Journal of Public Policy

1981 - 2022

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Volume 42, issue 1, 2022

How party platforms on immigration become policy pp. 1-19

Tobias Böhmelt and Lawrence Ezrow

What leads government officials to use impact evidence? pp. 20-42

Celeste Beesley, Darren Hawkins and Nicholas Moffitt

Accountability through public participation? Experiences from the ten-thousand-citizen review in Nanjing, China pp. 43-62

Yanwei Li, Xiaolei Qin and Joop Koppenjan

Pass the buck or the buck stops here? The public costs of claiming and deflecting blame in managing crises pp. 63-91

David Miller and Andrew Reeves

Tax compliance and social desirability bias of taxpayers: experimental evidence from Indonesia pp. 92-109

Endra Iraman, Yoshikuni Ono and Makoto Kakinaka

Good riddance to bad government? Institutional performance voting in Swedish municipalities pp. 110-135

Rasmus Broms

Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics? pp. 136-164

Lena Maria Schaffer, Bianca Oehl and Thomas Bernauer

The messenger matters: environmental nonprofit organisations’ public faces, information recipients’ worldviews, and the credibility of ENPOs’ disclosed policy information pp. 165-184

Li-Yin Liu and Rikki Morris

Do policy clashes between the judiciary and the executive affect public opinion? Insights from New Delhi’s odd–even rule against air pollution pp. 185-200

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath, Thomas Bernauer and Aseem Prakash

Volume 41, issue 4, 2021

Policy programme cycles through old and new programmatic groups pp. 633-652

Nils C. Bandelow and Johanna Hornung

Appointee vacancies in US executive branch agencies pp. 653-676

William G. Resh, Gary E. Hollibaugh, Patrick S. Roberts and Matthew M. Dull

Place matters: government capacity, community characteristics, and social capital across United States counties pp. 677-705

Jamie R. McCall, Austin Bussing, Michele M. Hoyman and Laurie E. Paarlberg

The decentralisation of death? Local budgets and organised crime violence pp. 706-730

Helge Arends

What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues? pp. 731-751

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik

Complexity, resources and text borrowing in state legislatures pp. 752-775

Eric R. Hansen and Joshua M. Jansa

Presidential directives in a resistant bureaucracy pp. 776-797

Alex Acs

When Europe hits the subnational authorities: the transposition of EU directives in Germany between 1990 and 2018 pp. 798-817

Jana Paasch and Christian Stecker

Race–gender bias in white Americans’ preferences for gun availability pp. 818-834

Matthew Hayes, David Fortunato and Matthew V. Hibbing

Volume 41, issue 3, 2021

Who passes restrictive labour policy? A view from the States pp. 409-439

Laura C. Bucci and Joshua M. Jansa

The contingent character of interest groups–political parties’ interaction pp. 440-461

Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Camilo Cristancho, Luz Muñoz-Márquez and Leire Rincón

Adjusting to austerity: the public spending responses of regional governments to the budget constraint in Spain and Italy pp. 462-488

Simon Toubeau and Davide Vampa

Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union pp. 489-514

Marta Migliorati

United against precarious working conditions? Explaining the role of trade unions in improving migrants’ working conditions in the British and German meat-processing industries pp. 515-531

Johanna Kuhlmann and Colette S. Vogeler

Information processing in the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy pp. 532-552

Sebastiaan Princen, Katrijn Siderius and Sebastián Villasante

Why do interest groups prioritise some policy issues over others? Explaining variation in the drivers of policy agendas pp. 553-572

Bert Fraussen, Darren R. Halpin and Anthony J. Nownes

The partisan politics of the penal–welfare nexus: a quantitative analysis of party influence on the relationship between penal and welfare policies pp. 573-599

Helge Staff and Georg Wenzelburger

Europeanisation on demand: the EU cybersecurity certification regime between market integration and core state powers (1997–2019) pp. 600-631

Ido Sivan-Sevilla

Volume 41, issue 2, 2021

Norms, institutions and freedom of speech in the US, the UK and Australia pp. 209-227

Katharine Gelber

Group proximity and mutual understanding: measuring onsite impact of a citizens’ summit pp. 228-250

Klara Pigmans, Virginia Dignum and Neelke Doorn

Unequal benefits – diverging attitudes? Analysing the effects of an unequal expansion of childcare provision on attitudes towards maternal employment across 18 European countries pp. 251-276

Erik Neimanns

The politics of State aid in the European Union: explaining variation in aid allocation among Member States pp. 277-306

Marco Schito

The politics of creditworthiness: political and policy commentary in sovereign credit rating reports pp. 307-330

Zsófia Barta and Kristin Makszin

Inequality in policy implementation: caste and electrification in rural India pp. 331-359

Michaël Aklin, Chao-Yo Cheng and Johannes Urpelainen

Relationality: an alternative framework for analysing policy pp. 360-383

Raul P Lejano

Policy and the structure of roll call voting in the US house pp. 384-408

Scott de Marchi, Spencer Dorsey and Michael J. Ensley

Volume 41, issue 1, 2021

When the workplace is the home: labour inspectors’ discretionary power in the field of domestic work – an institutional analysis pp. 1-16

Rebecca Paraciani and Roberto Rizza

The polarisation of energy policy in the US Congress pp. 17-41

Gyung-Ho Jeong and William Lowry

Behavioural insight and the labour market: evidence from a pilot study and a large stepped-wedge controlled trial pp. 42-65

Michael Sanders, Guglielmo Briscese, Rory Gallagher, Alex Gyani, Samuel Hanes, Elspeth Kirkman and Owain Service

Politicised enforcement in China: evidence from the enforcement of land laws and regulations pp. 66-89

Xin Sun

Border clashes: the distributive politics of professional liberalisation in Greece, 2010–2018 pp. 90-110

Francesco Stolfi and Natalia Papamakariou

The diffusion of climate policies among German municipalities pp. 111-136

Dennis Abel

Anti-gambling policies: framing morality policy in Italy pp. 137-160

Matteo Bassoli, Michele Marzulli and Marco Pedroni

Corporate governance and democratic accountability: local state-owned enterprises in Norway pp. 161-184

Jan Erling Klausen and Marte Winsvold

Deliberate disproportionate policy response: towards a conceptual turn pp. 185-208

Moshe Maor

Volume 40, issue 4, 2020

It could happen to you: how perceptions of personal risk shape support for social welfare policy in the American States pp. 535-552

Kerri Milita, Jaclyn Bunch and Sara Yeganeh

Making energy personal: policy coordination challenges in UK smart meter implementation pp. 553-572

Sarah Giest

Who feeds information to regulators? Stakeholder diversity in European Union regulatory agency consultations pp. 573-598

Jan Beyers and Sarah Arras

Can policy-packaging increase public support for costly policies? Insights from a choice experiment on policies against vehicle emissions pp. 599-625

Michael Wicki, Robert Alexander Huber and Thomas Bernauer

Can policy-packaging increase public support for costly policies? Insights from a choice experiment on policies against vehicle emissions – CORRIGENDUM pp. 626-627

Michael Wicki, Robert Alexander Huber and Thomas Bernauer

Regulatory policy entrepreneurship and reforms: a comparison of competition and financial regulation pp. 628-650

Hadar Y. Jabotinsky and Nissim Cohen

The advantage of paradigmatic contestation in shaping and selling public policies pp. 651-671

Gerry Alons

Holding agencies accountable: Exploring the effect of oversight on citizens’ approval of members of Congress pp. 672-693

Susan M. Miller and Alexander I. Ruder

Volume 40, issue 3, 2020

Bargaining over maternity pay: evidence from UK universities pp. 349-374

Mariaelisa Epifanio and Vera E. Troeger

Do policy instruments matter? Governments’ choice of policy mix and higher education performance in Western Europe pp. 375-401

Giliberto Capano, Andrea Pritoni and Giulia Vicentini

Public preferences for Zika policy and responsibility in the absence of partisan cues pp. 402-427

Jennifer M. Connolly, Casey Klofstad, Joseph Uscinski and Jonathan West

The evolution of public policy attitudes: comparing the mechanisms of policy support across the stages of a policy cycle pp. 428-448

Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti and Katarina Nordblom

Politics or management? Analysing differences in local implementation performance of the EU Ambient Air Quality directive pp. 449-472

Elena Bondarouk, Duncan Liefferink and Ellen Mastenbroek

Appointments and attrition: time and executive disadvantage in the appointments process pp. 473-491

Gary E. Hollibaugh and Lawrence S. Rothenberg

Speaking truth to power: political advisers’ and civil servants’ responses to perceived harmful policy proposals pp. 492-512

Birgitta Niklasson, Peter Munk Christiansen and Patrik Öhberg

Policy feedback in the local context: analysing fairness perceptions of public childcare fees in a German town pp. 513-533

Marius R. Busemeyer and Achim Goerres

Volume 40, issue 2, 2020

What’s fair? Preferences for tax progressivity in the wake of the financial crisis pp. 171-193

Julian Limberg

Can policy forums overcome echo chamber effects by enabling policy learning? Evidence from the Irish climate change policy network pp. 194-211

Paul M. Wagner and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila

Can policy forums overcome echo chamber effects by enabling policy learning? Evidence from the Irish climate change policy network – CORRIGENDUM pp. 212-213

Paul M. Wagner and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila

Congressional capacity and the abolition of legislative service organizations pp. 214-235

Andrew J. Clarke

Dynamics of policy change in authoritarian countries: a multiple-case study on China pp. 236-258

Yipin Wu

Lobbying, learning and policy reinvention: an examination of the American States’ drunk driving laws pp. 259-279

Jinhai Yu, Edward T. Jennings and J. S. Butler

The importance of salience: public opinion and state policy action on climate change pp. 280-304

Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo and John Poe

How bureaucratic leadership shapes policy outcomes: partisan politics and affluent citizens’ incomes in the American states pp. 305-328

Daniel Berkowitz and George A. Krause

Party government and policy responsiveness. Evidence from three parliamentary democracies pp. 329-347

Dimiter Toshkov, Lars Mäder and Anne Rasmussen

Volume 40, issue 1, 2020

More bang for your buck: tax compliance in the United States and Italy pp. 1-24

D’Attoma, John

The political economy of budget trade-offs pp. 25-50

Christopher Adolph, Christian Breunig and Chris Koski

Congress as theatre: how advocates use ambiguity for political advantage pp. 51-71

Parrish Bergquist

Beyond the visible policy agenda: problem definitions disappearing from the agenda as nondecisions pp. 72-95

Ilana Shpaizman

Corrective policy reactions: positive and negative budgetary punctuations pp. 96-115

Carla M. Flink and Scott E. Robinson

The democratic deficit on salient issues: immigration and healthcare in the states pp. 116-143

Christopher Hare and James E. Monogan

De facto regulatory decision-making processes in telecommunications regulation: explaining influence relationships with exponential random graph models pp. 144-170

González, Camilo Ignacio and Koen Verhoest