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

Article	Citations
Thank You to Reviewers, 2024	64
Insights from the Frontline of German Welfare Policy: The Under-Recognised Role of Brokerage in Street-Level Practice	17
Comparative Policy Analysis, Subnational Research, and Small- N Qualitative Research: Research Design Considerations	17
Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Authors : Mark Bl	17
Comparing Formal Public Sector Policy Staff: Organizing Principles, Composition, and Distribution in Anglophone Countries	16
Authority and Accountability: Policy Innovation through Evaluation Institutionalization in Gulf States	15
Disapproval of Climate Policy Dismantlement: A Comparative Analysis of International Public Opinion on Donald Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Regime	14
Introduction to the Book Reviews Section for the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis	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	13
Assurance Actors as Intermediaries in AI Risk Governance	12
What Does Comparative Policy Analysis Have to Do with the Structure, Institution and Agency Debate?	12
Impact Assessment of the Maputo Protocol on Mass Atrocity Prevention in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Integration in Ghana and Cameroon	12
Compared Policy Analysis of Intermunicipalities in France, the Comoros and Mali: The Role of African Diasporas in Translocal Policy Transfers	10
Different Ways of Promoting Working Time Reduction: A Comparative Analysis of Actors, Motives, Forms, and Approaches in Germany, Ireland, and Spain	9
How Do Governments’ Policy Priorities Change as the Energy Transition Progresses? A Cross-Country Comparison	9
Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China	8
Comparative Analysis of Green Finance Transitions: A Policy Diffusion Lens on Poland and Uzbekistan	8
Comparative Energy Transition Policy: How Exposure, Policy Vulnerability and Trust Affect Popular Acceptance of Policy Expansion	8
Tackling the Digital Divide? A Comparative Policy Analysis of International Organizations’ Varying Approaches to the Digitalization of Education	7
Comparing the Impacts of Different Risk Communication Policy Designs on Public Risk Perceptions: An Experiment in a Nuclear Power Plant Siting Scenario	7
Comparative Insights on Social Media as an Atrocity Prevention Tool: Policy Implications	6
Comparative Analysis of Policy and Practice for Atrocity Prevention	6
The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum: Comparative Analysis of Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines	6
Trust in Government and COVID-19 Response Policy: A Comparative Approach	6

Conceptualising Public Trust in High-Risk AI Policymaking: A Comparative Analysis of Three Asian Cities	6
Policy Learning in Greece and Southern Europe: The Case of EU Soft Law	5
Becoming an Interdisciplinary Discipline? An Analysis of the Development of the Policy Sciences, 1975–2020	5
Public Policy and Research in Latin America	5
Assessing and Comparing Participatory Governance in Energy Transition: Evidence from the 27 European Union Member States	5
Worse than Failure: Near Misses and the Regulation of Doctors’ Payments in Australian and Canadian Medicare	5
Governing Digital Platforms: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of State Agencies and Societal Actors in the Implementation of the EU Digital Services Act	5
Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches	4
Global Evaluation Policy in Practice: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Japan and South Korea	4
National Varieties Still Matter: A Comparative Analysis of Consumer Credit Data Regimes in the United States, Sweden, Israel, and France	4
Managing Asylum: Street-Level Organizations and Refugee Crises	4
Special Issue: Policy Innovation in the Global South and South–North Policy Learning	4
Constructing Europe’s Collaborative Economy: Actors, Institutions, and Structural Contingency in Comparative Policy Analysis	4
Global Climate Policy Effectiveness Analysis: Evidence from 49 Countries, 1951–2018	4
Policy Capacity Matters for Education System Reforms: A Comparative Study of Two Brazilian States	4
Self-Governance via Intermediaries: Credibility in Three Different Modes of Governance	4
Effect of Values, Institutional Trust, and Risk Perceptions on Support for Policy Tools in Immunisation against COVID-19: A Comparative Study	4
Testing the Ambition Loop: Do Country- and Company-Level Net-Zero Targets Reinforce Each Other? A Global Comparison	4
Comparison of Women’s Labor Market Participation between Types of Childcare Policies Based on Policy Tool Mix	4
Evaluating Territorial Authority over Policy Responses to the Crisis: A Comparative Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Incorporating Time into Policy Transfer Studies: A Comparative Analysis of the Transnational Policy Process of Conditional Cash Transfers and Participatory Budgeting	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
A Comparative Policy Study of China’s School Reform Waves, 1979–2023: Considerations of Sequence and Context	4
Comparative Subnational Policy Mix: Insights from China’s Coal Transition (2011–2023)	4
Municipal Water Affordability Programs Absent a National Mandate: A Comparative Analysis of Volumetric Allowances in Colombia	3
Public Policy in the Arab World: Responding to Uprisings, Pandemic, and War	3
The Role of Institutions in Policy Design: The Case of Research and Innovation Policies	3
Conflict and Public Administration Performance: CEE Countries	3
Lending Overlap in Europe’s Financial Architecture: A Comparative Analysis	3
National Intentions and Local Welfare Markets: A Comparative Analysis of Market Tools to Support Older Adults in France and Québec	3
Comparing the Sequence of Climate Change Mitigation Targets and Policies in Major Emitting Economies	3
Health Policy Capacity and Reliance on Expert Advice in Comparative Perspective: COVID-19 Responses Across Brazilian States	3
Policy Sciences in Latin America: Academic Institutionalization, Scientific Production, and Foundational Trajectories (1970–2020)	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
The Role of Industry and Labour Unions as Regulatory Intermediaries in European Digital Sovereignty	2
AI Policy Models in China and the United States: A Multi-Level Comparative Analysis of Policy Convergence and Divergence	2
Federalism and Health Care: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Canada and Italy	2
Public Administration, Civil Society, & Democracy: Comparative Perspectives through International Service Learning	2
On Concepts, Analytics, and Statistics in Comparative Policy Studies: An Introduction from the New Section Editors	2
Subnational Comparative Policy Analysis: Institutions, Methodology, and Research Agenda	2
The Role of Time in the Localisation of Global Urban Policy. A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador and Bolivia	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
Handbook of Public Policy Implementation	2
National Action to Reduce Barriers to and Bias against Women’s Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of Laws and Policies in 193 Countries	2
Symbolic and Substantive Governance in County-Level Digital Governance: A Configuration Analysis Using the TOB Framework	2
Qualitative Comparative Policy Studies: An Introduction from the Special Section Editors	2
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	2

Using National Data Sources to Compare Subnational Policies: Insights from the American Rescue Plan Act	1
Why Do Comparative Public Policy and Political Economy Scholars Need an Analytic Eclectic View of Structure, Institution and Agency?	1
What Configuration Can Trigger Pro-Environmental Policy Agenda Setting in an Uncertain Social Context: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on the Multiple Streams Framework	1
Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Comparative Approach	1
From Niches to the Mainstream: A Computational Review and Research Agenda for Policy Innovation	1
Progress Towards Ending Sexual Harassment at Work? A Comparison of Sexual Harassment Policy in 192 Countries	1
The Rise of Anti-Net Zero Populism in the UK: Comparing Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Policy Dismantling	1
Private Governance in Climate Mitigation: A Global Comparison of Corporate Participation in Voluntary Carbon Markets	1
From Buck-Passing to Rapid Response: A Comparative Study of Beijing’s Complaint Handling Before and After Jiesu Jiban Reform	1
Comparative Transfer Analysis: Policy Instruments, Space and Time	1
Lessons Not (Yet) Learned: What African Countries Could Teach the Global North about One Health during the Pandemics	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
Repackaging in South–North Policy Learning: The Chilean Model of Pension Reform as a Lopsided Exportschlager	1
Harnessing Machine Learning to Address High Levels of Missing Data in Cross-National Studies: From Bias to Precision in Public Service Research	1
So Far and Yet So Close: Labour Market Activation and Social Policy in Portugal and Chile	1
Policy Innovation: An Introduction from the Special Section Editors	1
A Comparative Analysis of Data-Driven Monopolization: Different Pathways and Regulatory Implications	1
How Does Environmental Regulation Affect Corporate Green Innovation: A Comparative Study between Voluntary and Mandatory Environmental Regulations	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