OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Society is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses	289
Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong	120
Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are	118
Nudges against pandemics: Sweden’s COVID-19 containment strategy in perspective	112
Policy style, consistency and the effectiveness of the policy mix in China’s fight against COVID-19	103
Policy learning and crisis policy-making: quadruple-loop learning and COVID-19 responses in South Korea	92
Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	80
Stuck in neutral? Federalism, policy instruments, and counter-cyclical responses to COVID-19 in the United States	65
“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets	63
Governance of artificial intelligence	59
Understanding inclusion in collaborative governance: a mixed methods approach	55
When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective	49
The Turkish state’s responses to existential COVID-19 crisis	47
Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy	46
How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison	44
Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective	43
Trust, but customize: federalism’s impact on the Canadian COVID-19 response	40
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	36
Understanding Collaboration: Introducing the Collaborative Governance Case Databank	34
Governing the adoption of robotics and autonomous systems in long-term care in Singapore	33
Taming the snake in paradise: combining institutional design and leadership to enhance collaborative innovation	32
Collaborative crisis management: a plausibility probe of core assumptions	28
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice	27
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	26
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	22

COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia	21
Political boundary spanning: politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy	21
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	21
Pathways to collaborative performance: examining the different combinations of conditions under which collaborations are successful	18
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	17
Global policies for moving cities: the role of think tanks in the proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit systems in Latin America and worldwide	16
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	16
Introduction: policy integration and institutional capacity: theoretical, conceptual and empirical challenges	15
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	15
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	15
COVID-19 and social inequality in China: the local–migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic	15
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	14
Public inquiries as procedural policy tools	13
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	13
What has happened and what has not happened due to the coronavirus disease pandemic: a systemic perspective on policy change	13
Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms	12
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	11
Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19	11
The alegality of blockchain technology	11
Policy integration, policy design and administrative capacities. Evidence from EU cohesion policy	10
“Provide our basic needs or we go out”: the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, inequality, and social policy in Ghana	10
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	9
COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design	9
Law and tech collide: foreseeability, reasonableness and advanced driver assistance systems	9
Diffusion of Brazil’s food policies in international organisations: assessing the processes of knowledge framing	9
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy: new politics and policies	8
What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency	7
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	7
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	7
Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities	7
Event-focused network analysis: a case study of anti-corruption networks	6
When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness	6
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	6
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	6
When opportunity backfires: exploring the implementation of urban climate governance alternatives in three major US cities	5
Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand	5
Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities	5
More is less: Partisan ideology, changes of government, and policy integration reforms in the UK	5
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	5
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	5
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia	5
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: discursive and institutional perspectives	5
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	5
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making	5