Review of Policy Research

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Volume 33, issue 6, 2016

Mitigating Mistrust? Participation and Expertise in Hydraulic Fracturing Governance pp. 578-602

Kate J. Neville and Erika Weinthal

The Power of Policy Regimes: Explaining Shale Gas Policy Divergence in Bulgaria and Poland pp. 603-622

Andreas Goldthau and Michael LaBelle

After the Fukushima Disaster: Japan's Nuclear Policy Change from 2011 to 2012 pp. 623-645

Rie Watanabe

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment in the United States: The Impact of Polycentric Governance and Contextual Changes pp. 646-665

Shan Zhou and Daniel C. Matisoff

Defining Environmental Justice Communities for Regulatory Enforcement: Implications from a Block-Group-Level Analysis of New York State pp. 666-685

Jiaqi Liang

The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better than Others at Science & Technology. New York: Oxford University Press. xiii + 431 pages. ISBN 9780190464134, $27.95 paperback. Mark Zachary Taylor, 2016 pp. 686-688

David Kearn

NAFTA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 414 pages. ISBN 9781107097223, $125 hardcover. Hoi L. Kong and L. Kinvin Wroth, eds. 2015 pp. 688-690

Suzanne Simon

Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. xv + 264 pages. ISBN 9780774827669, $35.95 paperback. ISBN 9780774827652, $99.00 hardcover. Louise Takeda. 2015 pp. 690-692

Emma S. Norman

Volume 33, issue 5, 2016

Media in the Policy Process: Using Framing and Narratives to Understand Policy Influences pp. 472-491

Deserai A. Crow and Andrea Lawlor

BLM, the Administrative Presidency, and Policy Shifts: Policy Tools Affecting Oil and Gas Operations pp. 492-505

Charles Davis

Vested Interests, Venue Shopping, and Policy Stability: The Long Road to Improving Air Quality in Oregon's Willamette Valley pp. 506-525

Aaron J. Ley

Open Data for Science, Policy, and the Public Good pp. 526-543

Creso Sá and Julieta Grieco

The Spreading of Innovation: State Adoptions of Energy and Climate Change Policy pp. 544-565

Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, J. Butler, John Poe and Whitney Davis

Distinct Approaches to Harper's Environmental Policy Legacy in Canada pp. 566-569

Peter Andrée

Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. vii + 143 pages. ISBN 9780739188392, $75.00 cloth. Trevor K. Fuller. 2015 pp. 570-571

Adam Eckerd

Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia's Coastal Rainforest. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. xxv + 126 pages. ISBN 9780774826723, $32.95 paperback. Justin Page. 2014 pp. 571-573

Ethan Getz

Volume 33, issue 4, 2016

Trade and Industrial Policy as Levers for Sustainable Energy Technology Adoption? Experiences from Urban Latin America pp. 348-375

Alexandra Mallett

Do We Understand What the Public Hears? Stakeholders’ Preferred Communication Choices for Discussing River Issues with the Public The work for this article was supported by the NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program and the National Science Foundation under award number IIA-1301792. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NSF pp. 376-392

Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth and James W. Stoutenborough

Subnational Responses to Fracking in Canada: Explaining Saskatchewan's “Wild West” Regulatory Approach Authors are listed alphabetically by convention; both contributed equally. Funding for this research was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The authors would like to thank Simon Enoch for his research on the corporate power of the energy industry in Saskatchewan, Leigh McDougall and Brittany McNena for research and revision assistance, John Peters for valuable feedback, Joseph Piwowar for converting ministry data into GIS files, Jessica Vanstone for creating the map of fracked horizontal wells in Saskatchewan, and anonymous reviewers for providing helpful comments pp. 393-419

Angela V. Carter and Emily M. Eaton

Enhancing Precision and Clarity in the Study of Policy Narratives: An Analysis of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India pp. 420-441

Christopher M. Weible, Kristin L. Olofsson, Daniel P. Costie, Juniper M. Katz and Tanya Heikkila

Network Structure and Perceived Legitimacy in Collaborative Wildlife Management pp. 442-462

Annica Sandström and Carina Lundmark

Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. xiv + 191 pages. ISBN 9780262029766, $29 hardback. Jessica Smartt Gullion, 2015 pp. 463-465

Andrew Kear

Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities. London: Routledge. xvi + 220 pages. ISBN 9780415838597, $145.00 hardback; ISBN 9780203781456, $54.95 e-book. Emma S. Norman, 2015 pp. 465-467

Owen Temby

Volume 33, issue 3, 2016

Comparing the Politics of Hydraulic Fracturing in New York, Colorado, and Texas pp. 232-250

Christopher M. Weible and Tanya Heikkila

Science Use in Regulatory Impact Analysis: The Effects of Political Attention and Controversy pp. 251-269

Mia Costa, Bruce A. Desmarais and John A. Hird

Environmental Harm or Natural Hazard? Problem Identification and Adaptation in U.S. Municipal Climate Action Plans pp. 270-290

Chris Koski and Alma Siulagi

Willingness to Pay for Solar Lanterns: Does the Trial Period Play a Role? pp. 291-315

Semee Yoon, Johannes Urpelainen and Milind Kandlikar

Policy Stalemate and Policy Change in Israel's Water Sector 1970–2010: Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Narratives pp. 316-337

Gila Menahem and Shula Gilad

Climate Change and European Security. New York: Routledge. 144 pages. ISBN 9781138797277, $145 hardback. ISBN 9781138797284, $52.95 paperback. Richard Youngs, 2015 pp. 338-340

Mike Gunter

Green-Lite: Complexity in 50 Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press. 422 pages. ISBN 9780773545823, $34.95 CAD paperback. ISBN 9780773545816, $110.00 CAD cloth. G. Bruce Doern, Graeme Auld, and Christopher Stoney, 2015 pp. 340-341

Andrea Olive

Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. xviii + 267 pages. ISBN 9780262526692, $27.00 paperback. ISBN 9780262028226, $54.00 hardcover. Frank Biermann, 2014 pp. 342-343

Peter Stoett

Volume 33, issue 2, 2016

Issue Information pp. 115-117

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: What Have We Learned? pp. 119-123

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and Sanya Carley

Walking in the Shadow of Pressman and Wildavsky: Expanding Fiscal Federalism and Goal Congruence Theories to Single-Shot Games pp. 124-139

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Jessica N. Terman, Anthony Kassekert, Richard C. Feiock and Kaifeng Yang

Impacts of Federal Stimulus Funding on Economic Development Policy Networks Among Local Governments pp. 140-159

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Chang-Gyu Kwak, Richard Feiock, Christopher Hawkins and Youngmi Lee

Outsourcing Oversight and ARRA 2009: What Factors Explain State Agencies’ Decision to Pursue Collaborative Monitoring? pp. 160-177

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and Lachezar G. Anguelov

Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Upon the Department of Energy Weatherization Assistance Program pp. 178-200

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bruce Tonn, Beth Hawkins and Erin Rose

Energy Programs of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 pp. 201-223

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and Sanya Carley

European Union and Environmental Governance. London: Routledge (Global Institutions Series). 166 pages. ISBN 9780415628822, $33.95, paperback. ISBN 9780415628815, $135.00 hardback. Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, 2015 pp. 224-226

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and Rolf Lidskog

Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities: Insights from Agent-Based Modeling. New York: Routledge. 228 pages. ISBN 9780415657440, £90.00 hardback. Heather E. Campbell, Yushim Kim, and Adam Eckerd, eds., 2015 pp. 226-228

Dr. Sanya Carley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University and Stefan Verweij

Volume 33, issue 1, 2016

Institutional Change Through Policy Learning: The Case of the European Commission and Research Policy pp. 5-21

Merli Tamtik

Does Power Sector Deregulation Promote or Discourage Renewable Energy Policy? Evidence from the States, 1991–2012 pp. 22-50

Sung Eun Kim, Joonseok Yang and Johannes Urpelainen

Policy Change, Policy Feedback, and Interest Mobilization: The Politics of Nuclear Waste Management pp. 51-70

Matthew C. Nowlin

Why Do Regulatory Agencies Punish? The Impact of Political Principals, Agency Culture, and Transaction Costs in Predicting Environmental Criminal Prosecution Outcomes in the United States pp. 71-89

Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell

Public Information and Regulatory Processes: What the Public Knows and Regulators Decide pp. 90-109

Deserai A. Crow, Elizabeth A. Albright and Elizabeth Koebele

Water Without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. xiv + 275 pages. ISBN 9781442643932, $70.00 hardback. Edited by Emma S. Norman, Alice Cohen, and Karen Bakker, 2013 pp. 110-111

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Transforming Energy: Solving Climate Change with Technology Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 360 pages. ISBN 9781107614970, $29.99 paperback. Anthony Patt, 2015 pp. 111-113

George A. Gonzalez

Reconfiguring Global Climate Governance in North America: A Transregional Approach. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 268 pages. ISBN 9781472410368, $119.95 hardback. Marcela López-Vallejo, 2014 pp. 113-114

Abby Lindsay

Volume 32, issue 6, 2015

Nations or Sectors in the Age of Globalization: China's Policy Toward Foreign Direct Investment in Telecommunications pp. 627-648

Roselyn Hsueh

Exploring Drivers of Innovative Technology Adoption Intention: The Case of Plug-In Vehicles pp. 649-674

Saba Siddiki, Jerome Dumortier, Cali Curley, John D. Graham, Sanya Carley and Rachel M. Krause

Community-Based Organizations and Institutional Work in the Remote Rural West pp. 675-698

Jesse Abrams, Emily Jane Davis and Cassandra Moseley

Diversifying Nature Protection: Evaluating the Changing Tools for Forest Protection in Canada and Norway pp. 699-722

Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen

Contextual Factors Influencing Collaboration Levels and Outcomes in National Forest Stewardship Contracting pp. 723-744

Katherine M. Mattor and Antony S. Cheng

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. xiv + 222 pages. ISBN 9780826519597, $55.00 cloth. Suzanne Simon, 2014 pp. 745-746

Stephen Mumme

Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 261 pages. ISBN 9780262027625, $27.95 hardcover. Stephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky, 2014 pp. 747-748

James W. Stoutenborough

Volume 32, issue 5, 2015

Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications pp. 517-537

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy

Beyond (and Within) City Limits: Climate Policy in an Intergovernmental System pp. 538-555

Cindy Simon Rosenthal, James A. Rosenthal, Jonathan D. Moore and Jamie Smith

Partisanship, Ministers, and Biotechnology Policy pp. 556-575

Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus and Jale Tosun

Covenant of Mayors: Reasons for Being an Environmentally and Energy Friendly Municipality pp. 576-599

Maria Pablo-Romero, Antonio Sánchez-Braza and José Manuel González-Limón

Persistently Biased: The Devil Shift in Water Privatization in Jakarta pp. 600-621

Ching Leong

Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 288 pages. ISBN 9780262018647, $29.00 hardcover. J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth R. DeSombre, 2013 pp. 622-624

Tim M. Daw

Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 232 pages. ISBN 9780691157597, $24.95 paperback. Jessica F. Green, 2013 pp. 624-626

Graeme Auld

Volume 32, issue 4, 2015

Taxing Fracking: The Politics of State Severance Taxes in the Shale Era pp. 389-412

Barry G. Rabe and Rachel L. Hampton

Political Competition, Agenda Power, and Incentives to Innovate: An Empirical Examination of Vested-Interest Theory pp. 413-442

Dina Balalaeva

Focusing Events and Changes in Ecologies of Policy Games: Evidence from the Paraná River Delta pp. 443-464

Ramiro Berardo, Tomás Olivier and Anthony Lavers

Cultural Policy and Governance: Reviewing Policies Related to Cultural and Creative Industries Implemented by the Central Government of Taiwan Between 2002 and 2012 pp. 465-484

Chang Bin Lee

Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials: Exposing Nanotechnology's Naked Emperor pp. 485-512

Georgia Miller and Fern Wickson

Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services. London: Routledge. viii + 165 pages. ISBN 9781138827424, $145.00 hardback. Edited by Germà Bel, Trevor Brown, Rui Cunha Marques, 2015 pp. 513-514

Kai Chen

Volume 32, issue 3, 2015

State Renewable Energy Governance: Policy Instruments, Markets, or Citizens pp. 273-296

Sunjoo Park

University Technology Transfer and Manufacturing Innovation: The Case of Italy pp. 297-322

Paola Cardamone, Valeria Pupo and Fernanda Ricotta

The Unscientific Determinants of Voting on a Controversial Scientific Issue: An Evaluation of Biofuels Policy in the U.S. Congress pp. 323-344

Jonah J. Ralston

First-Hand Experience and Second-Hand Information: Changing Trust across Three Levels of Government pp. 345-364

Gina Yannitell Reinhardt

Governing the Economic Transition: How Taiwan Transformed its Industrial System to Attain Virtuous Cycle Development pp. 365-387

Chan-Yuan Wong, Mei-Chih Hu and Jyh-Wen Shiu

Volume 32, issue 2, 2015

Who's Afraid of WikiLeaks? Missed Opportunities in Political Science Research pp. 175-199

Gabriel J. Michael

States of Environmental Justice: Redistributive Politics across the United States, 1993–2004 pp. 200-225

Troy D. Abel, Debra J. Salazar and Patricia Robert

Utilizing Hyperlink Network Analysis to Examine Climate Change Supporters and Opponents pp. 226-245

Dallas J. Elgin

Adaptive Management for Oil and Gas Development on Public Lands: An Innovative Approach to Resource Protection, or Symbolic Placation of Public Interests? pp. 246-268

Zachary Wurtzebach

Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 352 pages. ISBN: 9780300190533, $30.00 paperback. Graeme Auld. 2014 pp. 269-271

Kristin Sippl

Volume 32, issue 1, 2015

Bilateral and Trilateral Natural Resource and Biodiversity Governance in North America: Organizations, Networks, and Inclusion pp. 1-18

Peter Stoett and Owen Temby

The Evolution of Natural Resource Conservation Capacity on the U.S.–Mexico Border: Bilateral and Trilateral Environmental Agreements since La Paz pp. 19-39

Stephen P. Mumme

The International Joint Commission, Water Levels, and Transboundary Governance in the Great Lakes pp. 40-59

Murray Clamen and Daniel Macfarlane

Scale and Subnational Resource Management: Transnational Initiatives in the Salish Sea Region pp. 60-78

Christopher Brown

Interagency Trust and Communication in the Transboundary Governance of Pacific Salmon Fisheries pp. 79-99

Owen Temby, Archi Rastogi, Jean Sandall, Ray Cooksey and Gordon M. Hickey

Resistance and Reform: Transboundary Water Governance in the Colorado River Delta pp. 100-123

Andrea K. Gerlak

Secretariat Influence on Overlap Management Politics in North America: NAFTA and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation pp. 124-145

Sikina Jinnah and Abby Lindsay

Transnational Environmental Activism in North America: Wielding Soft Power through Knowledge Sharing? pp. 146-162

Raul Pacheco-Vega

Assessing Intergovernmental Institutions and Transnational Policy Networks in North American Resource Management: Concluding Remarks pp. 163-169

Andrea Olive

Environmental Policy in North America: Approaches, Capacity, and the Management of Transboundary Issues. North York, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 216 pages. ISBN 9781442601796, $34.95 paperback. by Robert G. Healy, Debora L. VanNijnatten, and Marcela Lopez-Vallejo, 2014 pp. 170-171

Robert E. Forbis

Climate Change Policy in North America: Designing Integration in a Regional System. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 376 pages. ISBN 9781442614581, $34.95 paperback. edited by Neil Craik, Isabel Studer, and Debora VanNijnatten, eds., 2013 pp. 171-174

Stephen Bird