OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regulation & Governance 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained	279
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	93
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	53
Issue Information	52
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	50
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Defensive Compliance in Corporate Criminal Justice: Effects of Compliance Programs on Organizational Prosecution and Punishment	43
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	42
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	39
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	38
Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II	33
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	32
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	30
Hybridity of Accountability Logics in Voluntary Sustainability Governance: The Case of Commitment 2050	29
The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements: The Role of Learning, Competition and Emulation	29
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	28
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	28
Police Cloud : Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	26
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	21
Why data about people are so hard to govern	20
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress	19
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	19
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	18
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	18
Issue Information	18

European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	17
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	17
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	17
Why Do Eastern African Countries Comply With OECD Tax Norms? How Network Effects Shape Policy Transfer in Anti‐Profit Shifting Governance	17
How Well Do Governments Assess the Distributional Impacts of Policy?	17
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	17
How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?	16
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	16
Supervising Your In‐Group? How Social Identification Shapes Financial Sector Regulatory Leniency	15
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market	15
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	14
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	14
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	13
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	13
Issue Information	13
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	13
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy	12
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	12
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	11
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	11
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐8	11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	11
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan	11
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	11
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.	11
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	11
The Green Economy and the Global South	10
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	10
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	10
The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy	10
Effectiveness of Regulatory Sandboxes in Financial Services: A Systematic Review	10
Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance	10
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	9
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	9
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training	9
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	9
Issue Information	9
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	9
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	8
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China	8
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	8
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	8
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	8
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	8
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	8
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	8
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	7
Jens Arnoltz, The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	7

Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	7
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	7
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	7
The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies	7
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Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?	7
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	6
Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance	6
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession	6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU : The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	6
Compliance in China	6
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	6
Beyond Universal Cooperation: Domain‐Specific Mechanisms of Citizen Compliance Across Taxation, Health, and Environmental Regulation	6
Issue Information	6
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	6
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes	6
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Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies	6