OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regulation & Governance is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	205
Issue Information	68
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	42
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	40
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained	39
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	38
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	36
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	31
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	29
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress	27
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	27
Why data about people are so hard to govern	22
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	22
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	21
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	18
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	18
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	17
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment	17
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	17
Issue Information	16
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	16
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	15
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	15
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	14
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	14

Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	14
How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?	14
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	13
Issue Information	13
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	13
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market	13
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	12
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	11
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	11
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	11
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy	11
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	11
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	11
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	11
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	10
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan	10
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	10
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.	10
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	10
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	9
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	9
The Green Economy and the Global South	9
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	9
Issue Information	9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	8
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds	8
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	8
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training	8
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	7
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China	7
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	7
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	7
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	7
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	6
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	6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	6
Issue Information	6
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	6
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	6
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	6
	6
Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?	6
The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies	6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	6
Compliance in China	6
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	6

Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	6
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	6
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	6
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	6
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	6
Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World	5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914	5
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	5
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes	5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN	5
Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union	5
Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance	5
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession	5
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe	5
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action	5
Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy	5
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	5
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive	5
Issue Information	5