Policy Sciences

1987 - 2024

Current editor(s): Michael Howlett

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Volume 57, issue 4, 2024

Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies pp. 719-743

Rotem Dvir

Co-design in policymaking: from an emerging to an embedded practice pp. 745-760

Michael Mintrom, Philippa Goddard, Lisa Grocott and Shanti Sumartojo

Performing policy conflict: A dramaturgical analysis of public participation in contentious urban planning projects pp. 761-785

Lisa Roeck and Wouter Dooren

Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis pp. 787-822

Pallavi Rachel George and Vishal Gupta

How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends pp. 823-849

Ehud Segal and Frank R. Baumgartner

Pioneer advantage or late-mover advantage? An examination of the interplay between policy diffusion sequence and policy outcomes pp. 851-873

Xiangning Chen and Yahua Wang

A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy pp. 875-900

Rory Hooper, Nihit Goyal, Kornelis Blok and Lisa Scholten

The legacy of Harold D. Lasswell’s commitment to the policy sciences of democracy: observations on Douglas Torgerson’s the policy sciences of Harold Lasswell pp. 901-906

William Ascher

Shattering stereotypes and the critical Lasswell pp. 907-911

Paul Cairney and Christopher M. Weible

On Torgerson’s Lasswells pp. 913-919

James Farr and Nick Dorzweiler

The future as developmental construct in the work of Harold Lasswell pp. 921-924

Ríán Derrig

Emancipatory policy sciences or interpretative revisionism: some thoughts on Douglas Torgerson’s The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell pp. 925-930

Hengameh Saberi

Harold Lasswell as distinct from his work: the method of immanent critique and its implications pp. 931-947

Douglas Torgerson

Volume 57, issue 3, 2024

Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change pp. 485-517

Johanna Kuenzler, Colette Vogeler, Anne-Marie Parth and Titian Gohl

COVID-19 memorable messages as internal narratives: stability and change over time pp. 519-538

Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Kristin Taylor, Nathan Jeschke, Deserai Crow, Thomas A. Birkland, Elizabeth Koebele, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Sandhya Sangappa, Elizabeth Albright and Honey Minkowitz

Keep me posted, but don’t stress me out: how the positive effect of social networking services on civil servants’ information use and political capacities can be attenuated by social media stress pp. 539-566

Camilla Wanckel

(Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany pp. 567-597

Meike Löhr, Jochen Markard and Nils Ohlendorf

The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems pp. 599-620

Anna M. Crawford and Christopher M. Weible

“Please Wait, Your Policy is Important to Us” issue prioritization, the ACF, and Canada’s failed attempts at cannabis decriminalization, 2003–2005 pp. 621-638

B. Timothy Heinmiller

International actors and national policies: the introduction of the national care system in Uruguay pp. 639-661

Meika Sternkopf

Health system reform and path-dependency: how ideas constrained change in South Africa’s national health insurance policy process pp. 663-690

Eleanor Beth Whyle and Jill Olivier

Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field pp. 691-718

Alejandra Burchard-Levine, Dave Huitema, Nicolas W. Jager and Iris Bijlsma

Volume 57, issue 2, 2024

Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives pp. 221-256

Jennifer Dodge and Tamara Metze

Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries pp. 257-280

Jesper Dahl Kelstrup and Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen

Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria pp. 281-303

Denitsa Marchevska

Bureaucratic biases in trust of expert policy advice: a randomized controlled experiment based on Chinese think tank reports pp. 305-351

Jingjing Zeng and Guihua Huang

The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’ pp. 353-378

Christina Steinbacher

Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act pp. 379-402

Melissa K. Merry and Rodger A. Payne

The soft underbelly of complexity science adoption in policymaking: towards addressing frequently overlooked non-technical challenges pp. 403-436

Darren Nel and Araz Taeihagh

There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work pp. 437-457

Pierre Squevin, Valérie Pattyn, Jens Jungblut and Sonja Blum

Wildfire risk and insurance: research directions for policy scientists pp. 459-484

Matthew R. Auer

Volume 57, issue 1, 2024

Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking pp. 3-28

Andrea Pettrachin and Leila Hadj Abdou

Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia pp. 29-51

Katie Attwell, Adam Hannah, Shevaun Drislane, Tauel Harper, Glenn C. Savage and Jordan Tchilingirian

Designing policies that could work: understanding the interaction between policy design spaces and organizational responses in public sector pp. 53-82

Giliberto Capano and Benedetto Lepori

Low-fidelity policy design, within-design feedback, and the Universal Credit case pp. 83-99

Jonathan Craft and Reut Marciano

How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics pp. 101-124

Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling

Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy pp. 125-144

Camilla Bakken Øvald

Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022) pp. 145-169

Laura Trajber Waisbich

Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty? pp. 171-191

Wouter Lammers, Valérie Pattyn, Sacha Ferrari, Sylvia Wenmackers and Steven Van de Walle

Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis pp. 193-219

Peter Linquiti

Volume 56, issue 4, 2023

Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems: issue and instrument priorities across venues pp. 633-655

Nicole Lemke, Philipp Trein and Frédéric Varone

Finding, distinguishing, and understanding overlooked policy entrepreneurs pp. 657-687

Gwen Arnold, Meghan Klasic, Changtong Wu, Madeline Schomburg and Abigail York

Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries pp. 689-707

Shouzhi Xia

Climbing the 'ladder of intrusiveness': the Italian government's strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further pp. 709-731

Stefania Profeti and Federico Toth

Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay pp. 733-753

Guillermo M. Cejudo and Cynthia L. Michel

Polycentric disaster governance in a federalising Nepal: interplay between people, bureaucracy and political leadership pp. 755-776

Sumit Vij

When active representation is not enough: ethnic minority street-level workers in a divided society and policy entrepreneurship pp. 777-795

Hani Nouman and Nissim Cohen

Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation pp. 797-823

William D. Schreckhise and Daniel E. Chand

Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion pp. 825-868

Brian Y. An, Adam Butz, Min-Kyeong Cha and Joshua L. Mitchell

Volume 56, issue 3, 2023

Symposium: Affect and emotions in policy dynamics pp. 439-448

Moshe Maor and Tereza Capelos

From institutional tipping points to affective and direct tips: mythical institutions, policy ineffectiveness, and nonlinear political dynamics in East Germany, 1989–1990 pp. 449-467

Moshe Maor

Emotional citizens, detached interest groups? The use of emotional language in public policy consultations pp. 469-497

Simon Fink, Eva Ruffing, Tobias Burst and Sara Katharina Chinnow

Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes pp. 499-523

Stefania Ravazzi

The many faces of the politics of shame in European policymaking pp. 525-547

Rosa M. Sanchez Salgado

Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care pp. 549-571

Anna P. Durnová and Eva M. Hejzlarová

Advancing scholarship on policy conflict through perspectives from oil and gas policy actors pp. 573-594

Jennifer A. Kagan, Tanya Heikkila, Christopher M. Weible, Duncan Gilchrist, Ramiro Berardo and Hongtao Yi

Conflicting and complementary policy goals as sectoral integration challenge: an analysis of sectoral interplay in flood risk management pp. 595-612

Ralf Nordbeck, Walter Seher, Heidelinde Grüneis, Mathew Herrnegger and Lena Junger

How do courts contribute to policy integration? A comparative study of policy integration processes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Guatemala pp. 613-632

Paul Cisneros

Volume 56, issue 2, 2023

Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness pp. 191-209

Adrià Albareda, Caelesta Braun and Bert Fraussen

Advice that resonates: explaining the variability in consultants’ policy influence pp. 211-232

Martin Bortz

When the political leader is the narrator: the political and policy dimensions of narratives pp. 233-265

Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti and Giovanni Barbato

PPP performance evaluation: the social welfare goal, principal–agent theory and political economy pp. 267-299

Mark A. Moore and Aidan Vining

Devil in the details? Policy settings and calibrations of national excellence-centers pp. 301-323

Anat Gofen, Adam M. Wellstead and Noa Tal

Coping with the ambiguities of poverty-alleviation programs and policies: a policy sciences approach pp. 325-354

William Ascher

Understanding the role of institutions in the multiple streams approach through the recognition of the diaspora as a development agent in Cameroon pp. 355-376

Léger Félix Ntienjom Mbohou

Policy change and information search: a test of the politics of information using regulatory data pp. 377-418

Louis-Robert Beaulieu-Guay, Maria Alejandra Costa and Éric Montpetit

Causality is good for practice: policy design and reverse engineering pp. 419-438

Simone Busetti

Volume 56, issue 1, 2023

Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize announcement for Policy Sciences Volume 55 (2022) pp. 1-1

Michael Howlett

Policy integration as a political process pp. 3-8

Guillermo M. Cejudo and Philipp Trein

Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach pp. 9-27

Guillermo M. Cejudo and Philipp Trein

Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions pp. 29-48

Philipp Trein, Manuel Fischer, Martino Maggetti and Francesco Sarti

Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy pp. 49-68

Heiner Lüpke, Lucas Leopold and Jale Tosun

Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector: the role of advocacy coalitions and contrasting conceptions of sustainability pp. 69-93

Daniel Kefeli, Karen M. Siegel, Lucía Pittaluga and Thomas Dietz

The role of actors' issue and sector specialization for policy integration in the parliamentary arena: an analysis of Swiss biodiversity policy using text as data pp. 95-114

Ueli Reber, Karin Ingold and Manuel Fischer

Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico pp. 115-140

Israel Solorio, Jorge Guzmán and Ixchel Guzmán

The policy integration game? Congruence of outputs and implementation in policy integration pp. 141-160

Francesco Sarti

Unintended policy integration through entrepreneurship at the implementation stage pp. 161-189

Sébastien Lambelet