Policy and Society

2021 - 2024

Current editor(s): Daniel Béland, Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh

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Volume 41, issue 4, 2022

Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures (The ethics of a formula: Calculating a financial-humanitarian price for water) pp. 431-444

Marlee Tichenor, Sally E Merry, Sotiria Grek and Justyna Bandola-Gill

The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics (The Learning Metrics Task Force 2.0: Taking the Global Dialogues on Measuring Learning to the Country Level) pp. 445-457

Sotiria Grek

Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO (The analysis of sustainability indicators as socially constructed policy instruments: Benefits and challenges of ‘interactive research’) pp. 458-470

John Berten

Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies (Assessing national progress and priorities for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Experience from Australia) pp. 471-485

Johannes M Waldmüller, Mandy Yap and Krushil Watene

Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda (Participation, citizenship and a feminist ethic of care) pp. 486-497

Isabel Rocha de Siqueira and Laís Ramalho

Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators (The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance) pp. 498-512

Justyna Bandola-Gill

Hybrid knowledge production and evaluation at the World Bank (The challenge of managing boundary-spanning research activities: Experiences from the Swedish context) pp. 513-527

Kate Williams

When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness (Governing the world at a distance: The practice of global benchmarking) pp. 528-540

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures (The millennium development goals: A critique from the south) pp. 541-554

Marlee Tichenor

Volume 41, issue 3, 2022

The policy dilemmas of blockchain (Blockchain technology and decentralized governance: Is the state still necessary?) pp. 321-327

Judith Clifton and Leslie A Pal

The use of blockchain by international organizations: effectiveness and legitimacy (The governance of blockchain dispute resolution) pp. 328-342

Georgios Dimitropoulos

Explaining public officials’ opinions on blockchain adoption: a vignette experiment (Robots and jobs: Evidence from US labor markets) pp. 343-357

Diego Cagigas, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez, Juan Echevarría-Cuenca and Celia Gilsanz-Gómez

The alegality of blockchain technology (El Salvador becomes first nation to bitcoin legal tender) pp. 358-372

Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan and Wessel Reijers

Blockchain tools for socio-economic interactions in local communities (Blockchain-based smart contracts: A systematic mapping study) pp. 373-385

Cristina Viano, Sowelu Avanzo, Monica Cerutti, Alex Cordero, Claudio Schifanella and Guido Boella

Blockchain-based application at a governmental level: disruption or illusion? The case of Estonia (A systematic analysis of applications of blockchain in healthcare) pp. 386-401

Silvia Semenzin, David Rozas and Samer Hassan

Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities (Advancing E-governance for development: Digital identification and its link to socioeconomic inclusion) pp. 402-413

Rachel Benchaya Gans, Jolien Ubacht and Marijn Janssen

Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector (Machine Bias) pp. 414-429

Balázs Bodó and Heleen Janssen

Volume 41, issue 2, 2022

COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design (The impact of COVID-19 on gender equality) pp. 187-198

Daniel Béland, Alex Jingwei He and M Ramesh

Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic (Excess all-cause mortality and COVID-19-related mortality: A temporal analysis in 22 countries, from January until August 2020) pp. 199-216

Bishoy Louis Zaki, Francesco Nicoli, Ellen Wayenberg and Bram Verschuere

“Provide our basic needs or we go out”: the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, inequality, and social policy in Ghana (Easing of lockdown a relief to Ghana’s poor—despite fears it is premature) pp. 217-230

Rosina K Foli and Frank L K Ohemeng

Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19 (Pandemic politics: Timing state-level social distancing responses to COVID-19) pp. 231-246

Jamila Michener

Covid (in)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK (Punctuated equilibrium in comparative perspective) pp. 247-259

Nick Ellison, Paula Blomqvist and Timo Fleckenstein

From “new social risks” to “COVID social risks”: the challenges for inclusive society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan amid the pandemic (Asian development outlook 2021 update) pp. 260-274

Young Jun Choi, Stefan Kühner and Shih-Jiunn Shi

COVID-19 and social inequality in China: the local–migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic (Impact of risk perception on migrant workers’ employment choice during the COVID-19 epidemic) pp. 275-290

Alex Jingwei He, Chunni Zhang and Jiwei Qian

COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States (Early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household finances in Quebec) pp. 291-305

Daniel Béland, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco and Alex Waddan

Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analyzing un-coordinated responses in social assistance and education (Combate à COVID-19 sob o federalismo bolsonarista: Um caso de descoordenação intergovernamental) pp. 306-320

Catarina Ianni Segatto, Fernando Burgos Pimentel dos Santos, Renata Mirandola Bichir and Eliana Lins Morandi

Volume 41, issue 1, 2022

Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state (Racial, economic, and health inequality and COVID-19 infection in the United States) pp. 1-12

Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, Darryl S L Jarvis and M Ramesh

From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways (Institutional crises and reforms in policy sectors: The case of asylum policy in Europe) pp. 13-24

Arjen Boin and Paul ‘t Hart

What has happened and what has not happened due to the coronavirus disease pandemic: a systemic perspective on policy change (Punctuated equilibrium in comparative perspective) pp. 25-39

Christoph Knill and Yves Steinebach

Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator (Punctuating the equilibrium: An application of policy theory to COVID-19) pp. 40-52

John Hogan, Michael Howlett and Mary Murphy

Policy integration, problem-solving, and the coronavirus disease crisis: lessons for policy design (Neglected challenges to evidence-based policy-making: The problem of policy accumulation) pp. 53-67

Martino Maggetti and Philipp Trein

The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy (Racial, economic, and health inequality and COVID-19 infection in the United States) pp. 68-82

Usman Chohan

Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory (Health care reform in Germany: Patchwork change within established governance structures) pp. 83-95

Azad Singh Bali, Alex Jingwei He and M Ramesh

COVID-19 and welfare state support: the case of universal basic income (Attitudinal polarization towards the redistributive role of the state in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis) pp. 96-110

David Weisstanner

Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe (How did the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic affect teacher wellbeing?) pp. 111-128

Adrián Zancajo, Antoni Verger and Pedro Bolea

COVID-19, policy change, and post-pandemic data governance: a case analysis of contact tracing applications in East Asia (A survey of COVID-19 contact tracing apps) pp. 129-142

Veronica Q T Li, Liang Ma and Xun Wu

COVID-19 as a policy window: policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women (The pandemic paradox: The consequences of COVID-19 on domestic violence) pp. 143-154

Michael Mintrom and Jacqui True

“New normal” at work in a post-COVID world: work–life balance and labor markets (An employee-focused human resource management perspective for the management of global virtual teams) pp. 155-167

Lina Vyas

COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation in policy action for older persons? Evidence from Asia (International remittance flows and the economic and social consequences of COVID-19) pp. 168-186

Stuart Gietel-Basten, Kira Matus and Rintaro Mori

Volume 40, issue 4, 2021

The demand for IPEand public policy in the governance of global policy design (The emerging regional architecture of world politics) pp. 449-466

Richard Higgott, J J Woo and Tim Legrand

Horses for courses. The roles of IPE and Global Public Policy in global energy research (The profits of power: Commerce and realpolitik in Eurasia) pp. 467-483

Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter

Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy? (Review article: What is policy convergence and what causes it?) pp. 484-501

Tim Legrand and Diane Stone

Bridging international political economy and public policy and administration research on central banking (The missing politics of central banks) pp. 502-521

Mustafa Yagci and Caner Bakir

Globalisation and public policy: bridging the disciplinary and epistemological boundaries (Which synthesis? Strategies of theoretical integration and the neorealist-neoliberal debate) pp. 522-544

Iftikhar Lodhi

Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making (The path of development for underdeveloped countries and marxism speech) pp. 545-564

Logan Cochrane and Samuel O Oloruntoba

Securing cross-border collaboration: transgovernmental enforcement networks, organized crime and illicit international political economy (A tale of two borders: The US-Canada and US-Mexico lines after 9-11) pp. 565-586

Tim Legrand and Christian Leuprecht

Volume 40, issue 3, 2021

Procedural policy tools in theory and practice (The stick, the carrot, and other strategies: A theoretical analysis of governmental intervention) pp. 295-311

Azad Singh Bali, Michael Howlett, Jenny M Lewis and M Ramesh

Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective (Introducing vertical policy coordination to comparative policy analysis: The missing link between policy production and implementation) pp. 312-332

Ishani Mukherjee

Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands (Mayflies and old bulls: Organization persistence in state interest communities) pp. 333-344

Azad Bali and Darren Halpin

Public inquiries as procedural policy tools (Policy tools theory and implementation networks: understanding state enterprise zone partnerships) pp. 345-361

Alastair Stark and Sophie Yates

Procedural tools and pension reform in the long run: the case of Sweden (The new politics of the welfare state? A case study of extra-parliamentary party politics in Norway) pp. 362-378

Adam Hannah

Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study (Creating the Conditions for Radical Public Service Innovation) pp. 379-396

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Roberto Vivona

Are policy tools and governance modes coupled? Analysing welfare-to-work reform at the frontline (Radical reform in New Zealand: Crisis, windows of opportunity, and rational actors) pp. 397-413

Jenny M Lewis, Phuc Nguyen and Mark Considine

The power of procedural policy tools at the local level: Australian local governments contributing to policy change for major projects (Two councils use more than $100k of ratepayers cash to fund Link battle) pp. 414-430

Sarah de Vries

Metagovernance of migration policy in the Asia Pacific region: an analysis of policy tools (Metagovernance and nuclear power in Europe) pp. 431-447

Paul Fawcett

Volume 40, issue 2, 2021

Governance of artificial intelligence (Application of artificial intelligence for development of intelligent transport system in smart cities) pp. 137-157

Araz Taeihagh

Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy (The next space race is Artificial Intelligence) pp. 158-177

Inga Ulnicane, William Knight, Tonii Leach, Bernd Carsten Stahl and Winter-Gladys Wanjiku

Steering the governance of artificial intelligence: national strategies in perspective (AI ethics guidelines inventory) pp. 178-193

Roxana Radu

What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency (The wrong kind of AI? Artificial intelligence and the future of labour demand) pp. 194-210

Carl Gahnberg

Governing the adoption of robotics and autonomous systems in long-term care in Singapore (Scoping review on the use of socially assistive robot technology in elderly care) pp. 211-231

Si Ying Tan and Araz Taeihagh

Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand (A regulatory approach for the Australian Charities and Not‐ for‐profit Commission: A discussion paper. Canberra: Regulatory institutions network occasional papers series) pp. 232-249

Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Nicole Carey and Gemma Carey

Law and tech collide: foreseeability, reasonableness and advanced driver assistance systems (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS): A consideration of driver perceptions on training, usage & implementation) pp. 250-271

Tania Leiman

Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms (Theorizing regulatory intermediaries) pp. 272-293

Fabiana Di Porto and Marialuisa Zuppetta

Volume 40, issue 1, 2021

Introduction: policy integration and institutional capacity: theoretical, conceptual and empirical challenges (Toward a processual understanding of policy integration) pp. 1-18

Ekaterina Domorenok, Paolo Graziano and Laura Polverari

Presidential leadership styles and institutional capacity for climate policy integration in the European Commission (Climate policy integration: A case of déjà vu?) pp. 19-36

Katharina Rietig and Claire Dupont

Pulling things together: regional policy coordination approaches and drivers in Europe (PiS wchodzi w buty marszałków. Cel? Miliony z funduszy europejskich) pp. 37-57

Martin Ferry

Policy integration, policy design and administrative capacities. Evidence from EU cohesion policy (Joined-up Government in the Western World in comparative perspective: A preliminary literature review and exploration) pp. 58-78

Ekaterina Domorenok, Paolo Graziano and Laura Polverari

More is less: Partisan ideology, changes of government, and policy integration reforms in the UK (Neglected Challenges to Evidence-Based Policy-Making: The Problem of Policy Accumulation) pp. 79-98

Martino Maggetti and Philipp Trein

Policy and political consequences of mandatory climate impact assessments: an explorative study of German cities and municipalities (Proceeding in parallel or drifting apart? A systematic review of policy appraisal research and practices) pp. 99-115

Benedikt Rilling and Jale Tosun

When opportunity backfires: exploring the implementation of urban climate governance alternatives in three major US cities (Are LEED-Certified Buildings Energy-Efficient in Practice?) pp. 116-135

Jeroen van der Heijden