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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
wiley   +1 more source

[Clinical activity and validation of the disability disc in inflammatory bowel disease]. [PDF]

Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
Plomozo-Román R, Lozano-García I, Martínez-Torres H, Torres-Mendoza BM, Maldonado-Rodríguez R, Aguayo-Villaseñor JF, Jaramillo-Buendía C, Gutiérrez-Sevilla JE.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions moratorium, easier access to benefits, and temporary cash transfers, all of which were advocated by welfare associations—key organized interests ...
Christopher Smith Ochoa
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Narratives and Empowerment: Implementation of the Swedish National Violence Prevention Program

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) begins to unpack issues of power and narratives, the main focus has been on power‐over and domination rather than more transformative notions of power‐to and empowerment. This article draws on insights from gender and policy studies and suggests that the NPF benefits from adopting a multifaceted notion ...
Hilda Broqvist
wiley   +1 more source

Imagined Integration: The Logics of Japanese Immigrant Integration Policy

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As governments develop immigrant integration policies, they draw on and express conceptions about what successful integration looks like—what we call “imagined integration.” Yet this imagination likely displays variation that matters for implementation: integration policymaking is increasingly multilevel as it involves subnational layers of ...
Mariri Niino, William L. Allen
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical Diffusion and Policy Latency: Tracing AIPAC Influence in US–Iran Relations (2010–2026)

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT How do domestic interest groups shape the transition from diplomatic agreements to kinetic warfare? This research article addresses the methodological stagnation in foreign policy analysis by introducing a computational text‐as‐data pipeline to systematically quantify lobbying influence.
Bülent Aras
wiley   +1 more source

[Primary care in the face of the obesity and diabetes epidemic: An integrated and preventive challenge]. [PDF]

Aten Primaria
Lagrú Romero T, Machado Pérez CL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Corporate Quasi‐Sovereignty: Big Tech and the Politics of Sovereign Authority in the Digital Age

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As private technology firms expand their control over critical infrastructures, questions of sovereignty and governance are increasingly displaced from states to corporate actors. Existing scholarship on sovereignty assumes that authority is either monopolized by states or shared through institutionalized public–private arrangements.
Chee Hae Chung, Bryce J. Dietrich
wiley   +1 more source

Power Through Visibility: How Policy Narratives Matter in Climate Change Debate on X

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Research on policy narratives has shown that political actors employ certain narrative strategies in their competition for attention. Although we know that actors' narrative strategies coincide with existing power constellations (e.g., government vs. opposition), the ways in which they influence public attention remain largely unknown. In this
Simon Bulian, Anne‐Marie Parth, Maria Becker, Lars Tapken   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time's Sentimental Tale: Operationalizing Plot Within the Narrative Policy Framework

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has proven to be a successful analytical tool for examining the role of narratives within the policy process; however, the analysis of plot is still understudied. This gap persists due to difficulty in developing valid and reliable measures of plot and a lack of plot operationalizations using longitudinal ...
Rachel McGovern, Crystal Soderman, Alex Osei‐Kojo, Michael D. Jones, Kristin L. Olofsson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source