Policy Sciences

1987 - 2025

Current editor(s): Michael Howlett

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Society of Policy Sciences
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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

Volume 57, issue 4, 2024

Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies pp. 719-743

Rotem Dvir

Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice pp. 745-760

Michael Mintrom, Philippa Goddard, Lisa Grocott and Shanti Sumartojo

Performing policy conflict: A dramaturgical analysis of public participation in contentious urban planning projects pp. 761-785

Lisa Roeck and Wouter Dooren

Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis pp. 787-822

Pallavi Rachel George and Vishal Gupta

How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends pp. 823-849

Ehud Segal and Frank R. Baumgartner

Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes pp. 851-873

Xiangning Chen and Yahua Wang

A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy pp. 875-900

Rory Hooper, Nihit Goyal, Kornelis Blok and Lisa Scholten

The legacy of Harold D. Lasswell’s commitment to the policy sciences of democracy: observations on Douglas Torgerson’s the policy sciences of Harold Lasswell pp. 901-906

William Ascher

Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell pp. 907-911

Paul Cairney and Christopher M. Weible

On Torgerson’s Lasswells pp. 913-919

James Farr and Nick Dorzweiler

The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell pp. 921-924

Ríán Derrig

Emancipatory policy sciences or interpretative revisionism: some thoughts on Douglas Torgerson’s The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell pp. 925-930

Hengameh Saberi

Harold Lasswell as distinct from his work: the method of immanent critique and its implications pp. 931-947

Douglas Torgerson

Volume 57, issue 3, 2024

Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change pp. 485-517

Johanna Kuenzler, Colette Vogeler, Anne-Marie Parth and Titian Gohl

COVID-19 memorable messages as internal narratives: stability and change over time pp. 519-538

Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Kristin Taylor, Nathan Jeschke, Deserai Crow, Thomas A. Birkland, Elizabeth Koebele, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Sandhya Sangappa, Elizabeth Albright and Honey Minkowitz

Keep me posted, but don’t stress me out: how the positive effect of social networking services on civil servants’ information use and political capacities can be attenuated by social media stress pp. 539-566

Camilla Wanckel

(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany pp. 567-597

Meike Löhr, Jochen Markard and Nils Ohlendorf

The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems pp. 599-620

Anna M. Crawford and Christopher M. Weible

“Please Wait, Your Policy is Important to Us” issue prioritization, the ACF, and Canada’s failed attempts at cannabis decriminalization, 2003–2005 pp. 621-638

B. Timothy Heinmiller

International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay pp. 639-661

Meika Sternkopf

Health system reform and path-dependency: how ideas constrained change in South Africa’s national health insurance policy process pp. 663-690

Eleanor Beth Whyle and Jill Olivier

Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field pp. 691-718

Alejandra Burchard-Levine, Dave Huitema, Nicolas W. Jager and Iris Bijlsma

Volume 57, issue 2, 2024

Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives pp. 221-256

Jennifer Dodge and Tamara Metze

Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries pp. 257-280

Jesper Dahl Kelstrup and Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen

Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria pp. 281-303

Denitsa Marchevska

Bureaucratic biases in trust of expert policy advice: a randomized controlled experiment based on Chinese think tank reports pp. 305-351

Jingjing Zeng and Guihua Huang

The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’ pp. 353-378

Christina Steinbacher

Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act pp. 379-402

Melissa K. Merry and Rodger A. Payne

The soft underbelly of complexity science adoption in policymaking: towards addressing frequently overlooked non-technical challenges pp. 403-436

Darren Nel and Araz Taeihagh

There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work pp. 437-457

Pierre Squevin, Valérie Pattyn, Jens Jungblut and Sonja Blum

Wildfire risk and insurance: research directions for policy scientists pp. 459-484

Matthew R. Auer

Volume 57, issue 1, 2024

Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking pp. 3-28

Andrea Pettrachin and Leila Hadj Abdou

Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia pp. 29-51

Katie Attwell, Adam Hannah, Shevaun Drislane, Tauel Harper, Glenn C. Savage and Jordan Tchilingirian

Designing policies that could work: understanding the interaction between policy design spaces and organizational responses in public sector pp. 53-82

Giliberto Capano and Benedetto Lepori

Low-fidelity policy design, within-design feedback, and the Universal Credit case pp. 83-99

Jonathan Craft and Reut Marciano

How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics pp. 101-124

Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling

Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy pp. 125-144

Camilla Bakken Øvald

Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022) pp. 145-169

Laura Trajber Waisbich

Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty? pp. 171-191

Wouter Lammers, Valérie Pattyn, Sacha Ferrari, Sylvia Wenmackers and Steven Van de Walle

Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis pp. 193-219

Peter Linquiti