Addition preferences among policymakers as driver of policy growth

Policy growth has become a defining feature of modern governance, contributing to administrative overload and reduced policy effectiveness. While most research addresses this phenomenon from a macr...

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The 2025 Norwegian election

In the parliamentary election of September 2025 the Labour government was re-elected against the odds. Only 9 months earlier, in December 2024, polls had indicated that the coalition of Labour and ...

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Managing hybridity: China’s compressed reform trajectory

The hybridity of different public management reform patterns has increased in both space and timeframe due to rapid changes in the external environment and internal shifts in values and structures ...

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National Identities and Immigration in Catalunya and Québec

While national identity results in either positive or negative opinions towards immigrants, strong identification with a minority nation has been associated with ethnic- and language-based nationalis...

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Inequality, Culture, and Violence: Assessing the Legacy of Johan Galtung

Abstract. Questions of equality and justice have long been important in peace and conflict studies, and a consensus has emerged that systematic inequalitie

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Extended collegiality? The role of students in external quality assurance panels in Europe

Student representation in external quality assurance is a mandatory requirement in European higher education systems and the involvement of students in such processes is seen as important for the l...

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Governing for Growth? Economic Performance and Finance Minister Survival in Democracies and Autocracies - Jonas Willibald Schmid, Jacob Nyrup, 2026

Are the highest-ranking public officials rewarded for good performance? Using the case of finance ministers, we argue that this depends on the type of regime. D...

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Security force disloyalty in nonviolent and violent campaigns, 1970–2013: introducing a new dataset

Abstract. Loyalty shifts within state security forces critically impact dissent campaign outcomes and have frequently precipitated regime breakdowns. Exist

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Successful liberal democracy as a self-reinforcing condition

The recent global decline in liberal democracy is widely discussed and often contrasted with the increased prevalence of this regime type in the late-twentieth century. I present and critically eva...

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Revisiting International Political Leadership: Nordic Leadership in Informal Intergovernmental Climate Organisations

The growing significance of informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) in global politics necessitates a re-evaluation of leadership dynamics. We develop a theory framework that enables us to e...

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Has Political Science Discovered EU Law? (Chapter 2) - Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law

Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law - May 2026

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Building Multi-user Databases for Empirical Legal Studies of European Union Law (Chapter 8) - Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law

Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law - May 2026

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Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Does clientelism pay off abroad? Emigrant voting in Southern and Eastern Europe - Acta Politica

Acta Politica - Some political parties employ clientelist practices to gain voter support. Yet as more citizens now vote from abroad, little is known about parties engaging in clientelism...

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Loyal voters in volatile elections: Partisanship and voting behavior in India - Ankita Barthwal, Francesca Refsum Jensenius, 2026

Partisan loyalties have been found to stabilize voting behavior in democracies with strongly institutionalized party systems. This article considers how party e...

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Examining the Effects of the New Public Service Model (NPS) and New Public Management Model (NPM) on Organizational Efficiency in the Saudi Ground Services Company - Public Organization Review

This study examines the effects of the New Public Service and New Public Management models on organizational efficiency within the Saudi Ground Services Company. Utilizing a survey of 342 employees, the findings demonstrate that both models significantly enhance objective achievement, timeframe, and cost savings, with reliability and service quality emerging as the most critical factors. Notably, the implementation timeframe has the greatest influence on efficiency. The study recommends integrating both models, improving service accessibility and digital infrastructure, and focusing on employee training to align with Saudi Vision 2030, thus achieving a balance between citizen-focused services and organizational efficiency.

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Reputation signals, individual characteristics and citizens’ coproduction willingness

This study investigates how governmental reputation signals – performative, moral, procedural, and technical – influence citizens’ coproduction willingness, moderated by self-efficacy, household si...

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Ministers in waiting: Who gets to speak in the National Assembly of Zambia?

What explains speechmaking in Africa's Westminster-style parliaments? Weak parties, presidentialism and first-past-the-post elections suggest that parliamentarians have an electoral incentive to sp...

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The functional politicisation of the merit civil service : From responsive to subservient bureaucracy? From responsive to subservient bureaucracy? from Futures for the Public Sector on JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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How Inequality and Repression Affect the Link Between Food Insecurity and Urban Social Disorder

We examine the relationship between food insecurity and urban social disorder, featuring the degree of inequality and levels of governmental repression. We develop a formal theoretical model, and our ...

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The public and private values of sector-switchers: exploring temporal dynamics and contextual effects

Sector switching refers to individuals making career moves between private, public, and nonprofit sectors. We examine how moving from the private to the public sector shape employees’ values. To th...

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Turning the university into a political actor

Higher education has gained significant political salience globally, driven by continuous massification, increased public and private investment, and its central role as a driver of modern knowledg...

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