Retooling development aid in the 21st century: The importance of budget support. By ShahrokhFardoust, Stefan G.Koeberle, MoritzPiatti‐Fünfkirchen, MarkSundberg, and LodewijkSmets, Oxford, United Kingd	7
Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?	7
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak	7
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime	7

Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms	7
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The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)	7
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse	7
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking	6
The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness	6
Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis	6
American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery, CraigUnger, Dutton, New York, 2021. 352 pp. $13.99 (e‐book)	6
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona	6
Government Digital Surveillance in Africa	6
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited	5
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union	5
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?	5
The competence‐control dilemma and the institutional design of European Union agencies	5
Notice the comment? Chinese government responsiveness to public participation in the policymaking process	5
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis	5
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe	5
From quiet to noisy politics: Varieties of European reactions to 5G and Huawei	5
Historical Persistence of Meritocratic Selection on Citizen Compliance	5
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Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance	5