OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis is 4. 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
Exploring the Prevalence and Meaning of Frontline Work in the COVID-19 Era: Implications for Policy Analysis	9
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
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during COVID-19	8
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
The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum: Comparative Analysis of Street-Level Organizations at the Front Lines	6
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
Political Attention in a Single-Leading-Party State: A Comparative Study of the Policy Agenda in China, 2003–2019	4
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