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Relationality and Temporality of Return Migration: Overseas Chinese Students During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 64, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This study applies the perspectives of relationality and temporality to investigate how overseas Chinese students made their return decisions during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Analysis of qualitative data obtained from 56 returning Chinese students during the pandemic indicates that their return decisions were relational and temporal: embedded in ...
Yinni Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 7, Page 4377-4402, November 2026.
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
wiley   +1 more source

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

The Problem With Problem Load: Reconceptualizing Load in the Multiple Streams Framework

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT What happens when policymaking systems buckle under pressure, disrupting consensus and stalling decision‐making? Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, we show that the existing concept capturing this stress, Problem Load, has been both misinterpreted and overstretched.
Dana A. Dolan, Nikolaos Zahariadis
wiley   +1 more source

Who Owns the Landscape? Policy Conflict Over the Proposed Designation of Křivoklátsko as a National Park

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Nature conservation conflicts increasingly extend beyond ecological objectives to disputes over decision‐making legitimacy, institutional authority, and competing understandings of landscape and expertise. This article examines the conflict over the proposed designation of Křivoklátsko as a national park in the Czech Republic between 2021 and ...
Filip Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary history and taxonomy of the genus Zea

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 10, October 2026.
Abstract Premise Taxonomic differentiation of teosinte species (Zea spp.), the closest relatives of maize (Z. mays) is crucial for understanding their distribution, ecology, and evolutionary history. Resolving the taxonomic uncertainties is of scientific interest and has practical implications for biodiversity management, preservation, and utilization.
José de Jesús Sánchez González   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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