Critical Policy Studies

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers52
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers34
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism22
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development18
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights17
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times17
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government17
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application16
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension15
Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-1915
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change13
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies13
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe13
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population , by Susanne Schu11
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy11
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network10
Variegated Economies10
The end of exceptionalism or exceptionalism by other means? unraveling the contradictions of HIV/AIDS governance in Canada10
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism9
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!9
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance9
From time to time: a systems-theoretical perspective on the twofold temporality of governing9
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria9
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature8
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world8
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards7
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*7
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle7
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?6
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process6
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax6
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy6
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation6
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration5
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy5
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment5
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments5
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home5
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose4
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom4
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures4
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations4
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program4
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’3
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance3
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile3
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
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
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?3
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant3
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis2
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
Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse2
Discursive positions on charitable sector advocacy in Canada: a situational analysis2
Mending democracies, patching societies2
Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy2
Exploring counter hegemony and action research to address the climate crisis2
Democracy in a time of misery: from spectacular tragedy to deliberative action2
Book review: life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat2
Individualized promises in times of pandemic: Green pass and the legitimation of covid-19 vaccination policies2
Exploring dilemmas and depoliticization in inclusive lawmaking: the perspective of silent agents2
Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing2
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space: implications for policy and administration1
Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research1
Public Policy and Indigenous Futures1
A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system1
Political formulation of policy solutions1
Between statecraft and management at the US–Mexico border: Activism as counter-conduct1
Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions1
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework1
Impending doom or unnecessary panic? The struggle for discursive hegemony in South Africa’s acid mine drainage policy problem1
As we have always done: indigenous freedom through radical resistance1
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education1
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance1
Correction1
Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education1
Narratives in a nutshell: capturing the communicative effects of topoi in political research1
Mapping networks of critical policy studies1
Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth1
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management1
Constitutive metaphors and legislator reasoning: the case of domestic violence1
Multilevel governance, climate (in)justice, and settler colonialism—evidence from First Nations disaster evacuations in so-called Canada1
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism1
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 20231
Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters1
Climbing fences: formal and informal participations in an urban Dutch neighborhood1
Departing from all semblance of democracy: how scholarly communities can respond to the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism1
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