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Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Policy Studies is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	122
Philanthropic governance in a Southern European setting: unpacking discourses of educational innovation reforms	38
Hegemony without hierarchy: how the United Nations Global Digital Compact discursively constructs global AI governance norms	37
What is wrong with positivist policy process theories? Controversies over empirically grasping policy complexity	35
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	27
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	22
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	21
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	20
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	19
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	15
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	15
Empathetic policy design: emotional engagement, inclusive space, and empowered deliberation	14
Forking paths of AI governance – how risk management frameworks shape the politics of AI	13
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	12
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	11
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	10
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	8
Governing by promises. Water scarcity and rural hegemony in Morocco	8
The politics of platform regulation by robert gorwa	8
Invisible dimensions of climate obstruction and road transport continuity. The role of mental infrastructure maintenance	8
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	8
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism	8
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	7
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	7
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	7

Variegated Economies	7
Policy metaphors we live by: beyond the bounds of street-level bureaucracy	7
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	6
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	6
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	6
Nobody’s decision: AI and the perfection of bureaucracy	6
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	6
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	5
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	5
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	5
Constructing the imaginary of ‘international talent’ in Finnish migration policy 2006–2024	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
New models of housing and care: the politics of housing an aging population in Switzerland	5
Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	5
Charting the course, charting the coast: exploring epistemic orientations in the making of sustainable aquaculture futures	5
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	4
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	4
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	4
(De)politicizing animal-related policies and rights: discourses and institutional dynamics in Finnish city councils	4
Wicked problems or second-order problem? A phenomenological stance	4
Governing through the community: state transversality, neoliberal governmentality, and struggles for schooling of social movements	4
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	4
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose	4
Policy experts’ strategy in deliberative polling on Korean pension reform: utilizing valence and polysemic ideas through framing and narrative strategies	4
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	4
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
How is person-centred care operationalized in macro policy? A Critical Discourse Analysis of aged care policy reform in Australia	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	3
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	3
‘The region’ between care and control: How Dutch policy actors discursively legitimate regional ‘reception and protection’	3
International environmental sustainability discourse in the wake of Covid-19: exploring the psychic dimension of political discourse through fantasy	3
How ambiguity becomes productive: implementing the policy concept of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare	3
The therapeutic function of evidence-based policy making: a Study of ex ante analysis in infrastructure policy processes	3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	3
A critical explanation of uses of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach	3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	3
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents	2
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?	2
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis	2
Democracy in the post-truth era: restoring faith in expertise Democracy in the post-truth era: restoring faith in expertise , by Janusz Grygieńć (translated by Dominika	2
Power dynamics and donor support for fiscal reforms in developing countries: a critical analysis from Jordan	2

Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy	2
Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing	2
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis	2
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	2
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	2
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	2
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence	2
The policy author-function: analyzing authorship of policy documents	2
Mapping networks of critical policy studies	2
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	2
Interpretivism vs. positivism in policy studies: Is there common ground?	2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	2
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis	2
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education	2
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education	1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	1
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy	1
The rhetorical functions of invoking experts in legislative debates over social policy in Finland	1
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	1
Governance networks in public administration and public policy	1
Problematizing ultra-processing: opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance	1
Correction	1
Civil society narratives of climate justice: subjects, causes, and solutions	1
Audit culture: how indicators and rankings are reshaping the world	1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct	1
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures	1
Climbing fences: formal and informal participations in an urban Dutch neighborhood	1
The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security ,	1
Institutional activism amidst participatory constraints: new practices for limited opportunities within Porto Alegre’s participatory budgeting	1
The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension - Conclusion to the CPS Special Book Review	1
Research methods in deliberative democracy	1
Participatory democratic innovations in southeast europe: how to engage in flawed democracies	1
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 2023	1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	1
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research	1
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework	1
Departing from all semblance of democracy: how scholarly communities can respond to the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism	1
Governing aging through learning: later-life education policy in China, 1982–2025	1
Correction	1
Reframing robustness, reclaiming politics: a constructivist reappraisal of robust governance in turbulent times	1
Questioning the ‘transparency-fix’ in the fight against corruption: The example of Transparency International	1
The rhythm and space of collegial interactions. A qualitative study of mediating interaction sites in palliative care	1
Correction	1
Below-the-Radar Public Policy: a conceptual and empirical contribution from Argentina (2016–2023)	1
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden	1
Review: magical thinking in public policy – why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist in cynical times	1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	1