OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Street-Level Bureaucrats at the Forefront of Pandemic Response: A Comparative Perspective	41
Governmental Response to Crises and Its Implications for Street-Level Implementation: Policy Ambiguity, Risk, and Discretion during the COVID-19 Pandemic	35
Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines of Crises	33
Multi-Level Governance, Policy Coordination and Subnational Responses to COVID-19: Comparing China and the US	27
“Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to COVID-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling	22
Politicization, Depoliticization and Policy Change: A Comparative Theoretical Perspective on Agri-food Policy	22
A Cross-Country Comparison of Fiscal Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	20
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	18
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	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
Resistance, Innovation, and Improvisation: Comparing the Responses of Nursing Home Workers to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada and the United States	15
Coordination and Health Policy Responses to the First Wave of COVID-19 in Italy and Spain	14
The Dilemma between Self-Protection and Service Provision under Danish COVID-19 Guidelines: A Comparison of Public Servants’ Experiences in the Pandemic Frontline	14
Comparing Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools: Framework for Policy Designers	14
Culture, Institution, and COVID-19 First-Response Policy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Thirty-One Countries	13
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
Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analyzing Role Changes of Healthcare Street-Level Bureaucrats in Mexico	13
Comparative Public Policy Analysis of COVID-19 as a Naturally Occurring Experiment	12
Policy Implementation by International Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses of National and International Staff	12
Dealing with the Dark Side of Policy-Making: Managing Behavioural Risk and Volatility in Policy Designs	12
International Public Administrations on Twitter: A Comparison of Digital Authority in Global Climate Policy	11
Impacts of policy changes on Care-Leaving Workers in a time of coronavirus: Comparative analysis of discretion and constraints	11
To Yield or Shield? Comparing International Public Administrations’ Responses to Member States’ Policy Contestation	11

Comparing Motivations for Including Enforcement in US COVID-19 State Executive Orders	10
Exploring the Prevalence and Meaning of Frontline Work in the COVID-19 Era: Implications for Policy Analysis	9
Policy-Makers, Policy-Takers and Policy Tools: Dealing with Behaviourial Issues in Policy Design	9
Mind the Gap? Comparing De Facto and De Jure Expert Authority of International Public Administrations in Financial and Agricultural Policy	8
Party Identification and Cultural Theory in Europe: Methodologically Advancing Comparative Studies of the Advocacy Coalition Framework	8
State or Civil Society – What Matters in Fighting COVID-19? A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore	7
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during COVID-19	7
Singing Together or Apart? Comparing Policy Agenda Dynamics within International Organizations	7
Using Instrument Typologies in Comparative Research: Conceptual and Methodological Trade-Offs	6
Can We Be Casual about Being Causal?	6
Community Health Workers as Street-level Quasi-Bureaucrats in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Cases of Kenya and Thailand	6