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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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Channeling Action: How Civic Recreation Organizations Shape Civic Capacity and Engagement

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the individual‐level and organizational‐level implications of participation in a particular type of civic association—a civic recreation organization. We deploy a small‐n comparison group design, comparing data within and across members of a civic recreation organization with varying degrees of involvement to ...
Emma Scheetz, David Carter
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La esfera pública del contagio privado: historia de las políticas sobre el VIH/SIDA en Colombia, 1983 � 2003

, 2011
Esta investigación intenta reconstruir la ausencia, el origen, la definición y las transformaciones del marco legal destinado a enfrentar la presencia del VIH/SIDA en el territorio colombiano desde 1983, cuando se diagnosticó el primer caso en el país1, hasta 2003, cuando se prescribió la distribución excepcional de pacientes con VIH/SIDA dentro del ...
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Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers of procedural fairness describing both the participation process and policymakers' presentations of it during the decision justification stage co‐
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech
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Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
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
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Implicações do neoliberalismo na garantia de direitos da pessoa humana em saúde mental: Uma análise a partir do contexto da política pública de saúde mental brasileira

Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia
O presente artigo tem como tema o direito humano à saúde mental, delimitado no objeto das implicações do neoliberalismo na garantia de direitos da pessoa humana em saúde mental.
Ruan Didier Bruzaca, Claudineide Alves dos Santos   +1 more
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Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review. [PDF]

Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2021
Rodríguez Ribas C.
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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
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
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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
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
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Policy Narratives and Empowerment: Implementation of the Swedish National Violence Prevention Program

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
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
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