OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Street-Level Bureaucrats at the Forefront of Pandemic Response: A Comparative Perspective	45
Governmental Response to Crises and Its Implications for Street-Level Implementation: Policy Ambiguity, Risk, and Discretion during the COVID-19 Pandemic	37
Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines of Crises	36
Multi-Level Governance, Policy Coordination and Subnational Responses to COVID-19: Comparing China and the US	29
A Cross-Country Comparison of Fiscal Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	23
“Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to COVID-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling	21
Social Safety Nets and COVID-19 Stay Home Orders across US States: A Comparative Policy Analysis	20
How COVID-19 Has Affected Frontline Workers in Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Nurses and Community Health Workers	19
Can Teachers’ Discretion Enhance the Role of Professionalism in Times of Crisis? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Distance Teaching in Italy and Switzerland during the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Resistance, Innovation, and Improvisation: Comparing the Responses of Nursing Home Workers to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada and the United States	17
Government-Led or Public-Led? Chinese Policy Agenda Setting during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
COVID-19, Federalism, and Health Care Financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico	16
Coordination and Health Policy Responses to the First Wave of COVID-19 in Italy and Spain	15
The Dilemma between Self-Protection and Service Provision under Danish COVID-19 Guidelines: A Comparison of Public Servants’ Experiences in the Pandemic Frontline	15
Comparing Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools: Framework for Policy Designers	14
Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analyzing Role Changes of Healthcare Street-Level Bureaucrats in Mexico	14
Culture, Institution, and COVID-19 First-Response Policy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Thirty-One Countries	14
Comparative Public Policy Analysis of COVID-19 as a Naturally Occurring Experiment	14
Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Potential Outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic	13
To Yield or Shield? Comparing International Public Administrations’ Responses to Member States’ Policy Contestation	11
Impacts of policy changes on Care-Leaving Workers in a time of coronavirus: Comparative analysis of discretion and constraints	11
International Public Administrations on Twitter: A Comparison of Digital Authority in Global Climate Policy	11
Comparing Motivations for Including Enforcement in US COVID-19 State Executive Orders	10
State or Civil Society – What Matters in Fighting COVID-19? A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore	9
Policy-Makers, Policy-Takers and Policy Tools: Dealing with Behaviourial Issues in Policy Design	9

Exploring the Prevalence and Meaning of Frontline Work in the COVID-19 Era: Implications for Policy Analysis	9
Party Identification and Cultural Theory in Europe: Methodologically Advancing Comparative Studies of the Advocacy Coalition Framework	8
Mind the Gap? Comparing De Facto and De Jure Expert Authority of International Public Administrations in Financial and Agricultural Policy	8
Using Instrument Typologies in Comparative Research: Conceptual and Methodological Trade-Offs	8
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during COVID-19	8
Community Health Workers as Street-level Quasi-Bureaucrats in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Cases of Kenya and Thailand	6
The Rise of Anti-Net Zero Populism in the UK: Comparing Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Policy Dismantling	6
The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum: Comparative Analysis of Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines	6
Progress Towards Ending Sexual Harassment at Work? A Comparison of Sexual Harassment Policy in 192 Countries	4
Incorporating Time into Policy Transfer Studies: A Comparative Analysis of the Transnational Policy Process of Conditional Cash Transfers and Participatory Budgeting	4
Policy Capacity Matters for Education System Reforms: A Comparative Study of Two Brazilian States	4
Political Attention in a Single-Leading-Party State: A Comparative Study of the Policy Agenda in China, 2003–2019	4
“Good Enough” Governance in the Post-Soviet Eurasia	3
Political Determinants of Social Assistance Policies: A Critical Global Comparative Systematic Literature Review	3
Managing Asylum: Street-Level Organizations and Refugee Crises	3
The Role of Time in the Localisation of Global Urban Policy. A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador and Bolivia	3
Comparative Transfer Analysis: Policy Instruments, Space and Time	3
Trust in Government and COVID-19 Response Policy: A Comparative Approach	3
Comparing Pathways of Policy Internationalization: The Transfer of Brazilian Social Programs	3
Gendered Impacts of Environmental Degradation in Informal Settlements: A Comparative Analysis and Policy Implications for India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan	3
Self-Governance via Intermediaries: Credibility in Three Different Modes of Governance	2
The Dynamics of Welfare State Regime Development in the Global South: Structures, Institutions, and Political Agency	2
Comparing Formal Public Sector Policy Staff: Organizing Principles, Composition, and Distribution in Anglophone Countries	2
Federalism and Policy Design in Two Liberal Welfare State Regimes: Comparing the Politics of Labour Market Policies in Canada and the United States	2
Climate Protection for Migration Prevention: Comparison of Policy Discourses on Climate Change and Migration in Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden	2
Causality in Comparative Policy Analysis: Introduction to a Special Issue of the JCPA	2
Comparing the Sequence of Climate Change Mitigation Targets and Policies in Major Emitting Economies	2
Why Do Comparative Public Policy and Political Economy Scholars Need an Analytic Eclectic View of Structure, Institution and Agency?	2
Special Issue: Policy Innovation in the Global South and South–North Policy Learning	2
Coordinating Wickedness: A Comparative Analysis of How Norway and Sweden Organize for Climate Policies	2
Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis	2
Disapproval of Climate Policy Dismantlement: A Comparative Analysis of International Public Opinion on Donald Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Regime	2
The World Bank and Education Policy in Colombia: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of International Organizations’ Learning on Domestic Policy	2
Comparative Analysis of Financial Bureaucracies of Europe: The Influence of Policy Sector vs Administrative Tradition on the Attitudes of Finance Officials	2
Health Policy in Asia: A Policy Design Approach	1
Comparative Energy Transition Policy: How Exposure, Policy Vulnerability and Trust Affect Popular Acceptance of Policy Expansion	1
The Grameen Bank Microfinance Model in the Global North: Processes, Transfer Intermediaries and Adoption	1
Embracing Complexity in Policy Implementation Research: A Comparative Analysis of Water Policy Implementation in the Great Lakes and Rio-Grande/Bravo Regions	1
Delegation versus Control: A Comparison of Reform Patterns and Diffusion Channels in Latin American Regulatory Agencies	1
Compared Policy Analysis of Intermunicipalities in France, the Comoros and Mali: The Role of African Diasporas in Translocal Policy Transfers	1
Insights from the Frontline of German Welfare Policy: The Under-Recognised Role of Brokerage in Street-Level Practice	1
Assessing and Comparing Participatory Governance in Energy Transition: Evidence from the 27 European Union Member States	1
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	1
Classification, Evolution, and Construction: A Parallel Discourse Analysis of Agricultural Outsourcing Policy in China	1
Frontline Politics: Street-Level Organizations, Family Unification and the Right to Asylum in Germany	1
How Do Governments’ Policy Priorities Change as the Energy Transition Progresses? A Cross-Country Comparison	1
Vietnam and China’s Civil Service Merit-based Policies: A Comparative Analysis from the Policy Transfer and Historical Institutionalism Approaches	1
Does Trade Pattern Enhance Institutional Quality? Comparison across Regions	1
Using National Data Sources to Compare Subnational Policies: Insights from the American Rescue Plan Act	1
Testing the Ambition Loop: Do Country- and Company-Level Net-Zero Targets Reinforce Each Other? A Global Comparison	1

Comparative Analysis of Policy Transfer in Latin America: An Instrument of CCTs from Chile to Paraguay, Colombia and Guatemala	1
How Constitutional Drafters Use Comparative Evidence	1
Utilizing a Comparative Policy Resource from the WORLD Policy Analysis Center Covering Constitutional Rights, Laws, and Policies across 193 Countries for Outcome Analysis, Monitoring, and Accountabili	1
Multilevel Analysis of Social and Policy Acceptance of Immigrants across European Countries and Its Implications for Comparative Policy	1
Comparative Studies of Public Administration and Public Policy beyond the Nation State	1
Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning under Multiple Hierarchies	1
How Does Environmental Regulation Affect Corporate Green Innovation: A Comparative Study between Voluntary and Mandatory Environmental Regulations	1