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Chains of insecurities: constructing Ukraine’s agency in times of war Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Yuliia Kurnyshova
This article maps how Ukraine’s international agency has been discursively constructed through juxtaposing and relating different insecurities triggered by the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022. ...
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EU arms collaboration, procurement, and offsets: the impact of the war in Ukraine Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Jonata Anicetti
In the last twenty years, the EU has made increasingly greater efforts to boost defence cooperation among MS. To strengthen the EDTIB and avoid duplication of capabilities, the EU has encouraged “E...
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People’s preferred balance between politicians, citizens, and experts in policy-making decisions Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Tessa Haesevoets, Bram Verschuere, Arne Roets
Most prior studies examining citizens’ preferences for “who should govern” assume that people prefer either politicians, citizens, or experts to exclusively influence policy decisions. Our approach...
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How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017 Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Franca Angela Buelow, Lea Delsault, Ann Brower
Collaborative governance is frequently thought to improve legitimacy and environmental outcomes. However, there remain gaps in our knowledge of whether and how collaborative governance influences l...
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Economic impact of a credit guarantee scheme: evidence from Spain Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Antonio Trujillo-Ponce, Filippo di Pietro, Félix Corredera-Catalán, Giovanni Mandras
Credit guarantee schemes have emerged as one of the preferred choices for policy makers concerned about financing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This article assesses the economic impac...
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Better safe than sorry? Digital campaigning governance in Germany Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Isabelle Borucki, Matthias C. Kettemann
How political speech is regulated has changed, with online spaces presenting new challenges. Private platforms now play a significant role in providing spaces for political speech with their own ru...
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Gradually and then suddenly: the effects of Russia’s attacks on the evolution of cybersecurity policy in Lithuania Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ramūnas Vilpišauskas
This article examines how public policy, governance and institutional structures have been established and transformed in response to cyberattacks attributed to Russia that focused political attent...
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Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Paul O’Shea, Sebastian Maslow
Change in Japanese foreign and security policy has long been characterized as “incremental”. However, Japan’s response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine provides an opportunity to reconsider thi...
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The road to national competitiveness is paved with innovation and entrepreneurship: a qualitative comparative analysis Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Pedro López-Rubio, Nuria Chaparro-Banegas, Alicia Mas-Tur, Norat Roig-Tierno
In the twenty-first century, competitiveness has become a pillar of sustainable development strategies around the world. Numerous international organizations and academics cite innovation and entre...
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The EU soft regulation of digital campaigning: regulatory effectiveness through platform compliance to the code of practice on disinformation Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Gabriela Borz, Fabrizio De Francesco, Thomas L. Montgomerie, Michael Peter Bellis
How does the European Union handle the soft regulation of digital political campaigning? We assesses the effectiveness of the EU's soft governance concerning digital campaigning by examining how gl...
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The war in Ukraine, the EU’s geopolitical awakening and implications for the “contested neighbourhood” Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ryhor Nizhnikau, Arkady Moshes
This article looks at how the Russian invasion has reshaped the EU's Eastern neighbourhood policy and subsequently how has the new policy affected the strategies of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) co...
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Tax policy of Ukraine in terms of martial law Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Vladyslav Teremetskyi, Volodymyr Valihura, Maryna Slatvinska, Valentyna Bryndak, Inna Gutsul
The introduction of martial law, due to the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, has had a major economic effect on Ukraine. This article argues that it created a need to improve the tax pol...
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Uncertainty, stock and commodity prices during the Ukraine-Russia war Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Whelsy Boungou, Alhonita Yatié
This article mainly investigates whether the war in Ukraine-Russia induces uncertainties and how this affects the returns of world stock market indices and commodity prices. To do so, we use the Ec...
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Russia-Ukraine War, India, and US grand strategy: punishing or leveraging neutrality? Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Chirayu Thakkar
With its rise will India be a responsible stakeholder or uphold US interests? These questions have occupied analysts since the turn of the century when India started featuring prominently in US gra...
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Unraveling the politics-science nexus: diverse strategies in US states’ termination of mask policies Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Chan Wang, Ivy S. Liu
This study investigates the intentional termination decision of a public health tool (i.e. face-mask policy) in the absence of knowledge regarding the duration of the pandemic. We acknowledge that ...
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The impact of electronic levy on mobile money transactions: lessons from Ghana Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Paul Owusu Takyi
The rapid advancement of technology has transformed the way financial transactions are conducted and made assessing their impact a pressing international research problem. This article evaluates an...
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Public reaction to public-private partnerships (PPPs): citizen assessments of four different types of PPPs and policy support Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ki Eun Kang, Arnold Vedlitz
Solving problems through collaborative efforts of public, private, and nonprofit groups has become more important in recent years. One type of public-private partnerships (PPPs) has been studied in...
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Increased support for collective defence in times of threat: European public opinion before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mattias Mader
Were European public reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in line with the external threat hypothesis? Accordingly, the invasion should have increased the perception of threat from Russia’s te...
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Wind of change: the impact of REPowerEU policy reforms on gas security Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Moniek de Jong
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a shock to the EU gas market, as Russian gas supply dwindled and prices spiked. Previous exogenous shocks to the gas market resulted in policy reforms aimed at d...
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Forged in the fires of war: the rise of a new Ukrainian identity Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Aaron F. Brantly
Ukraine has always been a plural state comprised of multiple ethnic, linguistic, religious, and regional subcultures. Yet, since 2014 and, in particular, since February 2022, these often-competing ...
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Effects of the political configuration of local governments on subjective well-being Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Ana Cárcaba, Eduardo González, Rubén Arrondo
Determining what makes a person happy is an extremely complicated task. The objective of this article is to identify the effects of the composition and orientation of governance bodies in municipal...
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Migration and soft power: the EU’s visa and refugee policy response to the war in Ukraine Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Matilde Rosina
The article examines the European Union’s response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine in the field of migration, arguing that EU visa and refugee policies encompassed a distinctive foreign policy...
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The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Marie Jelínková, Michal Plaček, František Ochrana
The Czech Republic has received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita. An underdeveloped migrant integration policy and limited experience with large numbers of refugees hampered the ...
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A cross-country analysis of the factors driving innovation performance in the Global South Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Sajjad Khan Niazi
This article examines the effect of various enabling factors that influence the innovation performance of the global south countries by analyzing the Global Innovation Index-2020, as little was kno...
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The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve
This article explores the long-term macroeconomic impact of the war in Ukraine. Exploiting a new stock measure of human capital combining the quality and quantity of education and adult skills, thi...
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Mapping multi-stakeholder initiatives for public governance and transparency: a comparative assessment of trends and motivations Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Christopher Wilson, Marlen Heide, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve
Global multi-stakeholder initiatives aiming to strengthen public governance and transparency (PGMSIs) in participating countries are increasingly prominent but little researched and undertheorized....
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The Arab Gulf states in the Asian energy market: is the Russia-Ukraine war a game changer? Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Li-Chen Sim
The Arab Gulf states and Russia have traditionally been major suppliers of hydrocarbons to the energy-poor countries of Asia. This article considers the extent to which engagement by the Arab Gulf ...
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Reconceptualizing transfer pathways: policy transfer and armed UAV proliferation Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Stephen Ceccoli
While policy transfer remains a widely used approach for understanding public policy formation, several conceptual shortcomings limit the approach’s capacity for explanation. Notably, the concept o...
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Editorial board Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-25
Published in Policy Studies (Vol. 44, No. 6, 2023)
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The impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on European Union currencies: a high-frequency analysis Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Mahmut Zeki Akarsu, Orkideh Gharehgozli
This article examines how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war has affected the valuation of five European Union currencies: the Polish Zloty, Hungarian Forint, Czech Koruna, Swedish Krone, and Romanian ...
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Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Daniel Béland, Martin Powell, Alex Waddan
Much has been written about the claim that the British National Health Service (NHS) is becoming more like the US health care system, something a number of commentators view as a form of “Americani...
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Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Nermeen Kassem
This article explores the role of traditional, state-run media as tools for both, promoting policy, and providing feedback about non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-related policies in Egypt. It ...
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Affording excellence: What does excellence funding do for researchers? Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Merle Jacob, Tomas Hellström
The ambitions to fund excellent researchers and path-breaking research unite a whole family of funding instruments ranging from Centres of Excellence to individual grants. While instruments aimed a...
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Enterprise policies and R&D support for high-tech SMEs: a multi-perspective approach Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Chongryol Park, Ronald McQuaid
This article examines the role of enterprise policy and R&D subsidy schemes in supporting high-tech Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises, by examining a case study of South Korea. A qualitative appr...
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Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC) Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Tanvi Deshpande, Rahul Mukherji, Mekhala Sastry
This article assesses India’s policy style, with respect to climate change particularly the launch of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The NAPCC was India’s first significant cli...
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Operationalizing data-driven campaigning: designing a new tool for mapping and guiding regulatory intervention Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Rachel Gibson, Esmeralda Bon, Andrea Römmele
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, governments are increasingly concerned about the way in which citizens’ personal data are collected, processed and used during election campaigns To develop t...
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Regulating misleading political advertising on online platforms: an example of regulatory mercantilism in digital policy Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Benjamin Farrand
Since its Joint Communication on Hybrid Threats, the EU has publicly recognized the risks to its security posed by non-traditional means aimed at undermining its legitimacy. The propagation of disi...
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Role sets of advisory councils in local policymaking process: the perspective of council members Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Agnieszka Pawłowska
ABSTRACT The article complements literature on advisory councils, and in particular their involvement in the policymaking process. The author examines the AC roles by referring to the concept of the roles set. In addition to ACs conventional roles of providing opinions and advice, there are other roles, which are classified as roles prescription and roles performed. The first were identified from examining
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Policy change in socially embedded local policy processes in São Paulo, 1988–2020 Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Eduardo Marques, Renata Bichir
ABSTRACT Policy transformation is a classic theme in policy analysis. Policy models have emphasized the role of actors, coalitions, leadership, and ideas in agenda-setting, the circulation of policy frameworks and solutions, and different mechanisms of gradual institutional change that accumulate in policy trajectories. We sustain that oscillating and incremental policy trajectories also produce policy
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The role of hyperactive Twitter accounts in the diffusion of political information Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Paweł Matuszewski, Gabriella Szabó
ABSTRACT Social media virality is intertwined with content’s ability to trigger specific reactions; however, little is known regarding the behavioural component of political information diffusion. This study uses big data to investigate the significance of hyperactive social media use in the retransmission of information produced by political opinion leaders on Twitter during Poland’s 2019 European
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Intermediating climate change: the evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries” Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Paul Tobin, Fay Madeleine Farstad, Jale Tosun
ABSTRACT Climate change governance systems comprise a wide variety of actors. Here, we introduce “climate intermediaries” as one potentially influential yet often neglected type of actor, behaving as “go-betweens” that connect different types of actors and/or governance levels. This Special Issue analyses two under-researched forms of climate intermediaries: those that exist for reasons unconnected
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Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Jale Tosun, Paul Tobin, Fay Madeleine Farstad
ABSTRACT The urgency and threats of climate change have elevated the issue to a prominent – albeit often contested – position within the policy process. Resultantly, climate politics and climate change governance have received enhanced attention in both the academic literature and in real-life discourse. Yet, except regarding certain empirical contexts, there has been a lack of conceptualization or
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Policy staff and the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Jonathan Craft, Samuel Henderson
ABSTRACT This article provides fresh empirical insights into the evolving nature of policy analytical capacity in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand. We argue for a focus on the formal policy staff employed in government to provide greater conceptual clarity and empirical purchase regarding specific types of policy analytical resources linked to capacity. Using ten years of administrative
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Watching the digital grassroots grow: assessing party members’ social media campaigning during the 2021 German Bundestag election Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Stine Ziegler
ABSTRACT Party member mobilization is part of a modern election campaign, just like social media are. This article enhances prior research on the strategic inclusion of grassroots campaigning from a top down perspective by adding insights from the individual perspective of the rank-and-file party members. Evidence is built from a party member panel survey conducted among four German parties: CDU, SPD
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Instruments of lesson-drawing: comparing the knowledge brokerage of the OECD and the World Bank Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Helen Seitzer, Chanwoong Baek, Gita Steiner-Khamsi
ABSTRACT This study examines the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, the two largest global actors in the education sector, in their capacity as knowledge brokers. For these actors, positioning themselves between research and policy and circulating their versions of evidence has become a popular governance instrument to amplify their impact at the national
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The military involvement and extraordinary policymaking in higher education: evidence from Turkey Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Burhan Fındıklı
ABSTRACT Armed forces have been involved in higher education reform processes as either the sole or dominant reform actors in various regions of the world throughout the twentieth century and onwards. During the rule of (interim) military governments or juntas, higher education institutions and systems have been considerably affected by top-down reform initiatives. However, we know relatively little
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“Data, data, data” – post-Brexit data governance and its relation to the UK’s economic model Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Pascal D. König
This paper studies the UK’s post-Brexit turn toward softening data protection standards. It uses this case to develop a perspective on data governance that is rooted in the growth model framework. ...
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Bans, sanctions, and dog-whistles: a review of anti-critical race theory initiatives adopted in the United States since 2020 Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Luiza-Maria Filimon, Mihaela Ivănescu
Labelled as racist, criticized for promoting racial divisions, and accused of indoctrinating vulnerable young people, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has, in recent years, become, a cause célèbre in the...
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Demography and the composition of taxes: a political economy theory Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Weijie Luo
This article analyzes the impact of population aging on the composition of taxes in an overlapping generations model. Taxes are levied on both income and expenditure, with the median voter being pi...
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How do you do, implementation? A Latour-inspired critical approach to implementation Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Neta Sher-Hadar
This article proposes a critical approach to implementation studies and seeks to challenge the current uniform façade of the concept of “implementation.” Inspired by Latour’s actor-network theory, ...
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Using e-petition data to quantify public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of England Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Stephen D. Clark, Nik Lomax
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on society and many governments and politicians were required to make quick decisions to protect public health. In reaching these decisions they need...
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Digital innovation in electoral campaigns: the case of microcredit in Podemos Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Fabio G. Lupato, Ariel Jerez, Marco Meloni
ABSTRACT Crowdfunding and micro-donations for funding political campaigns have been extensively studied, especially in the US. However, digital participatory financing in Europe, with a different regulatory context and relevant public funding, has been investigated less. This article analyses the effects of an innovative and digital-native electoral campaign financing tool: the microcredit. Microcredits
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The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Naomi Hossain, Anuradha Joshi, Suchi Pande
Institutionalized complaint systems are notable features of improving public programmes and government practice. This article reviews literature on formal grievance redress mechanisms in the global...
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Gender-inequitable discrimination? A survey experiment on the gendered implications of unauthorized immigrant narratives Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Yulianna Otero-Asmar, Li-Yin Liu, Yao-Yuan Yeh
The existing framing and narrative studies focus on the influence of framing and narratives targeting one population as a whole but neglect how these can affect the subgroups of the target populati...
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Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Daniel Casey
While extensive research has shown that policy outputs are punctuated, there is a paucity of research about the punctuation of public opinion and political participation. We know policymakers rely ...
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Policymaking in personalist dictatorships: a theory of outbidding Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Allison C. White
This article offers a novel perspective on policymaking in personalist dictatorships based on outbidding theory. Originally developed with reference to ethnic conflict and terrorist organizations, ...
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“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Paul Tobin, Nafhesa Ali, Sherilyn MacGregor, Zarina Ahmad
ABSTRACT “Climate intermediaries” are “go-betweens”, operating between levels of governance and/or between different types of actors. Faith-based actors (FBAs) are one populous yet neglected type of potential climate intermediary. In the UK, Muslims are the second largest group of religious adherents, yet are “othered”, and face widespread Islamophobia, alongside multiple other intersecting inequalities
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The politics of multi-level migration policymaking: a network-centred perspective Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Andrea Pettrachin
This article develops and applies an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to analyze the organization of policymaking relations in multi-level political syst...
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Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Fabian Belmar, Gonzalo Contreras, Mauricio Morales, Camila Troncoso
Non-programmatic policies are usually analysed from the perspective of parties that rely on vote-buying, patronage, or pork-barrel, to distribute benefits and enhance their electoral performance. I...
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Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021) Policy Studies (IF 2.152) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Parwiz Mosamim, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve
This article analyses the limits and challenges of positive discrimination policies in the Afghan government (2001–2021). One of the primary objectives of the international community after the fall...