Critical Policy Studies

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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers49
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers30
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism20
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development18
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights17
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe16
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension15
Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-1915
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application15
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies15
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change13
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy13
The end of exceptionalism or exceptionalism by other means? unraveling the contradictions of HIV/AIDS governance in Canada11
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population , by Susanne Schu11
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network11
Variegated Economies10
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism9
From time to time: a systems-theoretical perspective on the twofold temporality of governing9
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance8
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria8
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle7
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world7
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax7
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*7
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!7
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy7
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature7
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?6
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation6
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards6
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process6
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy6
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home5
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments5
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment5
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration5
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom4
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies4
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program4
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration4
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection4
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options3
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’3
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance3
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism3
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship3
Mending democracies, patching societies2
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
Environmental populism: the politics of survival in the anthropocene2
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant2
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat2
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents2
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy2
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies2
Democracy in a time of misery: from spectacular tragedy to deliberative action2
Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse1
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance1
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space: implications for policy and administration1
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis1
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism1
Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing1
Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions1
Mapping networks of critical policy studies1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada1
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education1
Political formulation of policy solutions1
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework1
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth1
Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters1
As we have always done: indigenous freedom through radical resistance1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research1
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management1
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
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research1
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence1
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem1
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis1
Climbing fences: formal and informal participations in an urban Dutch neighborhood1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct1
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures1
Correction0
Mending Democracy: Lessons from the Global South democracies?0
Social value in public policy0
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy Handbook on critical political economy and public policy , edited by Christoph Scherrer, Ana Garcia, and Joscha 0
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation0
Infrastructures, processes of insertion and the everyday: towards a new dialogue in critical policy studies0
On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil0
Reframing a community in crisis: an Intersectional discourse analysis of media responses to state of emergency declarations in Attawapiskat0
Freedom as a discursive instrument in Swedish transition governance: how political actors strategically construct normative power0
A complementary approach to Critical Frame Analysis and ‘what is the Problem represented to Be?’0
Challenging energy transition and green jobs: climate policy obstruction across borders0
Book Review: The Art and Craft of Comparison Book Review: The Art and Craft of Comparison , by John Boswell, Jack Corbett, and R.A.W. RhodesCambridge: Cambridge Universi0
Between autonomy and embeddedness: project interfaces and institutional change in environmental governance0
Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies : achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth0
Decentering governance models: education policy and school accountability in Post-Devolution Wales0
Is the universal basic income a neoliberal trojan horse? Analyzing representations of ‘the poor’ and ‘poverty’ in UK UBI policy discourses0
Political economy of the firm, authority, governance, and economic democracy0
Correction0
Democracy, economic inequality, and mending0
Policies on marginalized migrant communities during Covid-19: migration management prioritized over population health0
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: the interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders0
Promoting the digital future: the construction of digital automation in Swedish policy discourse on social assistance0
Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic0
De Gruyter handbook of citizens’ assemblies0
Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy0
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: navigating voices of ambiguity and concern0
Capitalizing on nature: a critical discourse study of nature policy concerning the Murchison Falls Conservation Area of Uganda0
Market Civilizations: neoliberals East and South0
Hope, fear and public policy: towards empathetic policy process0
Local climate change action plans in France: between formal compliance and grassroots appropriation0
Democratic innovation and co-creation as self-help: the limits of normative overload in theory construction0
Policy ecology as concept and method0
Research methods in deliberative democracy Research methods in deliberative democracy , edited by Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça, 0
Enlivening a strategic focus for a stable democracy amidst authoritarian threats: is Lasswell enough?0
The politics of patrolling ‘safety guards’ in Sweden: outsourcing, depoliticization, and immunization0
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden0
Introduction: Embedding participatory governance0
The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC0
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal0
Accounting from below: activists confront outsourcing in a London borough0
What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy0
Politics of Emancipation: A Feminist Defense of Randomly Selected Political Representatives0
Exploring ethical space in land use planning0
‘Close but not too close’ – experiences of science-policy bridging in three international advisory organizations0
“Women are hard to study”: US and UK National Legislator discourse on menopause-related research0
Competitive knowledge-economies driving new logics in higher education – reflections from a Finnish university merger0
Interpreting crises through narratives: the construction of a COVID-19 policy narrative by Canada’s political parties0
The two faces of institutional innovation: promises and limits of democratic participation in Latin America0
Gendered vulnerabilities and the blind spots of the 2030 Agenda’s ‘leave no one behind’ pledge0
Legitimacy in the participants’ eyes: a call for participants’ authorship over mini-public design in Brussels0
Border and rule: global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism0
Neoliberalism and managerial governance in the Swedish pre-school sector0
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 20230
Governing an elusive and ungovernable crisis: a pragmatist-constructivist perspective0
The analytical, the political and the personal: Swedish stakeholder narratives about alcohol policy at football stadiums0
Blind transparency: a critical discourse analysis of the EU AI Act0
Institutionalizing deliberative mini-publics? Issues of legitimacy and power for randomly selected assemblies in political systems0
Radical Critical Policy Studies: Situating Racialized Personhood within Decolonizing Policy, Knowledge Production, Self-Reflexivity & Positionality/Social-Location0
Depoliticization and the changing boundaries of governance in Japan0
Politics and fantasy in UK alcohol policy: a critical logics approach0
Constructing the data economy: tracing expectations of value creation in policy documents0
Between radical aspirations and pragmatic challenges: Institutionalizing participatory governance in Scotland0
Hacking democratic innovations: the problem of agency in deliberative systems0
Do moral matters?: Presidents and Foreign policy from FDR to Trump0
School disengagement as a policy problem: a frame analysis0
Correction0
Abortion rights revision: Dobbs , COVID-19, and policy complexity0
Shifting responsibility in governing aging: municipal active aging discourses in Turkey0
A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system0
Reparative public policy0
The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension - Conclusion to the CPS Special Book Review0
Pragmatism over sovereignty? The Italian policy response to the infrastructuralization of non-EU cloud service providers0
Practicing deliberative policy analysis: two cases from China and Europe0
Can Mindfulness really change the world? The political character of meditative practices0
The ghostwriting of a global policy script: international organizations and the discursive construction of conditional cash transfers0
Protected how? Problem representations of risk in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)0
Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language0
‘Better than Doing Nothing’ – constructing support for biodiversity offsetting in Finland0
Varieties of food democracy: a systematic literature review0
Democratizing inclusive planning: insights from the people’s plan campaign in Kerala, India0
Political sovereignty in tension with global capitalist accumulation: the case of the European socio-economic strategy0
Decolonizing Policy Research as Restorative Research Justice: Applying an Indigenous Policy Research Framework (IPRF)0
‘How dare you!’: a conceptualization of the eco-shaming discourse in Belgium0
Critical policy studies in dialogue with multispecies perspectives: should it become a more-than-human endeavor?0
The policy unconscious: educational labor, the research-and-teaching relationship and the unquestioned meaning of higher education0
Racial equity, COVID-19, and public policy: The triple pandemic (1st Edition)0
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies0
How empty is Trustworthy AI? A discourse analysis of the Ethics Guidelines of Trustworthy AI0
Building deservingness and fairness with discourse: how states construct the social legitimacy of pension schemes0
Narrative politics in public policy – legalizing cannabis0
The Bolsonaro Government’s 2019 pension reform in Brazil: a policy discourse analysis0
Why do political parties promote participatory governance? The Brazilian Workers’ Party case0
Social prescribing for and beyond health: hyper-solutionism in health policy0
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis0
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