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Conflicts Over Wage Floors: What Led to Minimum Wage Increases in the US States Between 2013 and 2022?

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT After 2013, the number of statewide minimum wage increases in the United States surged. However, not every state followed the trend. Some refrained from minimum wage legislation completely. This article examines the causes of differences in state minimum wage policies from 2013 to 2022, taking a qualitative perspective on minimum wage politics
Emanuel Schuller
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Major Policy Change Analysis in the Advocacy Coalition Framework

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been used extensively to study policy processes globally. Existing research, however, fails to sequence the combination of factors that influence policy change. Using theory‐testing process tracing and a within‐case study design focused on Ghana and Nigeria, we address these knowledge gaps by ...
Alex Osei‐Kojo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of UAE's Africa Foreign Policy: Motivations, Strategies and Challenges

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent studies on the foreign policies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries attribute their increasing involvement in Africa to security and economic considerations. However, only a few studies have investigated the foreign policies of the individual GCC countries in more detail for confirmation. Hence, using a neorealist perspective on
Osman Antwi‐Boateng   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions moratorium, easier access to benefits, and temporary cash transfers, all of which were advocated by welfare associations—key organized interests ...
Christopher Smith Ochoa
wiley   +1 more source

Imagined Integration: The Logics of Japanese Immigrant Integration Policy

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As governments develop immigrant integration policies, they draw on and express conceptions about what successful integration looks like—what we call “imagined integration.” Yet this imagination likely displays variation that matters for implementation: integration policymaking is increasingly multilevel as it involves subnational layers of ...
Mariri Niino, William L. Allen
wiley   +1 more source

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