Review of Policy Research

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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

Volume 40, issue 6, 2023

Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda pp. 846-852

Melanie Nagel and Marlene Kammerer

Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion? pp. 853-893

Takashi Nakazawa, Keiichi Satoh, Gregory Trencher, Tomoyuki Tatsumi and Koichi Hasegawa

What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural–urban divide pp. 894-919

Ulrike Zeigermann, Marlene Kammerer and Michael Böcher

Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy pp. 920-949

David Switzer and Jiwoong Jung

Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations pp. 950-971

Calum Harvey‐Scholes, Catherine Mitchell, Jess Britton and Richard Lowes

An item response approach to sea‐level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem pp. 972-1003

Kyra Gmoser‐Daskalakis, Tyler A. Scott, Mark Lubell and Francesca P. Vantaggiato

Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam pp. 1004-1025

Kristine Kern, Sam Grönholm, Wolfgang Haupt and Luca Hopman

When cities take control: Explaining the diversity of complex local climate actions pp. 1026-1057

Anmol Soni, Justina Jose and Gordon A. Kingsley

Measuring climate change adaptation policy output: Toward a two‐dimensional approach pp. 1058-1092

Kai Schulze and Jonas J. Schoenefeld

Powerful stories of local climate action: Comparing the evolution of narratives using the “narrative rate” index pp. 1093-1119

Melanie Nagel and Melanie Schäfer

Trans‐local action and local climate policy. Configurations of success for climate innovations in the European multilevel system pp. 1120-1143

Andreas Corcaci and Jörg Kemmerzell

What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada pp. 1144-1168

Mark C. J. Stoddart and Yixi Yang

Volume 40, issue 5, 2023

Politics and policy of Artificial Intelligence pp. 612-625

Inga Ulnicane and Tero Erkkilä

Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e‐inclusion pp. 626-645

Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels

Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms pp. 646-664

Meng‐Hsuan Chou and Catherine Gomes

Power and politics in framing bias in Artificial Intelligence policy pp. 665-687

Inga Ulnicane and Aini Aden

Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be? pp. 688-704

Malin Rönnblom, Vanja Carlsson and Andreas Öjehag‐Pettersson

Traveling AI‐essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France pp. 705-728

Jongheon Kim

Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy pp. 729-756

Daniel S. Schiff

Narrative dynamics in European Commission AI policy—Sensemaking, agency construction, and anchoring pp. 757-780

Frans af Malmborg

Competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence standard setting: Explaining emergent patterns pp. 781-810

Nora von Ingersleben‐Seip

Global indicators and AI policy: Metrics, policy scripts, and narratives pp. 811-839

Tero Erkkilä

Volume 40, issue 4, 2023

Frontiers of policy process research in China pp. 484-489

Hongshan Yang and Hongtao Yi

The times make a hero: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in major crisis responses in China pp. 490-508

Na Tang and Muyu He

How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta pp. 509-533

Liming Suo, Xue Li and Shuai Cao

Programmatic action in Chinese health policy—The making and design of “Healthy China 2030” pp. 534-552

Colette S. Vogeler, Annemieke van den Dool and Meifang Chen

Bureaucratic politics, innovation compatibility, and the dynamic diffusion of subnational decentralization reforms in China pp. 553-572

Youlang Zhang and Hongshan Yang

The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China pp. 573-588

Yue Guo, Lei Zhou and Jidong Chen

Policy conflicts in shale development in China and the United States pp. 589-605

Kathleen S. Bailey, Hongtao Yi, Tanya Heikkila and Christopher M. Weible

Volume 40, issue 3, 2023

Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy pp. 338-340

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

Policy capacity and rise of data‐based policy innovation labs pp. 341-362

Sojeong Kim, Adam M. Wellstead and Tanya Heikkila

Institutional shifts and punctuated patterns in digital policy pp. 363-388

Inke Torfs, Ellen Wayenberg and Lieselot Danneels

Creatively interpreting policy to move science forward: Implementing participatory technology assessment at NASA pp. 389-405

Christopher Torres and Luke Fowler

How “institutionalization” can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy pp. 406-432

Marco Di Giulio and Giancarlo Vecchi

Comparing regulatory processes in genome editing and autonomous vehicles: How institutional environments shape sociotechnical imaginaries pp. 433-457

Meghna Mukherjee, Konrad Posch, Santiago J. Molina, Ken Taymor and Ann Keller

Doing more among institutional boundaries: Platform‐enabled government in China pp. 458-478

Yu Zeng, Quan Zhang, Qi Zhao and Huang Huang

Volume 40, issue 2, 2023

Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures pp. 182-185

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

Support for the environment post‐transition? Material concerns and policy tradeoffs pp. 186-206

Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, Rachel M. Krause, Gwen Arnold, Le Ahn Nguyen Long, Tatyana Ruseva, Chris Silvia and Christopher Witko

Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability pp. 207-229

Daniel Benjamin Bailey, Sung‐Wook Kwon and Nathaniel Wright

Why did Argentina and Uruguay decide to pursue a carbon tax? Fiscal reforms and explicit carbon prices pp. 230-259

Martin Rabbia

STI policy conventions in Uruguay. An analysis of political party platforms 2004–2019 pp. 260-281

Carlos Bianchi and Camilo Martínez

Functioning strategies of the research groups' leaders in the context of funding and policy instabilities pp. 282-306

Astrid Jaime, Constanza Pérez‐Martelo, Bernardo Herrera, Gonzalo Ordóñez‐Matamoros and Dominique Vinck

Complementarity of additionalities resulting from European Union funds: Perspective of the users of research infrastructures pp. 307-331

Scott Hegerty, Arkadiusz M. Kowalski and Małgorzata S. Lewandowska

Volume 40, issue 1, 2023

Policy responses and public reactions to risks pp. 6-9

Nils C. Bandelow, Johanna Hornung and Ilana Schröder

Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states pp. 10-35

Deserai A. Crow, Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Albright, Kristin Taylor, Tom Birkland, Manli Zhang, Elizabeth Koebele, Nathan Jeschke, Elizabeth A. Shanahan and Caleb Cage

Contagious COVID‐19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis pp. 36-62

Evan M. Mistur, John Wagner Givens and Daniel C. Matisoff

Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster: Policy conflict and goal ambiguity pp. 63-87

Stephanie Zarb and Kristin Taylor

Political ideology and nuclear energy: Perception, proximity, and trust pp. 88-118

Mark K. McBeth, Megan Warnement Wrobel and Irene van Woerden

Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk pp. 119-152

Zhengyan Li and David M. Konisky

Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network pp. 153-175

Wen Guo