OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regulation & Governance is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Mapping the relationship between regulation and innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective: A critical systematic review of the literature	73
Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies	39
Why de‐judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor‐to‐State Dispute Settlement reforms	39
Issue Information	38
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	36
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Jordan, Andrew and Gravey, Viviane (2021). Environmental policy in the EU: Actors, institutions and processes. London, UK: Routledge.	24
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	23
The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street‐level integration and sectoral policy outcomes	22
Regulatory agency reputation acquisition: A Q Methodology analysis of the views of agency employees	20
Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security	20
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	18
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making	18
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities	18
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx	18
Fine me if you can: Fixed asset intensity and enforcement of environmental regulations in China	18
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Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	16
Reconfiguring governance: How cyber security regulations are reconfiguring water governance	16
Transparency and corruption: Measuring real transparency by a new index	15
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?	13
Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries	13
Conceptualization and measurement of regulatory discretion: Text analysis of 120 years of British legislation	12
More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations	11

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Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	11
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	11
Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election	11
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	10
A comparative analysis of Inspector responses to complaints about psychosocial and physical hazards	10
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	9
Passing on the red genes: Communism nostalgia in online fictions and ideological governance in China	9
Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state: Global market governance in flux	9
Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?	9
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	9
Magnetic law: Designing environmental enforcement laws to encourage us to go further	9
Algorithmic regulation: A maturing concept for investigating regulationofandthroughalgorithms	8
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	8
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	8
Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy	8
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence	8
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	8
Tussle for space: The politics of mock‐compliance with global financial standards in developing countries	8
From voluntary to mandatory corporate accountability: The politics of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act	7
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	7
Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies	7
Assessing Input Legitimacy of Occupational Pensions in Europe	6
Financial technocrats as competitive regime creators: The founding and design of the Network for Greening the Financial System	6
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	6
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	6
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges	6
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	6
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	6
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	5
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Behavioral responsive regulation: Bringing together responsive regulation and behavioral public policy	5
Toxic waste and public procurement: The defense sector as a disproportionate contributor to pollution from public–private partnerships	5
Regulation timing in the states: The role of divided government and legislative recess	5
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Taxation: A Regulatory Multilevel Governance Perspective	5
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?	5
The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States	5
Issue Information	5
Understanding regulatory cultures: The case of water regulatory reforms in India	5
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains	4
Beyond Security: The Compliance Dimension of National Security Reviews in Singapore and Taiwan	4
Regulatory policy choice in post‐reform contexts: The case of industrial safety regulation in Mexico's oil and gas industry	4
Judicial Self‐Governance Index: Towards better understanding of the role of judges in governing the judiciary	4
Policy growth and maintenance in comparative perspective	4
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Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies	4
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How many regulations does it take to get a beer? The geography of beer regulations	4
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	4
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	4