Review of Policy Research

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Volume 35, issue 6, 2018

Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation pp. 776-791

Robbert Biesbroek, B. Guy Peters and Jale Tosun

Foreign‐Funded Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Mirroring Administrative Traditions or Traditions of Administrative Blueprinting? pp. 792-834

Martinus Vink and Greetje Schouten

State Bureaucracy and the Management of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh pp. 835-858

Md Saifur Rahman and Jale Tosun

Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions: The Role of Chief Scientists in Climate Change Adaptation pp. 859-880

Nicole M. Schmidt, Na'ama Teschner and Maya Negev

Do Administrative Traditions Matter for Climate Change Adaptation Policy? A Comparative Analysis of 32 High‐Income Countries pp. 881-906

Robbert Biesbroek, Alexandra Lesnikowski, James D. Ford, Lea Berrang‐Ford and Martinus Vink

Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions pp. 907-929

Arwin van Buuren, Judy Lawrence, Karen Potter and Jeroen F. Warner

The Influence of Administrative Traditions and Governance on Private Involvement in Urban Climate Change Adaptation pp. 930-952

Johannes Klein and Sirkku Juhola

Volume 35, issue 5, 2018

Responses to the Clean Power Plan: Factors Influencing State Decision‐Making pp. 670-690

Laurel Besco

Holding Back the Storm: Target Populations and State Climate Adaptation Planning in America pp. 691-716

Chris Koski and Megan Keating

Mutual and Self Perceptions of Opposing Advocacy Coalitions: Devil Shift and Angel Shift in a German Policy Subsystem pp. 717-732

Colette S. Vogeler and Nils C. Bandelow

Impact of the Intellectual Property Tax Regime on FDI in R&D Activities at the City Level pp. 733-749

Martin Falk and Fei Peng

Performance Ranking and Environmental Governance: An Empirical Study of the Mandatory Target System pp. 750-772

Xiao Tang, Zhengwen Liu and Hongtao Yi

Volume 35, issue 4, 2018

On‐Bill Financing Programs to Support Low‐Carbon Energy Technologies: An Agent‐Oriented Assessment pp. 502-534

Luis Mundaca and Sarah Kloke

Factors Shaping Policy Learning: A Study of Policy Actors in Subnational Climate and Energy Issues pp. 535-563

Andrew Pattison

Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government pp. 564-589

Deserai A. Crow, Elizabeth A. Albright, Todd Ely, Elizabeth Koebele and Lydia Lawhon

Projecting the Arena of Inclusion: The Case of South Korea in Pursuing a Phased Inclusive Growth Process pp. 590-616

Chan‐Yuan Wong and Keun Lee

The Formal Delegation of Regulatory Decisions in the Telecommunication Sector: An Explanation Using Classification Trees pp. 617-641

Camilo Ignacio González and Koen Verhoest

The Role of Technology Centers as Intermediary Organizations Facilitating Links for Innovation: Four Cases of Federal Technology Centers in Mexico pp. 642-666

Federico Stezano

Volume 35, issue 3, 2018

Managing the Disruptive and Sustaining the Disrupted: The Case of Kodak and Fujifilm in the Face of Digital Disruption pp. 352-371

Jonathan C. Ho and Hongyi Chen

The Ability to Influence: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Advocacy Coalitions in Brazilian Climate Politics pp. 372-397

Solveig Aamodt

Policy Diffusion and Directionality: Tracing Early Adoption of Offshore Wind Policy pp. 398-421

Michael J. Motta

On the Front Lines of Implementing Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of the Regulated Community in Montana pp. 422-438

Sara Rinfret and Michelle C. Pautz

Agenda†Setting at the Energy†Water Nexus: Constructing and Maintaining a Policy Monopoly in U.S. Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation pp. 439-465

Jennifer Baka, Kate J. Neville, Erika Weinthal and Karen Bakker

Measuring the Relationship between State Environmental Justice Action and Air Pollution Inequality, 1990–2009 pp. 466-490

Clair Bullock, Kerry Ard and Grace Saalman

Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 256 pages. ISBN 9780262529303, $35.00 paperback. Leigh Raymond. 2016 pp. 491-493

David Houle

The Grid: Biography of an American Technology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 336 pages. ISBN 9780262037174, $37.00 hardcover. Julie A. Cohn. 2017 pp. 493-495

Daniel Macfarlane

Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. xiii + 279 pages. ISBN 9780262035934, $90.00 hardcover. ISBN 9780262533843, $30.00 paperback. ISBN 9780262338882, $21.00 eBook. Oran R. Young. 2017 pp. 495-497

Andrew M. Song

Volume 35, issue 2, 2018

Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments pp. 192-212

Sara Hughes, Daniel Miller Runfola and Benjamin Cormier

Factors Driving the Promotion of Hydroelectricity: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis pp. 213-237

Lorenz Kammermann

Determinants and Evaluation of Local Energy†Efficiency Initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pp. 238-257

Taekyoung Lim and William M. Bowen

Measuring Environmental and Economic Opinions about Hydraulic Fracturing: A Survey of Landowners in Active or Planned Drilling Units pp. 258-279

Gwen Arnold, Benjamin Farrer and Robert Holahan

The Space Between: Demonization of Opponents and Policy Divergence pp. 280-301

Juniper Katz

Agriculture in Shifting Climates: The Configuration and Ripeness of Problem Understandings in Uganda and Senegal pp. 302-325

Eric D. Raile, Linda M. Young, Jackline Bonabana†Wabbi, Julian Kirinya, Samba Mbaye, Lena Wooldridge, Amber N. W. Raile and Lori Ann Post

What Is Known about Punctuated Equilibrium Theory? And What Does That Tell Us about the Construction, Validation, and Replication of Knowledge in the Policy Sciences? pp. 326-347

Johanna Kuhlmann and Jeroen van der Heijden

Volume 35, issue 1, 2018

Over a Decade of Scholarship on the Politics and Policy of Science and Technology pp. 4-11

Graeme Auld

The Role of Scientific Excellence in the Changing Meaning of Maize in Mexico pp. 12-30

Libertad Castro Colina and Éric Montpetit

Research Funding and Performance of Academic Researchers in South Korea pp. 31-60

Soogwan Doh, Duckhee Jang, Gil†Mo Kang and Dong†Seong Han

Institutions and Morality Policy in Western Democracies pp. 61-88

Donley T. Studlar and Alessandro Cagossi

Competing Policy Windows in Biotechnology: The FDA, the 21st Century Cures Act, and Laboratory†Developed Tests pp. 89-119

Nathan Myers, Catherine E. Steding and Peter Mikolaj

Power Sector Reforms and Technical Performance: Good News from an Instrumental Variable Analysis pp. 120-152

Johannes Urpelainen, Joonseok Yang and Di Liu

Congressional Attention and Opportunity Structures: The Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee pp. 153-169

Jonathan Lewallen

Identifying the Causes of Issue Attention and Policy Change: Evidence from U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Policy, 2008 pp. 170-188

Tyler Hughes

Volume 34, issue 6, 2017

Boundary Concepts for Boundary Work Between Science and Technology Studies and International Relations: Special Issue Introduction pp. 734-743

Amandine Orsini, Sélim Louafi and Jean-Frédéric Morin

Narrowing the Climate Field: The Symbolic Power of Authors in the IPCC's Assessment of Mitigation pp. 744-766

Hannah Rachel Hughes and Matthew Paterson

Coping with Institutional Fragmentation? Competition and Convergence between Boundary Organizations in the Global Response to Polio pp. 767-789

Anna Holzscheiter

Is a Melting Arctic Making the Arctic Council Too Cool? Exploring the Limits to the Effectiveness of a Boundary Organization pp. 790-811

Jennifer Spence

Nondemarcated Spaces of Knowledge-Informed Policy Making: How Useful Is the Concept of Boundary Organization in IR? pp. 812-826

Daniel Compagnon and Steven Bernstein

Three Cultural Boundaries of Science, Institutions, and Policy: A Cultural Theory of Coproduction, Boundary-Work, and Change pp. 827-853

Brendon Swedlow

First World Petro-Politics: The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. 696 p ages. ISBN 9781442612587, $49.95 CAD paperback. Laurie Adkin, ed. 2016 pp. 854-855

Nathan Lemphers

Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the “War on Coal.” New York: Oxford University Press. viii + 221 pages. ISBN 9780190233112, $31.95 hardcover. Richard L. Revesz and Jack Lienke. 2016 pp. 856-858

Owen Temby

Volume 34, issue 5, 2017

Innovation and Alliances pp. 588-616

Jon Schmid, Matthew Brummer and Mark Taylor

Why Have Policies Often Remained Symbolic? Understanding the Reasons for Decoupling between Policy and Practice pp. 617-635

Jusil Lee

A Concurrent Analysis of Three Institutions that Transform Health Technology-Based Ventures: Economic Policy, Capital Investment, and Market Approval pp. 636-659

Pascale Lehoux, Geneviève Daudelin, Jean-Louis Denis and Fiona A. Miller

Brokers and Entrepreneurs in Human Stem Cell Governance Networks in the United States pp. 660-681

Liza Ireni-Saban and Eldad Borohowitch

Structure and Process: Examining the Interaction between Bureaucratic Organization and Analytical Requirements pp. 682-699

Stuart Shapiro

Urban Pressures and Innovations: Sustainability Commitment in the Face of Fragmentation and Inequality pp. 700-724

Aaron Deslatte, Richard C. Feiock and Kathryn Wassel

Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta: An Advocacy Coalition Approach. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. 272 pages. ISBN 9781487500535, $45.00 cloth. B. Timothy Heinmiller. 2016 pp. 725-726

Tanya Heikkila

Fighting King Coal: The Barriers to Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement Participation in Central Appalachia. Boston, MA: MIT Press. x + 326 pages. ISBN 9780262034340, $65.00 hardcover. ISBN 9780262528801, $32.00 paperback. ISBN 9780262333580, $23.00 eBook. Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2016 pp. 727-729

Pranietha Mudliar and Gwen Arnold

Volume 34, issue 4, 2017

The Polarization of American Environmental Policy: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Senate and House Votes, 1971–2013 pp. 456-484

Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen

Emphasis Framing and the Role of Perceived Knowledge: A Survey Experiment pp. 485-503

Justin B. Bullock and Arnold Vedlitz

Attitudes Toward “Fracking”: Perceived and Actual Geographic Proximity pp. 504-536

Jessica Alcorn, John Rupp and John D. Graham

Policy Failure and Policy Learning: Examining the Conditions of Learning after Disaster pp. 537-558

Kristin O'Donovan

Cultural Penetration and Punctuated Policy Change: Explaining the Evolution of U.S. Energy Policy pp. 559-577

Luke Fowler, Tonya T. Neaves, Jessica N. Terman and Arthur G. Cosby

New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. xiv + 442 pages. ISBN 9780262034364, $68.00, hardback. ISBN 9780262529198, $34.00 paperback. ISBN 9780262332118, $24.00 Ebook. Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah, Eds. 2016 pp. 578-580

Matthew Paterson

Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ix + 348 pages. ISBN 9780700621279, $45.00 cloth. James R. Skillen. 2015 pp. 580-582

D. Alex Alder

Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: Fifteen Contentious Questions. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. x + 370 pages. ISBN 9781421418971, $34.96 paperback, $34.95 cloth. Benjamin Sovacool, Marilyn Brown, and Scott Valentine. 2016 pp. 582-584

Sharlissa Moore

Volume 34, issue 3, 2017

Mobilization in the European Public Sphere: The Struggle Over Genetically Modified Organisms pp. 310-330

Jale Tosun and Simon Schaub

Different by Design? Analyzing How Governments Justify GMO Liberalization through the Lens of Strategic Communication pp. 331-356

Georg Wenzelburger and Pascal D. König

Coalitions and Conservation: Conditional Impacts of Coalitions on Ballot Measures for Open Space pp. 357-377

William R. Lowry and W. Scott Krummenacher

Climate Adaptation in Canada: Governing a Complex Policy Regime pp. 378-399

Daniel Henstra

Developing Knowledge States: Technology and the Enhancement of National Statistical Capacity pp. 400-420

Derrick M. Anderson and Andrew B. Whitford

Assessing Public Procurement of Innovation as a Cross-Domain Policy: A Framework and Application to the Chinese Context pp. 421-446

Yanchao Li

Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. xiv + 412 pages. ISBN: 9780774830478, $34.95 CAD paperback. ISBN 9780774830461, $95.00 CAD hardcover. David R. Boyd. 2015 pp. 447-449

Andrea Olive

Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government. New York: Cambridge University Press. xv + 364 pages. ISBN 9781107074392, $120.00 hardback. Roger Karapin. 2016 pp. 449-451

Leigh Raymond

Volume 34, issue 2, 2017

Community Privilege and Environmental Justice: An Agent-Based Analysis pp. 144-167

Adam Eckerd, Yushim Kim and Heather E. Campbell

Advocacy Coalitions in Ontario Land Use Policy Development pp. 168-185

B. Timothy Heinmiller and Kevin Pirak

Has the Clean Air Interstate Rule Fulfilled Its Mission? An Assessment of Federal Rule-Making in Preventing Regional Spillover Pollution pp. 186-207

Derek Glasgow and Shuang Zhao

Determinants of Pro-Fracking Measure Adoption by New York Southern Tier Municipalities pp. 208-232

Gwen Arnold and Kaubin Wosti Neupane

Using Cultural Theory to Analyze the Metagovernance of the Nuclear Renaissance in Britain, France, and the United States pp. 233-254

Keith Baker

Market Instruments for a Sustainable Economy: Environmental Fiscal Policy and Manifest Divergences pp. 255-269

Elena Villar-Rubio and María-Dolores Huete-Morales

Legislative Behavior in the Seventh European Parliament and the Regulation of Shale Gas Development in the European Union pp. 270-300

Zachary A. Wendling

Where the Rivers Meet: Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. xxvii + 207 pages. ISBN 9780774828451, $99.00 hardcover. ISBN 9780774828468, $35.95 paperback. Carly A. Dokis. 2015 pp. 301-303

Graham White

Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 264 pages. ISBN 0801453615, $29.95 hardback. David Stradling and Richard Stradling. 2015 pp. 303-305

Swapna Pathak

Volume 34, issue 1, 2017

Introduction: The Politics of Environmental Accountability pp. 4-9

Teresa Kramarz and Susan Park

More than a Question of Agency: Privatized Project Implementation, Accountabilities, and Global Environmental Governance pp. 10-30

Jonathan Rosenberg

Judicialization of Environmental Policy and the Crisis of Democratic Accountability pp. 31-49

Teresa Kramarz, David Cosolo and Alejandro Rossi

Holding Polluting Countries to Account for Climate Change: Is “Loss and Damage†Up to the Task? pp. 50-67

Craig A. Johnson

Accountability Challenges in the Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change pp. 68-87

Oscar Widerberg and Philipp Pattberg

Institutional Accountability of Nonstate Actors in the UNFCCC: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty pp. 88-109

Jonathan Kuyper, Karin Bäckstrand and Heike Schroeder

Mission Interference: How Competition Confounds Accountability for Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations pp. 110-131

Cristina M. Balboa

The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. xi + 226 pages. ISBN 9781137496720, $105.00 hardcover. Benjamin K. Sovocool and Björn†Ola Linnér. 2015 pp. 132-133

Tor HÃ¥kon Jackson Inderberg

A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. vii + 274 pages. ISBN 9780262528115, $26.00 paperback. Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts. 2015 pp. 134-136

Marcela López†Vallejo

Fukushima and Beyond: Nuclear Power in a Low†Carbon World. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited. xi + 202 pages. ISBN 978†1†4094†5491†5, $109.95 hardcover. Christopher Hubbard. 2014 pp. 136-138

David Sadoway

Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. x + 256 pages. ISBN 9780230284579, $105.00 hardcover. Hannes R. Stephan. 2015 pp. 138-140

Brandiff R. Caron