OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Governance of artificial intelligence	132
“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets	123
Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy	76
Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective	76
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	60
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	53
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice	49
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	34
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	31
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	27
The alegality of blockchain technology	27
COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia	26
Introduction: policy integration and institutional capacity: theoretical, conceptual and empirical challenges	22
COVID-19 and social inequality in China: the local–migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic	20
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	20
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	19
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	19
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	18
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	18
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia	18
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	17
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	17
COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design	16
“Provide our basic needs or we go out”: the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, inequality, and social policy in Ghana	16
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools	15

COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	15
Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms	14
Policy integration, policy design and administrative capacities. Evidence from EU cohesion policy	13
What has happened and what has not happened due to the coronavirus disease pandemic: a systemic perspective on policy change	13
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: discursive and institutional perspectives	13
Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19	12
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	11
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	10
Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands	10
What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency	10
Presidential leadership styles and institutional capacity for climate policy integration in the European Commission	9
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	9
Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities	9
Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries	9
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	9
When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness	7
Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand	7
More is less: Partisan ideology, changes of government, and policy integration reforms in the UK	7
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	7
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	7
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	7
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	7
Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities	7
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	6
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	6
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	6
Securing cross-border collaboration: transgovernmental enforcement networks, organized crime and illicit international political economy	6
Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making	6
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	6
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	6
Cultivating health policy capacity through network governance in New Zealand: learning from divergent stories of policy implementation	6
The politics of military megaprojects: discursive struggles in Canadian and Australian naval shipbuilding strategies	5
Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda	5
The development of large public infrastructure projects: integrating policy and project studies models	5
Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy?	5
COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia	5
Analytical capacity as a critical condition for responding to COVID-19 in Brazil	5
When opportunity backfires: exploring the implementation of urban climate governance alternatives in three major US cities	5
Covid (in)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK	5
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	5
Explaining public officials’ opinions on blockchain adoption: a vignette experiment	4
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	4
The role of policy design in policy continuation and ratcheting-up of policy ambition	4
The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes	4
Are policy tools and governance modes coupled? Analysing welfare-to-work reform at the frontline	4
Pulling things together: regional policy coordination approaches and drivers in Europe	4
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	4
How welfare wins: Discursive institutionalism, the politics of the poor, and the expansion of social welfare in India during the early 21st century	4
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	4

Policy and political consequences of mandatory climate impact assessments: an explorative study of German cities and municipalities