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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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)	57
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities	37
United in Diversity? EU Core‐Periphery Divides at the Time of the Green Transition	37
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water	36
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781009365215	35
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies	34
Correction to “Legislative Hearings and Presidential Cabinet Management”	34
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients	33
Blame Avoidance and Corruption: How Politicians' Denials Shape Citizen Perceptions and Political Accountability	30
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	29
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness	28
Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership	27
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships	24
The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)	22
Policy Design Below the Political Radar: When Policy Bureaucracies Mobilize Expertise to Restrict Business Power	21
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)	21
The Nature and Dynamics of Access: Conceptualizing and Measuring Procedural Engagement Dynamics Between EU Interest Groups and Public Officials	21
Navigating the Accountability Paradoxes of Financial Resource Abundance in the Post‐Pandemic Public Service Delivery	21
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana	20
Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism: Cases of Hungary, Mexico and Turkey	18
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Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries	17
The Paradox in Citizen's Views Toward Bureaucracy: Exploring Bureauphobia in More Depth	17
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–2019	16
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service	16

In the Midnight Hour: Participatory Opportunities in Regulatory Policymaking During Presidential Transitions	16
Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure	15
Reputational Management in Advisory Agencies: The Case of the STOA Unit	15
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European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices	15
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).	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
Effectiveness of Term Limits Combating Administrative Corruption	13
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis	13
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Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	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
Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany	11
There Is No Rose Without a Thorn: Examining the Contribution of Collaborative Platforms to Sustaining Collaborative Governance	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
Helping hand or centralizing tool? The politics of conditional grants in Australia, Canada, and the United States	11
Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice	11
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Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	10
Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments	10
Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Evaluating the Relation Between Expertise and Trust in Regulators	9
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy	9
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”	9
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa	9
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences	9
Unwritten Rules of the Game in the Danish and Dutch Core Executives	9
How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China	9
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning	9
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries	9
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”	8
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?	8
Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms	8
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Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”	8
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.	8
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration	8
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?	8
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank	8
The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation	8
Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?	7
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards	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
When the Regulatory State Meets Populism: Regulatory Agencies in Mexico	7
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime	7
The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes	7
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona	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
Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis	6
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking	6

The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak	6
The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)	6
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 9781003321606	6
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Government Digital Surveillance in Africa	6
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	6
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?	5
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited	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
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe	5
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The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness	5
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union	5
Historical Persistence of Meritocratic Selection on Citizen Compliance	5
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis	5
Engaging the Public Through Design: How Digital Platforms Nudge Public Engagement	5
Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance	5