Policy and Society

2021 - 2025

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

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Volume 42, issue 3, 2023

Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice pp. 275-287

Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, Leslie A Pal and M Ramesh

Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms pp. 288-302

Maria Tullia Galanti

Citizensourcing policy advisory systems in a turbulent era pp. 303-318

M. Jae Moon, Seulgi Lee and Seunggyu Park

“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response pp. 319-333

Melissa-Ellen Dowling and Tim Legrand

“State captured” policy advice? Think tanks as expert advisors in the Western Balkans pp. 334-346

Irena Djordjevic and Diane Stone

Speaking good to power: repositioning global policy advice through normative framing pp. 347-358

Leslie A Pal

Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era pp. 359-377

Jing Zhao and Xufeng Zhu

When bargaining is and is not possible: the politics of bureaucratic expertise in the context of democratic backsliding pp. 378-391

Natália Massaco Koga, Ana Paula Karruz, Pedro Lucas de Moura Palotti, Marcos Luiz Vieira Soares Filho and Bruno Gontyjo do Couto

The politics of COVID-19 experts: comparing winners and losers in Italy and the UK pp. 392-405

Paul Cairney and Federico Toth

Knowledge–practice gap in healthcare payments: the role of policy capacity pp. 406-418

Azad Singh Bali and M Ramesh

The vicious circle of policy advisory systems and knowledge regimes in consolidated authoritarian regimes pp. 419-439

Caner Bakir

Volume 42, issue 2, 2023

Governing wickedness in megaprojects: discursive and institutional perspectives pp. 131-147

Giovanni Esposito and Andrea Terlizzi

The development of large public infrastructure projects: integrating policy and project studies models pp. 148-163

Pierre-André Hudon and Serghei Floricel

Nonuse and hypocritical use of strategic narratives in Megaprojects: the case of the Florence high-speed railway pp. 164-183

Fabrizio Coticchia and Marco Di Giulio

Scales of justice. Large dams and water rights in the Tigris–Euphrates basin pp. 184-196

Alessandro Tinti

Comparisons as a discursive tool: shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom pp. 197-211

Natalya Sergeeva and Johan Ninan

Bridging the “consent gap”: mechanisms of legitimization in a cross-border megaproject pp. 212-225

Silvia Lucciarini and Rossana Galdini

The politics of military megaprojects: discursive struggles in Canadian and Australian naval shipbuilding strategies pp. 226-244

Andrea Migone, Alexander Howlett and Michael Howlett

Discourses of growth in megaproject-based urban development: a comparative study of Poland and Finland pp. 245-258

Magdalena Rek-Woźniak

Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation pp. 259-273

Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Felicetti and Andrea Terlizzi

Volume 42, issue 1, 2023

Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening pp. 1-13

Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Stephen Peckham, Gerald Bloom, Nick Turnbull, Vera Schattan Coelho and Jean-Louis Denis

Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries pp. 14-27

David J Hunter and Rafael Bengoa

Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system pp. 28-48

Lewis Husain, Gerald Bloom and Yue Xiao

Cultivating health policy capacity through network governance in New Zealand: learning from divergent stories of policy implementation pp. 49-63

Tim Tenbensel and Pushkar Raj Silwal

Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience pp. 64-89

Jean-Louis Denis, Susan Usher and Johanne Préval

Critical policy capacity factors in the implementation of the community health worker program in India pp. 90-103

Bijoya Roy, Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Stephen Peckham and Maria Pereira Barretos

Political legitimacy and vaccine hesitancy: Disability support workers in Australia pp. 104-116

Helen Dickinson, Anne Kavanagh, Stefanie Dimov, Marissa Shields and Ashley McAllister

Analytical capacity as a critical condition for responding to COVID-19 in Brazil pp. 117-130

Natália Massaco Koga, Pedro Lucas, Pedro Arthur, Bruno Gontyjo do Couto and Marcos Luiz Vieira Soares

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