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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Governance of artificial intelligence	139
“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets	128
Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective	76
Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy	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	50
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	35
From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	31
COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia	27
The alegality of blockchain technology	27
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	27
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	21
From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic	21
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	20
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	19
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia	19
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	18
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	18
COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design	17
Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study	17
The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy	17
“Provide our basic needs or we go out”: the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, inequality, and social policy in Ghana	16
COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income	16

Public inquiries as procedural policy tools	15
Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms	14
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: discursive and institutional perspectives	13
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
Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19	12
What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency	11
Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education	11
The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics	10
Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector	10
Presidential leadership styles and institutional capacity for climate policy integration in the European Commission	10
Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands	10
Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities	10
Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies	9
Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries	9
Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities	8
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
Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience	7
Securing cross-border collaboration: transgovernmental enforcement networks, organized crime and illicit international political economy	7
The policy dilemmas of blockchain	7
Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators	7
Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures	7
When opportunity backfires: exploring the implementation of urban climate governance alternatives in three major US cities	6
Cultivating health policy capacity through network governance in New Zealand: learning from divergent stories of policy implementation	6
Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making	6
Policy sequencing can increase public support for ambitious climate policy	6
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system	6
Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom	6
Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation	6
The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK	6
Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI	6
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia	5
Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda	5
The politics of military megaprojects: discursive struggles in Canadian and Australian naval shipbuilding strategies	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 (in)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK	5
Analytical capacity as a critical condition for responding to COVID-19 in Brazil	5
How welfare wins: Discursive institutionalism, the politics of the poor, and the expansion of social welfare in India during the early 21st century	4
The role of policy design in policy continuation and ratcheting-up of policy ambition	4
Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening	4
Explaining public officials’ opinions on blockchain adoption: a vignette experiment	4
Pulling things together: regional policy coordination approaches and drivers in Europe	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
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
“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response	4

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