OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Policy Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Multilateralism as a ‘site’ of struggle over environmental knowledge: the North-South divide	17
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis	16
Making gender along the way: women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy	11
Democratic innovations after the post-democratic turn: between activation and empowerment	11
Institutions, Networks and Activism Inside the State: Women’s Health and Environmental Policy in Brazil	10
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	10
Still struggling: intersectionality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery after the Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA Tornado	9
Policy narratives: the perlocutionary agents of political discourse	8
Emotions, affect and social policy: austerity and Children’s Centers in the UK	8
Mechanisms of metapower & procedural injustices in the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force decision-making process	8
Introduction: Embedding participatory governance	8
Can Mindfulness really change the world? The political character of meditative practices	8
Job search success among the formerly-unemployed: paradoxically, a matter of self-discipline	7
Promoting the digital future: the construction of digital automation in Swedish policy discourse on social assistance	7
Post-truth politics and climate denial: further reflections	7
‘The (charitable) pantry is bare’: a critical discourse analysis of Christmas food hamper programs in Canada	6
Culture and tax avoidance: the case of Italy	6
Emotional problems: policymaking and empathy through the lens of transnational motherhood	6
Is ‘Health in All Policies’ everybody’s responsibility? Discourses of multistakeholderism and the lifestyle drift phenomenon	6
Between radical aspirations and pragmatic challenges: Institutionalizing participatory governance in Scotland	6
Workfare and food in remote Australia: ‘I haven’t eaten… I’m really at the end…’	6
Assembling research integrity: negotiating a policy object in scientific governance	5
Called to arms: the NRA, the gun culture & women	5
Between autonomy and embeddedness: project interfaces and institutional change in environmental governance	4
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation	4

A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system	4
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change	4
Framing children’s lives through policy and public sphere debates on COVID-19: unequal power and unintended consequences	3
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	3
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: navigating voices of ambiguity and concern	3
Fear of the other: vulnerabilization, social empathy, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	3
From time to time: a systems-theoretical perspective on the twofold temporality of governing	3
Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language	3
Making sense of pot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse	3
‘Close but not too close’ – experiences of science-policy bridging in three international advisory organizations	3
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: the interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders	3
The ghostwriting of a global policy script: international organizations and the discursive construction of conditional cash transfers	3
Protected how? Problem representations of risk in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)	3
Global governance through peer review: the Dutch experience of OECD reviews of National Policies for Education	3
Institutionalizing deliberative mini-publics? Issues of legitimacy and power for randomly selected assemblies in political systems	2
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	2
The end of exceptionalism or exceptionalism by other means? unraveling the contradictions of HIV/AIDS governance in Canada	2
Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-19	2
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	2
Competitive knowledge-economies driving new logics in higher education – reflections from a Finnish university merger	2
The technocratic rationality of governance - the case of the Danish employment services	2
Environmental expertise: connecting science, policy, and society	2
Gendered vulnerabilities and the blind spots of the 2030 Agenda’s ‘leave no one behind’ pledge	2
Can critical policy studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	2
Accounting from below: activists confront outsourcing in a London borough	1
The analytical, the political and the personal: Swedish stakeholder narratives about alcohol policy at football stadiums	1
Implementation of indigenous public policies and tensions to governance: evidences from the Chilean case	1
Jamming with implementation research	1
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	1
Erased: ending faculty sexual misconduct in academia an open letter from women of public affairs education	1
Public policy in the face of post-truth politics and the role of deliberation	1
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection	1
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space: implications for policy and administration	1
Policies on marginalized migrant communities during Covid-19: migration management prioritized over population health	1
Emotions, narratives, and the art of making meanings: Nantes’ memorial to the abolition of slavery	1
The two faces of institutional innovation: promises and limits of democratic participation in Latin America	1
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	1
Measuring the link between democracy and transparent lobbying	1
Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions	1
Interpreting crises through narratives: the construction of a COVID-19 policy narrative by Canada’s political parties	1
The politics of welfare state financialisation: the case of Israel’s ‘Saving for Every Child’ programme	1
The policy unconscious: educational labor, the research-and-teaching relationship and the unquestioned meaning of higher education	1
Depoliticization and the changing boundaries of governance in Japan	1
Social value in public policy	1
The politics of patrolling ‘safety guards’ in Sweden: outsourcing, depoliticization, and immunization	0
Public policy: a view from the South	0
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program	0
The politics of intimacy rethinking the end-of-life controversy	0
As we have always done: indigenous freedom through radical resistance	0
Racial equity, COVID-19, and public policy: The triple pandemic (1st Edition) Racial equity, COVID-19, and public policy: The triple pandemic (1st Edition) , by Elsie L.	0

Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	0
Democracy in a time of misery: from spectacular tragedy to deliberative action	0
Varieties of food democracy: a systematic literature review	0
Why do political parties promote participatory governance? The Brazilian Workers’ Party case	0
Market Civilizations: neoliberals East and South	0
Post-truth, fake news and democracy	0
Border and rule: global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism	0
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	0
On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil	0
Politics of Emancipation: A Feminist Defense of Randomly Selected Political Representatives	0
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy	0
Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy	0
The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC	0
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	0
Challenges to political decision-making: dealing with information overload, ignorance and contested knowledge Challenges to political decision-making: dealing with information overload,	0
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	0
Decolonizing Policy Research as Restorative Research Justice: Applying an Indigenous Policy Research Framework (IPRF)	0
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	0
Political formulation of policy solutions	0
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework	0
The politics of intimacy rethinking the end-of-life controversy	0
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	0
Book Review: The Art and Craft of Comparison	0
Shifting responsibility in governing aging: municipal active aging discourses in Turkey	0
‘Globalists: the end of empire and the birth of neoliberalism’	0
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis	0
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	0
‘Better than Doing Nothing’ – constructing support for biodiversity offsetting in Finland	0
Seeing like a welfare state – legibility and the transformation of the self-help field	0
The unknowers: how strategic ignorance rules the world	0
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem	0
Environmental populism: the politics of survival in the anthropocene	0
The politics of scale in policy. Scalecraft and education policy	0
Public policy: a view from the South	0
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	0
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	0
Legitimacy in the participants’ eyes: a call for participants’ authorship over mini-public design in Brussels	0
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe	0
Radical Critical Policy Studies: Situating Racialized Personhood within Decolonizing Policy, Knowledge Production, Self-Reflexivity & Positionality/Social-Location	0
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	0
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation	0
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers	0
Hope, fear and public policy: towards empathetic policy process	0
Facing adversity together: the biopolitics of the community-focussed recovery policies in post-earthquake Canterbury, New Zealand	0
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	0
Narrative politics in public policy – legalizing cannabis	0
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	0
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	0
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance	0
Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters	0
Wild policy: Indigeneity and the unruly logics of intervention	0
Mending Democracy: Lessons from the Global South democracies?	0
Capitalizing on nature: a critical discourse study of nature policy concerning the Murchison Falls Conservation Area of Uganda	0
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	0
Politics and fantasy in UK alcohol policy: a critical logics approach	0
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations	0
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	0
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	0
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy	0
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world	0
‘How dare you!’: a conceptualization of the eco-shaming discourse in Belgium	0
Democracy in the post-truth era: restoring faith in expertise	0
The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security ,	0
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism	0
Democracy, economic inequality, and mending	0
Infrastructures, processes of insertion and the everyday: towards a new dialogue in critical policy studies	0
Democracy, Identity, and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Hegemony Through Transformation Democracy, Identity, and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Hegemony Through Transformation , b	0
Mending democracies, patching societies	0
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies	0
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	0
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	0