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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but ...
Elizabeth Bell, Monica C. Schneider, Dara Z. Strolovitch, Ari Ne'eman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
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

Gender Dimensions of Support for Local Policy: Resident, Policymaker, and Policy Gender

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a well‐established triadic relationship between satisfaction with public services, trust in leaders, and policy support in developed democracies. This study takes a novel approach by considering how gender is associated with the strength and direction of these connections, an element underexplored in the literature.
Aliza Forman‐Rabinovici, Itai Beeri
wiley   +1 more source

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, Christopher Witko, Peter K. Enns   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Inclusion Trade‐Off: Comparing the Design and Functionality of Collaborative Governance Forums

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental challenges require collaboration across jurisdictions, often through forums or intermediary spaces for repeated interaction. A persistent forum design question concerns inclusion criteria, or which actors should be included.
Adam Wiechman, Elizabeth Koebele, Margaret Garcia, John M. Anderies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking Welfare Deservingness Theory: Evidence From the Perceived Deservingness of Gig Workers

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The theory of welfare deservingness provides valuable insights into the social legitimacy of welfare programs and the principles underlying policy design. In examining the question of who deserves what and why, established deservingness criteria emphasize that individuals demonstrating motivation to work (“reciprocity”) are typically perceived
Juhyun Bae
wiley   +1 more source

Emotion and the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Affective Dynamics Perspective

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive evidence that emotion and cognition are deeply intertwined, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) lacks an analytically independent emotional mechanism in its causal architecture—an omission that may be particularly consequential in policy subsystems structured around morally charged, identity‐laden policy disputes.
Moshe Maor
wiley   +1 more source

Justiça distributiva no serviço de saúde especializado e no acesso a medicamentos

Revista Bioética
Quando se fala de doenças crônicas e do sistema público de saúde, a escassez de recursos está sempre em pauta. O estudo analisou o referenciamento e o acesso à medicação em indivíduos assistidos pelo serviço público estadual Hiperdia.
André Luiz Cândido Sarmento Drumond Nobre, Orlene Veloso Dias, Maisa Tavares de Souza Leite, Daniel de Melo Freitas, Simone de Melo Costa   +4 more
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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source