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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

Global Surgery at the Frontlines of Conflict Zones: Role of Health Diplomacy in the Provision of On‐Site Surgical Care to Children

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Confrontational violence still puts catastrophic burdens on children, with 2024 being the highest recorded levels of displacement, malnutrition, injury, and deprivation in contemporary humanitarian history. Children's surgical care is still grossly underrepresented in health responses worldwide in the prevention of avoidable deaths and long ...
Gaurav Chanderprakash Mittal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fourth Annual Report of the State Mine Inspector of Texas for the Year 1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1915
Annual report of the State Mine Inspector of Texas describing the status of coal mining, including statistics about mines that have closed or are in the process of opening, fatal and non-fatal accidents, state regulations, and characteristics of open ...
Texas. State Mine Inspector.
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Game of Mirrors for Complex Policies: The Narratives on Differentiated Autonomy in Italy

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study applies the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to a policy of regional devolution of powers. The analysis focuses on differentiated autonomy in Italy, examining the narratives that emerged in the legislative process of the law regulating the procedures for its activation. The context is of particular interest due to the combination of
Gaia Matilde Ripamonti
wiley   +1 more source

Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union

open access: yesPolicy 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
wiley   +1 more source

Other title: Inspector General's Office

open access: yes, 2015
application/pdfA set of 5 documents provided by the Inspector General's Office, Kansas National Guard, with resources and information on the Inspector General's Office.The Kansas National Guard Inspector General's Office (2016) Inspector General ...
Kansas. National Guard. Inspector General's Office.
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Diagnosing Institutional Design‐Implementation Gaps: A Dual‐Layer Systems Modeling Language Protocol for Visualizing Institutional Change Mechanisms

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a dual‐layer protocol for diagnosing how formal institutional designs are implemented in practice in complex governance systems. The protocol builds two linked process maps; one for the formal rules and procedures (rules‐in‐form) and one for the routines actors actually follow in practice (rules‐in‐use).
Sina Jangjoo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Rule Formation Under Institutional Mismatch: A Framework for Early‐Phase Governance of Disruptive Innovations

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Disruptive innovations often diffuse faster than inherited policy institutions can classify, assign jurisdiction, and govern them. In these early phases, the central struggle is often not yet about the stringency of substantive standards, but about prior questions of what the innovation is (its legal and administrative classification), who is ...
Sina Jangjoo
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 832-846, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Trustable environments are highly appreciated for regulatory performance, but difficult to emerge. A condition for making trust work is to accept vulnerability, and this holds both for stakeholders and agencies in public governance. Trust‐related vulnerability can be understood as a dynamic perception of potential harm derived from entering ...
Jacint Jordana   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Essence of Crisis Decision‐Making: Saving Ravenna During the 2023 Floods

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores decision‐making processes in crisis situations by proposing an interpretive framework grounded in multiple criteria of rationality. Crises, characterized by uncertainty, urgency, and ethical dilemmas, require critical choices that go beyond standard procedures.
Alexandra D'Angelo, Federico Toth
wiley   +1 more source

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