Policy Studies

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Toby James

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Volume 44, issue 6, 2023

Women in government: the limits and challenges of a representative bureaucracy for Afghanistan (2001–2021) pp. 703-727

Parwiz Mosamim and Jean-Patrick Villeneuve

Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland pp. 728-747

Alexander Matthias Geisler

Blood is thicker than water: local favouritism and inter-local collaborative governance pp. 748-766

Puyao Xing and Hua Xing

Ontological contradictions in the UK’s Universal Credit reforms pp. 767-785

Jack Newman

Tax composition and economic growth in the age of demographic change pp. 786-805

Weijie Luo

Does politicized public service appointment strengthen political control over policy advice? The case of Hong Kong, China pp. 806-831

Wei Li

GDPR and the cloud: examining readability deficiencies in cloud computing providers’ privacy policies pp. 832-854

Lei Gao, C. Kevin Eller and Austin F. Eggers

Editorial board pp. 855-855

The Editors

Volume 44, issue 5, 2023

Intermediating climate change: the evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries” pp. 555-571

Paul Tobin, Fay Madeleine Farstad and Jale Tosun

The architecture of inter-community partnerships in renewable energy: the role of climate intermediaries pp. 572-588

Avri Eitan and Itay Fischhendler

Faith-based actors as climate intermediaries in Scottish climate policy pp. 589-607

Alice Hague and Elizabeth Bomberg

Presidents and intermediaries: insights from clean energy policy processes in Mexico pp. 608-626

Israel Solorio and Jale Tosun

“The religions are engaging: tick, well done”: the invisibilization and instrumentalization of Muslim climate intermediaries pp. 627-645

Paul Tobin, Nafhesa Ali, Sherilyn MacGregor and Zarina Ahmad

Metagoverning through intermediaries: the role of the Norwegian “Klimasats” Fund in translating national climate goals to local implementation pp. 646-665

Fay M. Farstad, Anders Tønnesen, Ingrid Christensen, Bård Sødal Grasbekk and Kristiane Brudevoll

Intermediating sustainable finance: a case study of The Aotearoa Circle's Sustainable Finance Forum pp. 666-686

David Hall and Tongyu (Melody) Meng

Intermediating climate change: conclusions and new research directions pp. 687-701

Jale Tosun, Paul Tobin and Fay Madeleine Farstad

Volume 44, issue 4, 2023

A realistic approach to policy formulation: the adapted EMMIE framework pp. 433-453

Gonzalo Croci, Gloria Laycock and Spencer Chainey

System dynamics modelling and the use of evidence to inform policymaking pp. 454-472

Eleanor Malbon and Justin Parkhurst

The entanglement of substantive and symbolic politics in immigrant integration: insights from a regional state in Germany pp. 473-495

Maria Schiller and Elina Jonitz

A new cross-country index measuring the heterogenous effects of informal institutions pp. 496-518

Kee Hoon Chung

Revisiting the guns-butter tradeoff: a wavelet analysis of the US and Britain pp. 519-534

Yu Wang

Expert knowledge creation in policy-making: a research perspective from sociological field theory pp. 535-552

Artem Antonyuk, Vera N. Minina and Olga Nikiforova

Correction pp. 553-553

The Editors

Volume 44, issue 3, 2023

Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links pp. 297-315

Scott Brenton, Erik Baekkeskov and Adam Hannah

Organizational culture typologies and strategy implementation: lessons from Nigerian local government pp. 316-335

Oyegoke Teslim Bukoye and Ayotunde Hakeem Abdulrahman

A black box assessment of institutional quality: the challenge of evaluating lobbying transparency pp. 336-355

Šárka Laboutková and Petr Vymětal

Intellectual entrepreneurs and U.S. International monetary policy change in the early 1970s pp. 356-376

Youn Ki

Can electoral management bodies expand the pool of registered voters? Examining the effects of face-to-face, remote, traditional, and social media outreach pp. 377-407

Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann-Lea

The politics and policies of sleep? Empirical findings and the policy context pp. 408-430

Lihi Lahat and Itai Sened

Correction pp. 431-431

The Editors

Volume 44, issue 2, 2023

Between opportunities and constraints: right-wing populists as designers of migrant integration policy pp. 155-173

Oliver Gruber and Sieglinde Rosenberger

The challenges in integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policy evaluation pp. 174-194

Karolin Sjöö and Anne-Charlott Callerstig

The domestic compliance system and compliance barriers: a UK child rights case study pp. 195-215

Stacie Gray

What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act pp. 216-235

Marco Giuliani and Ilaria Madama

Religious and ethnic identities influence on public views of privatization: the case of Israel pp. 236-257

Baruch Levi and Amos Zehavi

Investigating the policy tools of spatial planning pp. 258-275

Stefanie Dühr

A Pragmatist Constructivism Framework (PCF) to understand the undetermined policy process: three policy solutions for shale gas problem pp. 276-296

Sébastien Chailleux and Philippe Zittoun

Volume 44, issue 1, 2023

Policy transfer during the COVID era pp. 1-3

Toby S. James

Policy transfer across governance systems: an adapted approach pp. 4-25

Anna Hulicka, Patrick Lucas and Lisa Carson

Regulatory transfer in transitioning economies: responses to corruption and weak state institutions pp. 26-45

Christopher Walker

Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the COVID-19 crisis pp. 46-67

Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos and Jörgen Sparf

Presidential policy narratives and the (mis)use of scientific expertise: Covid-19 policy responses in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico pp. 68-89

Alketa Peci, Camilo Ignacio González and Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna

Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty: an international comparative analysis of policy responses to COVID-19 pp. 90-111

Saahir Shafi and Daniel J. Mallinson

COVID-19 counterfactual evidence. Estimating the effects of school closures pp. 112-131

Marco Giuliani

COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the governance of collective action: social nudges, deliberation, and solidarity in Europe and beyond pp. 132-153

Katerina Sideri and Barbara Prainsack

Volume 43, issue 6, 2022

Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States pp. 1173-1194

Inga Rademacher

What is a “Mafia State” and how is one created? pp. 1195-1215

Anthea McCarthy-Jones and Mark Turner

Strategic ambiguity: the U.S. grand strategy initiative in Afghanistan pp. 1216-1234

James D. Boys

Anti-populism in action: a case study of the Remain argument during the EU referendum pp. 1235-1253

Lucas Grainger-Brown

The forgotten election administrator of internet voting: lessons from Estonia pp. 1254-1276

Iuliia Krivonosova

Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform pp. 1277-1297

Youngsung Kim

Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America pp. 1298-1321

Francisco Bastida, Lorenzo Estrada and María-Dolores Guillamón

The politics of regulatory design: evidence from state-level energy regulations in the United States pp. 1322-1339

Seong C. Kang

Advancing the structure-in-evolution approach: the case of social policy development in Denmark pp. 1340-1360

Oldrich Bubak

Policy narrative, policy understanding and policy support intention: a survey experiment on energy conservation pp. 1361-1381

Rui Mu, Yan Li and Tie Cui

Editorial board pp. 1382-1382

The Editors

Volume 43, issue 5, 2022

Nudge and co-design: complementary or contradictory approaches to policy innovation? pp. 901-919

Colette Einfeld and Emma Blomkamp

Underlying push and pull factors in undocumented immigration in the United States pp. 920-942

Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman

The policy transfer of environmental policy integration: path dependency, route flexibility, or the Hungarian way? pp. 943-961

Viktor Varjú

Practices of scalecraft and the reassembling of political boundaries: the contested nature of national schooling reform in the Australian federation pp. 962-983

Glenn C. Savage, Elisa Di Gregorio and Bob Lingard

Neighbourhood collaboration in co-production: state-resourced responsiveness or state-retrenched responsibilisation? pp. 984-1000

Madeleine Pill

Straddling multiple streams: focusing events, policy entrepreneurs and problem brokers in the governance of English fire and rescue services pp. 1001-1020

Peter Eckersley and Katarzyna Lakoma

Who decides foreign policy? The role of national trauma in shaping the influence of public opinion in South Korea pp. 1021-1035

Jahyun Chun

Policy on the move: the enabling settings of participation in participatory budgeting pp. 1036-1054

Pauliina Lehtonen

The structure-in-evolution approach: a unified view of evolutionary change in policy systems pp. 1055-1074

Oldrich Bubak

Policy formation, termination and the multiple streams framework: the case of introducing and abolishing automated university admission in France pp. 1075-1095

Georg Wenzelburger and Kathrin Hartmann

Inequalities in digital welfare take-up: lessons from e-government in Spain pp. 1096-1111

José Manuel Robles, Cristobal Torres-Albero and Guillermo Villarino

Which regions produce the most innovation policy research? pp. 1112-1134

Pedro López-Rubio, Norat Roig-Tierno and Alicia Mas-Tur

Comparing the quality of governance across the European Union member countries: a grey relational analysis approach pp. 1135-1155

Deniz Koçak and Mehmet Akif Özer

Do social media reduce compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures? pp. 1156-1171

Alina Maria Pavelea, Bogdana Neamțu and Alexandru Pavel

Volume 43, issue 4, 2022

Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments? pp. 621-639

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson

Does administrative capacity matter? The absorption of the European Fund for the integration of migrants pp. 640-658

Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem

Different policies, different voices: gender and legislative coordination in the United States Congress pp. 659-675

Jongkon Lee

The complexity of convergence: a multi-dimensional analysis of compulsory income management and social investment in New Zealand and Australia pp. 676-695

Louise Humpage, Zoe Staines, Greg Marston, Michelle Peterie, Shelley Bielefeld and Philip Mendes

Neoliberalism at the borders of transnational policy: political exclusion in Australia’s Reconceptualization of trans-Tasman traditions pp. 696-714

Karen Jones

Understanding design and implementation attributes for strategic policies: the case of Australia’s national environment policies pp. 715-737

Nadeem Samnakay

Measuring what matters in local government: a Municipality Sustainability Index pp. 738-758

Paulo Caldas, Brian Dollery and Rc Marques

“I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more”: the five ordoliberal critiques of capitalism pp. 759-771

Peter Nedergaard

Welfare experiments as tools for evidence-based policy making? The political debate on Twitter about the basic income trial in Finland pp. 772-790

Anne-Marie Parth and Josefine Nyby

Strategic R&D budget allocation to achieve national energy policy targets: the case of Korea pp. 791-820

Jungwoo Lee and Jae-Suk Yang

The impact of anti-discrimination policies on immigrant youths’ sense of national belonging: an institutionalist account pp. 821-837

Seung-Hwan Ham and Kyung-Eun Yang

The real fourth estate? Portrayals of Trump’s rise in the foreign media of friendly countries pp. 838-859

Zim Nwokora, Benjamin Isakhan and Chengxin Pan

Women’s movements for the elimination of violence against women: lessons from oral history of the Law 4320 in Turkey pp. 860-876

Şengül Altan Arslan, Nurten Kara and Halil Ibrahim Duranay

Policy silences and the formation of advocacy coalitions in East European sex tourism pp. 877-896

Laura A. Dean

Correction pp. 897-900

The Editors

Volume 43, issue 3, 2022

Governance and public administration in China pp. 387-402

Wei Liu, Toby S. James and Caixia Man

Networked environmental governance: formal and informal collaborative networks in local China pp. 403-421

Chen Huang, Hongtao Yi, Tao Chen, Xiaolin Xu and Shiying Chen

More “Government”, less “Governance”: Chinese public employees’ preferences for governing public service delivery pp. 422-442

Yanwei Li and Shi Qiu

Policy coordination in the talent war to achieve economic upgrading: the case of four Chinese cities pp. 443-463

Yang Shen and Bingqin Li

Government strategies in addressing three protests against PX plants in urban China: comparing cases using a most-similar-system design pp. 464-482

Yanwei Li, Yi Liu and Joop Koppenjan

Government annual report: decision usefulness, information accessibility and policy communication efficiency – Observations from 19 Chinese cities pp. 483-501

Jun Yang and Xue Zheng

Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda pp. 502-521

Qingguo Meng and Ziteng Fan

Government size and citizen satisfaction in China: evidence that accommodates two contrasting views pp. 522-537

Longjin Chen and Liangsong Yang

Towards effective mobilization of social participation: from an instrumental approach to a value-oriented approach in China pp. 538-557

Yongjiao Yang, Yan Xu and Mick Wilkinson

The relationship between the application and effects of science and its influencing factors: an empirical study in northern China pp. 558-577

Lihua Yang

Explaining social insurance participation: the importance of the social construction of target groups in China pp. 578-598

Yeqing Huang and Shurong Han

Campaign-style crisis regime: how China responded to the shock of COVID-19 pp. 599-619

Changkun Cai, Weiqi Jiang and Na Tang

Correction pp. 620-620

The Editors

Volume 43, issue 2, 2022

Why do Indigenous public policies fail? pp. 125-143

Verónica Figueroa Huencho

Safety in Indigenous communities: identifying gaps and opportunities in Australian crime prevention policy pp. 144-163

Simone Georg and Matthew Manning

Indigenous political participation in the deliberative systems: the long-term care service controversy in Taiwan pp. 164-182

Mei-Fang Fan and Sheng-Chun Sung

Examining the predictors of medical marijuana legalization in the United States using an empirically based taxonomy approach pp. 183-202

Gook Jin Kim

Vice policy in Russia: alcohol, tobacco, gambling pp. 203-225

Jim Leitzel

Policy design, non-design, and anti-design: the regulation of e-cigarettes in Indonesia pp. 226-243

Joshua Newman and Martha Widdi Nurfaiza

Alcohol, deterrence, and crime: causality and policy lessons from Korea pp. 244-263

Jinhwa Chung and Yoonseock Lee

Managing shocks in Singapore's ageing and retirement arrangements pp. 264-278

Chang Yee Kwan and Mukul G. Asher

“Resilience” as a policy keyword: Arts Council England and austerity pp. 279-295

Suman Gupta and Ayan-Yue Gupta

Governance, depoliticization, and nuclear power in Britain and the United States pp. 296-311

Keith Baker

The social construction of naturopathic medicine in Canadian newspapers pp. 312-332

Dave Snow

The challenge of reforming big bureaucracy in Indonesia pp. 333-351

Mark Turner, Eko Prasojo and Rudiarto Sumarwono

Austerity and governance: coordinating policing and mental health policy in the UK pp. 352-369

Carlos Solar and Martin Smith

Are only demand-based policy incentives enough to deploy electromobility? pp. 370-386

Evanthia A. Nanaki, Spyros Kiartzis and George A. Xydis

Volume 43, issue 1, 2022

Labour market policies during an age of uncertainty pp. 1-2

Toby S. James

A simultaneous-equation model of active labour market policies and change in unemployment rate: evidence from OECD countries pp. 3-20

Marwa Sahnoun and Chokri Abdennadher

Tackling undeclared work in the European Union: beyond the rational economic actor approach pp. 21-55

Ioana Alexandra Horodnic and Colin Williams

Skills and ethnics wage inequalities within the global value chain: an evidence from Malaysia pp. 56-75

Muhammad Daaniyall Abd Rahman, Mohd Yusof Saari, Manfred Lenzen and Arunima Malik

Volunteering in the bath? The rise of microvolunteering and implications for policy pp. 76-89

Jesse Heley, Sophie Yarker and Laura Jones

Coordination patterns and institutional settings: a comparative study of labour market programs for unemployed youth in Sweden and the United Kingdom pp. 90-107

Lisa Andersson

Implementing a merit-based scheme for recruiting teachers in Mexico. An Advocacy Coalition perspective pp. 108-124

Pedro Flores-Crespo and Dulce C. Mendoza Cazarez

Corrigendum pp. 125-125

The Editors