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From Policy Legitimization to Blame Avoidance—Discursive Strategies During Denmark's Mink Culling Crisis

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments navigate policy legitimacy during crises through three distinct discursive processes: legitimization, delegitimization, and blame avoidance. Using a sequential mixed‐methods design, the study analyzes Denmark's decision to cull all mink during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis of 947 newspaper
Olivier Rubin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Open‐Source LLMs for Automated Analysis of Multilingual Consultation Feedback: A Swiss Case Study

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Public consultations are a cornerstone of democratic policymaking, yet the sheer volume and heterogeneity of submissions often overwhelm traditional analysis. Emerging large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for making sense of such data, but their performance in contexts with high linguistic and technical diversity remains ...
Edgar Mathevet, Lauriane Cailleux
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence for Public Administration and Policy Research: A Framework for Scholarship in the Age of Intelligent Machines

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained much interest in public administration and public policy fields in recent years. Research on and that uses AI has so far treated it as an object or context within the broader administrative and governance discourse.
Yanto Chandra, Jianxiang Tan
wiley   +1 more source

From Policy Neglect to Research Agenda: Administrative Burdens and Donor‐Conceived Mobilization

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Donor‐conceived adults are a growing population, mobilizing against the very regulatory arrangements that determined the terms into which they were conceived. In Canada and the United States, where donor conception remains persistently under‐regulated, gamete donation policy has historically prioritized the presumed needs of donors, recipient ...
Ashley Splawinski
wiley   +1 more source

From the Margins: Potential Coalitions in Centralized, High‐Capacity States

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT The early stages of coalition formation remain an understudied area, particularly in centralized, high‐capacity political systems. Examining actor dynamics at this formative stage can reveal how coalitions form and how limited pluralism constrains their development.
Sreeja Nair, Yuhao Ba, Mohnish Kedia
wiley   +1 more source

Abandoning Assertiveness: Assessing Foreign Policy Change in Indonesia's Response to Sea‐Based Incursions

open access: yesAsian Politics &Policy, Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Indonesia's responses to Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) shifted from assertive measures such as publicly bombing and sinking illegal ships to legal, educational, and cooperative measures. The changes in policies undertaken are puzzling, given that Indonesian policymakers' perception of IUUF has remained the same between ...
Bama Andika Putra, Abdul Razaq Cangara
wiley   +1 more source

The Contention of Care: A Latin American Perspective

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT In the current global political landscape, characterised by increasing polarisation and a rise in far‐right conservative governments, ‘care’ has become a contested field. In particular, the decline in birth rates has catalysed conservative discourse advocating a return to ‘traditional’ values around the world.
Belén Villegas Plá
wiley   +1 more source

A global assessment of animal community responses to agricultural management

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Transitions in agricultural management through crop and noncrop diversification on intensively managed croplands or pastures have benefited biodiversity. However, the extent to which agricultural management benefits species communities present in undisturbed ecosystems remains largely unclear.
Susana López Rodríguez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking the impact of bottom trawling on benthic habitat status

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Bottom trawling is the most widespread physical disturbance to marine benthic habitats, yet broadscale assessments of its impact remain limited. We developed a quantitative framework to evaluate trawling effects on benthic habitats at broad spatial scales based on the sentinels of seabed (SoS) indicator.
Maider Plaza‐Morlote   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights for conservation from the Ecological Knowledge Games project

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Environmental conservation research requires robust methods for collecting large‐scale behavioral data and engaging diverse stakeholders in decision‐making processes. We (Y.P., A.B.D., and N.B.) created EcoKnowGames (Ecological Knowledge Games), a transdisciplinary project that develops knowledge games for conservation science and data ...
Yuan Pan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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