OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 3. 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
From active collaborators to source of new regulatory politics: regulatory intermediaries in India	90
Correction to: Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	76
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	64
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	48
Alignment and asymmetry: European and national crisis governance under the Recovery and Resilience Facility	41
Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India	38
Policy termination in state-driven spheres: the role of inter-agency de-alignment	36
From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies	33
Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience	32
Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts	31
When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities	30
Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development	28
Bypassing clientelism through policy design: generating intelligence for effective social policies	28
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence	25
Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization	23
Assessing public support for social policy in times of crisis: evidence from the Child Tax Credit during the COVID-19 era in the United States	21
Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports	21
Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice	20
Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems	18
How to induce honesty: results from a large-scale experiment	18
The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems	18
From governing during the flood crisis to governing the flood crisis: the case of flood-risk management in Acre (Brazil)	17
The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness	17
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	16
Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject	16

Government-affiliated intermediaries in climate policy: managing “productive tensions” between flexibility and control	16
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	16
Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis	15
A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking	15
Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making	14
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	14
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	13
Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	13
A better nudge definition for behavioral public policy	13
Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin	13
Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities	12
Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank	11
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	11
Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis	10
Political rootlessness, rather than capacity and subsystem support loss? Probing why policy derived from internationally popular norms may terminate easily	10
Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse	10
European coordinators as senior policy intermediaries in the implementation of the trans-European transport network	9
Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel	9
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	9
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	9
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	9
Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system	9
Sustaining collaborations after a crisis: Australian disability and health policy and practice	9
Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms	9
How blame-avoidance and credit-claiming attempts affect policy change in times of crisis	7
Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style	7
Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing	7
Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration	6
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	6
Deep core advocacy coalitions	6
Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era	6
What happens after policies end? Effects of policy termination and dismantling on target populations, organizations, policy mixes, and political behavior	6
Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI	6
Wrong now, right then: policy salience in the termination of the South Korean Shutdown Act	5
The politics of public policy termination in Ghana: Is it a case of whoever pays the piper calls the tune?	5
Managing national expert and advisory committees in the Chinese policy advisory system	5
Welfare chauvinism in divided societies: the role of national identity in social policy preferences	5
Malignity in policy sciences: a theory and framework	5
Advocacy coalitions as political organizations	5
Governing Crisis	4
Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland	4
Intermediation in policy and politics: rethinking the architecture and process of governance	4
Navigating evidence, legitimacy, and delivery: a three-dimensional framework for behavioral policy design	4
The ways that external and internal dynamics influence intermediaries in the climate policy process	4
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	4
The rise of Big Tech as super policy entrepreneurs	4
Ideational robustness in turbulent times	3
Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	3
The politics of governing crises: three types of policymaking under uncertainty, urgency, and threat	3
Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions?	3

The role of policy design in policy continuation and ratcheting-up of policy ambition	3
An instrument constituency of data science—the case of Data for Good initiatives in the UK nonprofit sector	3
Blame avoidance and credit-claiming dynamics in government policy communications: evidence from leadership tweets in four OECD countries during the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic	3
When bargaining is and is not possible: the politics of bureaucratic expertise in the context of democratic backsliding	3