Abstract: Policy dismantling by capacity manipulation in a context of democratic backsliding: The bureaucracy in disarray in Bolsonaro’s Brazil [Full text] Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva The strategy of venue creation: Explaining health policy change in Greece [Full text] Maria Mavrikou, Nikolaos Zahariadis and Vassilis Karokis-Mavrikos Task-specific policy capacities: A comparative analysis of cash transfer programs in Latin America and the Caribbean during the pandemic [Full text] Guillermo M. Cejudo, Cynthia L. Michel and Pablo de los Cobos Forum Sorting Out Animal Policy: Ideas, Problems, and Solutions [Full text] Jerry Mitchell A Legislation-Based Database for COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions [Full text] Alexandros Kyriakidis, Nikolaos Zahariadis and Ioannis Papadopoulos Book Review Frank FISCHER, Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy: Interpreting the Arguments [Full text] Kris Hartley Christopher M. WEIBLE & Paul CAIRNEY (Eds.), Practical Lessons from Policy Theories [Full text] Gaia Taffoni PubDate: 2022-12-30
Abstract: Behavioural Expertise: Drift, Thrift and Shift under COVID-19 [Full text] Joram Feitsma and Mark Whitehead Narrators and Narratives: A Study of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India [Full text] Daniel Costie and Kristin Olofsson The effects of state aid policy trade-offs on FDI openness in Central and Eastern European Countries [Full text] Marco Schito Linking compliance and policy learning [Full text] Thenia Vagionaki Multiple Book Review Essay [Full text] Aaron Smith-Walter Forum Innovations and Public Policies [Full text] Hubert Heinelt Book Review Sonia MAZEY & Jeremy RICHARDSON (Eds.), Policymaking Under Pressure: Rethinking the policy process in Aotearoa New Zealand [Full text] Paul Cairney Victor David CRUZ-ACEVES, The Diffusion of Morality Policies [Full text] Daniel J. Mallinson Christopher M. WEIBLE & Paul CAIRNEY (Eds.), Practical Lessons from Policy Theories [Full text] Gaia Taffoni PubDate: 2022-11-01
Abstract: Advocacy Coalition Framework in Environmental Governance Studies: Explaining Major Policy Change for A Large Dam Removal in Japan [Full text] Tomohiko Ohno Developing Survey Methods for Collecting Individual Policy Narratives: A case study of climate change narratives using an engaged convenience sample [Full text] Wesley Wehde and Mildred Perreault How Self-regulating can it be? Explaining Limitations in Firms’ Compliance with Reflexive Regulation [Full text] Bjarke Refslund Mini Symposium Policy Transitions from Trump to Biden: Issues of Science, Race Relations and Global Trade in Critical Perspective The transition of power and policy from one governmental administration to another is never an easy political task. But the case of the transition from Presidents Trump to Biden is an especially difficult case. Given that Trump and his populist followers sought to turn governmental goals and practices upside down in practically all policy areas, the challenge for the Biden Administration has been fraught with political and administrative barriers. In the mini-symposium that follows three contributors seek to analyze Biden’s progress in three important policy domains after one year in office. One of the most controversial policy practices during the Trump years wasan attack on scientific and policy expertise. Against this backdrop, Frank Fischer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Politics and Global Affairs at Rutgers University in the USA, examines the effort to return to science based policymaking in climate change and Covid-19 policies. He points to a fairly swift administrative return to science-oriented decision-making, but notes that this does not in and of itself bring an end to the post-truth denial of climate and Covid policy advise. Another very controversial issue was the Trump Administration’s fanning of racial tensions, especially as they pertained to the Black Lives Matter movement, the murder of George Floyd, and the white supremacy march in Charlotteville, Virgina. Against this backdrop, Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science at Hunter College of the City University of New York explores the racial dimensions of the Biden agenda and the prospects for advancing the cause of realizing a multi-racial democracy in the post-Trump era. A third issue involved Trump’s rejection of long-established global trade relations. In this regard, Christoph Scherrer, Professor of Politics and Globalization at the University of Kassel in Germany, assesses the challenge the Biden Administration confronts with People’s Republic of China. So far Biden’s trade strategy with China ,he argues, isinformed by the lessons drawn from the failures of his predecessors, Obama and Trump, as well as by the interests of his electoral coalition that brought together finance, tech, and labor. Post-Truth Populism and Scientific Expertise: Climate and Covid Policies from Trump to Biden [Full text] Frank Fischer The Biden Racial Justice Policy Agenda: Combating Systemic Racism with Targeting within Universalism [Full text] Sanford F. Schram Biden’s Foreign Economic Policy: Crossbreed of Obama and Trump? [Full text] Christoph Scherrer Book Review David COEN, Alexander KATSAITIS & Matia VANNONI, Business Lobbying in the European Union [Full text] Elise Antoine John HOGAN & Mary P. MURPHY (Eds.), Policy Analysis in Ireland [Full text] Michael McGann Peter MOSS, Ann-Zof... PubDate: 2022-03-30
Abstract: Understanding Gender Expertise in the Post-Truth Era: Media Representations of Gender-Based Analysis Plus in Canada [Full text] Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala Evidence, interests and argumentation: an environmental policy controversy in a small New Zealand town [Full text] Peter Skilling, Patrick Barrett and Priya Kurian Re-performance: a critical and reparative methodology for everyday expertise and data practice in policy knowledge [Full text] Susan Oman Policy expertise and culture: the case of “civil sexuality” in Iran. [Full text] Elaheh Mohammadi and Anna Durnova Expertise on the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: A Hybrid Cultural Boundary Approach [Full text] Ruth Mireille Manga Edimo Book Review Anna DURNOVÁ, Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics: Negotiating Truth [Full text] Theofanis Exadaktylos Jeffrey C. ALEXANDER, What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems [Full text] Jörgen Sparf PubDate: 2021-12-30
Abstract: Closer than they look at first glance: A systematic review and a research agenda regarding measurement practices for policy learning [Full text] Pierre Squevin, David Aubin, Éric Montpetit and Stéphane Moyson Un-Dutching the Delta Approach: network management and policy translation for effective policy transfer [Full text] Ellen Minkman, Arwin van Buuren and Victor Bekkers Determinants of Policy Diffusion in Brazil and the U.S. [Full text] Denilson Bandeira Coêlho Forum Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States [Full text] Lawrence D. Brown Book Review Giliberto CAPANO & Michael HOWLETT (Eds.), A Modern Guide to Public Policy [Full text] Giulia Bazzan Mattia CASULA, Economic Growth and Cohesion Policy Implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, Strategic Choices, Administrative Change [Full text] Spyridon Parthenis Peter Kevin SPINK, Beyond Public Policy: A Public Action Languages Approach [Full text] Kate Precious PubDate: 2021-10-30
Abstract: During Disaster: Refining the Concept of Focusing Events to Better Explain Long-Duration Crises [Full text] Rob A. DeLeo, Kristin Taylor, Deserai A. Crow and Thomas A. Birkland When red tape saves time: The Anti-corruption controls for the 2015 Universal Exposition [Full text] Simone Busetti and Bruno Dente Protecting Rights in the Policy Process: Integrating Legal Proportionality and Policy Analysis [Full text] Mordechai Kremnitzer and Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan Investigating ACF Policy Change Theory in a Unitary Policy Subsystem: The Case of Ghanaian Public Sector Information Policy [Full text] B. Timothy Heinmiller, Emmanuel M. Osei and Eugene Danso Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Implementation [Full text] Kristin Taylor, Stephanie Zarb and Nathan Jeschke Forum Patterns of Democracy Matter in the COVID-19 Crisis [Full text] Nils C. Bandelow, Patrick Hassenteufel and Johanna Hornung Book Review Andrew MASSEY (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Public Administration [Full text] Petra Svensson Malcolm TORRY, A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income: A Multidisciplinary Approach [Full text] Arya Pillai Elin Lerum BOASSON, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, & Jørgen Wettestad (Eds.), Comparative Renewables Policy: Political Organizational and European Fields [Full text] Kristin Olofsson PubDate: 2021-03-15
Abstract: Connecting Cognitive and Behavioral Characteristics of Policy Conflict in Oil and Gas Politics [Full text] Christopher M. Weible and Tanya Heikkila From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas [Full text] Richard Shaw and Chris Eichbaum How ideas matter in public policy: a review of concepts, mechanisms, and methods [Full text] Marij Swinkels Reshaping health care governance using pilot projects as public policy implementation instruments [Full text] Mélanie De Winter Varying Power Configurations and the Accountability of Independent Regulatory Agencies [Full text] Fulya Apaydin and Jacint Jordana Forum Coping with COVID-19 in a non-democratic system: Policy lessons from Thailand’s centralised government [Full text] Piyapong Boossabong and Pobsook Chamchong PubDate: 2020-12-15
Abstract: Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments [Full text] Bartolomeo Cappellina Bringing Governance Back into Education Reforms [Full text] Kidjie Ian Saguin and M. Ramesh The Spread of Vouchers among French Local Government: When Private Companies Reshape the Meaning of a Tool [Full text] Arnaud Lacheret Putting the Peter Parker Principle into Practice [Full text] Maximilian Lennart Nagel and Jon Pierre Bandwagons and Quiet Corners in Regulatory Governance [Full text] Caelesta Braun, Adrià Albareda, Bert Fraussen and Moritz Müller Forum The Epistemics of Policymaking: from Technocracy to Critical Pragmatism in the UN Sustainable Development Goals [Full text] Kris Hartley In Memoriam Peter deLeon (1943-2020) Peter De Leon’s Commitment to Democracy [Full text] Helen Ingram Policy, Politics and Beer: A 30-Year Conversation with Peter deLeon [Full text] Hank C. Jenkins-Smith A True Scholar, Teacher and Friend [Full text] Spiros Protopsaltis Tribute to Peter deLeon [Full text] Edella Schlager In memoriam Peter deLeon [Full text] Hellmut Wollmann PubDate: 2020-09-01
Abstract: Navigating the policy stream: Contested solutions and organizational strategies of policy entrepreneurship [Full text] Livia Johannesson and Martin Qvist A social network perspective on the interaction between policy bubbles [Full text] Moshe Maor The Dismantling of Family Farming Policies in Brazil and Argentina [Full text] Eric Sabourin, Clara Craviotti and Carolina Milhorance Expertise, politics and public opinion at the crossroads of the European Commission’s decision-making: The case of Glyphosate. [Full text] Giulia Bazzan and Marta Migliorati Can power be made an empirically viable concept in policy process theory? Exploring the power potential of the Narrative Policy Framework [Full text] Tjorven Sievers and Michael D. Jones Forum The Rise and Spread of Behavioral Public Policy: An Opportunity for Critical Research and Self-Reflection [Full text] Holger Straßheim PubDate: 2020-04-27
Abstract: Designing for Policy Success [Full text] Mallory E. Compton, Joannah Luetjens and Paul ‘t Hart Fixing Federal Faults. Complementary Member State Policies in Swiss Health Care Policy [Full text] Fritz Sager, Christian Rüefli and Eva Thomann Dynamic narrative: a new framework for policy success [Full text] Germana Nicklin Storytelling and Policy Transfer [Full text] Titilayo Soremi Where is the EU’s Migrant Integration Policy Heading? [Full text] Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem Forum From Generation to Generation [Full text] Donald E. Abelson PubDate: 2019-10-10