OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Society is 16. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses	312
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	125
Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong	124
Nudges against pandemics: Sweden’s COVID-19 containment strategy in perspective	123
Policy style, consistency and the effectiveness of the policy mix in China’s fight against COVID-19	111
Policy learning and crisis policy-making: quadruple-loop learning and COVID-19 responses in South Korea	96
“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets	87
Governance of artificial intelligence	86
Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	83
Stuck in neutral? Federalism, policy instruments, and counter-cyclical responses to COVID-19 in the United States	68
Understanding inclusion in collaborative governance: a mixed methods approach	65
Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy	56
Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective	55
When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective	54
How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison	51
The Turkish state’s responses to existential COVID-19 crisis	50
Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe	47
Trust, but customize: federalism’s impact on the Canadian COVID-19 response	42
Understanding Collaboration: Introducing the Collaborative Governance Case Databank	38
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice	37
Taming the snake in paradise: combining institutional design and leadership to enhance collaborative innovation	35
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator	34
Governing the adoption of robotics and autonomous systems in long-term care in Singapore	34
Collaborative crisis management: a plausibility probe of core assumptions	30
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state	27

From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways	27
COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia	26
Political boundary spanning: politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy	24
Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures	23
COVID-19 and social inequality in China: the local–migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic	20
Pathways to collaborative performance: examining the different combinations of conditions under which collaborations are successful	19
COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women	18
Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory	18
COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States	17
Introduction: policy integration and institutional capacity: theoretical, conceptual and empirical challenges	17
Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design	16