Policy and Society

2021 - 2025

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Volume 44, issue 4, 2025

Intermediation in policy and politics: rethinking the architecture and process of governance pp. 405-418

Avri Eitan, David Levi-Faur and Jale Tosun

Unbundling authority: the strategic formalization of regulatory intermediaries in liberal electricity markets pp. 419-442

Jose Maria Valenzuela

Ministers as policy intermediaries in presidential systems: evidence from a conjoint survey experiment pp. 443-457

Don S Lee and Min H Kim

European coordinators as senior policy intermediaries in the implementation of the trans-European transport network pp. 458-473

Paul J Stephenson

Explaining regulatory intermediaries’ compliance through the accountability regimes framework pp. 474-492

Eva Thomann

From active collaborators to source of new regulatory politics: regulatory intermediaries in India pp. 493-509

Aviram Sharma

Environmental impact assessments as a mechanism of regulatory intermediation: the case of Israeli wind energy pp. 510-534

Avri Eitan and David Levi-Faur

Government-affiliated intermediaries in climate policy: managing “productive tensions” between flexibility and control pp. 535-548

Bruno Arcand

Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: exploring the dynamic roles of Indigenous intermediaries in cultural preservation and development pp. 549-567

Laurence L Delina, Lei Shi, Wiwik Dharmiasih, Albert Salamanca and Kim-Pong Tam

The ways that external and internal dynamics influence intermediaries in the climate policy process pp. 568-580

Ciara Kelly, Paul Tobin, Elizabeth Bailes and James Jackson

Volume 44, issue 3, 2025

Management and quality: third-generation research into policy advisory systems pp. 279-290

Michael Howlett, Maria Tullia Galanti, Andrea Migone and Giulia Vicentini

Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system pp. 291-304

Bernadette Connaughton

Kicked cans and poison pills: third generation policy advisory system studies and the management of quality political advice pp. 305-317

Andrea Migone and Michael Howlett

The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems pp. 318-334

Edoardo Esposto and Tiziana Nupieri

Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience pp. 335-349

Johanna Hornung and Philipp Trein

Managing national expert and advisory committees in the Chinese policy advisory system pp. 350-369

Wei Li, Yingshi Chen and Ke Wu

Management and quality of policy advisory systems in Kazakhstan: the case of public and private research organizations pp. 370-384

Assel Mussagulova and Saltanat Janenova

Policy advisory system actors or policy entrepreneurs? An analysis of policy advice quality in Kenyan anticorruption policymaking pp. 385-403

Justa Mwangi

Volume 44, issue 1, 2025

Governance of Generative AI pp. 1-22

Araz Taeihagh

Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI pp. 23-37

Simon Chesterman

Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems pp. 38-51

Marijn Janssen

Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI pp. 52-69

Shaleen Khanal, Hongzhou Zhang and Araz Taeihagh

Governance fix? Power and politics in controversies about governing generative AI pp. 70-84

Inga Ulnicane

When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence pp. 85-97

Brian Judge, Mark Nitzberg and Stuart Russell

When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities pp. 98-115

Federico Cugurullo and Ying Xu

Artificial intelligence, emotional labor, and the quest for sociological and political imagination among low-skilled workers pp. 116-128

Noah Oder and Daniel Béland

Volume 43, issue 4, 2024

A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking pp. 397-413

Justyna Bandola-Gill, Niklas A Andersen, Rhodri Leng, Valérie Pattyn and Katherine E Smith

A world of evidence: the global spread and silent politics of evidence cultures pp. 414-431

Holger Straßheim

Knowing (in) organizations: calculative cultures and paradigmatic learning in the case of the World Bank pp. 432-446

Justyna Bandola-Gill

Comparing evidence use in parliaments: the interplay of beliefs, traditions, and practices in the UK and Germany pp. 447-462

Marc Geddes

Exploring cultures of evidence in energy policymaking in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands pp. 463-478

Will McDowall

Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style pp. 479-493

Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett and Alexander Howlett

Comparing ministerial evidence cultures: a quantitative analysis pp. 494-520

Johan Christensen and Stine Hesstvedt

Variation in evidence use across policy sectors: the case of Brazil pp. 521-555

Kidjie Saguin, João V Guedes-Neto, Pedro Lucas Moura Palotti, Natália Massaco Koga and Flavio Lyrio Carneiro

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking pp. 556-569

William L Allen and Jacqueline Broadhead

Volume 43, issue 3, 2024

Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse pp. 255-288

Daniel S Schiff

Exploring the role of uncertainty, emotions, and scientific discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 289-303

Antoine Lemor and Éric Montpetit

Advocacy coalitions as political organizations pp. 304-316

Daniel Nohrstedt and Tim Heinmiller

Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel pp. 317-333

Jörn Ege, Anat Gofen, Susanne Hadorn, Inbal Hakman, Anna Malandrino, Leroy Ramseier and Fritz Sager

Meeting expectations? Response of policy innovation labs to sustainable development goals pp. 334-350

Esti Hoss-Golan, Anat Gofen and Adam M Wellstead

Policy design for biodiversity: How problem conception drift undermines “fit-for-purpose” Peatland conservation pp. 351-380

Benjamin Cashore, Ishani Mukherjee, Altaf Virani and Lahiru S Wijedasa

Understanding policy integration through an integrative capacity framework pp. 381-395

Joanna Vince, Maree Fudge, Liam Fullbrook and Marcus Haward

Volume 43, issue 2, 2024

Ideational robustness in turbulent times pp. 111-126

Martin B Carstensen, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing

Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing pp. 127-140

Niklas A Andersen and Flemming Larsen

The ideational robustness of bureaucracy pp. 141-158

Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing

How “baked in” ideas hinder ideational robustness: the International Monetary Fund and “fiscal space” pp. 159-172

Ben Clift

Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action: the case of European Union economic governance through a decade of crisis pp. 173-188

Martin B Carstensen and Vivien A Schmidt

Paradigmatic stability, ideational robustness, and policy persistence: exploring the impact of policy ideas on policy-making pp. 189-203

Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett and Alexander Howlett

The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness pp. 204-224

Jean-Louis Denis, Gaëlle Foucault, Pierre Larouche, Catherine Régis, Miriam Cohen and Marie-Andrée Girard

The ideational robustness of liberal democracy in the wake of the pandemic: comparing the Danish and Swedish cases pp. 225-239

Åsa Knaggård and Peter Triantafill

How framing strategies foster robust policy ideas pp. 240-253

Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox

Volume 43, issue 1, 2024

Actors, alterations, and authorities: three observations of global policy and its transnational administration pp. 1-10

Kim Moloney and Tim Legrand

Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions? pp. 11-24

Diane Stone and Anneke Schmider

The rising authority and agency of public–private partnerships in global health governance pp. 25-40

Antoine de Bengy

Pragmatism, partnerships, and persuasion: theorizing philanthropic foundations in the global policy agora pp. 41-53

Janis Petzinger, Tobias Jung and Kevin Orr

NGOs and Global Business Regulation of Transnational Alcohol and Ultra-Processed Food Industries pp. 54-69

Rob Ralston, Belinda Townsend, Liz Arnanz, Fran Baum, Katherine Cullerton, Rodney Holmes, Jane Martin, Jeff Collin and Sharon Friel

Outsourcing authority in global policy: legitimating the anti-money laundering regime through professionalization pp. 70-82

Eleni Tsingou

Accountability enablers? The role of transnational activism in the use of the multilateral development bank grievance mechanisms pp. 83-97

Eda Gunaydin and Susan Park

Policy dissidents: Understanding girl activism as creating “Tactical Crevices” pp. 98-110

Shenila Khoja-Moolji and Mary Ann Chacko