How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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Autonomy and refusal of dialysis: ethical and legal reflections based on the position statement of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology. [PDF]
J Bras NefrolSantos CGDS, Guirro ÚBDP, Dadalto L.
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of 'localisation' in Myanmar's complex emergency. [PDF]
DisastersDécobert A, Maung PP, Scott A, Wells T.
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
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Barriers to Healthcare Access for Homeless Women: Perspectives of Social Intervention Professionals. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthMatulič Domandzič MV +3 more
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
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Alignment of Public Health Agency Demographics With Populations Served. [PDF]
J Public Health Manag PractCampbell MD, Pannell GM, McCullough JM.
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
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