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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	96
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	34
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	33
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	32
Forking paths of AI governance – how risk management frameworks shape the politics of AI	27
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	22
Empathetic policy design: emotional engagement, inclusive space, and empowered deliberation	19
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	19
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	16
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	16
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	15
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	13
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	13
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	13
Governing by promises. Water scarcity and rural hegemony in Morocco	11
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism	10
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	8
Invisible dimensions of climate obstruction and road transport continuity. The role of mental infrastructure maintenance	8
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	8
The politics of platform regulation by robert gorwa	8
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	8
Variegated Economies	7
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	7
Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	7
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	7

Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	7
New models of housing and care: the politics of housing an aging population in Switzerland	6
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
Constructing the imaginary of ‘international talent’ in Finnish migration policy 2006–2024	5
Charting the course, charting the coast: exploring epistemic orientations in the making of sustainable aquaculture futures	5
Nobody’s decision: AI and the perfection of bureaucracy	5
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	5
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	5
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	5
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	4
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	4
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose	4
(De)politicizing animal-related policies and rights: discourses and institutional dynamics in Finnish city councils	4
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	4
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	4
Governing through the community: state transversality, neoliberal governmentality, and struggles for schooling of social movements	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4
Policy experts’ strategy in deliberative polling on Korean pension reform: utilizing valence and polysemic ideas through framing and narrative strategies	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
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
International environmental sustainability discourse in the wake of Covid-19: exploring the psychic dimension of political discourse through fantasy	3
‘The region’ between care and control: How Dutch policy actors discursively legitimate regional ‘reception and protection’	3
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
The therapeutic function of evidence-based policy making: a Study of ex ante analysis in infrastructure policy processes	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	3
A critical explanation of uses of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach	3
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
How is person-centred care operationalized in macro policy? A Critical Discourse Analysis of aged care policy reform in Australia	3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	3
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	3
Wicked problems or second-order problem? A phenomenological stance	3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	3
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	2
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	2
Interpretivism vs. positivism in policy studies: Is there common ground?	2
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis	2
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis	2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	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
Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing	2
The policy author-function: analyzing authorship of policy documents	2
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy	2
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	2
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	2
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents	2
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education	2
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence	2
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education	1
Correction	1
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework	1
The rhythm and space of collegial interactions. A qualitative study of mediating interaction sites in palliative care	1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	1
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	1
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden	1
Institutional activism amidst participatory constraints: new practices for limited opportunities within Porto Alegre’s participatory budgeting	1
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	1
Reframing robustness, reclaiming politics: a constructivist reappraisal of robust governance in turbulent times	1
Correction	1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	1
Climbing fences: formal and informal participations in an urban Dutch neighborhood	1
Mapping networks of critical policy studies	1
Research methods in deliberative democracy	1
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures	1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	1
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy	1
Decolonizing Policy Research as Restorative Research Justice: Applying an Indigenous Policy Research Framework (IPRF)	1
What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy	1
The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension - Conclusion to the CPS Special Book Review	1
Problematizing ultra-processing: opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance	1
Civil society narratives of climate justice: subjects, causes, and solutions	1
Audit culture: how indicators and rankings are reshaping the world	1
Below-the-Radar Public Policy: a conceptual and empirical contribution from Argentina (2016–2023)	1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct	1
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 2023	1
Departing from all semblance of democracy: how scholarly communities can respond to the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism	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
Review: magical thinking in public policy – why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist in cynical times	1
The rhetorical functions of invoking experts in legislative debates over social policy in Finland	1
Correction	1
Questioning the ‘transparency-fix’ in the fight against corruption: The example of Transparency International	1
Participatory democratic innovations in southeast europe: how to engage in flawed democracies	1
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem	1
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research	1