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Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can state election policies affect the spread of misinformation? This paper studies the role played by ballot processing policies, which determine when ballots can be examined and organized, in the online spread of political misinformation. We present evidence from the 2020 U.S.
Morgan Wack, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy, Anna Beers, Emma S. Spiro, Kate Starbird   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local criminalization policies draw on the logic of deterrence to levy costs on individuals who engage in behaviors that are closely associated with various public concerns, such as those criminalizing behaviors associated with homelessness, thereby potentially reducing community‐level costs.
Hannah Lebovits, Andrew Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting our frontline: vaccination policies for health care workers in the Americas. [PDF]

Rev Panam Salud Publica
Burgos P, Contreras M, Castro I, Velandia-González M, Salas D, Brustrom J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

Nursing and the essential public health functions framework in the Americas: reflections and perspectives. [PDF]

Rev Bras Enferm
Souza ENDC, Almeida ML, Conejero JES, Peres AM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh, Antti Gronow, Tuomas Ylä‐Anttila, Ana Delicado, Luisa Schmidt, Pradip Swarnakar, Paul M. Wagner, Sun‐Jin Yun   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Nursing consultations in primary health care in Brazil: distribution and productivity in the management of chronic noncommunicable diseasesConsultas atendidas por personal de enfermería en la atención primaria de salud en Brasil: distribución y productividad en las consultas relativas a enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles]. [PDF]

Rev Panam Salud Publica
Mendes IAC, de Almeida EWS, Silva ÍR, de Andrade EMLR, Bernardes RM, Almeida RGDS, Siqueira EF, da Silva MCN, de Godoy S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
wiley   +1 more source

Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
wiley   +1 more source

The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
wiley   +1 more source