Articles

1. Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach

   • Guillermo M. Cejudo
   • Philipp Trein

   Research Article Open access 26 November 2022 Pages: 9 - 27

   

2. Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform

   • Alex Jingwei He
   • Yumeng Fan
   • Rui Su

   Research Notes 19 November 2022 Pages: 755 - 776

   

3. ‘Windows of opportunity’: exploring the relationship between social media and plastic policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

   • Joanna Vince
   • Estelle Praet
   • Kathy Townsend

   Research Notes Open access 15 November 2022 Pages: 737 - 753

   

4. Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instructions

   • Talia Goren
   • Dana R. Vashdi
   • Itai Beeri

   Research Article 15 November 2022 Pages: 593 - 630

   

5. Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: how emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes

   • Stefania Ravazzi

   Research Article Open access 13 November 2022 Pages: 499 - 523

   

6. Politicking with evidence: examining evidence-based issues in electoral policy narratives

   • Laura Wolton
   • Deserai A. Crow

   Research Article 13 November 2022 Pages: 661 - 691

   

7. Understanding policy transfer through social network analysis: expanding methodologies with an intensive case study approach

   • Christopher Walker
   • Alex Moulis

   Research Article 25 October 2022 Pages: 693 - 713

   

8. From hierarchy to continuum: classifying the technical dimension of policy goals

   • Ana Petek
   • Borna Zgurić
   • Nikola Baketa

   Research Notes 30 September 2022 Pages: 715 - 736

   

9. What counts? Policy evidence in public hearing testimonies: the case of single-payer healthcare in New York State

   • Yongjin Choi
   • Ashley M. Fox
   • Jennifer Dodge

   Research Article 16 September 2022 Pages: 631 - 660

   

10. From institutional tipping points to affective and direct tips: mythical institutions, policy ineffectiveness, and nonlinear political dynamics in East Germany, 1989–1990

    • Moshe Maor

    Research Article 30 August 2022 Pages: 449 - 467

    

11. Navigating the role of emotions in expertise: public framing of expertise in the Czech public controversy on birth care

    • Anna P. Durnová
    • Eva M. Hejzlarová

    Research Article Open access 26 August 2022 Pages: 549 - 571

12. Mapping the use of knowledge in policymaking: barriers and facilitators from a subjectivist perspective (1990–2020)

    • Giliberto Capano
    • Anna Malandrino

    RESEARCH ARTICLE Open access 26 August 2022 Pages: 399 - 428

    

13. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Agenda to adoption: understanding the mechanisms driving fee-free policy development in Sub-Saharan Africa through policy change frameworks

    • Gabriel Asante
    • György Gajduschek
    • Attila Bartha

    OriginalPaper Open access 17 August 2022

14. William Newlin Dunn (1939–2022) “The truest measure of an academic pillar”

    • Jessi Hanson-DeFusco

    Obituary Open access 16 August 2022 Pages: 393 - 397

15. Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia

    • Joshua Newman
    • Emi Patmisari
    • Ida Widianingsih

    Research Article Open access 06 August 2022 Pages: 469 - 485

    

16. Expert hearings in mini-publics: How does the field of expertise influence deliberation and its outcomes?

    • Mikko Leino
    • Katariina Kulha
    • Juha Ylisalo

    Research Article Open access 06 August 2022 Pages: 429 - 450

17. The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico

    • Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna

    Research Notes 05 August 2022 Pages: 777 - 803

18. Against the odds: How policy capacity can compensate for weak instruments in promoting sustainable food

    • Carsten Daugbjerg

    Research Article 05 August 2022 Pages: 451 - 467

19. Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions

    • Matthew Lockwood

    Research Article Open access 03 August 2022 Pages: 487 - 507

    

20. Countries’ readiness to deal with large-scale crises: analysis, measure, and World classification

    • E. Ezzahid
    • Z. Firano
    • A. Serghini Anbari

    Research Notes 26 July 2022 Pages: 555 - 572

    

21. The fable of policy entrepreneurship? Understanding policy change as an ontological problem with critical realism and institutional theory

    • Yi Yang

    Discussion and Commentary 22 June 2022 Pages: 573 - 591

    

22. Evidencing the benefits of cluster policies: towards a generalised framework of effects

    • James Wilson
    • Emily Wise
    • Madeline Smith

    Research Notes Open access 21 May 2022 Pages: 369 - 391

    

23. Evaluation use and learning in public policy

    • Pirmin Bundi
    • Philipp Trein

    Research Article Open access 21 May 2022 Pages: 283 - 309

    

24. Policy’s role in democratic conflict management

    • Markus Hinterleitner
    • Fritz Sager

    Research Article Open access 19 May 2022 Pages: 239 - 254

    

25. Space for stories: legislative narratives and the establishment of the US Space Force

    • Jonathan W. A. Ruff
    • Gregory Stelmach
    • Michael D. Jones

    Research Article 03 May 2022 Pages: 509 - 553

    

26. Heated policy: policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation

    • Imrat Verhoeven
    • Tamara Metze

    Research Article Open access 22 April 2022 Pages: 223 - 237

    

27. What matters to citizens in crisis recovery? Being listened to, action, and confidence in government

    • Yoon Ah Shin
    • Young Ran Hyun

    Research Article 09 April 2022 Pages: 255 - 281

    

28. Global perspectives on scientists’ roles in legislative policymaking

    • K. L. Akerlof
    • Alessandro Allegra
    • Chris Tyler

    Research Notes 05 April 2022 Pages: 351 - 367

    

29. Integrating biodiversity: a longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics

    • Ueli Reber
    • Manuel Fischer
    • Robin Benz

    Research Article Open access 04 April 2022 Pages: 311 - 335

    

30. Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda: a punctuated equilibrium approach

    • Tevfik Murat Yildirim

    Research Notes Open access 01 April 2022 Pages: 337 - 350

    

31. Mapping design activities and methods of public sector innovation units through the policy cycle model

    • Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez
    • Valentina Auricchio
    • Marzia Mortati

    Research Article Open access 08 March 2022 Pages: 89 - 136

    

32. The politics of Artificial Intelligence regulation and governance reform in the European Union

    • Ronit Justo-Hanani

    Research Article 03 March 2022 Pages: 137 - 159

33. Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas

    • Julien Vrydagh

    Research Article 24 February 2022 Pages: 65 - 88

    

34. Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize announcement for Policy Sciences Volume 54 (2021)

    Announcement 21 February 2022 Pages: 1 - 1

35. A diamond in the rough: digging up and polishing Harold D. Lasswell’s decision functions

    • Christopher M. Weible
    • Paul Cairney
    • Jill Yordy

    Discussion and Commentary 18 February 2022 Pages: 209 - 222

    

36. Conceptualizing morality policy: a dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion

    • Job P. H. Vossen
    • Gabriëlle L. de Pooter
    • Petra Meier

    Research Notes 12 February 2022 Pages: 185 - 207

37. The European 2030 climate and energy package: do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?

    • Lana Ollier
    • Florence Metz
    • Johan Lilliestam

    Research Article Open access 05 February 2022 Pages: 161 - 184

    

38. Policy inaction meets policy learning: four moments of non-implementation

    • Prudence R. Brown
    • Alastair Stark

    Research Article 13 January 2022 Pages: 47 - 63

39. A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship

    • Gwen Arnold

    Research Article Open access 11 December 2021 Pages: 23 - 45

    

40. Global policymakers and catastrophic risk

    • Christopher Nathan
    • Keith Hyams

    Research Article Open access 02 December 2021 Pages: 3 - 21

41. Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis

    • Graeme Auld
    • Steven Bernstein
    • Kelly Levin

    Research Article Open access 17 November 2021 Pages: 707 - 728

42. Institutional complexity traps in policy integration processes: a long-term perspective on Swiss flood risk management

    • Thomas Bolognesi
    • Florence Metz
    • Stéphane Nahrath

    Research Article Open access 12 November 2021 Pages: 911 - 941

    

43. Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity

    • Catherine Althaus
    • Lisa Carson
    • Ken Smith

    Research Article 10 November 2021 Pages: 867 - 889

44. Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors

    • Liliane Manny
    • Mert Duygan
    • Jörg Rieckermann

    Research Article Open access 03 November 2021 Pages: 943 - 983

    

45. Narratives in power and policy design: the case of border management and external migration controls in Italy

    • Andrea Terlizzi

    Research Article Open access 20 October 2021 Pages: 749 - 781

    

46. Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process

    • Simon Schaub

    Research Article Open access 19 October 2021 Pages: 783 - 821

    

47. Trade-offs versus reassurance: framing competing risks in the 2016 Zika outbreak

    • Lejla Dervisevic
    • Leigh Raymond
    • Jessica V. Merzdorf

    Research Article 06 September 2021 Pages: 729 - 747

    

48. Reap what you sow: implementing agencies as strategic actors in policy feedback dynamics

    • Daniel Polman
    • Gerry Alons

    Research Article Open access 29 August 2021 Pages: 823 - 848

    

49. Policy experimentation and policy learning in Canadian cultural policy

    • Kate Mattocks

    Research Article 25 August 2021 Pages: 891 - 909

50. Do think tanks generate media attention on issues they care about? Mediating internal expertise and prevailing governmental agendas

    • Max Grömping
    • Darren R. Halpin

    Research Article 24 August 2021 Pages: 849 - 866