Policy Sciences

1987 - 2026

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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

Volume 52, issue 4, 2019

Regulation and regime: the comparative politics of adaptive regulation in synthetic biology pp. 505-524

Scott L. Greer and Benjamin Trump

Cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture in Kenya pp. 525-547

Marijn Faling and Robbert Biesbroek

The impact of stakeholder engagement on local policy decision making pp. 549-571

Le Anh Nguyen Long, Megan Foster and Gwen Arnold

From path dependence to policy mixes for Nordic electric mobility: Lessons for accelerating future transport transitions pp. 573-600

Kirsi Kotilainen, Pami Aalto, Jussi Valta, Antti Rautiainen, Matti Kojo and Benjamin K. Sovacool

What drives the governance of ridesharing? A fuzzy-set QCA of local regulations in China pp. 601-624

Yanwei Li and Liang Ma

Evaluations as a decent knowledge base? Describing and explaining the quality of the European Commission’s ex-post legislative evaluations pp. 625-644

Stijn Voorst and Ellen Mastenbroek

Inaction and public policy: understanding why policymakers ‘do nothing’ pp. 645-661

Allan McConnell and Paul ’t Hart

Volume 52, issue 3, 2019

How do different sources of policy analysis affect policy preferences? Experimental evidence from the United States pp. 315-342

Grant Jacobsen

Strangers at the gate: the role of multidimensional ideas, policy anomalies and institutional gatekeepers in biofuel policy developments in the USA and European Union pp. 343-366

Grace Skogstad and Matt Wilder

Wars, presidents, and punctuated equilibriums in US defense spending pp. 367-396

Travis Sharp

Policy learning and the public inquiry pp. 397-417

Alastair Stark

Governance as multiplicity: the Assemblage Thinking perspective pp. 419-450

Helen Briassoulis

Defining subnational open government: does local context influence policy and practice? pp. 451-479

M. Chatwin, G. Arku and E. Cleave

When citizen deliberation enters real politics: how politicians and stakeholders envision the place of a deliberative mini-public in political decision-making pp. 481-503

Christoph Niessen

Volume 52, issue 2, 2019

Framing morality policy issues: state legislative debates on abortion restrictions pp. 171-189

Gary Mucciaroni, Kathleen Ferraiolo and Meghan E. Rubado

Advisory bodies and morality policies: does ethical expertise matter? pp. 191-210

Nathalie Schiffino and Kristian Krieger

Social identities in the policy process pp. 211-231

Johanna Hornung, Nils C. Bandelow and Colette S. Vogeler

The governance of self-organization: Which governance strategy do policy officials and citizens prefer? pp. 233-253

José Nederhand, Erik-Hans Klijn, Martijn Steen and Mark Twist

Governing by contract as a way to reduce crime? An impact evaluation of the large-scale policy of security pacts pp. 255-279

Marco Calaresu and Moris Triventi

Towards productive functions? A systematic review of institutional failure, its causes and consequences pp. 281-298

Pim Derwort, Nicolas Jager and Jens Newig

Beyond evidence versus truthiness: toward a symmetrical approach to knowledge and ignorance in policy studies pp. 299-314

Katharina T. Paul and Christian Haddad

Volume 52, issue 1, 2019

Utilizing Ostrom’s institutional analysis and development framework toward an understanding of crisis-driven policy pp. 3-20

Peter Z. Grossman

From Three Mile Island to Fukushima: the impact of analogy on attitudes toward nuclear power pp. 21-42

Jessica E. Boscarino

Going beyond technocratic and democratic principles: stakeholder acceptance of instruments in Swiss energy policy pp. 43-65

Lorenz Kammermann and Karin Ingold

The Science–Policy Relationship Hierarchy (SPRHi) model of co-production: how climate science organizations have influenced the policy process in Canadian case studies pp. 67-95

Garrett Ward Richards

Connecting models of the individual and policy change processes: a research agenda pp. 97-118

Heather Millar, Matthew Lesch and Linda A. White

Multilevel policy implementation and the where of learning: the case of the information system for school buildings in Italy pp. 119-135

Marco Giulio and Giancarlo Vecchi

Listening in polarised controversies: a study of listening practices in the public sphere pp. 137-151

Carolyn M. Hendriks, Selen A. Ercan and Sonya Duus

Yes, but what about the authority of policy analysts? A commentary and discussion of Perl et al., ‘Policy-making and truthiness: Can existing models cope with politicized evidence and willful ignorance in a post-fact world?’ pp. 153-169

Adam Fforde