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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis is 1. 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
Thank You to Reviewers, 2024	57
Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Authors : Mark Bl	15
Insights from the Frontline of German Welfare Policy: The Under-Recognised Role of Brokerage in Street-Level Practice	15
Comparative Policy Analysis, Subnational Research, and Small- N Qualitative Research: Research Design Considerations	15
Comparing Formal Public Sector Policy Staff: Organizing Principles, Composition, and Distribution in Anglophone Countries	15
Authority and Accountability: Policy Innovation through Evaluation Institutionalization in Gulf States	14
Disapproval of Climate Policy Dismantlement: A Comparative Analysis of International Public Opinion on Donald Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Regime	13
Regional Policy: Theory and Practice	13
Federalism and the Institutional Development of Public Pensions: A Comparative Policy Analysis of the United States, Canada, and Mexico	11
Introduction to the Book Reviews Section for the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis	11
What Does Comparative Policy Analysis Have to Do with the Structure, Institution and Agency Debate?	11
Assurance Actors as Intermediaries in AI Risk Governance	10
Compared Policy Analysis of Intermunicipalities in France, the Comoros and Mali: The Role of African Diasporas in Translocal Policy Transfers	10
How Do Governments’ Policy Priorities Change as the Energy Transition Progresses? A Cross-Country Comparison	8
Comparative Studies of Public Administration and Public Policy beyond the Nation State	8
Different Ways of Promoting Working Time Reduction: A Comparative Analysis of Actors, Motives, Forms, and Approaches in Germany, Ireland, and Spain	8
Impact Assessment of the Maputo Protocol on Mass Atrocity Prevention in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Integration in Ghana and Cameroon	8
Comparative Analysis of Green Finance Transitions: A Policy Diffusion Lens on Poland and Uzbekistan	7
Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China	7
Comparative Energy Transition Policy: How Exposure, Policy Vulnerability and Trust Affect Popular Acceptance of Policy Expansion	7
Trust in Government and COVID-19 Response Policy: A Comparative Approach	6
Tackling the Digital Divide? A Comparative Policy Analysis of International Organizations’ Varying Approaches to the Digitalization of Education	6
Becoming an Interdisciplinary Discipline? An Analysis of the Development of the Policy Sciences, 1975–2020	5
Public Policy and Research in Latin America	5
Conceptualising Public Trust in High-Risk AI Policymaking: A Comparative Analysis of Three Asian Cities	5

Assessing and Comparing Participatory Governance in Energy Transition: Evidence from the 27 European Union Member States	5
Comparative Insights on Social Media as an Atrocity Prevention Tool: Policy Implications	5
Comparing the Impacts of Different Risk Communication Policy Designs on Public Risk Perceptions: An Experiment in a Nuclear Power Plant Siting Scenario	5
Worse than Failure: Near Misses and the Regulation of Doctors’ Payments in Australian and Canadian Medicare	5
The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum: Comparative Analysis of Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines	5
Evaluating Territorial Authority over Policy Responses to the Crisis: A Comparative Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Classification, Evolution, and Construction: A Parallel Discourse Analysis of Agricultural Outsourcing Policy in China	4
Constructing Europe’s Collaborative Economy: Actors, Institutions, and Structural Contingency in Comparative Policy Analysis	4
Incorporating Time into Policy Transfer Studies: A Comparative Analysis of the Transnational Policy Process of Conditional Cash Transfers and Participatory Budgeting	4
Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches	4
Policy Capacity Matters for Education System Reforms: A Comparative Study of Two Brazilian States	4
National Varieties Still Matter: A Comparative Analysis of Consumer Credit Data Regimes in the United States, Sweden, Israel, and France	4
Comparison of Women’s Labor Market Participation between Types of Childcare Policies Based on Policy Tool Mix	4
Global Climate Policy Effectiveness Analysis: Evidence from 49 Countries, 1951–2018	4
Embracing Complexity in Policy Implementation Research: A Comparative Analysis of Water Policy Implementation in the Great Lakes and Rio-Grande/Bravo Regions	4
Do Political Institutions Influence the Dismantling of Fossil Fuel Subsidies? Lessons from the OECD Countries and a Comparative Analysis of Canadian and German Production Subsidies	4
Global Evaluation Policy in Practice: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Japan and South Korea	4
Managing Asylum: Street-Level Organizations and Refugee Crises	3
Effect of Values, Institutional Trust, and Risk Perceptions on Support for Policy Tools in Immunisation against COVID-19: A Comparative Study	3
Special Issue: Policy Innovation in the Global South and South–North Policy Learning	3
Health Policy Capacity and Reliance on Expert Advice in Comparative Perspective: COVID-19 Responses Across Brazilian States	3
Self-Governance via Intermediaries: Credibility in Three Different Modes of Governance	3
A Comparative Policy Study of China’s School Reform Waves, 1979–2023: Considerations of Sequence and Context	3
Lending Overlap in Europe’s Financial Architecture: A Comparative Analysis	3
The Role of Institutions in Policy Design: The Case of Research and Innovation Policies	3
Comparative Subnational Policy Mix: Insights from China’s Coal Transition (2011–2023)	3
Testing the Ambition Loop: Do Country- and Company-Level Net-Zero Targets Reinforce Each Other? A Global Comparison	3
Municipal Water Affordability Programs Absent a National Mandate: A Comparative Analysis of Volumetric Allowances in Colombia	3
National Intentions and Local Welfare Markets: A Comparative Analysis of Market Tools to Support Older Adults in France and Québec	2
Comparing the Sequence of Climate Change Mitigation Targets and Policies in Major Emitting Economies	2
Handbook of Public Policy Implementation	2
Conflict and Public Administration Performance: CEE Countries	2
Federalism and Health Care: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Canada and Italy	2
The Role of Industry and Labour Unions as Regulatory Intermediaries in European Digital Sovereignty	2
Public Policy in the Arab World: Responding to Uprisings, Pandemic, and War	2
Public Administration, Civil Society, & Democracy: Comparative Perspectives through International Service Learning	2
The Governance of Renewable Energy Auctions: A Multidimensional Comparative Policy Analysis	2
The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools	2
The Dual Drivers of Inter-Local Collaboration: A Comparative Study of Technological and Institutional Factors in China’s Public Service Delivery	2
What Shapes Green Industrial Policy Objectives and Design? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Renewable Energy Auctions in India and South Africa	2
An Alternative Approach to Teaching about NGOs Globally: A Comparative Country-Based View Seen through a Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention Lens	2
National Action to Reduce Barriers to and Bias against Women’s Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Laws and Policies in 193 Countries	2
On Concepts, Analytics, and Statistics in Comparative Policy Studies: An Introduction from the New Section Editors	2
AI Policy Models in China and the United States: A Multi-Level Comparative Analysis of Policy Convergence and Divergence	2
The Role of Time in the Localisation of Global Urban Policy. A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador and Bolivia	2
Subnational Comparative Policy Analysis: Institutions, Methodology, and Research Agenda	2
Qualitative Comparative Policy Studies: An Introduction from the Special Section Editors	1
Progress Towards Ending Sexual Harassment at Work? A Comparison of Sexual Harassment Policy in 192 Countries	1
Harnessing Machine Learning to Address High Levels of Missing Data in Cross-National Studies: From Bias to Precision in Public Service Research	1
From Niches to the Mainstream: A Computational Review and Research Agenda for Policy Innovation	1

Federalism and Policy Design in Two Liberal Welfare State Regimes: Comparing the Politics of Labour Market Policies in Canada and the United States	1
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	1
The Rise of Anti-Net Zero Populism in the UK: Comparing Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Policy Dismantling	1
Lessons Not (Yet) Learned: What African Countries Could Teach the Global North about One Health during the Pandemics	1
Comparative Transfer Analysis: Policy Instruments, Space and Time	1
Why Do Comparative Public Policy and Political Economy Scholars Need an Analytic Eclectic View of Structure, Institution and Agency?	1
Race to the Top of Farm Animal Welfare Policies in US States: What Can Explain the New Development? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	1
Pension Reform Policy in Latin America: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	1
Repackaging in South–North Policy Learning: The Chilean Model of Pension Reform as a Lopsided Exportschlager	1
Using National Data Sources to Compare Subnational Policies: Insights from the American Rescue Plan Act	1
How Does Environmental Regulation Affect Corporate Green Innovation: A Comparative Study between Voluntary and Mandatory Environmental Regulations	1