Why & how does collaborative governance succeed or fail in highly polarised democracies ❓ Raffaele Bazurli & Francesca Campomori study the #AsylumPolicy in Italy & the politicisation of local governance in Bologna and Venice amid the 2010s “refugee crisis” 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Do people carry stable tendencies toward (non)compliance across different regulatory settings❓ Michaela Assouline & colleagues employ a multi-vignette survey conducted in the #UnitedKingdom across 7 regulatory scenarios 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

We are delighted to inform policy debates 7⃣ @policysociety.bsky.social articles are cited by various policy documents in the first half of 2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ Visit: academic.oup.com/policyandsoc... to browse recent articles on #CollaborativeGovernance, #PolicyTermination and #GoverningCrises

Why submit your excellent manuscripts and special issue proposals to @policysociety.bsky.social ❓ #OpenAccess publishing allows broad coverage and boosts mentions in policy documents👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

Laura De Vito & @gaiataffoni.bsky.social have developed a conceptual framework that foregrounds enablers for #reliability and #usability of #StrategicForesight evidence The key takeaways have appeared in ANZSOG's Insights 👇 anzsog.edu.au/insights/usi...

How do discursive paradigms shift in morally contested domains ❓ Who initiates interpretive change ❓ Carey Doberstein & Sarah Ferencz analyze long-run changes in elite public discourse on #DrugPolicy in British Columbia👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#ComplexSocietalProblems are persistent and feature contested goals, incomplete knowledge & uncertain, path‑dependent effects Claudio Lazo, Andrea Kerstens & Angela Greco synthesize a hierarchical structure of problem complexity dimensions 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Designing effective packages is difficult because instruments differ in expected impact and how citizens evaluate them Yuhao Ba, Yiyun Xia & Shanyue Wang evaluate policy packages in electric-vehicle (EV) transition, AI regulation & population aging 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

📒 June 2026 Issue is out Guest-edited by @kidjiesaguin.bsky.social & @azadsinghbali.bsky.social, a symposium examines #CollaborativeGovernance in #SocialPolicy The Issue also hosts four research articles 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

📢Clarivate the 2026 #JournalCitationReport is out The #ImpactFactor has risen from 6.1 in 2024 to 6.2 in 2025. 🎊 @policysociety.bsky.social ranks 4th among 332 in Political Science journals & 2nd among 97 in Public Administration journals We thank our authors, reviewers, and readers

How detailed and compulsory are laws shaping #CollaborativeGovernanceRegimes and #CollaborativePlatforms❓ Jiho Kim, Brian Ohl, Nara Yoon & Tina Nabatchi examine laws in #Oregon that authorize or mandate collaborative governance👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

When and why is evidence likely to be mobilized more broadly ❓ Mariana Batista finds that the research characteristics matter to the bureaucrat’s attitudes toward evidence use 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#Scopus #CiteScore 2025 is out ❗️ @policysociety.bsky.social ranks 1⃣st among #PublicAdministration & 2⃣nd among #PoliticalScienceandInternationalRelations journals 🎊 We sincerely thank our authors, reviewers, and readers 👇 www.scopus.com/sourceid/570...

Got a big idea for Special Issues that challenge policy thinking❓ @policysociety.bsky.social is inviting proposals for #SpecialIssues that critically examine established frameworks, develop new conceptual tools, or open promising lines of inquiry 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

How little attention public policy scholarship has paid to personal experience as a driver of policy attitudes and behavior Arnost Vesely & Ivan Petrusek conceptualize personal experience as a distinct mechanism of attitude formation 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The way we measure the success of #BehavioralPublicPolicies (BPPs) camouflages inequalities Till Grüne-Yanoff suggests #InterventionFairness to understand and analyse how and why BPPs treat people heterogeneously 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

What is the current state of #BehaviouralPublicPolicy (BPP) scholarship ❓ Swee Kiat Tay & Ching Leong analyse 2,301 BPP articles from 1980 to 2024 on the Scopus database & observe an exponential increase in BPP publications and thematic shifts 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The role of #IndigenousPeoples in #ForestProtection is crucial Marco J Haenssgen, Maria Ann Sanu & Ivo Vlaev explore how innovative policy options can support their natural resource management from the bottom up 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Can inaction, before a crisis, often interpreted as the absence of entrepreneurship, in fact be a deliberate posture aimed at reinforcing the status quo ❓ Damien Ballereau & Sabine Saurugger offer a more nuanced understanding of entrepreneurial role 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#BehavioralPublicPolicy’s rapid growth has outpaced its conceptual consolidation Alejandro Hortal argues that the field must strive for greater precision and consistency, even if full definitional closure remains elusive 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Can #StrategicForesight function as a legitimate and effective source of #evidence for policymaking ❓ Laura De Vito & @gaiataffoni.bsky.social develop a conceptual framework that foregrounds enablers for reliability and usability of #StrategicForesight evidence 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How can policymakers in chronically reform-sclerotic economies leverage crisis framing to fast-track radical policy reforms ❓ Tolga Bolukbasi develops an integrative framework that opens the black box between shock and outcome 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Markets in developing countries are commonly informal & the dynamics of the informal sector, and the dual nature of economies are under-theorized Aviram Sharma analyze the formal and informal processes of #intermediation in #India 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Advocacy coalitions aren't just networks—they're full-fledged political machines. This article by Daniel Nohrstedt and Tim Heinmiller rethinks them as organizations with strategies, resources, and power plays in policy battles. doi.org/10.1093/pols... @policysociety.bsky.social

Advocacy coalitions as political organizations

Abstract. Conceptually, advocacy coalitions are referenced in several policy process theories and frameworks to describe groups of actors that share belief

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What makes top executive appointees qualified #PolicyIntermediaries in bridging the gap between the #president & the #ministry by communicating the president’s policy objectives to the latter ❓ Don S Lee & Min H Kim use a conjoint experimental design 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How do government-affiliated intermediaries shape climate policy experiences ❓ Bruno Arcand explores the interactions between the state and government-affiliated intermediaries in the context of climate-related industrial policy 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Got a big idea that challenges policy thinking ❓🧠⚡️ @policysociety.bsky.social is inviting proposals for individual articles and special issues that critically examine established frameworks, develop new conceptual tools, or open promising lines of inquiry 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

Under what conditions can #BehavioralPolicy interventions facing intense contestation still yield positive returns ❓ Giuseppe Veltri proposes a three-dimensional policy cube 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How does #collaborative service delivery persist when the setting is not favorable & enabling conditions are weak ❓ Anka Kekez & Anat Gofen examine how #CollaborativeGovernance is made workable in constrained environments 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The #BigTech is becoming ever more powerful in modern societies & the policy implications of its rise remain underexplored @rosalingrad.bsky.social, Hongzhou Zhang & @arazth.bsky.social develop an idealized theoretical construct of the #SuperPolicyEntrepreneur 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...