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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: Embedding participatory governance	35
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis	28
Institutions, Networks and Activism Inside the State: Women’s Health and Environmental Policy in Brazil	15
Making gender along the way: women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy	14
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	14
Promoting the digital future: the construction of digital automation in Swedish policy discourse on social assistance	14
Mechanisms of metapower & procedural injustices in the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force decision-making process	12
Can Mindfulness really change the world? The political character of meditative practices	12
Emotions, affect and social policy: austerity and Children’s Centers in the UK	11
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	11
Between radical aspirations and pragmatic challenges: Institutionalizing participatory governance in Scotland	11
A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system	11
Assembling research integrity: negotiating a policy object in scientific governance	9
Fear of the other: vulnerabilization, social empathy, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	9
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change	8
‘Close but not too close’ – experiences of science-policy bridging in three international advisory organizations	8
The ghostwriting of a global policy script: international organizations and the discursive construction of conditional cash transfers	7
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	7
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	7
Workfare and food in remote Australia: ‘I haven’t eaten… I’m really at the end…’	7
Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse	6
How empty is Trustworthy AI? A discourse analysis of the Ethics Guidelines of Trustworthy AI	6
Protected how? Problem representations of risk in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)	6
The technocratic rationality of governance - the case of the Danish employment services	6
Competitive knowledge-economies driving new logics in higher education – reflections from a Finnish university merger	6

Between autonomy and embeddedness: project interfaces and institutional change in environmental governance	6
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation	5
Institutionalizing deliberative mini-publics? Issues of legitimacy and power for randomly selected assemblies in political systems	5
From time to time: a systems-theoretical perspective on the twofold temporality of governing	5
Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-19	5
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	4
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: navigating voices of ambiguity and concern	4
Why do political parties promote participatory governance? The Brazilian Workers’ Party case	4
The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
Framing children’s lives through policy and public sphere debates on COVID-19: unequal power and unintended consequences	3
Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language	3
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	3
Global governance through peer review: the Dutch experience of OECD reviews of National Policies for Education	3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	3
Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions	3
Varieties of food democracy: a systematic literature review	3
Interpreting crises through narratives: the construction of a COVID-19 policy narrative by Canada’s political parties	3
Politics and fantasy in UK alcohol policy: a critical logics approach	3
Decolonizing Policy Research as Restorative Research Justice: Applying an Indigenous Policy Research Framework (IPRF)	3
The politics of patrolling ‘safety guards’ in Sweden: outsourcing, depoliticization, and immunization	3
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection	3
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: the interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders	3
Gendered vulnerabilities and the blind spots of the 2030 Agenda’s ‘leave no one behind’ pledge	3
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	3
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	3
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies	3
‘How dare you!’: a conceptualization of the eco-shaming discourse in Belgium	2
Hope, fear and public policy: towards empathetic policy process	2
Policies on marginalized migrant communities during Covid-19: migration management prioritized over population health	2
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	2
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	2
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	2
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	2
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem	2
The end of exceptionalism or exceptionalism by other means? unraveling the contradictions of HIV/AIDS governance in Canada	2
Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies : achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth	2
Constructing the data economy: tracing expectations of value creation in policy documents	2
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space: implications for policy and administration	1
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	1
Accounting from below: activists confront outsourcing in a London borough	1
Reparative public policy	1
The politics of welfare state financialisation: the case of Israel’s ‘Saving for Every Child’ programme	1
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	1
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	1
The two faces of institutional innovation: promises and limits of democratic participation in Latin America	1
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	1
Political sovereignty in tension with global capitalist accumulation: the case of the European socio-economic strategy	1
A complementary approach to Critical Frame Analysis and ‘what is the Problem represented to Be?’	1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	1

Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	1
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program	1
Capitalizing on nature: a critical discourse study of nature policy concerning the Murchison Falls Conservation Area of Uganda	1
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	1
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis	1
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	1
What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy	1
Research methods in deliberative democracy Research methods in deliberative democracy , edited by Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça,	1
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	1
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations	1
The analytical, the political and the personal: Swedish stakeholder narratives about alcohol policy at football stadiums	1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	1
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	1
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	1
The policy unconscious: educational labor, the research-and-teaching relationship and the unquestioned meaning of higher education	1
Exploring ethical space in land use planning	1
Erased: ending faculty sexual misconduct in academia an open letter from women of public affairs education	1
Depoliticization and the changing boundaries of governance in Japan	1
Social value in public policy	1