Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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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Gender Dimensions of Support for Local Policy: Resident, Policymaker, and Policy Gender
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a well‐established triadic relationship between satisfaction with public services, trust in leaders, and policy support in developed democracies. This study takes a novel approach by considering how gender is associated with the strength and direction of these connections, an element underexplored in the literature.
Aliza Forman‐Rabinovici, Itai Beeri
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Emotion and the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Affective Dynamics Perspective
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite extensive evidence that emotion and cognition are deeply intertwined, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) lacks an analytically independent emotional mechanism in its causal architecture—an omission that may be particularly consequential in policy subsystems structured around morally charged, identity‐laden policy disputes.
Moshe Maor
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[Assessment of the implementation of a national intersectoral strategy for the prevention of childhood obesity in Brazil]. [PDF]
Cad Saude PublicaPereira CF +4 more
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There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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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Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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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[The commensurability of public health indicators - and the unresolved question of the incommensurableComensurabilidade de indicadores em saúde pública e o problema em aberto do incomensurável]. [PDF]
Rev Panam Salud PublicaLozano R.
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Designing Integrated Policies for the Twin Transition: Challenges and Tradeoffs
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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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