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Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
wiley   +1 more source

[Application of Digital Nutrition Technologies in Adult Weight Management]. [PDF]

open access: yesSichuan Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
Xiong Z, Fan N, Zhao Y, Yan Y, Wang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Democratic Values in Citizen Participation: What Citizens Prioritize in Participation

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

[APASL clinical practice guidelines on the management of chronic hepatitis B infection: a 2026 update]. [PDF]

open access: yesZhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi
You H   +48 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Designing Integrated Policies for the Twin Transition: Challenges and Tradeoffs

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Democratic governance faces the intertwined imperatives of managing the transformative risks and opportunities of digitalization, particularly stemming from artificial intelligence (AI), while achieving environmental sustainability within planetary boundaries.
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
wiley   +1 more source

From Policy Legitimization to Blame Avoidance—Discursive Strategies During Denmark's Mink Culling Crisis

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments navigate policy legitimacy during crises through three distinct discursive processes: legitimization, delegitimization, and blame avoidance. Using a sequential mixed‐methods design, the study analyzes Denmark's decision to cull all mink during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis of 947 newspaper
Olivier Rubin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Policy Neglect to Research Agenda: Administrative Burdens and Donor‐Conceived Mobilization

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Donor‐conceived adults are a growing population, mobilizing against the very regulatory arrangements that determined the terms into which they were conceived. In Canada and the United States, where donor conception remains persistently under‐regulated, gamete donation policy has historically prioritized the presumed needs of donors, recipient ...
Ashley Splawinski
wiley   +1 more source

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