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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

The Dejudicialization of the German Federal Bureaucracy: An Organizational Perspective on Policy‐Related Knowledge

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Using data from a long‐term survey of senior civil servants (1970–2021), this study investigates the declining share of jurists in federal ministerial departments in Germany. The mechanisms driving this trend and its subsequent effects are discussed from an organizational perspective, highlighting the influence of environmental pressure and ...
Marian Döhler
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring neoliberal individualism, instrumentality, and competition: Development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ)

open access: yesAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.
Abstract This article presents the development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ), a novel measure designed to analyze neoliberal ideological beliefs specifically within the context of work and employment. The NLBQ is theoretically grounded in the distinction of three fundamental political neoliberal logics ...
Thomas Höge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
wiley   +1 more source

News shocks, consumer confidence and business cycles

open access: yesEconomica, Volume 93, Issue 370, Page 648-676, April 2026.
Abstract We study the causal effects of consumer sentiment shocks on macroeconomic aggregates. By constructing a novel instrument based on major non‐economic news shocks in the USA over 1969–2022, and opinion polls around these events, we identify exogenous changes in consumer confidence.
Syed M. Hussain, Zara Liaqat
wiley   +1 more source

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