Policy Sciences

1987 - 2025

Current editor(s): Michael Howlett

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Volume 50, issue 4, 2017

Rescuing the decision process pp. 519-526

Matthew R. Auer

A “review” of policy sciences: bibliometric analysis of authors, references, and topics during 1970–2017 pp. 527-537

Nihit Goyal

The enduring challenge of ‘wicked problems’: revisiting Rittel and Webber pp. 539-547

Kate Crowley and Brian W. Head

Plus ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose? A review of Paul Sabatier’s “An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein” pp. 549-561

Adam Wellstead

On the sustained importance of attitudes toward technological risks and benefits in policy studies pp. 563-572

Jale Tosun

Hajer’s institutional void and legitimacy without polity pp. 573-583

Ching Leong

Policy learning and policy change: learning from research citations pp. 585-597

Caner Bakır

On credit and blame: disentangling the motivations of public policy decision-making behaviour pp. 599-618

Ching Leong and Michael Howlett

The new policy sciences: combining the cognitive science of choice, multiple theories of context, and basic and applied analysis pp. 619-627

Paul Cairney and Christopher M. Weible

Crowdsourcing: a new tool for policy-making? pp. 629-647

Araz Taeihagh

Flexibility in American religious life: an exploration of loyalty and purity pp. 649-673

David M. Elcott and J. Andrew Sinclair

The effects of rules on local political decision-making processes: How can rules facilitate participation? pp. 675-696

Insa Theesfeld, Thomas Dufhues and Gertrud Buchenrieder, neé Schrieder

Strategic use of evidence in state-level policymaking: matching evidence type to legislative stage pp. 697-719

Jennifer E. Mosley and Katherine Gibson

Politics of the precautionary principle: assessing actors’ preferences in water protection policy pp. 721-743

Florence Metz and Karin Ingold

Addressing fragmented government action: coordination, coherence, and integration pp. 745-767

Guillermo M. Cejudo and Cynthia L. Michel

Volume 50, issue 3, 2017

Policy sciences and democracy: a reexamination pp. 339-350

Douglas Torgerson

The epistemic benefits of deliberative democracy pp. 351-366

Robert E. Goodin

Big data for policymaking: fad or fasttrack? pp. 367-382

Sarah Giest

The implications of the emerging disproportionate policy perspective for the new policy design studies pp. 383-398

Moshe Maor

Resilience and robustness in policy design: a critical appraisal pp. 399-426

Giliberto Capano and Jun Jie Woo

The politics of policy adoption: a saga on the difficulties of enacting policy diffusion or transfer across industrialized countries pp. 427-448

Patrik Marier

How policies become contested: a spiral of imagination and evidence in a large infrastructure project pp. 449-468

E. E. A. Wolf and Wouter Van Dooren

The construction of urgency discourse around mega-projects: the Israeli case pp. 469-494

Josef Wijk and Itay Fischhendler

Evaluating irreversible social harms pp. 495-518

A. J. K. Pols and H. A. Romijn

Volume 50, issue 2, 2017

Keeping the faith: policy sciences as the gatekeeper pp. 157-162

William Ascher

Governmentalities without policy capacity pp. 163-178

Gloria Regonini

Unpacking the intensity of policy conflict: a study of Colorado’s oil and gas subsystem pp. 179-193

Tanya Heikkila and Christopher M. Weible

The narrative properties of ideology: the adversarial turn and climate skepticism in the USA pp. 195-215

Raul P. Lejano and Jennifer Dodge

How can interactions among interdependent structures, institutions, and agents inform financial stability? What we have still to learn from global financial crisis pp. 217-239

Caner Bakir

Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth pp. 241-268

Christian Adam, Christoph Knill and Xavier Fernandez-i-Marín

How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices pp. 269-293

Giliberto Capano and Andrea Lippi

Elk management and policy in southern Greater Yellowstone: Assessing the constitutive process pp. 295-316

Susan G. Clark and Marian E. Vernon

Network-centric policy design pp. 317-338

Araz Taeihagh

Volume 50, issue 1, 2017

There at the beginning: we’re still “emerging,” maybe forever pp. 1-7

Garry D. Brewer

Technocracy and democracy as spheres of justice in public policy pp. 9-22

Bruce Gilley

Policy Conflict Framework pp. 23-40

Christopher M. Weible and Tanya Heikkila

Policy advisory systems: change dynamics and sources of variation pp. 41-46

Thurid Hustedt and Sylvia Veit

Assessing 30 years of Westminster policy advisory system experience pp. 47-62

Jonathan Craft and John Halligan

Dynamics in the Dutch policy advisory system: externalization, politicization and the legacy of pillarization pp. 63-84

Caspar F. Berg

Dynamics of change in internal policy advisory systems: the hybridization of advisory capacities in Germany pp. 85-103

Sylvia Veit, Thurid Hustedt and Tobias Bach

Think tanks and strategic policy-making: the contribution of think tanks to policy advisory systems pp. 105-124

Bert Fraussen and Darren Halpin

Quantitative differences in think tank dissemination activities in Germany, Denmark and the UK pp. 125-137

Jesper Dahl Kelstrup

Policy advice as policy work: a conceptual framework for multi-level analysis pp. 139-154

Arnošt Veselý

Volume 49, issue 4, 2016

Policy messes and their management pp. 351-372

Emery Roe

Appeals to evidence for the resolution of wicked problems: the origins and mechanisms of evidentiary bias pp. 373-393

Justin O. Parkhurst

Explaining science-led policy-making: pandemic deaths, epistemic deliberation and ideational trajectories pp. 395-419

Erik Baekkeskov

Do stakeholders analyze their audience? The communication switch and stakeholder personal versus public communication choices pp. 421-444

Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker and James W. Stoutenborough

Thick narratives and the persistence of institutions: using the Q methodology to analyse IWRM reforms around the Yellow River pp. 445-465

Ching Leong and Raul Lejano

Rank-order implications of social construction theory: Does air quality depend on social constructions? pp. 467-488

Sumaia A. Al-Kohlani and Heather E. Campbell

How to build models for government: criteria driving model acceptance in policymaking pp. 489-504

Daniel Antony Kolkman, Paolo Campo, Tina Balke-Visser and Nigel Gilbert

Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy pp. 505-523

Yushim Kim and Stefan Verweij

Volume 49, issue 3, 2016

Identifying mechanisms influencing the emergence and success of innovation within national economies: a realist approach pp. 233-256

Paul Jackson, Jochen Runde, Philip Dobson and Nancy Richter

Mitigating climate change in a federal country committed to the Kyoto Protocol: how Swiss federalism further complicated an already complex challenge pp. 257-279

Juan Casado-Asensio and Reinhard Steurer

Adaptive governance in water reform discourses of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia pp. 281-307

Zachary Bischoff-Mattson and Amanda H. Lynch

Learning to contract in public–private partnerships for road infrastructure: recent experiences in Belgium pp. 309-333

Martijn Hurk

Identifying context and cause in small-N settings: a comparative multilevel analysis pp. 335-348

Eva Thomann and Anita Manatschal

Erratum to: Identifying context and cause in small-N settings: a comparative multilevel analysis pp. 349-350

Eva Thomann and Anita Manatschal

Volume 49, issue 2, 2016

Policy learning in the Eurozone crisis: modes, power and functionality pp. 107-124

Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli

Toward a cognitive theory of shifting coalitions and policy change: linking the advocacy coalition framework and cultural theory pp. 125-154

Metodi Sotirov and Georg Winkel

Linking mini-publics to the deliberative system: a research agenda pp. 173-190

Nicole Curato and Marit Böker

Volume 49, issue 1, 2016

Delphic oracles: ambiguity, institutions, and multiple streams pp. 3-12

Nikolaos Zahariadis

Delphic oracles: ambiguity, institutions, and multiple streams pp. 3-12

Nikolaos Zahariadis

Explaining European agenda-setting using the multiple streams framework: the case of European natural gas regulation pp. 13-33

Nicole Herweg

Do crises lead to policy change? The multiple streams framework and the European Union’s economic governance instruments pp. 35-53

Sabine Saurugger and Fabien Terpan

Do crises lead to policy change? The multiple streams framework and the European Union’s economic governance instruments pp. 35-53

Sabine Saurugger and Fabien Terpan

Interest groups in multiple streams: specifying their involvement in the framework pp. 55-69

Patrycja Rozbicka and Florian Spohr

From controversial policy idea to successful program implementation: the role of the policy entrepreneur, manipulation strategy, program design, institutions and open policy windows in relocating Norwegian central agencies pp. 71-88

Harald Sætren

From controversial policy idea to successful program implementation: the role of the policy entrepreneur, manipulation strategy, program design, institutions and open policy windows in relocating Norwegian central agencies pp. 71-88

Harald Sætren

Multiple streams approach and political parties: modernization of Czech Social Democracy pp. 89-105

Vilém Novotný and Martin Polášek