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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities	177
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust	54
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets	44
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained	37
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand	33
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.	32
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries	32
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union	32
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation	29
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence	26
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress	25
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States	24
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement	20
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi	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
Why data about people are so hard to govern	19
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk	18
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking	16
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure	15
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand	15
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations	14
Issue Information	14
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure	14
Issue Information	13
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden	13

European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market	13
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies	13
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?	13
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China	12
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech	12
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market	12
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government	11
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards	11
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change	11
How does organizational task matter for the reputation of public agencies?	11
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium	11
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”	10
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments	10
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting	10
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden	9
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America	9
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan	9
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	9
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets	9
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries	9
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.	9
Issue Information	9
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change	9
The Green Economy and the Global South	8
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds	8
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector	8
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice	8
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden	7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies	7
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda	7
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0	7
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward	7
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy	7
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making	6
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain	6
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives	6
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The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China	6
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures	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
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero	6
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance	6
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance	6
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐19	6
Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?	6
Issue Information	5
Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union	5
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Compliance in China	5
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations	5

Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care	5
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea	5
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes	5
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action	5
Issue Information	5
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics	5
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors	5
Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance	5
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking	5
Issue Information	5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914	5
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries	5
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans	5
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention	5
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation	5