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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that prison officers often provide practical and emotional assistance to inmates. However, this has generally been depicted as a discretionary, conflicted and unrewarded task, sometimes met with hostility from their peers.
Cristina Güerri
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Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can state election policies affect the spread of misinformation? This paper studies the role played by ballot processing policies, which determine when ballots can be examined and organized, in the online spread of political misinformation. We present evidence from the 2020 U.S.
Morgan Wack +5 more
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Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh +7 more
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Issue Attention in Public Opinion Polls: Pollsters as Agenda Responders and Agenda Setters
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other institutions and the public, leading them to focus survey questions on issues that are on congressional and media agendas, and which are public ...
Qian Zhang +2 more
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forums play an important role in addressing interdependent policy issues, and their effectiveness depends on the continuous adaptation of forum rules. Yet, it remains unclear whether rules are exclusively used and adapted to improve forum effectiveness.
Ingo Bousema +3 more
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Non‐Members in a Tight Spot: How Norway Navigated Autonomy in EU Pandemic Management
Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers new insights into how closely integrated non‐member states navigate tensions between autonomy and dependence when urgent policy responses are required within complex supranational frameworks. It does so by exploring how these non‐members exercise their “wriggle room”—a tailored sub‐category of the broader concept of autonomy ...
Sjoerd Alexander de Winter
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT The popular economy is a subjective economic community in Nicaragua. It is sustained by the imaginative and material labors of worker‐producers organized in households, cooperatives, and other self‐managing associations. This article demonstrates the popular economy's importance to the format of work, wealth, and welfare in contemporary ...
Jonah Walters
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Policymaking for Emigrants in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Mixed‐Methods Study
Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT While scholars have identified models of political emigrant policies across countries, we still lack an understanding of how these models come about and persist. Using a sequential mixed‐methods approach—including quantitative analysis of policy mixes in 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries and a comparative case study of Colombia and ...
Luicy Pedroza, Pau Palop‐García
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European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 2026.Abstract While there is an increasing interest in the role of emotions in policy studies, not much is known about how emotions unfold in one of the most emotional situations that can be encountered in politics: political scandals. To investigate how the discursive articulation of emotions shapes the policy responses to political misconduct from a ...
Rosa Sanchez Salgado, Seda Gürkan
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Overcoming barriers to build partnerships for managing plant invasions under global change
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Non‐native plant invasions are a cross‐boundary conservation challenge, requiring coordinated management and policy responses underpinned by science. Global change is expected to exacerbate this challenge by changing abiotic and biotic drivers of invasive plant distribution, abundance, and impact. Current approaches may no longer be effective,
Jennifer L. Bufford +9 more
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