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Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue S2, Page S83-S100, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore, Antonella Seddone, Daniela R. Piccio   +2 more
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Unpacking Welfare Deservingness Theory: Evidence From the Perceived Deservingness of Gig Workers

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 2, May 2026.
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
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Historical Institutionalism and Transnational Influence: Social Policy Responses to the Great Depression in the United States and Canada

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in North America. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depression in the United States and Canada through an analytical lens that combines the insights of historical institutionalism and the analysis of transnational ...
Daniel Béland, Shannon Dinan, Alex Waddan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

THE Role of Law in Structuring Sustainable Finance for Infrastructure Projects in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya

Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, Volume 7, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA)'s infrastructure deficit is not fundamentally a consequence of insufficient capital but rather of legal and institutional failure. This article argues that law is a decisive factor in determining whether infrastructure finance becomes possible, functioning not merely as a background condition but as a mechanism through
Augustine Edobor Arimoro
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Political Trust and Aspirations to Influence Social Media During a Crisis: A Longitudinal Study

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigated how political trust shaped citizens' aspirations to influence others on social media during a COVID‐19 pandemic. Using four‐wave longitudinal survey data (2017–2021; N = 2172) collected from 543 citizens in Finland, we first analysed how political trust moderated the temporal development of individuals' aspirations to ...
Aki Koivula, Sanna Malinen, Ilkka Koiranen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Los procesos de reformas y modificaciones a los sistemas de capitalización individual en América Latina

Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Social, 2015
La oleada de reformas de los años noventa en América Latina parece haberse frenado o por lo menos se vislumbra una moderación en el entusiasmo por la privatización de los sistemas de pensiones.
María Ascensión Morales Ramírez
doaj   +1 more source

Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 115-129, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

Survey Experiments in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines population‐based survey experiments (PBSE) in public policy, analyzing 36 peer‐reviewed articles from Web of Science and Scopus databases. Based on PBSE methodological literature and the review, four main types of PBSE are distinguished: methodological, direct (based on information provision ...
Radek Kovács, Arnošt Veselý
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Securing Bangladesh's Nuclear Future: Is the Regulated Asset Base Model the Answer to Address Project Corruption?

Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Bangladesh's goal of achieving high‐income status by 2041 requires dependable, low‐emission, and affordable energy. With near‐universal grid coverage and increasing demand, nuclear energy is a strategic asset for long‐term baseload supply. However, the existing financing model, typified by the country's most expensive $12.65 billion Rooppur ...
Hafiz Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source