Review of Policy Research

1981 - 2026

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Volume 43, issue 3, 2026

Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework

Rachel McGovern, Crystal Soderman, Scott Greeves, Michael D. Jones, Alex Osei‐Kojo and Kristin L. Olofsson

She Who Is Motivated in Public Service Suffers More From Policy Meaninglessness: Understanding Teacher's Professional Turnover Intention in the Context of China's “Double Reduction” Policy

Yuanjie Bao, Min Hua and Zhenbang Fang

Intergovernmental Politics and Policy Implementation: How a City's Congressional Delegation Influences Local Policy Implementation

Ruowen Shen, Taekyoung Lim and Richard C. Feiock

Beyond Political Control and Bureaucratic Protection: Public Appointments for the Formation of Programmatic Groups and Representative Bureaucracy

André Vaz Lopes and Míriam Aparecida Mesquita Oliveira

Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy

Shiming Zheng, Alex Jingwei He and Yujie He

Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Analysis of Public Policies in Spain and Mexico

Edgar A. Ruvalcaba‐Gomez and Victor H. Garcia‐Benitez

The Dejudicialization of the German Federal Bureaucracy: An Organizational Perspective on Policy‐Related Knowledge

Marian Döhler

Covering All the Bases: Domain Expansion and Typologies of Subnational Electric Vehicle Policies in the United States

Anmol Soni and Logan P. Berthelot

Focusing Events, Agenda Setting, and Narrative Numbing

Megan K. Warnement Wrobel and Mark K. McBeth

Narrative Coalitions and Strategies in the Policy‐Making for Iran's Startup Ecosystem: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis

Amir Mohammad Vaezi and Ali Maleki

Digital Transformation, Administrative Burden, and Citizen–State Interactions: A Case of the Old Age Allowance Policy in China

Jiaqi Cao and Liang Ma

Dynamic Adjustment for Disaster Governance in a Party‐State: A Longitudinal Analysis of Policy Punctuations and Reforms in China

Zezhao Liu

Does Open Government Data Alleviate the Burden on Government Employees? Evidence From a Quasi‐Experiment in China

Jianxian Wu

Non‐Members in a Tight Spot: How Norway Navigated Autonomy in EU Pandemic Management

Sjoerd Alexander de Winter

Apophenia in Policymaking: Exploring the Tendency to See Imaginary Patterns in Modern Governance

Mehdi Khosravi, Hassan Danaeefard and Tahere Babazade

Revisiting the Core of Policy Feedback Theory: A Systematic Review

Jingshi Hong and Ciqi Mei

Abandoning the Prize: Local Policy Termination of Science and Technology Awards in China

Hu Xi and Hongtao Yi

What Makes Member States opt for Hybrid Implementation Structures When the Federal Policy Asks for It?

Stefan Wittwer and Fritz Sager

Information Processing and Changes to Local Governments' Practices Amid Intensifying Environmental Hazards

Rachel M. Krause, Le Anh Nguyen Long, S. Mohsen Fatemi, Gwen Arnold and Sara Ludwick

Mapping Transnational Policy Interactions: Evidence From Open Government Policy Documents

Seulki Lee‐Geiller, Mohsan Ali and Yannis Charalabidis

Understanding the Link Between Policy Design and Distributional Impacts of Local Wind Energy Ordinances

Shan Zhou and Xue Gao

Policy Narratives and Citizen Coproduction: Three Experimental Studies Across Disaster Phases

Yuhang He, Chao Pan, Dian Chen and Huawei He

The Stories Individuals “Like”: Advancing the “Individual Turn” in the Narrative Policy Framework Through Social Media Research

Tinghui Wu and Guoqiang Yan

Volume 43, issue 2, 2026

Coalitions and Characters: Tracing the Maturity of Sweden's Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Policies

Simone Grännsjö, Evangelia Petridou, Jörgen Sparf and Christopher M. Weible

Policy Instruments, Administrative Burdens, and Coproduction Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Household Waste Sorting

Youlang Zhang, Huan Wang and Mengqi Zhao

Academic Engagement in Policymaking: Evaluating the Demand and Supply in Pakistan's Policy Advisory System

Tehreem Aamir Butt and Fiaz Hussain

When More Isn't Better: The Diminishing Returns of Policy Pilots in Environmental Governance

Qiao Wang, Jingjing Zeng and Fang Duan

The Framing in Media Policy Narratives of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content: A Comparative Between Traditional Media and Social Media in China

Jie Liu, Wenjing Dong, Xinyu Wang and Gongjing Gao

Capacity‐Learning Paradox: How Hong Kong and Singapore's Crisis Responses Shape and Are Shaped by Policy Capacities

Shubham Sharma, Xun Wu and Gleb Papyshev

Elements of Effective Public Policy: Evidence From Odisha Millets Mission, India

Md Sahidul Islam and Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China

Yu Zhao, Xuesong Guo, Mingyu Wu and Zimeng Yuan

Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach in the Global South: A Bibliometric Systematic Review

Alim Bubu Swarga, Grichawat Lowatcharin and Prasongchai Setthasuravich

Shaping the Crisis Management‐Public Administration Nexus: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Qing Miao, Junaid Ahmad and Anders Ryom Villadsen

Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review

Radek Kovács and Arnošt Veselý

Congruent Nudging: Examining the Interplay of Educative and Non‐Educative Nudges in Citizens' Co‐Production Intentions

Tianhao Zhai, Yue Guo, Jun Su and Peng Ru

Narrative Efficacy: The Empowering Feedback Effects of Policy Storytelling

Jessica E. Boscarino

The State of Policy Capacity Problems in Africa: The Viewpoint of Historical Institutionalism From Ghana

Frank L. K. Ohemeng

NEPA “Modernization”: From the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration

Michelle L. Edwards

A Configurational Approach for Local‐Government Policy Reinvention: A Study on Chinese PPP Policy

Huajun Sun and Lin'gang Zhou

Driving Successful Environmental Pilot Policy Diffusion in China: A Multi‐Mechanism Configurational Framework

Yu Yang

Compensation, Horizontal Diffusion, and Bottom‐Up Pathways: State Climate Policies in the United States and Australia

Ian Bailey and Roger Karapin

Adaptability of Governance Structures and Processes for Sustainable Livestock in Jalisco, Mexico

Jovanka Špirić

Can Intergovernmental Learning Enhance Effectiveness? A New Perspective From Policy Uncertainty

Hao Ren

Governance of Climate‐Induced Relocation in the US: An Exploration of Institutional Complexity

Christopher S. Galik and Brad A. Johnson

Changing Policy Narratives in Addressing Indonesia's Deforestation

Hafidz Wibisono, Putri Yuko Nawang Wulan, Anisa Nur Rahmaningtyas, Emilya Nurjani, Mulyadi Alwi, Rika Harini, Hannan Revi Hermawan and Widiyana Riasasi

Immigration, Beneficiary Assumptions, and Welfare Support

Hang Qi

Policy Compliance Under Disagreement: The Joint Roles of Duty/Deterrence Beliefs, Symbolic Ideology, and Policy Environment

Jaeho Lee, Sangwon Ju and Byeong Jo Kim

Scientists, Knowledge, and Coalitions: A Discourse Network Analysis of Offshore Wind Debates

Aerang Nam

Diagnosing Individual Policy Capacity for Climate Governance: Evidence From National and Subnational Institutions in Pakistan

Amna Shaheen, Fiaz Hussain and Muhammad Mumtaz

How Vaccine Mandates Emerged Without a Mandate: Testing Stream Independence in Vietnam's COVID‐19 Response

Hang Duong and Katie Attwell

Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia

Achim Kemmerling and Viddy Ranawijaya

The Path Is Cleared, but the Journey Is Long: Challenges of Climate Change Policy and Management in Jordan

Wa'ed Alshoubaki and Hind Al‐Shoubaki

Is Market a Hero or Villain? A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of China's Patient‐Centred Healthcare Policy

Jingqing Yang

Chinese Policy Responses to COVID‐19, Trust in Government, and Cultural Worldviews

Meng Yuan, Brendon Swedlow and Qiang Wu

Volume 43, issue 1, 2026

Wrestling with multiple accountabilities in times of crisis: Findings from the experiences of Chinese local governments in responding to COVID‐19

Zimeng Ye, Ben Ma and Yanwei Li

Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”

James Patterson and Matthew Paterson

The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda

Marcelo Werneck Barbosa and André Gomes

Turn to the right, turn away from the green?—A nuanced analysis on how a populist radical right party affects environmental policy making in Sweden

Lars E. Berker

Non‐policy making: The case of comprehensive immigration reform, 2005–2006

Devin Fernandes

In search of the nexus between housing and pensions within the welfare package: A “regime” approach

Edyta Marcinkiewicz and Filip Chybalski

Lancang‐Mekong Cooperation and policy actors' coalition behavior around hydropower development in the Mekong countries: Testing the impact of coalition opportunity structures

Linlang He, Kate Wills, Claire Benson and Amanda Flaim

Advocacy coalitions and the co‐production of anti‐corruption policy in Botswana: A discourse network analysis

Abiodun Marumo Tito Omotoye and Natasja Holtzhausen

Confronting policy myopia: Short‐term government policy and information seeking behaviors in rural Thailand

Prasongchai Setthasuravich and Hironori Kato

On a branching route: The spectrum of path dependence in policy research

Jürgen Beyer

Deciding who decides: Trust and support for elected official, expert, and citizen decision‐making regarding nuclear waste management

Matthew C. Nowlin, Chris Anderson and Justin Reedy

How does social insurance policy affect citizens' political participation? An empirical research based on policy feedback theory

Hongbo Wang, Xi Gong and Kairan Zhang

The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis

Ene Ikpebe

Continuities in policy change: The case of squatter housing redevelopment strategies in Türkiye

Fatma Süphan Somalı and Ufuk Poyraz

Comparing public support for alternative climate policy designs: An experimental study

Joshua Basseches, Rebecca Bromley‐Trujillo, Kayla Gurganus and Leigh Raymond

Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations

Svenja Katharina Schwarz and Nathalie Behnke

Public perception of Ghana's Free Senior High School policy: A north–south comparative analysis

Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh, Eric Amoah, Claudia Dzordzormenyoh and Joseph O. Domeh

Explaining the Variance of City Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in China: A Matter of Leadership?

Xinming Chen and Yihong Liu

Multiple Streams Framework and Performance Agreement Policy Adoption in Ghana

Alex Osei‐Kojo, Clement Mensah Damoah, Erzuah Nvidah and Kwame Asamoah

Do Ambitious Goals Call for Stringent Policy? The Stringency, Target Sectors, and Measures of Finland's Climate and Energy Policy in Response to EU Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets

Markku Juha Kinnunen

Evidence‐Based Policymaking and Spatial Planning. Factors of Evidence Utilization

Martino Mazzoleni and Matilde Zubani

The Role of Uncertainty in the Policy Process: An Extension to the Multiple Streams Framework

Sebastian Hemesath and Georg Wenzelburger

Innovation Policy in an Emerging Economy: How Regional and Technological Disparities Moderate the Effects of a National Law

Breno Valente Fontes Araújo, Ana Claudia Azevedo, Fernanda Almeida and Cristiana Tristão Rodrigues

Balancing Stability and Flexibility in Climate Crises Governance: Lessons From Brazil's Water Sector

Carolina Milhorance, Marina Lazarotto Andrade, Pierre Louis Mayaux and Jean‐François le Coq