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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options39
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 202328
Infrastructures, processes of insertion and the everyday: towards a new dialogue in critical policy studies20
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance15
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance12
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship12
A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system11
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model11
Narrative politics in public policy – legalizing cannabis11
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers11
Shifting responsibility in governing aging: municipal active aging discourses in Turkey9
Political formulation of policy solutions9
Radical Critical Policy Studies: Situating Racialized Personhood within Decolonizing Policy, Knowledge Production, Self-Reflexivity & Positionality/Social-Location8
Policy ecology as concept and method8
Social value in public policy7
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies7
Fear of the other: vulnerabilization, social empathy, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada7
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance7
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy Handbook on critical political economy and public policy , edited by Christoph Scherrer, Ana Garcia, and Joscha 6
Research methods in deliberative democracy Research methods in deliberative democracy , edited by Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça, 6
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers6
Assembling research integrity: negotiating a policy object in scientific governance6
The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security ,6
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria6
Wild policy: Indigeneity and the unruly logics of intervention6
Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy5
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden5
Constructing the data economy: tracing expectations of value creation in policy documents5
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis4
Depoliticization and the changing boundaries of governance in Japan4
School disengagement as a policy problem: a frame analysis4
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights3
Political sovereignty in tension with global capitalist accumulation: the case of the European socio-economic strategy3
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal3
On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil3
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?3
The two faces of institutional innovation: promises and limits of democratic participation in Latin America3
Between autonomy and embeddedness: project interfaces and institutional change in environmental governance3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’3
What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy3
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world3
Exploring ethical space in land use planning3
Workfare and food in remote Australia: ‘I haven’t eaten… I’m really at the end…’3
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism3
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature3
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies3
Erased: ending faculty sexual misconduct in academia an open letter from women of public affairs education3
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*3
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development2
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant2
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation2
Democracy, economic inequality, and mending2
The politics of patrolling ‘safety guards’ in Sweden: outsourcing, depoliticization, and immunization2
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?, by Douglas Torgerson, United States of America, Edward Elgar, 2024, 202 pp., (Hardback) $125. ISBN: 97817889760082
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application2
Mending democracies, patching societies2
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile2
The policy unconscious: educational labor, the research-and-teaching relationship and the unquestioned meaning of higher education2
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe2
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: navigating voices of ambiguity and concern1
Competitive knowledge-economies driving new logics in higher education – reflections from a Finnish university merger1
Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic1
The politics of welfare state financialisation: the case of Israel’s ‘Saving for Every Child’ programme1
Challenging energy transition and green jobs: climate policy obstruction across borders1
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat1
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy1
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax1
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy1
Decolonizing Policy Research as Restorative Research Justice: Applying an Indigenous Policy Research Framework (IPRF)1
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?1
Democracy in a time of misery: from spectacular tragedy to deliberative action1
Post-truth, fake news and democracy1
‘Close but not too close’ – experiences of science-policy bridging in three international advisory organizations1
Enlivening a strategic focus for a stable democracy amidst authoritarian threats: is Lasswell enough?1
Practicing deliberative policy analysis: two cases from China and Europe1
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy1
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies1
Institutionalizing deliberative mini-publics? Issues of legitimacy and power for randomly selected assemblies in political systems1
Neoliberalism and managerial governance in the Swedish pre-school sector1
Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-191
Social prescribing for and beyond health: hyper-solutionism in health policy1
The ghostwriting of a global policy script: international organizations and the discursive construction of conditional cash transfers1
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment1
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension1
Environmental populism: the politics of survival in the anthropocene1
How empty is Trustworthy AI? A discourse analysis of the Ethics Guidelines of Trustworthy AI1
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards1
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 1
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies1
De Gruyter handbook of citizens’ assemblies1
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence0
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem0
Market Civilizations: neoliberals East and South0
Why do political parties promote participatory governance? The Brazilian Workers’ Party case0
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis0
Political economy of the firm, authority, governance, and economic democracy0
‘Better than Doing Nothing’ – constructing support for biodiversity offsetting in Finland0
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: the interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders0
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change0
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities0
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
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
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis0
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations0
The end of exceptionalism or exceptionalism by other means? unraveling the contradictions of HIV/AIDS governance in Canada0
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration0
Promoting the digital future: the construction of digital automation in Swedish policy discourse on social assistance0
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program0
Interpreting crises through narratives: the construction of a COVID-19 policy narrative by Canada’s political parties0
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management0
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures0
Variegated Economies0
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism0
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework0
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population , by Susanne Schu0
Reframing a community in crisis: an Intersectional discourse analysis of media responses to state of emergency declarations in Attawapiskat0
The Bolsonaro Government’s 2019 pension reform in Brazil: a policy discourse analysis0
Mechanisms of metapower & procedural injustices in the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force decision-making process0
Local climate change action plans in France: between formal compliance and grassroots appropriation0
Pragmatism over sovereignty? The Italian policy response to the infrastructuralization of non-EU cloud service providers0
Politics and fantasy in UK alcohol policy: a critical logics approach0
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies0
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space: implications for policy and administration0
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis0
The analytical, the political and the personal: Swedish stakeholder narratives about alcohol policy at football stadiums0
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis0
Policies on marginalized migrant communities during Covid-19: migration management prioritized over population health0
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures0
Abortion rights revision: Dobbs , COVID-19, and policy complexity0
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies0
Hope, fear and public policy: towards empathetic policy process0
Racial equity, COVID-19, and public policy: The triple pandemic (1st Edition)0
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration0
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct0
Emotions, affect and social policy: austerity and Children’s Centers in the UK0
Mending Democracy: Lessons from the Global South democracies?0
Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse0
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research0
Correction0
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy0
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism0
As we have always done: indigenous freedom through radical resistance0
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education0
Legitimacy in the participants’ eyes: a call for participants’ authorship over mini-public design in Brussels0
Mapping networks of critical policy studies0
Hacking democratic innovations: the problem of agency in deliberative systems0
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism0
Critical policy studies in dialogue with multispecies perspectives: should it become a more-than-human endeavor?0
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation0
From time to time: a systems-theoretical perspective on the twofold temporality of governing0
Between radical aspirations and pragmatic challenges: Institutionalizing participatory governance in Scotland0
Protected how? Problem representations of risk in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)0
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection0
Accounting from below: activists confront outsourcing in a London borough0
Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions0
Capitalizing on nature: a critical discourse study of nature policy concerning the Murchison Falls Conservation Area of Uganda0
‘How dare you!’: a conceptualization of the eco-shaming discourse in Belgium0
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education0
The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC0
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home0
A complementary approach to Critical Frame Analysis and ‘what is the Problem represented to Be?’0
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom0
Do moral matters?: Presidents and Foreign policy from FDR to Trump0
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network0
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments0
Building deservingness and fairness with discourse: how states construct the social legitimacy of pension schemes0
Gendered vulnerabilities and the blind spots of the 2030 Agenda’s ‘leave no one behind’ pledge0
Can Mindfulness really change the world? The political character of meditative practices0
Introduction: Embedding participatory governance0
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose0
Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language0
Varieties of food democracy: a systematic literature review0
Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters0
Reparative public policy0
Politics of Emancipation: A Feminist Defense of Randomly Selected Political Representatives0
Framing children’s lives through policy and public sphere debates on COVID-19: unequal power and unintended consequences0
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada0
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth0
Border and rule: global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism0
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