Policy Sciences

1987 - 2025

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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

Volume 51, issue 4, 2018

Politicians, professionalization and anti-politics: why we want leaders who act like professionals but are paid like amateurs pp. 411-432

Paul Fawcett and Jack Corbett

“Donate your organs, donate life!” Explicitness in policy instruments pp. 433-456

Eva Thomann

Networks and problem recognition: advancing the Multiple Streams Approach pp. 457-476

Louise Reardon

What drives the adoption of climate change mitigation policy? A dynamic network approach to policy diffusion pp. 477-513

Marlene Kammerer and Chandreyee Namhata

Trade-based adoption of voluntary environmental programs in the developing world: Racing to the top or stuck in the mud? pp. 515-543

Jonas Gamso

The discursive micro-politics of blame avoidance: unpacking the language of government blame games pp. 545-564

Sten Hansson

Expanding the scope and content of morality policy research: lessons from Moral Foundations Theory pp. 565-579

Raymond Tatalovich and Dane G. Wendell

Policy-making and truthiness: Can existing policy models cope with politicized evidence and willful ignorance in a “post-fact” world? pp. 581-600

Anthony Perl, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh

Volume 51, issue 3, 2018

The rise of public sector innovation labs: experiments in design thinking for policy pp. 249-267

Michael McGann, Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis

Neglected challenges to evidence-based policy-making: the problem of policy accumulation pp. 269-290

Christian Adam, Yves Steinebach and Christoph Knill

Economic knowledge and the scientization of policy advice pp. 291-311

Johan Christensen

Between morality and rationality: framing end-of-life care policy through narratives pp. 313-334

Nathalie Burlone and Rebecca Grace Richmond

Learning our way out of environmental policy problems: a review of the scholarship pp. 335-371

Andrea K. Gerlak, Tanya Heikkila, Sharon L. Smolinski, Dave Huitema and Derek Armitage

Aristotelian framing: logos, ethos, pathos and the use of evidence in policy frames pp. 373-385

Iris Stucki and Fritz Sager

The behavioural state: critical observations on technocracy and psychocracy pp. 387-410

Joram Nanne Pieter Feitsma

Volume 51, issue 2, 2018

Policy experimentation: core concepts, political dynamics, governance and impacts pp. 143-159

Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Stefania Munaretto and Mikael Hildén

Experimentation at the interface of science and policy: a multi-case analysis of how policy experiments influence political decision-makers pp. 161-187

Belinda McFadgen and Dave Huitema

The politics of decarbonization and the catalytic impact of subnational climate experiments pp. 189-211

Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann

A novel understanding of experimentation in governance: co-producing innovations between “lab” and “field” pp. 213-229

Jan-Peter Voß and Arno Simons

“Pioneers but not guinea pigs”: experimenting with climate change adaptation in French coastal areas pp. 231-247

Nicolas Rocle and Denis Salles

Volume 51, issue 1, 2018

Theories of policy change and variation reconsidered: a prospectus for the political economy of public policy pp. 1-16

Peter John

Assessing disproportionality: indexes of policy responses to the 2007–2008 banking crisis pp. 17-38

Fabrizio De Francesco and Martino Maggetti

Low-level bureaucrats, local government regimes and policy entrepreneurship pp. 39-57

Neomi Frisch-Aviram, Nissim Cohen and Itai Beeri

Issue definition and conflict expansion: the role of risk to human health as an issue definition strategy in an environmental conflict pp. 59-76

Adam Thorn

Bridging policy and science action boundaries: information influences on US congressional legislative key staff decision making in natural resources pp. 77-96

Timothy R. Petty, John B. Gongwer and William Schnabel

Canadian resource governance against territories: resource regimes and local conflicts in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence provinces pp. 97-115

Amélie Dumarcher and Yann Fournis

Creating comity amidst gridlock: a corporatist repair for a broken congress pp. 117-130

Stuart Kasdin

“Technocracy,” democracy … and corruption and trust pp. 131-139

Phil Ryan