Review of Policy Research

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Volume 42, issue 3, 2025

Collaboration and participation in governance pp. 428-443

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

Knowledge is not power: Learning in polycentric governance systems pp. 444-465

Pamela Rittelmeyer, Mark Lubell, Meredith Hovis, Tanya Heikkila, Andrea Gerlak and Tara Pozzi

Unraveling the dynamics of information exchange in governance networks: Opportunity structures in anti‐corruption multi‐stakeholder partnerships pp. 466-507

Jose Antonio Reyes‐Gonzalez, Filip Agneessens and Marc Esteve

The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism: Shaped and saved by shifting multi‐level reinforcement? pp. 508-529

Jørgen Wettestad

Multi‐level governance in higher education quality assurance: Agencification and policy coordination in Spain pp. 530-551

Ana García‐Juanatey, Jacint Jordana and David Sancho

What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks? pp. 552-575

Shuai Cao and Hongtao Yi

Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils pp. 576-606

Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim and Saba Siddiki

Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness pp. 607-628

Youlang Zhang, Wenkang Zhai and Wenzhao Li

Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making pp. 629-657

Karsyn Kendrick and Younsung Kim

Toward an effective policy mix for domestic waste management in China: Interdepartmental cooperation as an enabler pp. 658-681

Jingjing Zhang, Guifang Luo and Yan Yan

The gift of mobility: Transfer networks of local decision‐makers and interlocal collaboration pp. 682-710

Puyao Xing and Ruiqi Yang

Public‐private or public‐public? Exploring factors affecting private participation in China's public‐private partnerships pp. 711-735

Shikun Qin and Jerry Zhirong Zhao

Stakeholder theory in the public sector domain: A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda pp. 736-756

Greici Sarturi, Simone R. Barakat and Ricardo Corrêa Gomes

Volume 42, issue 2, 2025

Implementation arrangements as institutions: Assessments and prospects pp. 154-163

Mattia Casula and Yves Steinebach

“Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find.” Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices pp. 164-187

Cristina Dallara and Alice Lacchei

Coordinating school improvement: Understanding the impact of state implementation approach on coordination in multilevel governance systems pp. 188-211

Jordyn E. Green and Elizabeth A. Koebele

Upstream and downstream implementation arrangements in two‐level games. A focus on administrative simplification in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan pp. 212-233

Fabrizio Di Mascio, Alessandro Natalini and Stefania Profeti

Implementation arrangements for research and innovation policies in the Italian, Spanish, French, and German national recovery plan: A comparative analysis of emerging challenges for multi‐level governance pp. 234-251

Valentina Ottone and Michele Barbieri

Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements pp. 252-275

Jahanzeb Waheed

The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective pp. 276-290

Giorgia Nesti and Paolo Graziano

The politics of piloting. The case of minimum income schemes in European cities pp. 291-309

Giorgia Nesti, Matide Cittadini and Matteo Bassoli

Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany pp. 310-345

Nadine Jenny Shirin Schröder and Nigel Watson

A systematic review of public policy implementation during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Current topics and future directions pp. 346-370

Valeria de Oliveira Lemos Novato, Cristiana Maria Toscano, Vicente da Rocha Soares Ferreira and Shivani Patel

The evolution of mandated coordination in policy implementation: Evidence from China's central government agencies pp. 371-392

Liang Ma, Bin Chen, Tom Christensen and Weixing Liu

Gap reduction and collaborative empowerment: How can farmland protection policies be effectively implemented? Based on the case study of Y County, China pp. 393-422

Chen Ran, Peng Rui, Li Songtang and Luo Hongxia

Volume 42, issue 1, 2025

The policy process and governance of technological innovation pp. 6-10

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

Artificial intelligence technology, public trust, and effective governance pp. 11-28

Pedro Robles and Daniel J. Mallinson

Public trust in regulatory agencies and support for policies on agricultural gene drive pp. 29-49

Leah W. Buchman, Carol L. Goldsmith, Elizabeth Heitman, Ki Eun Kang and Xinsheng Liu

Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology pp. 50-76

Eduardo Rojas‐Padilla, Tamara Metze and Art Dewulf

Climate integration into sectoral policies: The case of the Brazilian biofuel policy RenovaBio pp. 77-94

Gustavo Velloso Breviglieri and Camila Yamahaki

Blockchain and digital governance: Decentralization of decision making policy pp. 95-121

Maxat Kassen

Research on digital discretion—The subjectification of street‐level work in public administration pp. 122-148

Jörgen Johansson

Volume 41, issue 6, 2024

Policy processes in authoritarian settings pp. 860-864

Caroline Schlaufer and Annemieke van den Dool

Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities pp. 865-891

Annemieke van den Dool and Caroline Schlaufer

Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia pp. 892-920

Tatiana Chalaya and Artem Uldanov

Local lobbying in single‐party authoritarian systems: Do institutions matter? pp. 921-940

Hua Wang and Jane Duckett

Responding to crises in authoritarian environments: Russian think tanks between policy evaluation and state endorsement pp. 941-960

Vera Axyonova

Beyond regulatory capture: Policy entrepreneurs' strategies in regulatory policies under authoritarianism pp. 961-984

Ahmed Fouad El Haddad

State infrastructural power in a neopatrimonialist democratization context: Why Tunisian sustainable land management fails pp. 985-1016

Andreas Thiel, Nora Schütze, Annabelle Buhrow and Ayoub Fouzai

Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post‐Soviet countries pp. 1017-1043

Angelo Vito Panaro

Volume 41, issue 3, 2024

Cultural biases, agenda setting, and the regulation of policy processes pp. 410-414

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 415-447

Meng Yuan and Brendon Swedlow

Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates pp. 448-470

Christopher Brough, Li‐Yin Liu and Yao‐Yuan Yeh

COVID‐19 as an opportunity window for policy change; insights from electronic authentication case study in Iran pp. 471-490

Hossein Shirazi, Valiallah Vahdaninia and Ali Maleki

Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated equilibrium theory and the agenda‐setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy in Bhutan pp. 491-507

Lhawang Ugyel, Michael Givel and Dendup Chophel

Rethinking de facto autonomy? A multi‐policy area approach and the regulatory policy process pp. 508-530

M. Kerem Coban

Is hierarchy the only answer? The accountability preferences of Chinese public employees in public service delivery pp. 531-549

Yanwei Li

Volume 41, issue 2, 2024

Introduction to the Special Issue on energy regionalism pp. 282-289

Kathleen J. Hancock

Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice pp. 290-309

Corey Johnson and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Leviathan Awakens: Gas Finds, Energy Governance, and the Emergence of the Eastern Mediterranean as a Geopolitical Region pp. 310-328

Andreas C. Goldthau, Joern Richert and Stephan Stetter

Orchestrating Regionalism: The Interamerican Development Bank and the Central American Electric System pp. 329-346

Stefano Palestini

Electric regionalism: Path dependence, development, and the African power pools pp. 347-368

Kathleen J. Hancock

Cross‐Regional production chains, competitive regionalism, and the deepening of regulatory fault lines in Euro‐Asia pp. 369-381

Margarita Balmaceda and Kirsten Westphal

Comparative Energy Regionalism: North America and the European Energy Community pp. 382-404

Lior Herman and Jonathan Ariel

Volume 41, issue 1, 2024

Perception and performance in environmental policy pp. 6-11

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado pp. 12-34

Jonathan J. Pierce, Katrina Miller‐Stevens, Isabel Hicks, Dova Castaneda Zilly, Saigopal Rangaraj and Evan Rao

Building coalitions in a nascent subsystem: Investigating beliefs and policy preferences in Ugandan pesticide policy pp. 35-58

Ruth Wiedemann and Karin Ingold

United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making pp. 59-82

Dennis Abel and Armin Mertens

Framing the climate crisis: Dread and fatalism in media and interest group responses to IPCC reports pp. 83-103

Melissa K. Merry and Hailey Mattingly

Politics of problem definition: Comparing public support of climate change mitigation policies using machine learning pp. 104-134

Junghwa Choi, Wesley Wehde and Romit Maulik

Keeping policy commitments: An organizational capability approach to local green housing equity pp. 135-159

Aaron Deslatte, Serena Kim, Christopher V. Hawkins and Eric Stokan

Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures—Loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat” pp. 160-183

Nathalie Behnke and Yvonne Hegele

Measuring policy analytical capacity in renewable energy policy: Germany‐Japan‐US comparison pp. 184-209

Masahiro Sugiyama and Jun Muto

Policy implementation through performance measurement: A study of water pollution remediation in China's Huai River Basin pp. 210-238

Boying Li, Shui‐Yan Tang, Feng Wang and Haitao Yin

Recentralization and the long‐lasting effect of campaign‐style enforcement: From the perspective of authority allocation pp. 239-275

Di Dong, Rong Ran, Bingsheng Liu, Jinfeng Zhang, Chengcheng Song and Jing Wang