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Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adaptive regulations, designed to balance flexibility with accountability, can embed provisions that unintentionally leave room for firms to shirk on their responsibilities by exploiting flexibility. We call these provisions “regulatory gray areas,” and ask: how should we understand (non‐)compliance in adaptive regulatory settings?
Liza Wood +3 more
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Democratic Values in Citizen Participation: What Citizens Prioritize in Participation
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Citizen participation is often initiated to strengthen democracy. While participatory innovations are typically assessed through normative frameworks emphasizing democratic values, little is known about which of these values are prioritized by citizens.
Take Sipma, Frank Hendriks
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Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes +1 more
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Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using data from a long‐term survey of senior civil servants (1970–2021), this study investigates the declining share of jurists in federal ministerial departments in Germany. The mechanisms driving this trend and its subsequent effects are discussed from an organizational perspective, highlighting the influence of environmental pressure and ...
Marian Döhler
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Non‐Members in a Tight Spot: How Norway Navigated Autonomy in EU Pandemic Management
Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers new insights into how closely integrated non‐member states navigate tensions between autonomy and dependence when urgent policy responses are required within complex supranational frameworks. It does so by exploring how these non‐members exercise their “wriggle room”—a tailored sub‐category of the broader concept of autonomy ...
Sjoerd Alexander de Winter
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ABCA12 Frameshift Deletion in Domestic Cats With Ichthyosis Fetalis
Veterinary Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Ichthyosis fetalis (IF), also known as harlequin ichthyosis, is a rare and often fatal autosomal recessive congenital skin disorder. It is characterized by thickened, hard skin plaques and deep skin fissures that limit mobility and cause malformations of the eyes, lips and ears.
Jeanna M. Blake +2 more
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World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Water governance has emerged as a critical analytical framework for addressing the complexity of socioecological water systems in contexts of increasing climate vulnerability and anthropogenic pressure. This study presents a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 50 scientific articles indexed on water governance published between 2018
Roger Pichis‐García +1 more
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Policy Innovation in Barcelona and Utrecht: The Role of Advocacy Coalitions in Multilevel Contexts
Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores how policy innovation in local social policies emerges within a multilevel governance context. Drawing on the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), it examines how beliefs, coalitions, and institutional arrangements interact across different political arenas—European, national/regional, and local—to foster innovative social
Bruno Miguel Oliveira
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Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT The Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in North America. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depression in the United States and Canada through an analytical lens that combines the insights of historical institutionalism and the analysis of transnational ...
Daniel Béland +2 more
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Fear in Public Policy Compliance: Citizens' Response to Crisis‐Induced Policies
European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article brings together social psychology and public policy literature in a mixed‐methods research design to explore how fear influences non‐compliance with challenging policies during crises. Building on Terror Management Theory, we argue that fear affects individual citizens' compliance tendencies.
Stella Ladi +3 more
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