Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?
ABSTRACT Local criminalization policies draw on the logic of deterrence to levy costs on individuals who engage in behaviors that are closely associated with various public concerns, such as those criminalizing behaviors associated with homelessness, thereby potentially reducing community‐level costs.
Hannah Lebovits, Andrew Sullivan
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Closing the Gap: Expanding Access to Mifepristone for Early Pregnancy Loss Through Operational Innovation. [PDF]
Rowh MAW +3 more
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ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
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Constructing criminality: a thematic analysis of national news media reporting on self-managed abortion criminalisation in the United States. [PDF]
McMahon HV +6 more
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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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Few rights, great threats, endless struggles: setbacks and resistance in the last decade of fights for legal abortion in Brazil. [PDF]
Cardoso NM +4 more
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Emotion and the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Affective Dynamics Perspective
ABSTRACT Despite extensive evidence that emotion and cognition are deeply intertwined, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) lacks an analytically independent emotional mechanism in its causal architecture—an omission that may be particularly consequential in policy subsystems structured around morally charged, identity‐laden policy disputes.
Moshe Maor
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The state of abortion services in five Pacific Island countries: a legislative analysis and scoping review. [PDF]
Cao J +10 more
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“Just Stay Home and Wait It Out”: Exploring Challenges Accessing Care for Miscarriage in Indiana
ABSTRACT Introduction Qualitative research on miscarriage in the United States primarily draws on the experiences of participants recruited from healthcare settings which may fail to robustly illuminate how people navigate to care. We aimed to explore the miscarriage experiences of Indiana residents, identify barriers to access, and generate ...
Kathryn J. LaRoche +3 more
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