Selected publications

 

Zhikharevich, D. & K.T. Paul (in press) From jurisdiction to veridiction: Expertise and economization of immunization policy in the United States, Economy & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2025.2517951

Paul, K.T. (2025) Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance: from values to valuations, Policy & Politics, early view: https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2025D000000069

Hansl, N. & K.T. Paul (2025) That’s a tricky question”: perceptions of mandatory vaccination among parents and paediatricians in Austria, Health Policy, Volume 157, July 2025, 105331, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105331

Radhuber, I., Kieslich, K., Paul, K. T., Saxinger, G., Ferstl, S., Kraus, D., Roberts, S., Kancelová Varabyeu, N., Prainsack, B. (2025). Why ‘Inclusive Policymaking’ Is Needed During Crises: COVID-19 and Social Divisions in Austria, SSM Qualitative Research in Health, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100539

Paul, K.T,  A. Pichelstorfer, N. Hansl, M. Martin, P.M. Pucker, D. Zhikharevich (2024)  “I can’t see the forest for the ticks, uhm, trees …”: The role of online forums in parents’ vaccination trajectories. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 357, pp. XX. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117183.

Druglitrø, T., Paul, K. T. and Pichelstorfer, A. (2024) “Tracing data flows in Norway and Austria: A Comparative Study of Vaccination Data Governance”, Science & Technology Studies. doi: 10.23987/sts.12025

Radhuber I, Haddad C, Kieslich K, Paul KT, Prainsack B, El-Sayed S et al. (2024) Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID‑19 in Austria. BioSocieties Vol 26, issue 19, pp. 326-351

Zimmermann, B.M., K.T. Paul, et al. (2023) The social and socio political embeddedness of COVID-19 vaccination decision-making: A five-country qualitative interview study from Europe, Vaccine, Volume 41, Issue 12,  pp. 2084-2092.

Zimmermann BM, Paul KT, Janny A, Butt Z. Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/14034948231195388

Attwell, K., M. Rizzi & K.T. Paul (2022) Consolidating a Research Agenda for Vaccine Mandates, Vaccine Vol 40l, issue 51, pp. 7353-7359.

Paul, K.T, S. Vanderslott & M. Gross (2022) Institutionalized ignorance in policy and regulation, Science as Culture, Vol 31, issue 4, pp. 419–432.

Walcherberger, C. , J.-M. Eberl, J. Partheymüller, K.T. Paul, & T.A. Stamm (2022) COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and gender. European Journal of Politics and Gender Vol 5, issue 2, pp. 270–274

Paul, K.T. & C. Haddad (2022) The Pandemic As We Know It: A policy studies perspective on ignorance and non-knowledge in COVID-19 governance, in McGoey, L. & M. Gross (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, p. 221-233.

Spahl, W., Pot, M & KT Paul (2022) Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: Values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria,  Critical Public Health, 32(5), 665–676.

Pichelstorfer, A. & K.T. Paul (2022) Unpacking the Role of Metrics in Global Vaccination Governance. International Political Sociology Vol 16, issue 2, olab031.

Paul, K.T., B. Zimmermann et al (2021) Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries, Social Science & Medicine Qualitative Methods (online first).

Lehner, L., Gribi, J., Hoffmann, K., K.T. Paul, & R. Kutalek (2021) Beyond the “information deficit model” – understanding vaccine-hesitant attitudes of midwives in Austria: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 21, 1671.

Paul, K.T., A. Janny & K. Riesinger (2021) Austria’s Digital Vaccination Registry: Stakeholder Views and Implications for Governance. Vaccines, 9(12), 1495

Paul, K.T., J.-M. Eberl & J. Partheymüller (2021)  Policy-Relevant Attitudes Toward Covid-19 Vaccination: Associations with Demography, Health Risk, and Social and Political Factors. Frontiers in Public Health (vol 9 2021).

Datta, S., Kieslich, K., Paul, K.T., Samuels, G., and B. Prainsack (2021). Rethinking value construction in biomedicine and health care. Biosocieties, Volume 17, p. 391–414.

Paul, K.T. & Palfinger, T. (2020). Walking the (argumentative) talk using citizen science: involving young people in a critical policy analysis of vaccination policy in Austria. Evidence & Policy, 16(2): pp. 229-247. 

Heigl, F., Kieslinger, B., Paul, K.T., Uhlik, J., Frigerio, D. and Dörler, D., 2020. Co-Creating and Implementing Quality Criteria for Citizen Science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 5(1), p.23.

Paul, K. &  Haddad, C. (2019). Beyond evidence vs. truthiness: Towards a symmetrical approach to knowledge and ignorance in policy studies. Policy Sciences , 52(2), 299–314.

Paul, K.T. & Loer, K. (2019). Contemporary vaccination policy in the European Union: tensions and dilemmas. Journal of Public Health Policy, 4(2), 166–179.

Paul, K.T. (2018). Collective Organization of Discourse Expertise using Information Technology – CODE IT! A citizen science case study of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination debate. IT- Information Technology, 60(1), 21-27.

Paul, K.T.  & Straßheim, H. (2018). Consumer policy. In H. Heinelt and S. Münch (eds.)  Handbook Of European Policy: Formation, Development and Evaluation. Edward Elgar, London.

Paul, K.T., Wallenburg, I. & Bal, R. (2018). Putting public health infrastructures to the test: Introducing HPV vaccination in Austria and the Netherlands. Sociology of Health & Illness, 40(1), 67–81.

Paul, K.T. (2016). “Saving lives”: Adapting and adopting HPV vaccination in Austria. Social Science & Medicine, 153, 193-200.

Adams S., Paul K.T., Ketelaars C. & Robben P. (2015). The use of mystery guests by the Dutch Health Inspectorate: Results of a pilot study in long-term intramural elderly care. Health Policy, 119, 821-830.

Paul, K.T. & Haddad, C. (2015). Marx meets meaning: A critical encounter between historical materialism and interpretive policy analysis. A reply to Brand’s State, Context, Correspondence. OZP – Austrian Journal of Political Science, 44(1), 46-52.

Paul, K. T., Avezaat, C. J. J., Friele, R. D., IJzermans, J. N. & Bal, R. A. (2013). Organ donation as transition work: Policy discourse and clinical practice in The Netherlands. Health, 18(4), 369-87.

Paul, K. T. (2012). The Europeanization of food safety: a discourse-analytical approach. Journal of European Public Policy, 19(4), 549-566.

Paul, K. T. (2011). From ‘Politics in the Stable’ to Stable Politics: Challenges and Continuities in Dutch Food Policy Discourse. Science as Culture, 20(2), 209-229. ht

Paul, K. T. (2009). Discourse analysis: an exploration of methodological issues and a call for methodological courage in the field of policy analysis. Critical Policy Studies, 3(2), 240 – 253.

Paul, K. T. (2008). Thought for Food (Safety) in the EU: A discourse – analytical approach. GARNET Working Paper series 38/08.

Paul, K. T. (2007). Food for Thought: Change and Continuity in German Food Safety Policy. Critical Policy Analysis, 1(1), 18-32.

Non-peer reviewed:

Heigl, F., Kieslinger, B., Paul, K.T., Uhlik, J. & Dörler, D. (2019). Opinion: Toward an international definition of citizen science. PNAS, April 23, 2019, 116(17), 8089-8092. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903393116

Heigl, F., Kieslinger, B.,  Paul, K.T.,  Uhlik, J.  & Dörler, D. (2019). Reply to Auerbach et al.: How our Opinion piece invites collaboration. PNAS, July 30, 2019, 116(31), 15338. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909628116

Paul, K.T. (2010). Buchbesprechung: Steuerung von Wissenschaft? Die Governance des österreichischen Innovationssystems, Innsbruck/Wien 2010, StudienVerlag [Book review]. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 39(4), 485-486.

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