Review of Policy Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Policy Research is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism38
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Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda20
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Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms18
Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin16
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement16
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict15
Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries15
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The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism: Shaped and saved by shifting multi‐level reinforcement?13
Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development13
How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns13
The transformative power of technological change for public policy13
Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness12
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The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes11
Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy11
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European countries, 1996–201410
What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?10
Polarization and frames of advocacy coalitions in South Korea's nuclear energy policy10
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance10
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs9
Measuring climate change adaptation policy output: Toward a two‐dimensional approach9
Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany9
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching9
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy8
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate8
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How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado8
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries8
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide8
Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?8
A Review of an Urban Living Lab Initiative7
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Narrative dynamics in European Commission AI policy—Sensemaking, agency construction, and anchoring7
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability7
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Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐197
A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions7
Complementarity of additionalities resulting from European Union funds: Perspective of the users of research infrastructures7
The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda7
Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils6
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem6
The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective6
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Government‐led innovation acceleration: Case studies of US federal government innovation and technology acceleration organizations6
Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates6
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Policy responses and public reactions to risks5
“Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find.” Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices5
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges5
Alternative policy narratives of the future of climate change: Analyzing Finland's energy and climate strategy and news reports5
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation5
Perception and performance in environmental policy5
Wrestling with multiple accountabilities in times of crisis: Findings from the experiences of Chinese local governments in responding to COVID‐195
An Institutional Analysis of TMP Regulation in India5
Contagious COVID‐19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis5
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Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states5
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies5
At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport4
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison4
Impact of public information campaign on citizen behaviors: Vignette experimental study on recycling program in South Korea4
Policy processes in authoritarian settings4
Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated equilibrium theory and the agenda‐setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy in Bhutan4
Gender equality frames do not impact public support for economic relief policy in times of crisis: A survey experiment4
The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–20184
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Entrepreneurship Policy Agenda in the European Union: A Text Mining Perspective4
In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach4
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Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany4
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile4
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Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems3
Understanding Chinese authoritative experts and their roles in China's COVID‐19 policy response process: A combined perspective of institutional and multiple‐streams framework3
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China3
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Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure3
Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements3
Politics and policy of Artificial Intelligence3
The times make a hero: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in major crisis responses in China3
Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports3
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Localities and infrastructures in science, technology, and environmental policy making3
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia3
Programmatic action in Chinese health policy—The making and design of “Healthy China 2030”3
Political ideology and nuclear energy: Perception, proximity, and trust3
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns3
Crises, technology, and policy change2
Stakeholder theory in the public sector domain: A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda2
Trans‐local action and local climate policy. Configurations of success for climate innovations in the European multilevel system2
Innovation or implementation? Local response to low‐carbon policy experimentation in China2
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio2
Blockchain and digital governance: Decentralization of decision making policy2
The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration2
Reputation management in turmoil—An analysis of the clashing narratives in the introduction of a “salmon tax” in Norway2
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion2
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United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making2
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Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany2
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism2
Public preferences for five electricity grid decarbonization policies in California2
The policy process and governance of technological innovation2
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana2
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta2
Investigating the mechanisms linking revenue recycling to increased political acceptability of carbon pricing2
STIpolicy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–20192
Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?2
Narratives, evidence and public policy in crisis situations2
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The effect of policy narratives on policy elite versus public preferences for hydraulic fracturing regulation2
Powerful stories of local climate action: Comparing the evolution of narratives using the “narrative rate” index2
Decarbonization and climate change2
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach2
Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive2
Lancang‐Mekong Cooperation and policy actors' coalition behavior around hydropower development in the Mekong countries: Testing the impact of coalition opportunity structures2
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?2
Local power: Understanding the adoption and design of county wind energy regulation2
Advocacy coalitions and the co‐production of anti‐corruption policy in Botswana: A discourse network analysis2
Extending environmental justice research to religious minorities2
Non‐policy making: The case of comprehensive immigration reform, 2005–20062
COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran1
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Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China1
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk1
Who should “do more” about climate change? Cultural theory, polycentricity, and public support for climate change actions across actors and governments1
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures1
Keeping policy commitments: An organizational capability approach to local green housing equity1
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Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships1
Policy for the public without the public: Net neutrality in Israel1
How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach1
Why did Argentina and Uruguay decide to pursue a carbon tax? Fiscal reforms and explicit carbon prices1
Renewable Portfolio Standards: Do Voluntary Goals vs. Mandatory Standards Make a Difference?1
The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities1
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Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations1
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Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery1
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Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities1
Turn to the right, turn away from the green?—A nuanced analysis on how a populist radical right party affects environmental policy making in Sweden1
Climate and transportation policy sequencing in California and Quebec1
The narrative policy framework and institutions1
Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice1
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Use of Fracking Information Disclosure Policies to Reduce Uncertainty in Risk‐Based Decisions1
Uncovering the verticality and temporality of environmental policy mixes: The case of agricultural residue recycling in China1
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