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

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	79
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers	45
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	26
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	25
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	24
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	22
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	22
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	21
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	17
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	16
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	14
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	13
Invisible dimensions of climate obstruction and road transport continuity. The role of mental infrastructure maintenance	12
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism	12
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	12
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	12
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	10
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	10
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	8
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	8
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	8
Variegated Economies	8
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	7
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	7
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	7

The pandemic within: policy making for a better world	7
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	7
Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	7
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	7
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation	6
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	6
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	5
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	5
Charting the course, charting the coast: exploring epistemic orientations in the making of sustainable aquaculture futures	5
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	5
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4
Wicked problems or second-order problem? A phenomenological stance	4
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	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
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations	4
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	3
A critical explanation of uses of Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	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
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
International environmental sustainability discourse in the wake of Covid-19: exploring the psychic dimension of political discourse through fantasy	3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	3
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
‘The region’ between care and control: How Dutch policy actors discursively legitimate regional ‘reception and protection’	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	3
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	2
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	2
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?	2
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis	2
Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing	2
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis	2
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures	2
Mending democracies, patching societies	2
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education	2
Interpretivism vs. positivism in policy studies: Is there common ground?	2
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy	2

Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse	2
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis	2
Mapping networks of critical policy studies	2
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies	2
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	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
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence	2
The policy author-function: analyzing authorship of policy documents	2
As we have always done: indigenous freedom through radical resistance	2
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents	2
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	1
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy	1
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 2023	1
Political formulation of policy solutions	1
Climbing fences: formal and informal participations in an urban Dutch neighborhood	1
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research	1
Departing from all semblance of democracy: how scholarly communities can respond to the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism	1
Research methods in deliberative democracy	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
Problematizing ultra-processing: opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance	1
Correction	1
Correction	1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct	1
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education	1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada	1
Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters	1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth	1
The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension - Conclusion to the CPS Special Book Review	1
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden	1
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance	1
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem	1
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research	1
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework	1
Reframing robustness, reclaiming politics: a constructivist reappraisal of robust governance in turbulent times	1