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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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Channeling Action: How Civic Recreation Organizations Shape Civic Capacity and Engagement

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the individual‐level and organizational‐level implications of participation in a particular type of civic association—a civic recreation organization. We deploy a small‐n comparison group design, comparing data within and across members of a civic recreation organization with varying degrees of involvement to ...
Emma Scheetz, David Carter
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Segurança pública e homicídios intencionais: fatores socioeconômicos e políticas públicas no Espírito Santo (1980-2022)

Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social
Este estudo visa a explicação das taxas de homicídios intencionais no Estado do Espírito Santo, entre 1980 e 2022, em função dos determinantes estruturais (socioeconômicos e sociodemográficos) e das políticas de segurança pública e apoio social ...
Matheus Boni Bittencourt
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How Fear of Domination Affects Public Support for International Organizations: A Conjoint Experiment Approach

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT We theorize the notion of “fear of domination” and argue that people rely on a series of realist heuristics to gauge their support for an IO. Based on realist thinking, we hypothesize that individuals are less likely to support IOs that are subject to domination or manipulation.
Shih‐chan Dai, Navida Chun‐han Wang, Yao‐Yuan Yeh   +2 more
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Game of Mirrors for Complex Policies: The Narratives on Differentiated Autonomy in Italy

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study applies the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to a policy of regional devolution of powers. The analysis focuses on differentiated autonomy in Italy, examining the narratives that emerged in the legislative process of the law regulating the procedures for its activation. The context is of particular interest due to the combination of
Gaia Matilde Ripamonti
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La construcción de la agenda de poder

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2008
El poder constituye el tema central de muchos estudiosos de las ciencias políticas para comprender las distintas formas de la democracia. Los procesos de fijación de las agendas (mediática, pública y política) involucran el uso del poder individual y ...
Gerardo L. Dorantes
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Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers of procedural fairness describing both the participation process and policymakers' presentations of it during the decision justification stage co‐
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech
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SAÚDE PÚBLICA E A OITAVA VIDA DA AGENDA PÚBLICA BRASILEIRA

Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2010
This paper intends to examine what might be called the eighth life of the Brazilian public schedule considering the public healths agenda, adopting the metaphor 01 the text The Seven Uves of the Brazilian PubJic Schedule, by Prol. Marcus André Melo, UFPE.
Erivã García Velasco, Karine Wlasenko Nicolau, Leana Oliveira Freitas   +2 more
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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on policy diffusion, the ways in which policy attention influences this process remain underexplored. This study addressed this gap by distinguishing between three types of policy attention—political speeches, policy issuance and field visits—and investigating their differential impacts when delivered by central and ...
Xiangning Chen, Yahua Wang
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