There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy
ABSTRACT The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) views power as crucial in policy processes, but the nature of coalition power, its determinants, and how to empirically measure it remain understudied. In this article, we use a mixed method approach and social network analysis to explore power relationships in the biodiversity policy subsystem in ...
Alix d'Agostino +2 more
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Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard
ABSTRACT Adaptive regulations, designed to balance flexibility with accountability, can embed provisions that unintentionally leave room for firms to shirk on their responsibilities by exploiting flexibility. We call these provisions “regulatory gray areas,” and ask: how should we understand (non‐)compliance in adaptive regulatory settings?
Liza Wood +3 more
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Partisanship, Deservingness, and the Attitudinal Policy Feedback Process for Social Policy
ABSTRACT In an era of identity‐based partisan polarization, we examine whether social policies can still generate positive attitudinal feedback among beneficiaries. Drawing on nationally representative survey data, we demonstrate that partisanship conditions the policy feedback process through divergent perceptions of group deservingness.
Chris Faricy, Christopher Ellis
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El presente texto intenta presentar una descripción del proceso de realización de la investigación para la tesis “Neoliberalismo, comunicación y políticas públicas: el caso de la Televisión Por Cable en Argentina entre 1989-2001”.
Santiago Marino
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Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
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Designing Integrated Policies for the Twin Transition: Challenges and Tradeoffs
ABSTRACT Democratic governance faces the intertwined imperatives of managing the transformative risks and opportunities of digitalization, particularly stemming from artificial intelligence (AI), while achieving environmental sustainability within planetary boundaries.
Martino Maggetti
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Las campañas de imagen de los municipios catalanes como reflejo de sus polÃticas locales / The brand campaign of the Catalan city councils as a reflect of their local policies [PDF]
openaire +1 more source
Coalition Breakdown and Subsystem Exit
ABSTRACT Why actors choose to work together (or not) to advance policy has been the central area of inquiry within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Existing research has mainly emphasized the pathway towards coalition formation and evolution, underscoring the stable patterns of allies and opponents observable in policy processes over a decade or
Charlie F. Thompson
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Leveraging an Unhappiness Lens for Smarter Policies
ABSTRACT Traditional policy research has largely focused on enhancing happiness or well‐being, privileging positive outcomes as the primary metric of success. We argue that a systematic focus on the drivers of unhappiness—rather than solely on happiness—offers a complementary analytical framework that can uncover hidden societal deficits and broaden ...
Marine Coupaud +2 more
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Facets of Crises: How Problem Indicators and Public Perceptions Affect Policy Change
ABSTRACT Crises are widely acknowledged as catalysts for policy change. Yet, our understanding of the policy effects of crises remains limited. Why do only some crises lead to major changes, while significant policy changes also occur during seemingly non‐crisis periods?
Constantin Kaplaner +6 more
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