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When active representation is not enough: ethnic minority street-level workers in a divided society and policy entrepreneurship Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Hani Nouman, Nissim Cohen
Can street-level workers from an ethnic minority in a divided society act as policy entrepreneurs and affect policy design? How their shared values with the homogeneous local government play a role in enabling policy entrepreneurship? Active representation refers to bureaucrats promoting the interests of the clients with whom they share the same characteristics or background. The assumption is that
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Polycentric disaster governance in a federalising Nepal: interplay between people, bureaucracy and political leadership Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Sumit Vij
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Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 William D. Schreckhise, Daniel E. Chand
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When the political leader is the narrator: the political and policy dimensions of narratives Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Giovanni Barbato
There is increasing interest in the role of narratives in policy-making, as evidenced by the consolidation of the Narrative Policy Framework, a theory of the policy process whose overall aim is to explain how policy narratives influence policy outcomes. However, with the focus on only policy narratives, there is a risk of underestimating the relationship between the policy dynamics in a specific subsystem
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Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Guillermo M. Cejudo, Cynthia L. Michel
How are integrated policies implemented? In this paper we analyze two policies in Latin America aimed at securing integral care to children to show how the process of integration takes place over time. We study the process through which an ‘idea’ framed both the problem definition and the design features of the integrated policy over time; how the institutional arrangement continuously shaped the operation
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Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Stefania Profeti, Federico Toth
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Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Brian Y. An, Adam M. Butz, Min-Kyeong Cha, Joshua L. Mitchell
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Emotional citizens, detached interest groups? The use of emotional language in public policy consultations Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Simon Fink, Eva Ruffing, Tobias Burst, Sara Katharina Chinnow
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The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Rosa M. Sanchez Salgado
This paper analyzes shaming attempts in the European Parliament (EP) over a long period. Drawing on existing literature on shaming and stigmatization in International Relations, as well as on studies on blame avoidance (Public administration), this paper explores the extent to which (and how) shaming attempts were used in day-to-day European policymaking. The paper first shows how the word ‘shame’
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Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Martin Bortz
The increased presence of management consultants in public policy has resulted in concerns from practitioners and policymakers that consultants are too influential. At the same time, there are genuine reasons to downplay consultant influence on policy processes and to instead see consultants as ‘servants of power’. This tension raises questions about how much influence consultants have and the ways
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PPP performance evaluation: the social welfare goal, principal–agent theory and political economy Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Mark A. Moore, Aidan R. Vining
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Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Ralf Nordbeck, Walter Seher, Heidelinde Grüneis, Mathew Herrnegger, Lena Junger
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Advancing scholarship on policy conflict through perspectives from oil and gas policy actors Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Jennifer A. Kagan, Tanya Heikkila, Christopher M. Weible, Duncan Gilchrist, Ramiro Berardo, Hongtao Yi
While receiving more attention in the policy sciences in recent years, much remains unknown about policy conflicts. This research analyzes 48 in-depth qualitative interviews of people involved in, or familiar with, conflicts associated with shale oil and gas (aka “fracking”) policy proposals and decisions across 15 U.S. states. We ask the question: how do policy actors characterize policy conflicts
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How do courts contribute to policy integration? A comparative study of policy integration processes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Guatemala Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Paul Cisneros
With Supreme and Constitutional courts or tribunals playing an increasingly significant role in shaping extractive policies in Latin America, scholars should turn their attention to the impacts of judicial decisions on policy processes. This phenomenon is of considerable interest to scholars of policy integration, as constitutional interpretations by the courts have the potential to reframe policy
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Policy change and information search: a test of the politics of information using regulatory data Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay, Maria Alejandra Costa, Éric Montpetit
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Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Anat Gofen, Adam M. Wellstead, Noa Tal
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Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Léger Félix Ntienjom Mbohou
This article examines the potential contribution of the diaspora to development in Cameroon. It illuminates the role of institutional dynamics within the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA). Drawing on the concept of problem compatibility, this research demonstrates that problem recognition does not occur solely as a result of the work of policy entrepreneurs or problem brokers. It also depends on the
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Unintended policy integration through entrepreneurship at the implementation stage Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Sébastien Lambelet
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Policy integration as a political process Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Guillermo M. Cejudo, Philipp Trein
Scholars and practitioners agree that dealing with complex policy problems poses a challenge of policy integration. In other words, we need to understand how to integrate new problems into existing policies and create linkages between existing policy systems. Up to now, the scientific literature has focused on policy integration predominantly from a policy design perspective. This special issue puts
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Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Adrià Albareda, Caelesta Braun, Bert Fraussen
This article asks why public officials perceive some interest groups as influential for policy outcomes. Theoretically, we rely on resource exchange and behavioral approaches. Perceived influence of interest groups does not only follow from the policy capacities they bring to the table; it also relates to the extent to which public officials consider groups as policy insiders. Both effects are assumed
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Causality is good for practice: policy design and reverse engineering Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Simone Busetti
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The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Francesco Sarti
Researchers agree on the importance of policy integration in the analysis of responses to complex problems, yet they often use this concept to indicate integrated policy programmes (IPPs) as opposed to policy integration in practice (as performed by actors). Describing how IPPs are reshaped, while they are being implemented opens new research venues in the study of the policy integration process and
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Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Philipp Trein, Manuel Fischer, Martino Maggetti, Francesco Sarti
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The role of actors' issue and sector specialization for policy integration in the parliamentary arena: an analysis of Swiss biodiversity policy using text as data Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Ueli Reber, Karin Ingold, Manuel Fischer
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Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Israel Solorio, Jorge Guzmán, Ixchel Guzmán
This article explores the role of participation by indigenous peoples in Latin America in the political process of Environmental Policy Integration (EPI). Although the benefits of participation have been largely taken for granted, this article shows that participation makes the policy integration process even more complex. By selecting two cases of clean energy infrastructure projects (a wind power
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Coping with the ambiguities of poverty-alleviation programs and policies: a policy sciences approach Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 William Ascher
The many varieties of ambiguity shape the prospects in lower-income countries to establish viable poverty-alleviation programs, appropriately target the poor, and reduce deprivations of families applying for or participating in such programs. Ambiguity can be both a problem and an asset, potentially serving pro-poor purposes but often manipulable to drain benefits away from the poor. The distinctive
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Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Daniel Kefeli, Karen M. Siegel, Lucía Pittaluga, Thomas Dietz
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Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Heiner von Lüpke, Lucas Leopold, Jale Tosun
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Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Guillermo M. Cejudo, Philipp Trein
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‘Windows of opportunity’: exploring the relationship between social media and plastic policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Joanna Vince, Estelle Praet, John Schofield, Kathy Townsend
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Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instructions Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Talia Goren, Dana R. Vashdi, Itai Beeri
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Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Stefania Ravazzi
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Politicking with evidence: examining evidence-based issues in electoral policy narratives Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Laura Wolton, Deserai A. Crow
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Understanding policy transfer through social network analysis: expanding methodologies with an intensive case study approach Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Christopher Walker, Alex Moulis
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From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Ana Petek, Borna Zgurić, Marjeta Šinko, Krešimir Petković, Mario Munta, Marko Kovačić, Anka Kekez, Nikola Baketa
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What counts? Policy evidence in public hearing testimonies: the case of single-payer healthcare in New York State Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Yongjin Choi, Ashley M. Fox, Jennifer Dodge
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Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Anna P. Durnová, Eva M. Hejzlarová
Despite the abundant scholarship on sociopolitical embeddedness of expertise, its relation to emotions remains understudied. The paper fills this gap by discussing how public framings of expertise work against the inclusion of emotional contexts, affecting what kind of professional knowledge dominates in a public debate. The analysis of the Czech public debate on birth care shows that while midwives
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Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020) Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Giliberto Capano, Anna Malandrino
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Agenda to adoption: understanding the mechanisms driving fee-free policy development in Sub-Saharan Africa through policy change frameworks Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Gabriel Asante, György Gajduschek, Attila Bartha
Policy change frameworks are commonly used to understand policy development processes. However, few studies have attempted to apply these frameworks to the recent popular fee-free policy education at the high school level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Investigating fee-free policy development through policy change frameworks can assist both in identifying the genesis of past policies, including who the important
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Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Joshua Newman, Emi Patmisari, Ida Widianingsih
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Expert hearings in mini-publics: How does the field of expertise influence deliberation and its outcomes? Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Mikko Leino, Katariina Kulha, Maija Setälä, Juha Ylisalo
One of key goals of deliberative mini-publics is to counteract expert domination in policymaking. Mini-publics can be expected to democratize expertise by providing citizens with good opportunities for weighing expert information. Yet, there are concerns about undue influence of experts even within mini-publics. We test these expectations by analysing data from an online mini-public organized in Finland
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Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Carsten Daugbjerg
There has been revived scholarly interest in policy capacity recently. While it is widely assumed that capacity is important for policy performance, it is difficult to separate its impact from the effect of policy instruments to establish whether capacity can produce an independent and positive effect on target group behavior in relation to achieving policy objectives. Undertaking a critical case study
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The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna
Much has been said theoretically about whether populism corrects the limitations of democracies, or instead damages their foundations. Yet we still know very little about how populist governments affect democratic policymaking in practice. Taking the classic policy cycle approach as a heuristic device, this article analyzes how populists influence agenda-setting, policy formulation and design, implementation
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Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Matthew Lockwood
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Countries’ readiness to deal with large-scale crises: analysis, measure, and World classification Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 E. Ezzahid, Z. Firano, J. Ennouhi, A. Laaroussi, A. Serghini Anbari
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Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 James Wilson, Emily Wise, Madeline Smith
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Evaluation use and learning in public policy Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Pirmin Bundi, Philipp Trein
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Policy’s role in democratic conflict management Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Markus Hinterleitner, Fritz Sager
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Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Jonathan W. A. Ruff, Gregory Stelmach, Michael D. Jones
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Heated policy: policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Imrat Verhoeven, Tamara Metze
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What matters to citizens in crisis recovery? Being listened to, action, and confidence in government Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Yoon Ah Shin, Young Ran Hyun
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Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Ueli Reber, Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold, Felix Kienast, Anna M. Hersperger, Rolf Grütter, Robin Benz
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Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Tevfik Murat Yildirim
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Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez, Valentina Auricchio, Marzia Mortati
Over the last two decades, the design practice has been expanding to the public sphere to generate solutions for public challenges. In particular, the reflections on the design practice of public sector innovation (PSI) units, working in or with governments, are increasingly contributing to a growing body of literature attempting to characterise the practice in policy making. Although scholars conclude
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The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Ronit Justo-Hanani
This paper explores political drivers and policy process of the reform of the framework for Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance in the European Union (EU). Since 2017, the EU has been developing an integrated policy to tighten control and to ensure consumer protection and fundamental rights. This policy reform is theoretically interesting, raising the question of which conceptual approaches
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Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Julien Vrydagh
As academic and political interest in citizen participation and democratic innovations is growing, the question of their impact on public policy remains essential to assess their genuine contribution to the normative project of democratization. Impact assessments of consultative participatory mechanisms are commonly conducted with a congruency approach—a desk-based research method which assesses impact
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A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Christopher M. Weible, Paul Cairney, Jill Yordy
As part of Harold D. Lasswell’s policy sciences, the decisions functions emerged to explore and understand comparative policy processes. The decision functions specified different categories of purposes, roles, and responsibilities performed, to various extents and ways, by all governments. These included intelligence, recommendation, prescription, invocation, application, appraisal, and termination
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Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Job P. H. Vossen, Gabriëlle L. de Pooter, Petra Meier
This article questions the use of morality frames and gender stereotypes in discoursing about abortion. The morality policy literature puts abortion forward as the paradigmatic example of its object of investigation. Yet, as heated as abortion debates can get, the issue is not always manifest in the spotlight. We argue salience of the issue depends on active politicization through morality frames.
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The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change? Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Lana Ollier, Florence Metz, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, Leonhard Späth, Johan Lilliestam
The European Union’s 2030 climate and energy package introduced fundamental changes compared to its 2020 predecessor. These changes included a stronger focus on the internal market and an increased emphasis on technology-neutral decarbonization while simultaneously de-emphasizing the renewables target. This article investigates whether changes in domestic policy strategies of leading member states