Policy Sciences

1987 - 2026

Current editor(s): Michael Howlett

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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

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