Policy Sciences

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Volume 54, issue 4, 2021

Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis pp. 707-728

Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein, Benjamin Cashore and Kelly Levin

Trade-offs versus reassurance: framing competing risks in the 2016 Zika outbreak pp. 729-747

Lejla Dervisevic, Leigh Raymond, Linda J. Pfeiffer and Jessica V. Merzdorf

Narratives in power and policy design: the case of border management and external migration controls in Italy pp. 749-781

Andrea Terlizzi

Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process pp. 783-821

Simon Schaub

Reap what you sow: implementing agencies as strategic actors in policy feedback dynamics pp. 823-848

Daniel Polman and Gerry Alons

Do think tanks generate media attention on issues they care about? Mediating internal expertise and prevailing governmental agendas pp. 849-866

Max Grömping and Darren R. Halpin

Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity pp. 867-889

Catherine Althaus, Lisa Carson and Ken Smith

Policy experimentation and policy learning in Canadian cultural policy pp. 891-909

Kate Mattocks

Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management pp. 911-941

Thomas Bolognesi, Florence Metz and Stéphane Nahrath

Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors pp. 943-983

Liliane Manny, Mert Duygan, Manuel Fischer and Jörg Rieckermann

Volume 54, issue 3, 2021

Inaction, under-reaction action and incapacity: communication breakdown in Italy’s vaccination governance pp. 457-475

Katie Attwell, Tauel Harper, Marco Rizzi, Jeannette Taylor, Virginia Casigliani, Filippo Quattrone and PierLuigi Lopalco

Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design pp. 477-491

Marc Debus and Jale Tosun

Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats pp. 493-506

Pieter Vanhuysse, Michael Jankowski and Markus Tepe

Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance pp. 507-528

Ekaterina Domorenok and Anthony R. Zito

Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation pp. 529-556

Antti Gronow, Maria Brockhaus, Monica Di Gregorio, Aasa Karimo and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila

Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil pp. 557-578

Carolina Milhorance, Jean-François Le Coq and Eric Sabourin

Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy pp. 579-607

Kasper Ampe, Erik Paredis, Lotte Asveld, Patricia Osseweijer and Thomas Block

When multiple streams make a river: analyzing collaborative policymaking institutions using the multiple streams framework pp. 609-628

Elizabeth A. Koebele

The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning pp. 629-662

Marijn T. Geet, Stefan Verweij, Tim Busscher and Jos Arts

Do governments delay the implementation of parliamentary requests? Examining time variation in implementing legislative requests in Switzerland pp. 663-690

Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Dominique Oehrli and Adrian Vatter

Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics pp. 691-706

Carsten Daugbjerg and Allan McConnell

Volume 54, issue 2, 2021

Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review pp. 243-268

Ishani Mukherjee, M. Kerem Coban and Azad Singh Bali

Uncertainty, risk and the use of algorithms in policy decisions: a case study on criminal justice in the USA pp. 269-287

Kathrin Hartmann and Georg Wenzelburger

Chameleonic knowledge: a study of ex ante analysis in large infrastructure policy processes pp. 289-312

Lars Dorren and Wouter Dooren

A friction perspective for negotiating renewable energy targets: the Israeli case pp. 313-344

Omri Carmon and Itay Fischhendler

Coping with intelligence deficits in poverty-alleviation policies in low-income countries pp. 345-370

William Ascher

Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape pp. 371-395

Ola G. El-Taliawi, Sreeja Nair and Zeger Wal

Why does the combination of policy entrepreneur and institutional entrepreneur roles matter for the institutionalization of policy ideas? pp. 397-422

Caner Bakir, Sinan Akgunay and Kerem Coban

Privatization of Canadian housing assistance: how bureaucrats on a budget added market-based progams to the toolbox pp. 423-440

Maroine Bendaoud

Autonomy of policy instrument attitudes: concept, theory and evidence pp. 441-455

Arnošt Veselý

Volume 54, issue 1, 2021

Risk regulation and precaution in Europe and the United States: the case of bioinvasion pp. 3-20

Ronit Justo-Hanani and Tamar Dayan

Understanding public blame attributions when private contractors are responsible for civilian casualties pp. 21-40

Mark D. Ramirez

How to blame and make a difference: perceived responsibility and policy consequences in two Swedish pro-migrant campaigns pp. 41-62

Livia Johannesson and Noomi Weinryb

Immediate rewards or delayed gratification? A conjoint survey experiment of the public’s policy preferences pp. 63-94

Henrik Serup Christensen and Lauri Rapeli

Spillover effects of central cities on sustainability efforts in a metropolitan area pp. 95-121

Hyunjung Ji and Mark Patrick Tate

Why public organizations contribute to crosscutting policy programs: the role of structure, culture, and ministerial control pp. 123-154

Astrid Molenveld, Koen Verhoest and Jan Wynen

Classifying public policies with Moral Foundations Theory pp. 155-182

Dane G. Wendell and Raymond Tatalovich

Assessing the integration of cross-sectoral policy issues: a case study of Canada’s approach to Countering Radicalization to Violence pp. 183-208

Patrick J. O’Halloran

Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in the context of South Africa’s biodiversity economy pp. 209-237

Jan Janosch Förster, Linda Downsborough, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger, Girma Kelboro Mensuro and Jan Börner

Correction to: Why public organizations contribute to crosscutting policy programs: the role of structure, culture, and ministerial control pp. 239-242

Astrid Molenveld, Koen Verhoest and Jan Wynen

Volume 53, issue 4, 2020

Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis pp. 589-608

Allan McConnell, Liam Grealy and Tess Lea

Local adaptation policy responses to extreme weather events pp. 609-636

Leanne Giordono, Hilary Boudet and Alexander Gard-Murray

Stakeholder framing, communicative interaction, and policy legitimacy: anti-smoking policy in South Korea pp. 637-665

Chisung Park and Jooha Lee

Explaining the political use of evaluation in international organizations pp. 667-695

Steffen Eckhard and Vytautas Jankauskas

Building ‘implicit partnerships’? Financial long-term care entitlements in Europe pp. 697-712

Joan Costa-Font and Valentina Zigante

The end–means nexus and policy conversion: evidence from two cases in Israeli immigrant integration policy pp. 713-733

Ilana Shpaizman

Fighting fake news in the COVID-19 era: policy insights from an equilibrium model pp. 735-758

Kris Hartley and Minh Khuong Vu

Sustainable development goals and media framing: an analysis of road safety governance in Bangladeshi newspapers pp. 759-777

Arjuman Naziz

Reframe policymaking dysfunction through bipartisan-inclusion leadership pp. 779-802

John W. Straka and Brenda C. Straka

Volume 53, issue 3, 2020

IN MEMORIUM—Peter DeLeon (1943–2020) “Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: The Sagacity of Peter deLeon’s Policy Sciences” pp. 389-394

Christopher M. Weible

Policy over- and under-design: an information quality perspective pp. 395-411

Moshe Maor

Contingency factors explaining policy adoption: body-worn camera policy across US states pp. 413-435

Sunyoung Pyo

The promises and pitfalls of polysemic ideas: ‘One Health’ and antimicrobial resistance policy in Australia and the UK pp. 437-452

Adam Hannah and Erik Baekkeskov

Beliefs, social identity, and the view of opponents in Swedish carnivore management policy pp. 453-472

Jens Nilsson, Annica Sandström and Daniel Nohrstedt

Conceptualizing consultation approaches: identifying combinations of consultation tools and analyzing their implications for stakeholder diversity pp. 473-493

Bert Fraussen, Adrià Albareda and Caelesta Braun

Linking throughput and output legitimacy in Swiss forest policy implementation pp. 495-533

Eva Lieberherr and Eva Thomann

What, when and where of petitions submitted to the UK government during a time of chaos pp. 535-557

Bertie Vidgen and Taha Yasseri

‘For good measure’: data gaps in a big data world pp. 559-569

Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels

Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies pp. 571-588

Anna P. Durnová and Christopher M. Weible

Volume 53, issue 2, 2020

COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives pp. 225-241

Christopher M. Weible, Daniel Nohrstedt, Paul Cairney, David P. Carter, Deserai A. Crow, Anna P. Durnová, Tanya Heikkila, Karin Ingold, Allan McConnell and Diane Stone

Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change pp. 243-252

Sebastian Sewerin, Daniel Béland and Benjamin Cashore

Policy feedback and pathways: when change leads to endurance and continuity to change pp. 253-268

Carsten Daugbjerg and Adrian Kay

Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act pp. 269-289

Daniel Béland, Michael Howlett, Philip Rocco and Alex Waddan

Disaggregating the dependent variable in policy feedback research: an analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System pp. 291-307

Brendan Moore and Andrew Jordan

The role of actors in the policy design process: introducing design coalitions to explain policy output pp. 309-347

Leonore Haelg, Sebastian Sewerin and Tobias S. Schmidt

Mixed feedback dynamics and the USA renewable fuel standard: the roles of policy design and administrative agency pp. 349-369

Grace Skogstad

Reimagining instrument constituencies: the case of conservation policy in Mexico pp. 371-388

Erin C. Pischke and Adam M. Wellstead

Volume 53, issue 1, 2020

Experts and evidence in deliberation: scrutinising the role of witnesses and evidence in mini-publics, a case study pp. 3-32

Jennifer J. Roberts, Ruth Lightbody, Ragne Low and Stephen Elstub

The emotional dimensions of reason-giving in deliberative forums pp. 33-59

Rousiley C. M. Maia and Gabriella Hauber

Mechanisms for policy (dis)integration: explaining food policy and climate change adaptation policy in the Netherlands pp. 61-84

Robbert Biesbroek and Jeroen J. L. Candel

Paradigmatic policy change or unintended subordination of rural autonomy: the case of source water protection in Ontario, Canada pp. 85-100

Matthew Retallack

The institutional structuring of innovation policy coordination: theory and evidence from East Asia pp. 101-138

Xiaoke Zhang

Reclaiming constructivism: towards an interpretive reading of the ‘Social Construction Framework’ pp. 139-160

Marlon Barbehön

Policy processes sans frontières: interactions in transnational governance of global health pp. 161-180

Catherine M. Jones, Carole Clavier and Louise Potvin

How platforms facilitate collaboration across organizational boundaries: fighting human trafficking in Sweden pp. 181-203

Josefina Erikson and Oscar L. Larsson

Taking the multiple streams framework for a walk in Latin America pp. 205-221

Diego Sanjurjo

Correction to: The emotional dimensions of reason‑giving in deliberative forums pp. 223-223

Rousiley C. M. Maia and Gabriella Hauber