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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781009365215	44
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)	42
Blame Avoidance and Corruption: How Politicians' Denials Shape Citizen Perceptions and Political Accountability	42
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies	41
Correction to “Legislative Hearings and Presidential Cabinet Management”	39
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	39
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water	39
United in Diversity? EU Core‐Periphery Divides at the Time of the Green Transition	37
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness	32
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients	29
The Financialization of European Social Care: A Descriptive Network Analysis	28
Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership	25
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities	25
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–2019	23
The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)	23
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)	23
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana	20
Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries	20
The Nature and Dynamics of Access: Conceptualizing and Measuring Procedural Engagement Dynamics Between EU Interest Groups and Public Officials	18
In the Midnight Hour: Participatory Opportunities in Regulatory Policymaking During Presidential Transitions	17
Policy Design Below the Political Radar: When Policy Bureaucracies Mobilize Expertise to Restrict Business Power	17
Navigating the Accountability Paradoxes of Financial Resource Abundance in the Post‐Pandemic Public Service Delivery	17
The Paradox in Citizen's Views Toward Bureaucracy: Exploring Bureauphobia in More Depth	17
European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices	17
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships	16

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E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service	16
Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism: Cases of Hungary, Mexico and Turkey	16
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The Supply Chain of Economic Ideas: Institutional Discourse and Policy Change in U.S. Economic Governance, 1945–2024	15
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis	14
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).	14
Effectiveness of Term Limits Combating Administrative Corruption	14
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)	14
Reputational Management in Advisory Agencies: The Case of the STOA Unit	13
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	13
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance. By DidacQueralt, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 368. $35 (paper)	13
Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure	13
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Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments	12
There Is No Rose Without a Thorn: Examining the Contribution of Collaborative Platforms to Sustaining Collaborative Governance	12
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Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina. By VirginiaOliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 9781009082525	12
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa	12
Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Evaluating the Relation Between Expertise and Trust in Regulators	11
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Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	11
Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice	11
Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany	11
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences	11
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning	10
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?	10
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy	10
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”	10
Unwritten Rules of the Game in the Danish and Dutch Core Executives	10
How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China	10
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.	9
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?	9
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”	9
Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”	9
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries	9
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The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes	8
The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation	8
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards	8
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank	8
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime	8
When the Regulatory State Meets Populism: Regulatory Agencies in Mexico	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
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Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?	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
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 9781003321606	7
Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis	7
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona	7

Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms	7
The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)	7
Government Digital Surveillance in Africa	7
When Compromise Becomes Standoff: Joint Implementation and the Case of the European Public Prosecutor's Office	7
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Historical Persistence of Meritocratic Selection on Citizen Compliance	6
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union	6
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak	6
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis	6
Engaging the Public Through Design: How Digital Platforms Nudge Public Engagement	6
Government transparency and corruption in a turbulent setting: The case of foreign aid to Ukraine	6
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking	6
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited	6
The competence‐control dilemma and the institutional design of European Union agencies	6
The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness	6
AI Innovations in Public Services: The Case of National Libraries. By InesMergel and CarstenSchmidt (eds.), Cham: Springer, 2026. 222 pp. Open Access (ebook)	6
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?	5
Political Instrumentalism and Epistemic Communities in Global Governance a Network Analysis of the International Organization for Migration	5
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe	5
Explaining Public Sector Corruption: The Hexagon Model	5
Migration debates in the political party arena during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Austria	5
Indebted societies credit and welfare in rich democracies. By AndreasWiedemann, Cambridge University Press	5
Notice the comment? Chinese government responsiveness to public participation in the policymaking process	5
Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance	5
Between Law and Politics—The Emergence of an EU Industrial Policy	5
The New Politics of EU Industrial Policy: From the Regulatory State to a Transformational State	5
In court we trust? Political affinity and citizen's attitudes toward court's decisions	5
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Human Capital for the Knowledge Economy: Upskill Journeys in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. By NiccolòDurazzi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026 £84.00 (hardback); £58.99 (ebook)	5
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World July 23, 2024 By AnneApplebaum, Doubleday, 2024. 224 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐385‐54993‐6	5
Expansion without mandates: Border and asylum agencies in European Union migration governance	5
Women's political representation, good governance and human development	5