Review of Policy Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Review of Policy Research is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?49
Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy41
The role of policy learning in explaining COVID‐19 policy changes34
An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem31
Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges30
Advancing theories of public policy for the analysis of environmental challenges across countries29
Hydraulic fracturing, polarization, and environmental policy implementation29
Natural laboratories in emerging countries and comparative advantages in science: Evidence from Chile29
Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison22
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Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?21
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Decarbonization and climate change19
Firm‐level aggregate corruption and competition: The role of telecommunications infrastructure19
Conservation in conflict: Examining rural–urban discourse in wolf reintroduction policy in Colorado18
Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns18
Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities17
How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta17
Collective learning and COVID‐19 mitigation in Ghana17
A new beef: An analysis of discourse coalitions in the nascent cellular agriculture policy subsystem17
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Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China16
Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships16
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity13
The narrative policy framework and institutions13
Make it loud and simple: Coalition politics and problem framing in the French policy process of hydraulic fracturing13
The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China13
Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India13
The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis13
Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems12
Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam11
Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy11
Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries11
What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks?10
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Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda10
Is it all about the government's early response? A configurational analysis of 27 cases in governing COVID‐19 in China10
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Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs10
Policy reinvention in diffusion: Evidence from municipal solid waste classification policy in China9
What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada9
Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools9
Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China9
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching9
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Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting9
When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions9
Environmental racism and air pollution: Pre and post the COVID‐19 economic shutdown9
Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France9
Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability8
Can different policy interventions work complementarily?—A survey experiment on policy compliance8
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide8
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Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes8
Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs8
How do civil society organizations communicate in an authoritarian setting? A narrative analysis of the Russian waste management debate8
The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance8
Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis8
Policy or scientific messaging? Strategic framing in a case of subnational climate change conflict8
Policy instruments attitudes and support for government responses against Covid‐197
Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?7
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion7
Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio7
Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review7
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates7
Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism7
The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–20187
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Issue Information6
How communities and policy instruments govern sustainability6
Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk6
Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates6
Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States6
How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach6
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures6
Shaping the Crisis Management‐Public Administration Nexus: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda6
Understanding innovation policy governance: A disaggregated approach6
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