Policy Sciences

1987 - 2026

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Volume 59, issue 2, 2026

The emotional politics of problem definition: Israel’s judicial reform in a polarized public sphere pp. 245-273

Michal Neubauer-Shani, Yael Ram and Moshe Maor

Framing with facts: How frames shape evidence use in Switzerland’s pesticide policy discourse pp. 275-297

Ueli Reber and Karin Ingold

Blame and responsibility attribution across actor dimensions: public media discourse on antimicrobial resistances pp. 299-324

Tanja Puran, Josefine Wyser, Johanna Hornung and Manuel Fischer

Tenuous (in)stability? Mixed policy feedback and its effects on climate policy in Australia and Canada pp. 325-346

Jasmin Logg-Scarvell and James Patterson

Compound path dependence in green transitions: a comparative analysis of EV policy coordination in Indonesia and Thailand pp. 347-368

Chunhua Ye, Yiyun Xia, Yixian Sun and Benjamin Cashore

The EU as a green normative power? Unpacking dynamics of norm diffusion in forest biodiversity politics pp. 369-387

Antonio Basilicata, Mireia Pecurul-Botines and Simon Fleckenstein

Stakeholder knowledge in water governance: insights from public submissions in the Murray-Darling Basin pp. 389-415

Paul Hong, Yongping Wei, Frederick Bouckaert, Kim Johnston and Brian Head

An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria pp. 417-437

Ene Ikpebe, Emily Boykin, Alex Osei-Kojo and Bukola Usidame Peters

Does a “Taylor Swift Effect” encourage pro-social behavior? Celebrity endorsement and individual willingness to purchase carbon offsets pp. 439-462

Jana Foxe, Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash

The policy cycle’s missing distinction: why strategy is not delivery pp. 463-470

Ruben Junca

Volume 59, issue 1, 2026

Accountability for policy decisions: addressing gaps in theory and practice pp. 3-21

Yifei Yan and M Ramesh

Policy fit: lessons from ocean governance in Australia pp. 23-51

Liam Fullbrook and Joanna Vince

Quantitative evaluation of global microbead policies: a PMC index approach towards microplastic pollution pp. 53-76

Riya Kumbukattu Alex, Preetha Sadasivan, Thomas Maes and Suja Purushothaman Devipriya

Patterns of evidence use in Nigerian policymaking: insights from latent class analysis pp. 77-99

Toyib Aremu, Travis Reynolds and Fritz Sager

Who tells the policy story? Exploring the citizen policy narrative framework and feedback mechanisms in China’s healthcare reform pp. 101-130

Guang Yang and Yu Zhang

Euthanasia, institutions, and constitutional innovation in Ecuador: testing the multiple streams framework to explain agenda setting in Latin America pp. 131-169

Margarita Manosalvas Vaca and Juan Federico Pino Uribe

When transformation challenges legacy: tensions in the layering of urban transport policies pp. 171-202

Thu N. A. Pham

Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance pp. 203-223

Nora von Ingersleben-Seip and Daniel Mügge

Towards a minimal definition of policy innovation labs pp. 225-244

Moshe Maor

Volume 58, issue 4, 2025

Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking pp. 643-678

Darren Nel and Araz Taeihagh

Coalition stability and cohesion in a transgender policy conflict pp. 679-703

Allegra H. Fullerton

Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado pp. 705-731

Emma Scheetz, Tanya Heikkila, Carrie Makarewicz and Robert Hobbins

Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design pp. 733-752

Steffen Hurka, Stefanie Rueß, Mike Cowburn and Constantin Kaplaner

How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union pp. 753-772

Stephan Huber, Nihit Goyal, Thomas Hoppe and Tamara Metze

Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty pp. 773-793

Jie Liu

Assessing the substantive outputs of deliberative minipublics: a categorical framework for policy recommendations pp. 795-817

Magni Szymaniak-Arnesen and Adela Gąsiorowska

How should policy actors respond to buzzwords? Three ways to deal with policy ambiguity pp. 819-834

Liz Richardson, Catherine Durose, Paul Cairney and John Boswell

A value-centered approach to developing grand strategy for human-wildlife coexistence pp. 835-858

Yufang Gao and Susan G. Clark

Volume 58, issue 3, 2025

Investigating policy coherence through policy strategies: a comparative analysis of Nordic gambling policies pp. 425-447

Charlie F. Thompson, Jani Selin and Jenny Cisneros Örnberg

(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation pp. 449-468

Nynke van Uffelen, Nihit Goyal and Amanda Martinez-Reyes

Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences pp. 469-506

Marlene Kammerer, Jack Baker, Lukas Paul Fesenfeld, Maiken Maier, Simon Montfort and Karin Ingold

How exclusion structures policy conflict in collaborative governance pp. 507-529

Jan Boon and Eva Wolf

Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds pp. 531-562

Graham Ambrose and Mark T. Imperial

Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024 pp. 563-580

Yoonsoo Kim and Inhwan Ko

Policy innovation from local governments in the Global South: the case of Popular Pharmacy in Chile pp. 581-600

Cecilia Osorio Gonnet, Antoine Maillet and Rodrigo Aynol Gallardo

Political emotions: a new policy science for tackling the climate crisis pp. 601-617

Anna Durnova, Till Hilmar, Sonja Blum, Ondřej Císař, Maarten Hajer and Michal Kolmaš

Why perfect policy coherence is unattainable (and may be ill-advised) pp. 619-642

Paul Cairney

Volume 58, issue 2, 2025

Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy pp. 221-244

Kate Mattocks

The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming pp. 245-266

Ringa Raudla, Külli Sarapuu, Johanna Vallistu, Kerli Onno and Nastassia Harbuzova

Peak policy lab or chasing windmills? The overlooked issue of misaligned policy design pp. 267-286

Adam Wellstead, Sarah Giest, Ishani Mukherjee, Anat Gofen and Bryan Evans

Reactions to policy action: socio-political conditions of backlash to climate change policy pp. 287-320

James Patterson, Ksenia Anisimova, Jasmin Logg-Scarvell and Cille Kaiser

Mini-publics and policy impact analysis: filtration in the citizens’ assembly on social care pp. 321-343

Lynne Poole and Stephen Elstub

Digital government construction and civic policy participation: evidence from China pp. 345-367

Shouzhi Xia

The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking pp. 369-384

Sarah Giest

Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies pp. 385-401

Raul P. Lejano and Wing Shan Kan

Towards a theory of policy bubbles pp. 403-424

Moshe Maor

Volume 58, issue 1, 2025

Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process pp. 3-26

Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold, Evangelia Petridou and Christopher M. Weible

Breaking away from family control? Collaboration among political organisations and social media endorsement among their constituents pp. 27-43

Paul M. Wagner, Arttu Malkamäki and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila

Policy integration in urban policies as multi-level policy mixes pp. 45-67

María José Dorado-Rubín, María José Guerrero-Mayo and Clemente Jesús Navarro-Yáñez

Making the eyes of the state: algorithmic alienation and mundane creativity in Peruvian street-level bureaucrats pp. 69-86

Diego Cerna-Aragon and Luis García

Analyzing industrial policy portfolios pp. 87-109

Carmen Heinrich, Christoph Knill and Yves Steinebach

Understanding EU forest policy governance through a cultural theory lens pp. 111-144

Jeanne-Lazya Roux, Helga Pülzl, Metodi Sotirov and Georg Winkel

Environmental taxation triggers persistent psychological resistance to climate policy pp. 145-159

Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, Boaz Hameiri, Leah Bloy and Ram Fishman

Correction to: Environmental taxation triggers persistent psychological resistance to climate policy pp. 161-161

Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, Boaz Hameiri, Leah Bloy and Ram Fishman

Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle: morality policy framing in Canadian Parliament pp. 163-178

Noah S. Schwartz

Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes pp. 179-188

Kai Ruggeri

Navigating the streams of power: applying the multiple streams framework in China’s authoritarian regime pp. 189-219

Yangchen Wu and Xun Wu